The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual. Natasha Kyssa

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      As toxins are released, you may experience the following symptoms:

      • headaches

      • fevers and/or colds

      • nausea

      • coated tongue

      • skin eruptions

      • tiredness

      • muscle aches

      • lack of concentration

      • weakness or dizziness

      • mucus or other discharge

      • short intervals of diarrhea

      • constipation

      • bloating

      • frequent urination

      • sugar cravings

      • mood swings

      • nervousness and irritability

      • depression and negativity

      • emotional upheaval

      Symptoms shouldn’t be suppressed with pain killers or antibiotics as this counteracts your body’s natural cleansing process and compromises the immune system. If you regularly consume pain killers or digestive aids, stop taking them during the cleanse. These are the kinds of toxins that you want to remove from your system during a detox program, not put in. Detoxification allows healing, and this often takes time.

      To help release these toxins, keep your system well-hydrated, drinking plenty of water throughout the day. To slow down severe cleansing reactions at any time during the program, you may eat a small bowl of lightly steamed mono (only one type of) vegetables.

      Steamed vegetables will increase the workload required for digestion, assimilation, and elimination, and because they are cooked, the nutrient value is decreased.

      Toxic emotions

      Often, when toxins are being eliminated from your system, old and deeply suppressed emotions and unpleasant memories may surface. Most of us don’t want to feel these negative emotions, so we may respond to these feelings by avoiding them, ignoring them, pretending they don’t exist, or stuffing them back down with food. However, just like toxic food, negative emotions can make us ill.

      When feelings are denied or suppressed, they become stored at the cellular level. This creates blockages and can often affect our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes. Emotions such as anger, depression, or fear can also affect the nervous system’s chemistry and weaken the immune system. Accumulated emotions in the body can build and manifest into the physical, leading to an acidic body, anxiety, heart disease, liver or lung trouble, and sometimes even cancer.

      In order for the body to detoxify at its potential, we must also detoxify our emotional toxins. If you are holding onto anger, fear, resentment, or other negative or traumatic emotions, your detox process will fall short of its potential, no matter how raw you are. Releasing old, pent-up emotions is essential for the cleansing process—and for our wellness in general. It also gives us the opportunity for personal growth and can bring more joy into our life.

      Resolving past issues can be challenging, especially when the problem is a longstanding one. The results, however, are worth the effort. Use this opportunity to write in your journal. As emotions arise, try to relax, observe, and identify the feelings. Allow yourself to feel these emotions. Be patient, acknowledge and forgive, and simply let it go.

Essential elements of the SimplyRaw program

      The Living Foods Lifestyle (LFL) is a natural health program developed by Dr Ann Wigmore specifically for rebuilding and maintaining health. The LFL Program promotes total rejuvenation of the body and mind. It is a holistic approach to life. Dr Wigmore believed that there are no incurable diseases if one lives in harmony with nature. Her thirty-five years of research indicates that disease is a result of toxicity and deficiency caused by excessive cooked and processed foods, drugs, pollutants, and negative attitudes.

      Living foods are provided by nature, organically grown, and consumed in their original, uncooked state. They are the most nutritious of all raw plant foods. Living foods include fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and grains, all prepared for optimal digestion by sprouting, blending, and fermenting. When eaten daily, these high-enzyme and oxygen-rich foods provide the body with life-giving, easy-to-digest nourishment. The chlorophyll content of Energy Soup, wheatgrass, salad greens, and sprouts helps restore and strengthen a weakened immune system. These nutrient-dense foods combat deficiencies and address problems of toxicity. When the body isn’t using all its energy to digest food, it can focus its resources on other tasks, such as releasing stored toxins and healing.

      Ann Wigmore (1909–1994)

      Born in Lithuania, Ann Wigmore was a holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, teacher, author, whole foods advocate, and Living Foods Lifestyle founder. She was an early pioneer in the use of wheatgrass juice¹ and living foods for detoxifying and nourishing the body, mind, and spirit.

      Dr Ann Wigmore dedicated her life to educating the world about the transforming qualities of the Living Foods Lifestyle. In her autobiography, Why Suffer: How I Overcame Illness and Pain Naturally (Avery, 1985), Ann tells of growing up in war-torn Lithuania. She was raised by her grandmother who exposed her to herbs and natural remedies as she observed her using them to help heal wounded World War I soldiers.

      In her mid-teens, Ann joined the rest of her family in America where she quickly adopted the “new world’s” eating habits and customs. She had a disastrous automobile accident that crushed her legs, resulting in gangrene. The doctors recommended amputation of both legs, but Ann refused, although her family sided with the doctors.

      She soon reverted back to her grandmother’s natural ways of healing, spending endless hours in her backyard in the sun, eating everything green she could find, mostly herbs, weeds, and grass, applying them also to her wounds. Slowly she regained her strength and eventually returned to her doctor, her wounds gone and legs healed. She recalls that the doctors “made no comment when X-ray films showed that the bones had knitted firmly.”

      Later, when diagnosed with colon cancer, she stated that following an American diet had caused the cancer. Again, Ann applied various natural healing modalities. Within a very short time, the cancer was reversed. She continued to research and study various whole foods and diet approaches, which she said not only cleared up her medical problems but changed her life. After many years of experimenting with food, she found a way to grow simple and easy-to-digest indoor greens, known as sprouts.

      With a desire to share her knowledge, Dr Wigmore authored many books and lectured in various countries. She was an inspirational pioneer in the raw food movement who promoted the healing properties of wheatgrass juice. She invented the wheatgrass juicer by adding a sieve to a meat grinder, thus making it possible for people to grow and juice their own wheatgrass. Wheatgrass, she found, was easy and cheap to grow, and it contained one of the highest nutritional contents of the grasses.

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