Transition time!

The transition time out of the Juice Feast is underway, and I actually miss it already!  I will definitely do it again.  It was a great experience, and I look forward to more.  

Right now, I'm sleep deprived and have been for a couple of days, so it is not the best day to reflect and derives deep meaningful thoughts from the cleanse experience, but it's already been a few days that I haven't had the chance to blog, so I'll do my best for today, and will continue in the days to come.

I've loved the Juice Feasting experience for the opportunity to go very deep inside myself, and let go of many many layers of emotional gunk that had been covered by food.  I had hoped to go further on that subject in the duration of the cleanse, but my body is giving me very clear signals that this particular cleanse is done, so I am heeding to them.  I am continuing on clearing these emotions, though, on my own and with my "Transformation Study Partners."  So I still have some emotional eating patterns, yet I am also conscious of the great strides that have been made.

I am going to take the hidden food sensitivity test administered by Genova labs, because it occurred to me that some of the foods that create hidden inflammation can be raw foods.  For example, I intensely dislike zucchinis and juicing them was probably not a good idea, even though I was fine with the taste, I bet that my dislike of them indicates an allergy to them.  Hidden food sensitivities trigger crazy cravings for unhealthy foods, so I want to eliminate them all completely from my diet.

I feel much stronger in myself than when I started two months ago.  It has been - paradoxically - an humbling and strengthening experience.  I never thought I could do it, was amazed I could, and I've dropped the desire to impress or compare, as in "I completed an X days cleanse of juicing" etc... What I do or not do, what other people do or don't do is nobody's business but our own.  We are all in our own journey and it just doesn't make any sense to compare.  What we perceive as our own limitations are just a tiny piece of our own puzzle.  Have you noticed that other people can be inspired and awed by certain aspects of our personality or accomplishments that we take for granted?

Since arriving in New York I reconnected with people I hadn't seen in 8 years.  It made me realize the deep transformation that has occurred within myself.  What I knew intuitively got anchored in myself deeply by seeing them in person:  we each have our own journey, we do our best, and as long as we do our best to be true to ourselves, to connect with our own truth, instead of following someone else's, we will keep on expanding into our true self... and there is only so much we can fit in a freakin' life time!!

Much love!