30 Day Juice Fast Journey -- Day Ten by Dazzle Blog entry

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by Dazzle

30 Day Juice Fast Journey -- Day Ten

In essence, we don't lose our vitality when we grow up. We kill it.

Date: 1/25/2006 8:40:59 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 2910 times

Day ten! One third of the way through. Whooo Hoooo! I celebrated by having a Juicee's pink champagne by juicing green grapes, peaches and adding sparkling water to the mix. Gotta play around with it, but it works. Except the zero alcohol content won't go to my head. And that's okay, I'm already on a high. Ten days gone. I feel terrific. Vital, energetic, yet peaceful and tranquil. When I'm not fasting, there are some days when I wear my nerves on the outside of my body and that's when everything rubs me wrong. Yet, with the exception of the first couple few days on this fast, my faux computer crash and my daughter's car accident, my nerves have been so soothed, nothing has rubbed me wrong and my tolerance and patience levels have risen dramatically. I know my husband hasn't said it, because he's such a sweet person, but I'm sure he's thought how nice it would be if I stayed on this juice fast forever! Dear man.

If my body is healthy then it's going to feel vital, vigorous, alive, and there's nothing insurmountable that life throws at me that I cannot overcome with awareness, patience, care and perseverance. If I have good health, then I am very wealthy. It doesn't matter if I don't own a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes or live in a 20k sq ft mansion. It doesn't matter if I don't own a private jet, have traveled the world, or never win the lotto, if I feel good, it's all good. And that's how it should be.

Let's look at the word vital. I use it alot when I am discussing health, feeling good, benefits of juicing and so on. It's one of my favorite words. The dictionary online http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=vital, defines the word vital as:

Vi-tal (vit'l) adj.

1. Of relating to, or characteristic of life

2. Necessary to the continuation of life; life sustaining: a vital organ; vital nutrients

3. Full of life; animated

4. Imparting life or animation; invigorating

5. Necessary to continued existence or effectiveness; essential

6. Concerned with or recording data pertinent to lives: vital records

7. Biology. Used or done on a living cell or tissue: vital dyes; vital staining

8. Destructive to life; fatal: vital injury

Every one of these definitions have used the word life or effective existence, to describe the term vital. Because that's what vital is: It is life. Our vitality, how vital we are, determines the quality of our lives. Who the hell wants to go to the theater, the football game, out to dinner or to the club if we have a debilitating migraine, or if we are puking our guts up, or if _____________ fill in the blank. If we're not feeling vital then how can we feel eager to face the eight hours each day we have to grind away at a job that wasn't meant for most of us. How can we find the strength to deal with the stress and temporary chaos that comes with changing that deadend job for something better suited to what we dream of doing, if we're not feeling alive and vital? How can we influence the wellbeing of our loved ones if our own wellbeing is ill? If we're not healthy, no matter what else we have in our lives, no matter how much love, respect, status and material wealth we have, we're still going to miss the happiness bullseye. We'll always land off center without vitality. I know people, people like my brother, Joe, whom you all met on Day Seven http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=573&i=12, who have no vitality and have been off center most of their lives. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Vitality is a gift of life given to most of us at birth. As children we had so much energy, we tired out our parents at the end of the day, yet we still fought going to bed after the sun went down. As children, we were so exhuberant, we were so tireless, we could probably kick the Energizer Bunny out of existence. But somewhere along the line, we lost that exhuberance, that precious vitality. And growing up has nothing to do with losing vitality. Vitality isn't a kid thing. It's not a playland exclusive to children. Vitality is life and therefore accessible to adults as well. It's what we do to ourselves, our bodies, our lives that eventually kills our vitality. So, in essence, for most of us, we don't lose our vitality when we grow up. We kill it.

We kill our vitality by smoking cancer sticks, drinking alcohol that pickles our liver eventually, eating three sausage-egg McMuffins at a single sitting or processed foods for most of our meals, we engage in recreational drugging. We go on binges, not just with food, but with many things, fun drugs, alcohol, late nights, stress (every body binges on stress these days), sausage egg McMuffins (I'm getting pretty tired of those sausage-egg McMuffins!) Eventually our bodies begin to break down because everything is clogged up with plaque, toxins, bad bacteria, parasites, mucous and just a whole lotta nasty gunk, and so then we're steered (by Big Pharma, our doctors, friends, advertisments, etc.) towards the toxic road of prescription medication and that route just further adds to the nasty, toxic gunk that gleefully destroys our vitality.

As gruesome as this picture seems, there is a ray of light cutting through the murk. Remember, no matter how bleak life seems, even in the sewer, there's light from the manhole. Hope. We can revive our vitality. We can regain our good health. We can take back our lives from Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, the Fast Food, Dairy and Meat Industries and simply choose not to fall for their hype or consume their products. We have the power to do this. It's all in our hands.

So, we stop smoking. We drive right past McDonald's (no more sausage-egg McMuffins!). We stop drinking milk and we cut down on the red meat (maybe even stop altogether if you knew what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and the dairy farms. (Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, you may never drink another glass of frothy milk or eat another, uh, juicy steak again). We research natural holistic alternative methods of healing so we can stop taking toxic prescription medications. We add to our diets the wholesome fresh raw foods and juices we desperately need to regain our vitality. We start walking around the lake, the block, the park, the back yard if need be, but we get on our feet and we move.

Vitality is ours for the taking. We just have to reach out and grab it. Fight for it. Do what it takes to recapture our life force. Our friends and families may think we''ve gone crazy and may try, at first, to discourage us with little critical snips here and disparaging remarks there as we try to make the challenging, yet necessary changes so we can take back our lives and feel vital again.

Just remember:

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

~Angela Monet

We just keep on dancing. Keep on drinking those juices, saying NO to the Industries and doing that footwork... and when our friends and family members realize they can't keep up with us, we've left them far behind, they'll begin to hear the music. And then we'll be able to teach them to dance!

Here's to our Health and to our Vitality! <raising glass>

~ Dazzle

January 25, 2006

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