The Spring Juice Cleanse is now past and I’d like to thank and congratulate everyone who participated. Often times the most challenging part of cleansing is overcoming the mental blocks, in fact it may prevent many of you from even beginning a cleanse.  I’m here to tell you that you can do it if you take things day by day and immerse yourself in all that you’re experiencing and feeling.  When you truly begin to listen to your body and turn off your preconditioned thought responses to feed or fix every “symptom”, you can more easily access true peace and true healing.  To me, this is the real value of cleansing.  I know I feel lighter, more connected and ready to embrace the coming months.

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1. Spring Juice Cleanse ’09

I wanted to share this poem with you.  I found it in one of my favorite books on detoxification.  The book is titled Detox and Revitalize by Susana L. Belen.  She is the founder of the We Care Holistic Health Spa.  The poem is written by  Rumi, a Sufi poet of the 13th century.  Entitled Fasting, the poem is included here because it captures the spiritual essence and benefits of fasting or juice cleansing.  The descriptions of how your body and spirit feel defeated after heavy meals, yet uplifted after cleansing is a wonderful inspiration.

Fasting
There’s a hidden sweetness
in the stomach’s emptiness.

We are lutes, no more, no less.
If the sound box is stuffed
full of anything, no music.

If the brain and the belly
are burning clean with fasting,
every moment a new song
comes out of the fire.

The fog clears, and a new
energy makes you run up the
steps in front of you.

Be emptier and cry like
reed instruments cry.
Emptier, write secrets with
the reed pen.

When you’re full of food and drink,
Satan sits where you
spirit should, an ugly metal
statue in place of the Kaaba.

When you fast, good habits gather
like friends who want to help.

Fasting is Solomon’s ring.
Don’t give it to some illusion
and lose your power.

But even if you’ve lost all
will and control, they come
back when you fast,
like soldiers appearing out
of the ground, pennants
flying above them.

A table descends to your
tent, Jesus’s table.
Expect to see it, when you
fast, this table spread with
other food better than the
broth of cabbages.

–Rumi