First, you should know that the master cleanse is definately worth doing. It sure as difficult as it sounds to be. Those 10 days of starvation were …. hungry days. I can tell you that.
One thing the master cleanse didn’t do for me was that I didn’t loose any weight. I actually lost about 15 lbs (7 kg) during those 10 days, but I gained them all back gradually in following 4 months after the cleanse. Since, loosing weight wasn’t really the goal in the first place I really don’t mind that. However, a lot of people warn you about it and I shall do the same. Do Not Do This Cleanse To Loose Weight!!! it wouldn’t work.
Another thing I want to share with you. I am not so sure this cleanse actually cleanse you out. I read so many different opinions of physicians, practicioners and other people doing this cleanse and they all say something different. I didn’t necesariily feel more clean after this experience.
So why to do it:
1. It just teaches you so much about food. How much you are addicted to it, how much it controls your life, how much we are eating rich things that we don’t really need. Try to look at ice cream, a burger, pizza, after 5 days of cleanse and you won’t believe that your body ever consumed something like that. And of course this feeling disappear 4 months after finishing the diet. But the knowledge that you gain about food remains there.
2. It teaches you how much food is important for social interaction. Try to spend 2 hours with a friend without talking about food, snacking something, or drinking something. Almost every social interaction is about food in one way or another. Getting the experience of that knowledge is mind exploding.
3. Relationships. If you are lucky enough to do the master cleanse with your partner or a friend, it is an experience that will teach you a lot about your relationship. At moments of physical needs and stress (caused by hunger), people reveal their true self. And it will shock you to find some stuff about yourself and your partners. More than that it will stabilize your relationship or will provide evidence that you maybe should not be together. A very important experience.
4. Lastly I can think of for now – Your senses. Become a real human again. I can’t describe in words what happens to your senses, especially smelling after 4 days into the cleanse. You will start to percieve things the way they should be. Smelling meet from the other side of town. Passing next to a leather shop on the other side of the street and smelling every jacket and shoe with their own specific smell. You will feel again as a perihistoric human, more connected with parts of yourself you didn’t really know about.
All together, it is an experience that will somehow connect you with a deeper spiritual level of yourself. I know that many people are doing it from other reasons, but in my opinion this is mainly what this cleanse is all about.
Read more about it in my blog or wait for more entries by me coming soon…
Good luck!!!
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