Paradigm Shift

The other night, as I was about to drift off to sleep I realized that I had been experiencing a gradual paradigm shift over the last couple of months.  Maybe it's just all of this juice going to my head or maybe it's a result of the clarity I've felt during my juice fast.  That clarity could also be the result of sleeping better.  When I started this juice fast 62 days ago I was 56lbs heavier and was only sleeping 2-3 hours at a time during the night.  I was constantly waking up during the night and often had to sleep sitting up in my living room chair because I was able to breathe easier that way.  Whatever the reason, I can see clearly now the road ahead of me and it's paved with hope.  

I am hopeful because spending this time cleaning out my body with fresh pressed juice seems to have washed away my fear my hunger. I've been chased by an unrelenting hunger most of my life and was afraid the hunger from only drinking juice would be unbearable, but I've been amazed at how manageable my hunger has been.  And the fear of hunger that has been a monkey on my back for so long seems to have found somewhere else to live.  Hopefully, he won't come back when I start eating bananas again.

I'm still amazed that I've been juicing for more than 60 days.  My last day will be this Friday and I'm excited to start chewing food again.  I am so excited about the changes ahead of me in the coming months and transformation that juicing has had on my body and my mind.  As I was writing about this shift I've felt tonight I came across this quote on a friend's Facebook page that sums up perfectly what I've been thinking and feeling lately.

"Change is a transition from dysfunctional behavior to functional behavior. Functionality means skill in achieving healthy goals. To change psychologically is to become skillful at handling things better now than we did before. Change is a psychological event; transformation is a spiritual gift. Transformation, unlike change, cannot be achieved; it happens. Transformation means love, wisdom, and healing in thought, word and deed." ~ David Richo

Extra Energy

Today was a good day.  It was the second day of my juice reboot and I'm really surprised by how much energy I have today.  I even got outside and walked my dog for about 15 minutes.  I drank my last juice of the day (kale, watermelon & blueberries) about an hour ago and still feel energized. 

I read something this afternoon by Joe Cross that caused a slight paradigm shift for me in

how I look at the excess fat on my body.  "Try not to focus on weight loss...that will happen if your body needs to use up the extra energy you might be saving.  Try to stay focused on the health benefits of flooding your system with little packets of sunlight."

 

Despite all of my efforts to change my body and my thinking about my body over the years, I've always felt like food & the fat it created was the enemy.   But, energy is such a positive word and something just clicked in me.  It's not like this is a new concept for me, but with most my life lessons it often takes hearing something I've heard a thousand times before in just the right way at just the right moment.   I finally feel like the fat I've been storing "for a rainy day" is finally working in my favor and supplying me with lots of energy today.   

 

It seems so simple now, but it took me a lifetime to get to this moment and I am excited to see what new insights and clarity comes from this little juicing experiment of mine.  I know letting go of this excess weight is an integral part of this journey to radically simplify my life and hope I feel as energetic tomorrow and in the coming days.  Today it certainly felt like I was walking in the sunlight of the spirit.