Ramona_W
04-10-2005, 01:03 AM
Hello, :D
I just took the toxic lifestyle quiz and was surprised by my score which was down to 15% from the 25% it was before! :D Hurray!!
For those of you who have not read my previous introductions and testimonies I thought it would be best to share a little of where I've come from (before HPS) so that you could fully appreciate where I am now and where I hope to be.
In looking back, I’m not really sure when I first started becoming ill but I can say what symptoms finally got my attention.
I was in my early twenties when my memory loss started making me worried. I began to wonder if people my age could get Alzheimer's disease. I also started having occasional symptoms of dyslexia, and even what a nutritionist friend of mine thought might be some autism symptoms. This was bizarre as I had always had an extremely outgoing personality and loved people. I basically felt like a computer that had been worn out, emotionally, mentally, and physically. I realize now that my body had become so toxic that basically it was poisoning itself (called toxemia).
I started having pains in my abdomen and constipation off and on when I was about 11. This increased in frequency so slowly over the years that I never realized how used to the pain I had become. I was either uncomfortable, or in pain all the time.
I was extremely thin growing up and thought I could eat anything. I even tried gaining a little weight once in my teens by eating more ice cream and milkshakes. :rolleyes:
Recently, I watched a TV show in which “the bad guys” were slowly poisoning a victim over a long period of time. As I watched, I was amazed at how closely the symptoms I had during my illness paralleled what this poison victim was going through.
I started becoming allergic to just about everything. It became worse and worse and my doctor (a very good MD that believed in alternative medicine) told me, among other things, that I had Leaky Gut Syndrome. He told me that the lining of my colon was absorbing a lot of the toxins back into my system instead of eliminating them. Because of the constipation, he gave me an expensive, natural product to help me eliminate on a regular basis and help heal the colon lining.
My health improved while I saw this doctor before he retired. But although I was taking natural things to heal my colon and I was avoiding the foods and chemicals that I was allergic to, I still did not understand the concept of a healthy diet. I was concentrating on what I should not do instead of what I should be doing to build my health. True health doesn't come just by popping a few herbal pills here and there! So even though I was taking these natural remedies my colon lining still had not healed completely.
My allergic reactions continued to get worse. I would try holding down different jobs but it's hard when you have such strong reactions to simple things. I once had a strong reaction to a magic marker that someone else used in the office where I was the receptionist. Within half an hour I was on the floor, so weak I could barely lift my head. My mom had to come pick me up and my brother carried me out to the car. So as you can imagine that job didn't last very long!
I continued to go places and do things with the mindset that I didn't want to give into the illness. I wanted to be strong and active, no matter how weak I was. Up until a little over a year ago I pushed myself to go to Church on Sundays, a street ministry once a week, and occasional shopping for the family. Each one of those would send me to bed for a day or two afterwards if not for the rest of the week.
A lot of my energy when I was around people went to covering up how sick, or weak I felt. My first thought when I went anywhere was to find a good chair that would support me if I started to have a reaction. If a chair gave good enough support, then people wouldn't necessarily realize how weak I might become.
In the spring of 2004 the Lord got my attention! I had been asking for direction. I knew I needed healing in order to accomplish anything with my life. He let me know that I needed to stay at home for a while and stop exposing myself to all the perfumes and chemicals that I was reacting to all the time. I basically needed time to rest and heal. This might seem like an obvious conclusion, but I was still facing a lot of guilt that I wasn't able to do more, and that my family was having to take care of me so much of the time and provide for me financially. About this time I also came across a book that I believe was also in answer to our prayers. This book changed my idea of health and what I ate. I did some broth fasting and began to drink acidophilus and eat goat yogurt to help my colon heal (which did help some).
But each time I tried to add food back in to my diet, the pain in my abdomen would come back and I couldn’t seem to digest anything. I very easily became constipated as well. I didn’t want to go back to where I had been, but after 3 months of this, I was becoming increasingly weaker and weaker as I stayed on nothing but broth, some steamed vegetables, goat yogurt and the liquid acidophilus. I was weak most all the time, needing help getting to the bathroom, pretty much confined to my bed. Not that weakness was anything new to me, but now it was constant instead of just during a reaction.
I became desperate and began to really cry out to God to again show me what I was supposed to do next.
At this time in answer to these prayers, a family member of a man that works for my dad told us about HPS. I knew immediately in my spirit that this was my answer to prayer, that this was the direction I was to take.
Since then I have been totally amazed by the overwhelming wealth of material covered in HPS, showing us everything we need to know to bring us into good health and how to stay that way!
The very day after my first cleanse was over I was able to eat raw vegetables in a salad WITHOUT PAIN for the first time in years! After that my energy levels began to pick up again. I had become very weak by the time I started with HPS. So I was glad when I was able to start walking on my own, even for a few minutes in the backyard, by myself. By the time I started my second cleanse I was up to walking about 45 minutes every day, with other exercises as well. At that time I was experiencing astronomical results from the first cleanse but my hormones were still way out of whack.
Now I can say that since the second cleanse, my hormones have balanced out, I am thinking much more clearly and with ease, than I have in years. Not only am I walking every day and exercising, but I am now able to fix my family's meals. For so long they had to take care of me, it's a wonderful feeling to be able to take care of them! I have not felt this great in years!!!!
I am REALLY looking forward to this next cleanse! With each cleanse Jos-hua has given us amazing information on our health, and this third cleanse is no exception!
In reading the material preparatory to the level 3 cleanse, I see that some of the organs this cleanse directly affects, also helps clear up allergic reactions. I am very happy to start working on this area of my health as this problem has continued to limit me.
I have remained confined to our home for a year now, away from the perfumes, hair products and other chemicals that continually made me so sick. Now that I know what it feels like to be well, I can’t stand the thought of having to deal with those allergic reactions any more. In reading the material, I’m even more confident that I don’t have to experience allergic reactions for the rest of my life!!!
I have friends who have experienced miraculous healings. One friend of mine was clinically blind, her eyes severely crossed as a child, but God healed her so perfectly, she came in third in a Miss America contest, without the aid of contacts or glasses. Her case is well documented because her eyes were chosen for some billboard advertisements! Her brother had Leukemia, and was told he only had a year to live. He’s now in his thirties with a wife and children! Another friend broke her leg. After friends in Church prayed for her, the pain immediately left and she felt that her leg was healed. She went back to the doctor for more X-rays, and the Doctor confirmed that it was completely healed!
Of course I wondered why God did not heal me that way! But now I am very grateful for all the vast information I am learning on health, and living a healthy lifestyle! So maybe my healing has taken a little longer, but I have gained so much knowledge and understanding! I know that I am a much more compassionate person than I was before, and I hope that I will have a lot more to offer people in pain and in need.
I am actually now looking forward to the day when my health is better than many of my friends who have never had health issues like I have! My eyes are smiling right now because I know that that's going to happen!!!! :D
I just took the toxic lifestyle quiz and was surprised by my score which was down to 15% from the 25% it was before! :D Hurray!!
For those of you who have not read my previous introductions and testimonies I thought it would be best to share a little of where I've come from (before HPS) so that you could fully appreciate where I am now and where I hope to be.
In looking back, I’m not really sure when I first started becoming ill but I can say what symptoms finally got my attention.
I was in my early twenties when my memory loss started making me worried. I began to wonder if people my age could get Alzheimer's disease. I also started having occasional symptoms of dyslexia, and even what a nutritionist friend of mine thought might be some autism symptoms. This was bizarre as I had always had an extremely outgoing personality and loved people. I basically felt like a computer that had been worn out, emotionally, mentally, and physically. I realize now that my body had become so toxic that basically it was poisoning itself (called toxemia).
I started having pains in my abdomen and constipation off and on when I was about 11. This increased in frequency so slowly over the years that I never realized how used to the pain I had become. I was either uncomfortable, or in pain all the time.
I was extremely thin growing up and thought I could eat anything. I even tried gaining a little weight once in my teens by eating more ice cream and milkshakes. :rolleyes:
Recently, I watched a TV show in which “the bad guys” were slowly poisoning a victim over a long period of time. As I watched, I was amazed at how closely the symptoms I had during my illness paralleled what this poison victim was going through.
I started becoming allergic to just about everything. It became worse and worse and my doctor (a very good MD that believed in alternative medicine) told me, among other things, that I had Leaky Gut Syndrome. He told me that the lining of my colon was absorbing a lot of the toxins back into my system instead of eliminating them. Because of the constipation, he gave me an expensive, natural product to help me eliminate on a regular basis and help heal the colon lining.
My health improved while I saw this doctor before he retired. But although I was taking natural things to heal my colon and I was avoiding the foods and chemicals that I was allergic to, I still did not understand the concept of a healthy diet. I was concentrating on what I should not do instead of what I should be doing to build my health. True health doesn't come just by popping a few herbal pills here and there! So even though I was taking these natural remedies my colon lining still had not healed completely.
My allergic reactions continued to get worse. I would try holding down different jobs but it's hard when you have such strong reactions to simple things. I once had a strong reaction to a magic marker that someone else used in the office where I was the receptionist. Within half an hour I was on the floor, so weak I could barely lift my head. My mom had to come pick me up and my brother carried me out to the car. So as you can imagine that job didn't last very long!
I continued to go places and do things with the mindset that I didn't want to give into the illness. I wanted to be strong and active, no matter how weak I was. Up until a little over a year ago I pushed myself to go to Church on Sundays, a street ministry once a week, and occasional shopping for the family. Each one of those would send me to bed for a day or two afterwards if not for the rest of the week.
A lot of my energy when I was around people went to covering up how sick, or weak I felt. My first thought when I went anywhere was to find a good chair that would support me if I started to have a reaction. If a chair gave good enough support, then people wouldn't necessarily realize how weak I might become.
In the spring of 2004 the Lord got my attention! I had been asking for direction. I knew I needed healing in order to accomplish anything with my life. He let me know that I needed to stay at home for a while and stop exposing myself to all the perfumes and chemicals that I was reacting to all the time. I basically needed time to rest and heal. This might seem like an obvious conclusion, but I was still facing a lot of guilt that I wasn't able to do more, and that my family was having to take care of me so much of the time and provide for me financially. About this time I also came across a book that I believe was also in answer to our prayers. This book changed my idea of health and what I ate. I did some broth fasting and began to drink acidophilus and eat goat yogurt to help my colon heal (which did help some).
But each time I tried to add food back in to my diet, the pain in my abdomen would come back and I couldn’t seem to digest anything. I very easily became constipated as well. I didn’t want to go back to where I had been, but after 3 months of this, I was becoming increasingly weaker and weaker as I stayed on nothing but broth, some steamed vegetables, goat yogurt and the liquid acidophilus. I was weak most all the time, needing help getting to the bathroom, pretty much confined to my bed. Not that weakness was anything new to me, but now it was constant instead of just during a reaction.
I became desperate and began to really cry out to God to again show me what I was supposed to do next.
At this time in answer to these prayers, a family member of a man that works for my dad told us about HPS. I knew immediately in my spirit that this was my answer to prayer, that this was the direction I was to take.
Since then I have been totally amazed by the overwhelming wealth of material covered in HPS, showing us everything we need to know to bring us into good health and how to stay that way!
The very day after my first cleanse was over I was able to eat raw vegetables in a salad WITHOUT PAIN for the first time in years! After that my energy levels began to pick up again. I had become very weak by the time I started with HPS. So I was glad when I was able to start walking on my own, even for a few minutes in the backyard, by myself. By the time I started my second cleanse I was up to walking about 45 minutes every day, with other exercises as well. At that time I was experiencing astronomical results from the first cleanse but my hormones were still way out of whack.
Now I can say that since the second cleanse, my hormones have balanced out, I am thinking much more clearly and with ease, than I have in years. Not only am I walking every day and exercising, but I am now able to fix my family's meals. For so long they had to take care of me, it's a wonderful feeling to be able to take care of them! I have not felt this great in years!!!!
I am REALLY looking forward to this next cleanse! With each cleanse Jos-hua has given us amazing information on our health, and this third cleanse is no exception!
In reading the material preparatory to the level 3 cleanse, I see that some of the organs this cleanse directly affects, also helps clear up allergic reactions. I am very happy to start working on this area of my health as this problem has continued to limit me.
I have remained confined to our home for a year now, away from the perfumes, hair products and other chemicals that continually made me so sick. Now that I know what it feels like to be well, I can’t stand the thought of having to deal with those allergic reactions any more. In reading the material, I’m even more confident that I don’t have to experience allergic reactions for the rest of my life!!!
I have friends who have experienced miraculous healings. One friend of mine was clinically blind, her eyes severely crossed as a child, but God healed her so perfectly, she came in third in a Miss America contest, without the aid of contacts or glasses. Her case is well documented because her eyes were chosen for some billboard advertisements! Her brother had Leukemia, and was told he only had a year to live. He’s now in his thirties with a wife and children! Another friend broke her leg. After friends in Church prayed for her, the pain immediately left and she felt that her leg was healed. She went back to the doctor for more X-rays, and the Doctor confirmed that it was completely healed!
Of course I wondered why God did not heal me that way! But now I am very grateful for all the vast information I am learning on health, and living a healthy lifestyle! So maybe my healing has taken a little longer, but I have gained so much knowledge and understanding! I know that I am a much more compassionate person than I was before, and I hope that I will have a lot more to offer people in pain and in need.
I am actually now looking forward to the day when my health is better than many of my friends who have never had health issues like I have! My eyes are smiling right now because I know that that's going to happen!!!! :D