Readers,
For the last few days (since Sunday) I have been involving my normal working life with a Juice Fast in order the detoxify and cleanse my body's systems. I am happy to undergo this journey on the premise of helping others go through this activity. Since I am a yoga teacher, I believe in making life and living a flexible experience. Juice fasting is new for me. In fact, at the maximum weight of 140 lbs, I have never wanted to fast because I was afraid of losing too much weight.
I have to say it's day five and I am perfectly fine (and carrot juice has become my best friend)! So, I am absolutely recommending this sort of thing. Some of my other friends and associates from Waking Within are fasting with me and it feels great to have support. Most of the dreams and daily activites are shared experience and my friends and I talk everyday. So, before getting into the sales pitch stuff about how great this is, let me tell you more about days one through four.
Day One: Easy day. The main thing that I notice about myself on day one was how much tension and effort the mind puts me through in order to "take me to food," "get me to go to food," "find food," "buy food," "consider different ways of preparing food of eating," and "subliminal warnings me about how it's not good to skip meals/snacks."
Day Two: A harder day. I definitely wanted to sleep on Tuesday night. I wanted to maintain my usual schedule though, so I simply pushed my energy through the day. I could feel by now what was "me", what were "my thoughts", what were the "thoughts of others", and what were my "emotions". I realized that this division started on Monday night, when I experienced strange old emotions of buried anger. This anger was not intentional and did not seem to know what direction to head in. After about two hours of yoga poses and breathing (I teach on Monday), this emotion was gone. The experience re-started on in the morning then was replaced with a feeling of emptiness. This also forwards my philosophical theory that our mind/body/spirit existence contains weather formations that last a limited period of time--we in the west call them emotions. Like weather formations, emotions change and transform not just themselves but the earth which coresponds to the Self in this theory.
Day Three: Observance. This was by far the most interesting day... I was able to hit an all time low feeling but at the same time I was no longer associating any of my feelings with me as a being. I came to understand perspectives such as the Observer or the Witness. Nothing could be "done" to me at this point because I know that "me or that which I am" was outside the body/mind of Trevor R. Hughes. I had some out of body moments on this day which I consider sacred and will comment on only when asked in person.
Day Four: Senses. I was literally running into auras or human energy fields. This process started yesterday but became more recognizable on day Four. This caused me to intend to only approach those people who felt clear and clean in their energy field. I am slightly antisocial with my roommates and they view my fast as negative...but none of them are doing regular yoga or paying any attention to "what the level of cleaniness of the things that they put into there bodies is."
Hugh T Alchemy
(I am drinking about a half gallon of water a day, too.)
For the last few days (since Sunday) I have been involving my normal working life with a Juice Fast in order the detoxify and cleanse my body's systems. I am happy to undergo this journey on the premise of helping others go through this activity. Since I am a yoga teacher, I believe in making life and living a flexible experience. Juice fasting is new for me. In fact, at the maximum weight of 140 lbs, I have never wanted to fast because I was afraid of losing too much weight.
I have to say it's day five and I am perfectly fine (and carrot juice has become my best friend)! So, I am absolutely recommending this sort of thing. Some of my other friends and associates from Waking Within are fasting with me and it feels great to have support. Most of the dreams and daily activites are shared experience and my friends and I talk everyday. So, before getting into the sales pitch stuff about how great this is, let me tell you more about days one through four.
Day One: Easy day. The main thing that I notice about myself on day one was how much tension and effort the mind puts me through in order to "take me to food," "get me to go to food," "find food," "buy food," "consider different ways of preparing food of eating," and "subliminal warnings me about how it's not good to skip meals/snacks."
Day Two: A harder day. I definitely wanted to sleep on Tuesday night. I wanted to maintain my usual schedule though, so I simply pushed my energy through the day. I could feel by now what was "me", what were "my thoughts", what were the "thoughts of others", and what were my "emotions". I realized that this division started on Monday night, when I experienced strange old emotions of buried anger. This anger was not intentional and did not seem to know what direction to head in. After about two hours of yoga poses and breathing (I teach on Monday), this emotion was gone. The experience re-started on in the morning then was replaced with a feeling of emptiness. This also forwards my philosophical theory that our mind/body/spirit existence contains weather formations that last a limited period of time--we in the west call them emotions. Like weather formations, emotions change and transform not just themselves but the earth which coresponds to the Self in this theory.
Day Three: Observance. This was by far the most interesting day... I was able to hit an all time low feeling but at the same time I was no longer associating any of my feelings with me as a being. I came to understand perspectives such as the Observer or the Witness. Nothing could be "done" to me at this point because I know that "me or that which I am" was outside the body/mind of Trevor R. Hughes. I had some out of body moments on this day which I consider sacred and will comment on only when asked in person.
Day Four: Senses. I was literally running into auras or human energy fields. This process started yesterday but became more recognizable on day Four. This caused me to intend to only approach those people who felt clear and clean in their energy field. I am slightly antisocial with my roommates and they view my fast as negative...but none of them are doing regular yoga or paying any attention to "what the level of cleaniness of the things that they put into there bodies is."
Hugh T Alchemy
(I am drinking about a half gallon of water a day, too.)
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