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David_T
06-03-2005, 02:06 AM
I have been looking forward to a fast for several months now ... actually, it was right after I finished the level 4 cleanse that I started looking for the date on my calendar for my next cleanse. When something is working, you just want to keep going with it!

I think back to when I first came to HPS -- November 2002 -- I drank a pot of coffee a day and a sixpack of diet soda a day (literally.) I don't have a spleen and as a result I was resigned to the "low resistance" that comes with it ... thus getting sick once a month -- and needing antibiodics to get rid of it. I was tired often, didn't sleep well at night. I ate a bottle of antacids (big heafty one) a month.

But worst of all, like most people, I thought that this was "normal"; I thought, without being consious of the thought, that I would be like the vast majority of people in this country and dependent on drugs to reduce my symptoms.

Anyhow, my life is completely different now ... thought I may still drink my wine and beer, though I still eat too much at times -- and not always in the best combinations -- overall, the picture is night and day.

I haven't been sick in nearly 3 years. I haven't taken ANY medications in nearly 3 years... and baring some unforseen calamity, I won't!

I am looking forward to this fast because it is like a reset button for me now -- asside from the benefits received from the actual cleanse. Doing a week of precleanse followed by a week of fasting retrains my body and my mind. It reminds me that I am in control of what goes into my body and it reduces any incidental cravings that I pick up with my less than perfect eating habits.

I feel great taking the time for myself to reaffirm that my health is top priority -- it is like on the airplane where they tell you to put on your mask before assisting someone else with theirs. If I haven't taken care of my body, it doesn't make a good instrument to serve others.

I am living in Texas now. Last year I sold my house, sold my company and started doing my passion (which I was doing parttime) fulltime. I highly recommend that you look inside yourself and see if you have your priorities right. Are you taking care of your health and are you finding ways to make this world the way you want it?

I find this program invaluable for making my health the way I want it... and that has given me increased energy and encouragement so that I can also pursue my dream -- if I can make that much difference in my body, I can do the same in the world!

** As can you! **


Love and light,

David

Richard_D
06-03-2005, 02:09 PM
Hey David,

Amen, amen, amen, and one of those Hallelujiahs thrown into the mix. I hear you on so many levels. I have a wonderful job right now but I still need to get my head around appreciating that fact in daily practice.

And I have to say, like you, I do like my wine and beer. I don't do the hard stuff but I will do any amount of the softer stuff, although I know I would be better off without it. I can eat too much at times, too, but I actually do the combination thing pretty well.

I don't get sick either--ever! But I sure do have reversions to bad habits and behaviors, and in order to forestall that and also to compensate (if only partially--one day I will pursue a more perfect state of health, but it is a slow building process) the periodic fast is indispensible. It won't allow you to live a life of perfect hedonism, but provided your list of vices is short and infrequent it can certainly give you an edge.

Again, to me it's a matter of developing awareness of how directly everything you do affects your level of health, and therefore your quality of life. I still do things that hurt my health, but I am slowly learning the lessons that will one day soon swing the balance irrevocably in favor of right living. Between now and then it is incumbent on all of us to actually learn those lessons, and not merely to recognize them, believing erroneously that a simple act of understanding equates somehow to actually taking a lesson on board and integrating it into one's lifestyle.

Okay, gathering the wool at this point. Suffice to say that your intro has struck multiple chords with me, and I am eager to see how things play out for you in this cleanse and beyond.

Rick

Mark_D
06-03-2005, 02:39 PM
Hi David, high five an all that you commented on - seeing a fast and cleanse as a reset button is a good perspective and one that I will hang on to myself. Also, at the same time we learn good eating habits and food combinations that our body likes. Learning is a life long task but there are those who are not in a learning mode who are having problems and seeing their diet and problems allows me or us to help them, if they will allow it. Good luck on your furture cleanse.

Mark

Janaka_P
06-03-2005, 02:48 PM
Nice testimonial/intro, David. I like your ideas about resetting.

Richard, you too, good thinking here, though I look forward to the time when I can reign in by aberrations a bit - that would be an easier path, I think, than what I am doing now.

Kim_M
06-03-2005, 06:01 PM
I am just starting and am really reassured that what i'm doing is the right thing. Looking forward to sharing all my experiences with you all.

Kimxxx