Day 6 - No Problems Here

Spiritual

I've never thought of this much until now. As humans we plan our life around food. Noon hit today and I looked at my car clock and said to myself, "It's lunch. What will I be eating for lunch?". So much of energy surfaces around 3 or more meals. What do we want? Where will we get it? and so on. It is quite a freeing experience to be left without this need. The other day I thought to myself. If God were to come down and ask me if I had the opportunity to never need to eat again, would I take it? I actually thought it about for a while. My answer of course was no. I love food way to much.

But then I thought, what if this question was asked to someone who is usually starving or who takes all their livelihood and energy just to have food to survive. Well they might say yes and what a blessing and a freeing from slavery that would be. I guess that is what is meant when God cursed Adam and said:

"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Powerful statements when you consider how liberating this no food experience can be. I guess that brings us back to the cycle of fasting. It allows us to see the curse for what it really is.

On that note: How about give to someone who is hungry? Check out the link on the right for Samaritan's Purse.

Mental

I think I've come to a semi-conclusion on my illustrious 6th day. The master cleanse is not hard because of the physical nature of the cleanse. I, like many people, might think that its the "not eating" part that gets you. From my experience, and I am only one person, these are the hard parts 1) believing that you can do it, 2) being tempted by food for temptations sake, 3) the flushing part.

I can officially say I have never felt hungry on this cleanse. I did feel like eating sushi. And I did feel like eating Ethiopian food. And I did feel like the world was against me. But I have never felt hunger. It is interesting being able to mentally separate these feelings. To get a grasp on what is really going on in our minds.

Many obstacles in life are just there to psyche us out. Can we do it? Do we want to do it? Well, other people aren't doing it? or Are they doing it?

Physical

This is my advice to anyone starting the master cleanse. Do not, I repeat, do not drink the herbal laxative tea in the morning. Just talking from personal experience.

So I didn't forgot to drink my tea last night, but I had to miss my salt flush this morning because I was rushing off to my facial. By the way, I treated myself with a facial since I am saving, well I just spent it, but in theory I was saving all this money from not eating. Anyway, since I didn't salt cleanse, I did as instructed and drank a glass of tea. This time I made sure to count to 6-8 hours after to make sure I was at home. Well, I wasn't at home, but rushing home at that time.

You see, for those of you who don't know what the laxative tea does to you feels like this - someone squeezing your intestines and then letting go. And then squeezing them again. And then repeat. This only happens for a very short time, but at that time you would rather be at home then racing up the hill to your house. The whole process from start to finish is only 15 minutes, so its not that bad - but I would rather have that in the morning than in the middle of the day. Just a cautionary note.

Are you excited for thigh measurements tomorrow?