Laura_G, Age 39, HPS ADVANCED CLEANSING, 7DW Level 3 Intoduction, Pet-sitter

[Laura_G]

Hi-

My pre-cleanse is upon me and about to start in a week today. Wow! How time does get away. It seems like I just finished Level 2 yesterday, when in fact it has been about 3 months up to this point and it will have been 4 months by the time I start my formal.

I’m looking forward to this pre-cleanse because I have not been so great with following such a healthful way of life. These pre-cleanses seem to give me structure and I get into the mind-set of practicing healthful ways. Now to master that into the post-cleanses and life in general.

I am looking forward to the “No turning back” feeling, yet am also a little scared. I will be saying goodbye to part of me that’s familiar, a piece of me will be dying and along with it, the many habits and even some people I have become addicted to I guess. This is a good thing of course but it's still a kind of mourning. And of course the fight against change thing.

But…there will be a new livelier me. It will leave me open to new and healthier things and new people. It will be good for my health when my body and mind demand healthful and not destructive. Just another reason to be here is to embrace change. If I didn't REALLY- in my heart- want change I wouldn't be doing this. It's exciting.

I took the quiz and got another 30%. It’s the same as level 2 and 5 points higher than Level 1.:o I just need to MAKE THE DECISION to change some habits and then like the Nike commercials say, “Just do it!”

Cleanse on.

Peace,
Laura

[Janaka_P]

Laura, no need to be scared - it’s not THAT dramatic - at least it wasn’t for me. It’s another cleanse with some new modalities, but for me anyway none of the cleanses was that big a change from prior ones.

[Laura_G]

Janaka-
Scared was probably the wrong word. Nervous is more like it. Thanks for the comforting words.

I want, need and am ready for a dramatic change though. :p

Laura

[Belinda_G]

Laura,

I just found you here and I think you must have launched into your pre-cleanse ..FANTASTIC...I'll head over to find you there...
love Belinda

[Richard_D]

Hey Laura,

I missed your intro until now. I feel a lot the same way that you do about the precleanse--in a lot of ways, it seems to have more of a lasting effect on what happens after the formal than the formal itself. Maybe because this is the phase in which we start to focus on the choices we make while eating. There's no food during the formal, so in that regard it's easier to mentally compartmentalize as an extraodinary event that has little relation to normal life. But with the precleanse it's like a dress rehearsal for the life you want to have all the time.

Level 3 has a certain--I don't want to say ominous--impressive aura about it, especially coming on the heels of Level 2. Maybe it's the extended precleanse, maybe it's the idea that a major turning point is upon one, I can't say. It struck me though that perhaps rather than thinking of a part of yourself dying, it might be more accurate to say that a long-lost part of yourself is coming back after a long absence. Although maybe it doesn't seem that way to you at all. Thought I'd mention it though.

Rick

[Martin_J]

Hi Laura,

Just catching up and want to wish you the best for your level 3 venture. As Janaka says it really is not as dramatic as it seems, but your body will want to stay with a more alkaline base. You'll like the fact that your body won't tolerate long term negligent habits anymore. See you over on the pre- side.

Marty

[Laura_G]

Richard, I like your way of looking at what I said about a piece of my dying. A part of me is actually coming back to life. It's much more positive and I like that way of seeing it. It feels good thinking of it that way.

I was thinking about this post a few days ago and some of the way I put things is sometimes not quite what I want to say exactly.

Like being scared. It's really just nervousness. And the ego putting up a resistance. The ego doesn't like to let go of the familiar. These old unhealthy habits have served it for so long, it doesn't want to let go. But the spirit knows there's so much more and growing is essential, and giving up the bad, unhealthy habits and even some people is necessary to grow.

Marty- Yes, you're right. I will like that my body will not tolerate certain behaviors. It's funny I guess. I always wondered if it was possible to shift my cravings.

Thanks guys.
Laura

[Jos-hua Medicine man]

Cool stuff, cool talk here friends... yes, a part of you is awakening, becoming again. that is nice. drop all the old stuff, lets move foreward, you are ready Laura... it is time soon to start really seeing yourself differently, because you are. I'm so happy for you.

You know, one of the things so important and striking about healing, and which someone who has not gotten on a rejuvenation path won't understand, but one of the striking things is how we finally recognize that things REALLY have changed... not just superfisciously, not on the surface (I took my pills everyday for a month kind of thing), but deep down, and continuously and for quite a while now... in your case you are about 6 or 7 months into cleansing, and yes, it is time to recognize, as you are, that in fact, you are in the midst of creating something new, a new you.

AND IT IS EXCITING... sure it is a process and will go on for the next couple of years, but let there be no doubt, in 2010 you will look back and say WOW, I HAVE created a new me, and it's wonderful and I look forward to what's ahead.

All this really takes place in the mind, on a kind of parallel shore, and in fact, until one realizes this, all the cleansing in the world doesn't propel you forward as this realization does.


Peace

[Louise_L]

I am looking forward to the “No turning back” feeling, yet am also a little scared. I will be saying goodbye to part of me that’s familiar, a piece of me will be dying and along with it, the many habits and even some people I have become addicted to I guess. This is a good thing of course but it's still a kind of mourning. And of course the fight against change thing.



Laura,

This part of you is not the real you. It's the ego you that is fabricated by the mind. So let it go and don't look back. As Janaka says, there is nothing to be afraid of. I have created a new me, as Jos-hua says, and I would never, never, never go back. Move forward, enjoy, surrender. Become all that you can be.

Have a great Level 3. It is good to see you here.

Louise_L

[Stephen_C]

Hi Laura,

Good luck with the start of your pre... You have lots of wonderful support here and you will enjoy this special time in your life. Look forward to being with you as we all continue our journey...

Love and Peace,

Stephen

[Jeremi_S]

Laura,

You can do this!!! I just want you to know that if you give up something in life there will be something to replace it. You are willing to give up something that is not producing positive energy and I know from experience that it will be replaced with better habits, friends, state of mind and health.... Know that is a fair trade in your favor look forward to seeing your progress...
Peace 333.