Dennis_D
03-14-2003, 08:49 AM
Hello fellow cleansers,
I'm from Belgium, 24 yo and about a year ago I discovered hps. A stomach fracture' s what got me on the path to good health. Due to this stomach fracture I had a lot of problems with my stomach (acid), so the doctor put me on a special diet. Later on I changed the diet and eventually I became a vegetarian. I still eat fish and eggs, but no meat and diary product anymore. Also no more candy and sugar nor soda's. I cut these out 5,6 years ago already. I used to have acne back then. Now that's almost totally gone, except for an occasional pimple now and then.
Two years ago I trapped a serious case of mononucleosis though :( . It has taken me over a years to get rid of the tiredness that comes along with it.
That's when I started looking for answers. Eating healthy helps you stay healthy, but it just isn't enough to 'get' healthy again.
I started looking for other methods and so I discovered cleansing and HPS. 'But why wait a year to start your cleansing? ', I hear you ask. That's what I'll try to explain next. Be patient young padawan :)
I signed up almost immediately last year and got started; ordered the herbs, bought the board, started the cleansing emails. I took up the advice of Joshua in his audio guidance recordings and I told my mom and dad, and my girlfriend about cleansing. Tried to explain them how it worked and what it would do. My girlfriend and my mom understood, my dad didn't want to understand.
I continued anyway, but on the first day of my cleanse my dad started yelling and freaking out... there was nothing I could do or say to make him understand. He still thinks that not eating for 7 days will mess up all chemical processes in your body and once they are out of balance, there's no way you can "fix" things....
I don't agree, and I'm 100% sure that what I'm doing will not harm me in any way, if being done so the right way. Nevertheless, I stopped my cleanse on the first day. It was impossible for me to continue that way. I think he would've rather had me locked up somewhere in an mental institution than let me continue.
So I pretended throwing everything overboard, hid the board somewhere and put the herbs in the basement of my girlfriends' parents.
It's amazing how afraid people are when faced with new ideas, changes, situations they've never been in before.
I expected this kind of reaction from my dad though. My dad had always been a healthy, strong young man... until his mid thirties or something. Then he got ill; the disease of Chrone (at least that's what the doctors said).
He started losing weight fast (30 pounds in a couple of weeks), had to run to the toilet every two seconds, bleedings, hemmeroids, pain... All the time he refused to see a doctor.
By the time my mother finally convinced him to go to a doctor his situation had already improved, but he went to the doctor anyway. The doctor pumped him full of real heavy medication.
After that he has never ever been the same again. Suddenly there was an old man where a strong young man used to be. He has been having, and still has, problems with his back and legs ever since. Some days he couldn't even crawl or sit anymore due to the terrible pain.
He tried every 'known' alternative therapy there is like accupunctur and homeopathie. Then he started changing his diet. Stopped eating meat and tried eating less rubbish and more 'real' food. Since that day his situation improved a lot. The aches in his back and legs are a lot less than before. He even comes along running with me now.
But like I said; he has never been the same person again. I don't have the impression he's really happy. He has become much too careful. You cannot enjoy life if you always want to have everything under your control. It's just not possible.
I'm sure it's partly due to what he has been through, that he reacted the way he did. He believes he knows best and he wants to protect me from 'damaging' myself for the rest of my life.
The problem when you're young is that most older people don't take you serious. Most of time they think they know better because they have more 'experience in life'.
I may be young, but I'm a fast learner. I learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of others. I don't take things for granted. I question everything. I'm also a very logical person. I don't believe in wonders or miracles.
I don't want to make the same mistake that others did before me. I see people dying of cancer and other diseases every day: friends, family... Please don't tell there's nothing we can do about, or that it's faith or that god wanted it that way. That's just a way of sticking your head in the ground and pretending that nothing is wrong, just because it's easier and less frightning to do nothing and walk in the same direction as everybody else...
In June this year I'm moving to a rented house together with my girlfriend. That's why I restarted the cleansing proces. I'll be doing my first cleanse in July somewhere, if everything goes well that is :rolleyes:
Best wishes to all of you
Dennis
I'm from Belgium, 24 yo and about a year ago I discovered hps. A stomach fracture' s what got me on the path to good health. Due to this stomach fracture I had a lot of problems with my stomach (acid), so the doctor put me on a special diet. Later on I changed the diet and eventually I became a vegetarian. I still eat fish and eggs, but no meat and diary product anymore. Also no more candy and sugar nor soda's. I cut these out 5,6 years ago already. I used to have acne back then. Now that's almost totally gone, except for an occasional pimple now and then.
Two years ago I trapped a serious case of mononucleosis though :( . It has taken me over a years to get rid of the tiredness that comes along with it.
That's when I started looking for answers. Eating healthy helps you stay healthy, but it just isn't enough to 'get' healthy again.
I started looking for other methods and so I discovered cleansing and HPS. 'But why wait a year to start your cleansing? ', I hear you ask. That's what I'll try to explain next. Be patient young padawan :)
I signed up almost immediately last year and got started; ordered the herbs, bought the board, started the cleansing emails. I took up the advice of Joshua in his audio guidance recordings and I told my mom and dad, and my girlfriend about cleansing. Tried to explain them how it worked and what it would do. My girlfriend and my mom understood, my dad didn't want to understand.
I continued anyway, but on the first day of my cleanse my dad started yelling and freaking out... there was nothing I could do or say to make him understand. He still thinks that not eating for 7 days will mess up all chemical processes in your body and once they are out of balance, there's no way you can "fix" things....
I don't agree, and I'm 100% sure that what I'm doing will not harm me in any way, if being done so the right way. Nevertheless, I stopped my cleanse on the first day. It was impossible for me to continue that way. I think he would've rather had me locked up somewhere in an mental institution than let me continue.
So I pretended throwing everything overboard, hid the board somewhere and put the herbs in the basement of my girlfriends' parents.
It's amazing how afraid people are when faced with new ideas, changes, situations they've never been in before.
I expected this kind of reaction from my dad though. My dad had always been a healthy, strong young man... until his mid thirties or something. Then he got ill; the disease of Chrone (at least that's what the doctors said).
He started losing weight fast (30 pounds in a couple of weeks), had to run to the toilet every two seconds, bleedings, hemmeroids, pain... All the time he refused to see a doctor.
By the time my mother finally convinced him to go to a doctor his situation had already improved, but he went to the doctor anyway. The doctor pumped him full of real heavy medication.
After that he has never ever been the same again. Suddenly there was an old man where a strong young man used to be. He has been having, and still has, problems with his back and legs ever since. Some days he couldn't even crawl or sit anymore due to the terrible pain.
He tried every 'known' alternative therapy there is like accupunctur and homeopathie. Then he started changing his diet. Stopped eating meat and tried eating less rubbish and more 'real' food. Since that day his situation improved a lot. The aches in his back and legs are a lot less than before. He even comes along running with me now.
But like I said; he has never been the same person again. I don't have the impression he's really happy. He has become much too careful. You cannot enjoy life if you always want to have everything under your control. It's just not possible.
I'm sure it's partly due to what he has been through, that he reacted the way he did. He believes he knows best and he wants to protect me from 'damaging' myself for the rest of my life.
The problem when you're young is that most older people don't take you serious. Most of time they think they know better because they have more 'experience in life'.
I may be young, but I'm a fast learner. I learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of others. I don't take things for granted. I question everything. I'm also a very logical person. I don't believe in wonders or miracles.
I don't want to make the same mistake that others did before me. I see people dying of cancer and other diseases every day: friends, family... Please don't tell there's nothing we can do about, or that it's faith or that god wanted it that way. That's just a way of sticking your head in the ground and pretending that nothing is wrong, just because it's easier and less frightning to do nothing and walk in the same direction as everybody else...
In June this year I'm moving to a rented house together with my girlfriend. That's why I restarted the cleansing proces. I'll be doing my first cleanse in July somewhere, if everything goes well that is :rolleyes:
Best wishes to all of you
Dennis