Alternative Healing – Frame Up For Detox
“Frame Up” 1) to construct by fitting or uniting parts together (audioenglish.net/dictionary).
Detoxing is good for me. I know this because I feel so much better afterwards. The thing is I figure if I’m gonna detox I should do it properly.
Many people use food as an alternative medicine. Healing this way can be very effective.
My favourite detox is the Fast Track One Day Detox, by Anne Louise Gittleman. In reality it isn’t one day but a series of preparations made for the fasting day, and three days recovery. I like this detox more than others because it is very gradual with ten days in total. Physical preparation for detoxification or fasting is vital. Also I really like the taste of the “miracle juice” you have to drink as part of the detox every day.
It’s good enough to get me to give up Coke (such an addictive and damaging drink – DON’T TOUCH IT), and is made with unsweetened cranberry juice, lemon juice, orange juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a bit of stevia to sweeten if needed. The full reciepe can be found in the book Fast Track One Day Detox. 
When I first tried to find unsweetened (vital it has no sweetner aside from stevia which you can add later) cranberry juice where I live the only one I found was $20 NZD for about 16oz, pretty pricey when you need about eight bottles a week. Then I found that I could buy frozen berries and make my own juice by boiling the berries in water and straining the skins out. Alternative natural healing on the cheap!
“Frame Up” your mind for detox. This includes making sure you have supplies of whatever you are using so you don’t snack on something you shouldn’t. Also psyching up for what is happening to your body during a detox is important.
Well meaning friends who know nothing about healing crises (happens in some cases as body spits out toxins – normal part of the healing process) can add to your stress if you do hit one and temporarily are not looking your usual hot self, so it’s important to prepare them in advance – that way they can support you in your alternative healing detox.
You may enjoy finding new health information about what happens to you body during a detox. I like to imagine the toxins being yanked out of my cells by some chelated magnesium or similar. Makes the whole process more enjoyable.
Don’t forget to drink lots of water to help those toxins move!
Build Momentum before you start! Such an important thing to do since you are making dietary and lifestyle changes which are in your best interests to continue after the detox is over. Framing up you mind by rehearsing through what you will be doing each day makes it less likely you will stray from from detox. For a great detox you could try this.
Like my favourite teacher who says…., “we haven’t started yet!” (actually we have) a frame up before beginning can do wonders for your ability to accomplish your detox.
Blessings,
Keri Eagan
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Mentally preparing your mind before a detox is great advice, unfortunately many people put themselves in the wrong mindest of dieting and losing weight before.
The juice drink from the Fast Track One Day Detox sounds amazing!
MissMentor
Your advice to get rid of the stuff that is bad for us from our environment is right on target.
Marketing Genius Dan Kennedy tells the story of the Diet and Nutrition Consultant who comes to your house for $200 an hour and throws away all the crap that you can’t eat and comes back every week or so to make sure it hasn’t somehow reappeared…
Seize the Day,
Rob
Emergency Preparedness For the 21st Century Family
Hi Keri,
oh this sounds marvelous. I am in great accord of mind spirit and your mentality about doing this kind of detox. First, I feel like a kindred spirit because I do actually seriously LOVE unsweetened cranberry juice. You have to get used to the difference in taste from the sweetened kind (I grew up in the US state of New Jersey which is one of the largest cranberry growing areas in the country. When we would go canoe camping on The Wade River in the NJ Pine Barrens, it was frequently normal to be contending with cranberry bogs [bogs, not blogs, lol!]. So cranberries have been part of my life for years! not to mention the US Thanksgiving condiment of cranberry sauce to accompany the traditional New England style roast Turkey.). I seriously love it. It is AMAZING for clearly in an alternative manner Urinary Tract Infection (like when onset is over the weekend and you have to wait 12-72 hrs to get a medical prescription. You can start on unsweetened cranberry juice. AMAZING.).
I think I’m going to start writing a poetic ode to it, it is so fabulous. Here in The States I found I could find it The Whole Foods Market. That chain was the closest to where I lived last time I bought it. Wild Oats Markets might carry it. As well as The Real Food Company.
Great to know you can so easily and frugally make you own! (and what fun! I’d love to see some pix of that process here at your blog)
And to prepare yourself, do the detox/fast, and then segue out is important. It’s not like racing along the dock to jump into the ice cold water and then run squealing and screaming out of the water. While that is fun in the summer for early morning swims. It is not the right approach for a fast/detox.
Do you add an fiber supplements to cleanse your colon at the same time?
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Single Baby Boomer Dating Success Expert
Poised for a detox…!
I love cranberry juice…and pomegranate juice…and they’re good for you…I think…and if not…they’re a good placebo!
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Excellent way to prepare Keri. Being mentally ready is extremely important to keep yourself going
Jose Escalante
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So is this like fasting for Lent?
Martin O’Connor
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OMG – I love Anne Louise Gittleman! I have her book “The Fat Flush Plan.” I don’t need to lose weight at all, but I bought it for the health information. In the book she mentions cleansing your liver by drinking 100% cranberry juice diluted with water. She doesn’t ever say that it will get rid of cellulite, but says that some of her clients mentioned that that was a pleasant side effect. For me – it worked! Even though I am very thin, I still had cellulite. Not anymore! I was amazed. She’s the best.
Lisa McLellan
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Hey Martin, not like fasting for lent. Keri is refering to a total fast – as in no solid foods. Much like this type of fasting.
Fasting for Lent is typically giving up something we enjoy for 40 days (Roman Catholic).
Katie
Just admitting the journey you are on is the beginning of that journey. Saying it outloud is more powerful than keeping it to yourself.
Writing it down is even mor epowerful.
But most powerful is proclaiming your new path in public. It is very hard for your mind to go back on something you have claimed publicly.
Kate
Detox works for me as well. It’s good to get out the sludge every now and then. I’ll have to try your one day detox.
Steve Chambers
Sales Training Speaker
Like my favourite teacher who says…., “we haven’t started yet!” (actually we have)
now that is funny – I don’t care who you are!!!
Yes momentum is the key to staying on the path. I think this is one detox I could actually do. Frame of mind definitely helps too.
Vicki http://www.bridal-threads.com
Keri,
I heard that Mangesium Oxide is a great way to cleanse the bowels, which is part of the detox rountine.
Need to prepare to rest for a few days and easy access to bathroom!
When you detox, all kinds of parasites would release their toxins to protect their existence. And we need some parasites to have perect health.
John Ho
Numerology Expert Helps Understanding Personality for Better Influence & Persuasion
i have never tried detoxing. Sounds like a better start.
Robert Martin
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You have convinced me to give this a try. Of course after nursing the baby is done…2 more months.
You’ve also thrown in some hypnosis/techniques such as mental rehearsal. the better prepared you are the more like you are to succeed.
jen B
The Harwood Center – Tinnitus, Chronic Illness, Fears, and Anxiety
Cool Stuff… I always enjoy your blog… Thanks for the insight and great information. It’s cool learning about a new topic that I didn’t know much about.
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In modern society we eat so much rubbish with lots of enumbers and toxins in them. Thanks for the post on the importance of detoxing
Great to meet a fellow ALG fan! She’s fab.
Keri Eagan
New Jersey is full of surprises! It’s like this whole other history is hidden from the world, I heard you guys have skiing there….and cranberries!
I totally agree you have to get used to the taste. But its not so bad. After a week I didn’t even use the stevia (white granules derived from a stevia plant and used to sweeten naturally without raising insulin).
Yup, I have psyllium husks which are ground up and swell when you add them to a small glass of water. This acts like a broom in the colon. I tend to avoid to many supplements when I detox. Unless I can justify using them its more for my body to process. Instead I use organic stuff and balance what I am eating each day.
K
Good post. Good advice
Bert (alter ego- Mister P)
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Mentally preparing for these types of self betterment projects can help get the ball rolling with a lot of steam, thereby making it easier to continue until the project is complete. Great post.
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