Thursday, March 22, 2012

Cleansing & Detoxifying the Body, part 1 of 2

What is a cleanse/detox?


Eating raw foods, or only specific foods or liquids to give your body a rest from the work of digestion, so it can begin to heal itself.

To tone & cleanse the main organs of elimination: especially bowel, kidneys & liver.  This will address the underlying cause of many health problems.

Being very mindful of what you are eating for a week or so gives your taste buds & your mind time adjust to foods that are nutritious. This can change what you desire to eat, and help you let go of unhealthy food choices.

Different degrees of cleansing will make it safer for anyone regardless of their toxicity levels, & current health.

My thoughts on cleansing the body is that it should be done gradually & gently. From my experience, severely limiting your food intake, fasting, juice fasting, etc. can be dangerous & tends to drop the blood sugar which can lead to shakiness, irritability, headaches, & feeling faint.

Cleansing kits from the health food store often contain strong herbal laxatives which most people do not need. None of this sounds too appealing & most people find it hard enough to want to take some time to restrict their diet to do a cleanse.

If you have health problems, or are on prescription medicine you should consult your doctor before attempting any cleansing. Do not cleanse during pregnancy or nursing.

What I recommend is gentle daily cleansing, which can be done for several months, or years at a time just through the use of a custom blended tincture to cleanse the body systems which are most toxic. This could involve candida cleansing, liver cleansing, bowel cleansing, cleansing the kidneys, lymphatics or any other major organ or body system.

Why should I do a cleanse or fast?

You want to clean toxic materials from your body to improve your health & improve any current ailments at the root cause.

Doing a cleanse, or eating a mainly raw food diet, or even eating a 100% whole food diet, plus bowel cleansing will do a lot to address ANY health problems you may have, whether these are physical or emotional.

More on how to design your own cleanse for safe gently cleansing of the body systems in a few days.


If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:



Sunday, March 18, 2012

THE BASIS FOR GOOD HEALTH

Some aspects of getting yourself healthy that I teach in my herbalist course are:

1. Taking responsibility for your own health. Which is why I TEACH and don't work with clients.

CLIENTS COME TO YOU FOR RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS,
STUDENTS COME TO YOU TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE.
BECAUSE DRAGONFLY BRINGS TRANSFORMATION, THAT IS MY GOAL,
TO EMPOWER YOU TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
TO BRING ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING, EMOTIONAL HEALING & SPIRITUAL HEALING,
TO OPEN YOU UP TO CLARITY ABOUT YOUR PATH IN LIFE
& WHAT YOU WISH TO MANIFEST FOR YOURSELF,
.......AND WHAT YOU
WISH TO LET GO OF.
FOR THIS REASON I NO LONGER WORK WITH CLIENTS OR ANSWER HEALTH QUESTIONS,
IF YOU TRULY
WANT TO MAKE LASTING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE
I OFFER MANY COURSES TO
EMPOWER YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHANGES

I know this can actually be quite difficult. But during 8 months of the herbalist course I just teach bits of information to do with taking charge of your own health & as you go along you get really comfortable with changes you want to make & what will suit your constitution.

2. Good nutrition

Good nutrition is needed for the basis of getting over any ill health & for PREVENTION is illness. I teach a lot about prevention of illness in first place and about using good nutrition as a base for getting your body healthy. Although you can still continue with bad eating habits & bad lifestyles & have the herbs work to assisting your body, if you truly want to feel great & have good energy, a clear mind & clean body you need to eat well too.

If you are continually putting poisons (which many people call their food) into your body you will not have good health.

I am 90% raw vegan. I teach not only how to move your diet towards raw & vegan, but also the steps in between, everywhere from letting go of junk food & sugar, meat, to leaning towards being vegetarian, to adding more raw food to your diet. As you begin to take steps towards getting non nutritious foods out of your diet & eating good whole living foods you begin to feel better & begin to crave more nutritious foods.

3. Cleansing the body

I also believe  in cleansing the body. I do NOT recommend store bought cleanses. In accelerating the removal of toxins from the body you can move towards better health. You need to cleanse the body in order to get your body working correctly tone & build your body systems. You need to have cleaner bowels & a healthy liver & a properly working digestive system in order to feel well.

More on this in my next blog.

I do have my Cleansing Workshop available in printed form as a download on my website.



If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops: