"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Something is changing. Die off is happening in my body. Someone remarked about my appearance yesterday - "you look good, have you lost some weight?"
In between the alternating currents of weakness and hunger pains, then energy and optimism, there is a new appreciation for determinative spirit. Food looks less like the "treasure" that it can many times seem when there are addictions, and more like allies in a battle to win territory of the body. Isn't our body a kind of temple, a place to dwell in this world, even a machine? Can we separate our emotional bondage to it?
That's the question, or is it the quest. I think both.
A day off of work affords the time and space to drink lots and lots of juice without interruption or planning. This speaks to the necessity to actually ACCESS the time and space to do this fast. Or, something like it. In other words, one has to "take it easy" and modify when necessary.
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