Detox and Headaches and Brain Fog and Nausea and Exhaustion, Oh my!

Several of my friends at the forum have started the Master Cleanse, and detox symptoms are setting in quickly.  Whoa. I’m slowly remembering the agony of those symptoms and feeling imprisoned by the Master Cleanse early on. Having zero idea how I could make it 10 days, much less to the end of the day. And that’s what the Master Cleanse does to you, makes you super conscious, super decisive, and makes you confront the daily stressors of your life head-on. You can’t hide, you can’t avoid the physical discomforts by eating or drinking to soothe yourself, or getting up and physically avoiding something uncomfortable. The Master Cleanse forces you to do deal with the stuff you like to hide from in every moment. And I think that is why so many come of the Master Cleanse not only looking and feeling incredible, they’ve sitrred within themselves a sense of empowerment, peace, and clarity about their own inner strength they could only dream about.

So, what to do in the interim? You’re feeling lousy and all that stuff I just wrote sound totally frivolous. Who cares, right?

Well, drink a ton of water. Water is a great flusher and helps with the detox symptoms. Oftentimes, in our regular lives, we are a nation of dehydrated persons…so I recommend you drink as much water as lemonade. I would double up on the lemonade, too, your body might be wanting more calories. And the brain fog, that could be from toxins re-circulating through your system endlessly, so maybe bump up your laxative, give yourself an enema, or better yet, arrange for some colonics if that’s something you’ve done before.

Thereapeutic grade essential oils such as Peppermint, or the blends Di-Gize or Purification from Young Living,  have helped me tremendously during the detox, or autointoxification process. Just a drop rubbed on the gums is like instant feel good. Digest & Cleanse capsules really help to calm the entire intestinal tract, they are enteric coated so you won’t be burping the oils, they will release in your tract and the peppermint and fennel are just DIVINE. A heating pad helps, too.  (Again, you can purchase therapeutic grade essential oils through Young Living in Utah, or through a member distributor if that’s your thing, you can purchase through my page at www.youngliving.org/reginalynne. )

In my experience, you can feel pretty awful during the MC, and just take it one moment at a time. But I also recall that as horrible as I was feeling, I never came back to that intensity of awful feelings again.

Keep going. You can do it. You are becoming your greatest hero – no one can do it but you.

Happy Cleansing!