Hello!
This message is part of the pre-work for the 21-Day Detox Challenge – Mind, Body & Spirit. All previous messages can be found here. The Facebook event is here and the video introduction is here. You can still join – we begin on October 18th.
Continuing with the planning and preparing phase of our journey the following action steps are important:
- Continue your food log and this time take a closer look at your food labels and begin to think about which food item you will be doing without during our detox. A toxic food or ingredient is one that harms your body/organs– immediately or over time. Based on the particular details of our biology (high cholesterol for instance) a food that is not toxic for other people might be ‘toxic’ for you. So think about this decision carefully. Do a little research if needed. Easy choices are foods that are treated with chemicals, filled with saturated fat, empty calories or carbs that convert to sugars quickly…spiking the sugars in your blood stream and then creating sudden drops in energy when the sugar “high” is over. Those are easier choices but you may have a particular food item in your diet that causes specific issues with your body, so pick this item wisely. Consider as well how much water you are drinking daily and decide how much more you will be drinking.
- Go deeper with the review of your negative thoughts. Playing the “why” game just keep asking your self “why?” Why are you thinking that thought? When you have an answer, ask why to that…keep going until you get to an answer that sheds light on the emotional foundation of your recurring script. Underlying beliefs are much more dangerous when they remain invisible. We can adjust something we can see and acknowledge. But changing beliefs and emotional baggage in the dark is practically impossible. Take note of when these thoughts pop up…sometimes powerful triggers in our environment, our diet, our conversations can remain unknown. This aspect of our thoughts and the way they sometimes just pop into existence (it seems) impacting us deeply is very important. Remaining in a positive and productive state is crucial…if we have any hope of re-structuring our self-image so these sabotaging thoughts are reduced to a minimum we have to become aware, acknowledge them and get a better understanding of where they’re coming from.
- Do your imagination exercise for 5 minutes today…just visualize the details of how fantastic the outcomes of this detox will be for you. Make those details as vibrant and as bold as you can. We underestimate the power of our imagination theatre – the mind. With proper imaginings we can/do create our reality. High performing athletes and other individuals use this tool all the time. We basically operate a success or failure machine (our brain and nervous system) and it’s completely up to us which one will – success or failure – prevail. We feed our brain what it produces.So let’s feed it nothing but high-premium, best quality thoughts and ideas over the next 3 ½ weeks; let’s sow what we would like to reap!
That’s it for today – wishing you a truly magnificent day and have fun with planning and preparing for the best 21 days of your year!
All program downloads can be found here (chart of challenges, self-evaluation, agreement form and checklist of updates and exercises)
Be well,
Julette Millien – follow me on Twitter and use #21DD on all your tweets related to the 21-Day Detox Challenge.
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