Have you heard this term “Real World”? As in, “welcome to the real world”, “you won’t survive in the real world”, “you’re in college/school/entry job, you wouldn’t last a second in the real world”? I’m sure you have, we all have. It’s always someone that thinks they know better than us that say “real world”. So what is this real world and why should we be so afraid of it?

what is it?

“Real world” is an ambiguous word used by people to describe their recent experiences. A stock-broker may call the “real world” a world filled with money where nothing else matters, a stressful world that rewards the lucky, and the extremely smart (with money). A soldier may call the real world a place full of hate, guns, people ready to kill everyone else, a vengeful unforgiving world, a savage world. A college student may see the real world as the world where parents and people around them have high expectations of them, where education is the priority and without it life is not the same.

In truth, the “real world” is what you make of it. Among the popular notions of the “real world” in America, is that “American lifestyle”. The 9-5 job, married with children in a suburban home, a college degree, and pushing that lifestyle on their kids and THEIR kids. And they think that’s all there is to it. The problem is is that this ambiguous lifestyle, this cookie-cutter life affects 90% of the population (statistics not available). And while the real world expects everyone to adjust to this, it also beats everyone down to make this little dream almost impossible, and unbearable. Frequently, I hear the words “I give up”, or “I accept my fate”, because this subjective point of view has become a standard.

Many of my friends talk about having a different life, traveling maybe, starting up their own business, living a comfortable life but they feel as if they cannot because in the “real world”, you cannot survive without a degree. In the “real world” if you’re gay, you’ll be damned by everyone, in the “real world”, you’ll be broke, lonely and a desperate excuse for a human being if you don’t accept these following “truths”:

• you HAVE to have an education
• you HAVE to have a 9-5 job (for “stability”)
• you HAVE to make yourself a slave at your job
• you HAVE to sacrifice yourself for the “family”, your “community” or whatever
• you HAVE to have kids (before you’re 30) or, well, you’ll be deemed a failure at life
• you HAVE to be married, or you’ll end up dying alone, having a miserable life etc etc.
• you HAVE to manage your time well, because work will take up 40 hours of your week, and your family the rest (none for you, sorry)

Does it make sense?

As you can see, some of this stuff may make sense to you. You need an education, to get a 9-5 job, and you have to give it your all and more so that your family/community can prosper, and you need to be married so that you have that family stability, so that you can have kids and pass on your knowledge of the world and all that.

In the “real world”, you can’t make any other decisions, or, or as they say, you’ll end up wasting your life or living in misery.

Standing up for yourself

Shut up! Yes, shut up, don’t let this get to you. My friend recently wrote a long article of her own struggles toward her happiness and creating her own “real world”, called “dream to reality”. What’s interesting is that more and more people are finding alternative lifestyles, their own little worlds that make them happy.

Ask anyone on the internet or in the web development business, you don’t need to work 9-5, you don’t even need to 12-5, and you can make it. You can actually employ your skills at a job you create yourself. However, that’s just the beginning.

Let me tell you some “truths” of my own little world:

• you don’t need to be married to someone to have kids – an have a family
• you don’t need to slave yourself to death at a mundane 9-5 job – you can become self-employed, or as Infinite Possibilities talks about, you can simply think money into existence, the money will come
• education is not essential. A piece of paper (in my real world) doesn’t mean anything.
• you can have kids whenever, if you’re 20, if you’re 40, it doesn’t make a difference
• life is not an eternal struggle, it’s a joyful existence

Sounds a bit better than the previous example, no? And they’re all true in my life, here’s how I learned these things:

• I’m adopting a child with my best friend, and maybe having one of our own as well.
• I’m self-employed and I work a total of 15 hours a week at about $25 an hour. And when I need extra money it ALWAYS shows up! (last week, I got a client with a 2 minute job, I got paid $30 for, and my usual employer paid me a couple hundred extra) If I need more money, I think to existence and it appears in different forms be it a deposit for a new project, some extra from my long-term employer, an acceptance of a proposal that will land me more clients, easier work, and more cash. It always shows up
• I’m almost a junior at college, and all the “education” I needed to do what I’m doing right now (supporting myself and having a ton of time for myself and my friends) I found online for free, and within a week or two
• Life is easy as long as you make it easy on yourself. And you do that by doing and desiring all that makes you happy.

Create your own world

Many books today talk about it and many people do this but it’s not easy (or maybe it is). You’ll have to push through against those innate beliefs others have instilled in you. Find out the secrets of life for yourself, even an ancient great Zen master doesn’t know about everything there is to life, he/she knows only about his/her life, no one else’s. Your counselor, pastor, friends, family, they can’t tell you about your world, it’s yours, it’s your own perception, your own mind that creates it.

If you want to give in to their pressure, fine, but only if that’ll make you happy. You want to work 9-5? Go for it, I’m not against it, I personally love working a lot.

But the best you can, even if you choose to accept this ambiguous real world is to do what’s best for yourself despite what others think and believe

There comes a time when reality becomes unacceptable. It makes us wonder “Is this real?” Most of you may think of the more unfortunate events that trigger this betrayal of trust of what is versus what is not. It happens when someone close by dies, when we lose our jobs, or when a great disaster takes place. And you wonder, “Is this REALLY happening?”

Well, I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about those events that throw us out of whack because of CHANGE. I’m here to talk about when “good” and “bad” change happens and we stay stuck at that point right before it happens. We mentally can’t go on. Or we do, but there’s still something lagging back.

My Story

In the past year, I’ve gone from a druggie to a somewhat vegetarian individual (I still eat fish, sorry). I’ve gone from a hard working student at University of Houston to a near dropout at a community college. I traveled across the US to see my best friend and to live with her. I traveled back to Houston with her and I’m going to adopt a child with her. I used to not work, and now I’m self-employed, and along with my roommate, we have a nice apartment and a good life (financially and otherwise).

As you can see, that’s a lot to take in, and I haven’t really scratched the surface of everything yet. There’s still a lot more such as my realizations, my progress in spirituality, my everything.

So what about it

Well, here’s what I’m talking about. The “good” and the “bad”, big changes throw us off balance. I’m still struggling to accept the reality of what’s happening. We unconsciously try to revert back to the familiar. I, for example, have started pushing my best friend away, a defense mechanism meant to revert me back to where I used to be, alone. I’ve also started closing myself from my dogs Ivy and Mona and alienating from them because again, I’ve started to feel like I was in a dream.

Be it a dream or a nightmare, this is what we do. We attempt to revert back, go back to that initial situation because frankly, we just lose touch with reality.

How to counter it

There is no “countering” it, there is only acceptance. You need to live with what’s happening, or dream of a different situation you wish to attain. My approach to this issue right now is to breathe and live each moment without falling into some habit, into a future/past thinking. I feel like I’m in a dream or a video game and what I’m trying to attain is the sense of being HERE and not elsewhere.

Here are a few tips if you’re in a situation like I am:

• don’t try to figure a way out of it (if it’s good or bad, just keep it)
• do “rooting” exercise for your 1st chakra such as keeping red-colored decor, and wearing red. Google some other methods
• write down how you feel, explore the disconnectedness
• explore what your life was before and how it is now, what’s the difference? What are you wishing back?
• Try to exercise physically, it helps you stay in your body instead of floating about.

I’d love to hear your experiences, comment on this post and let me know how it’s going.

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I’ve also decided that I will use a new domain name instead of “perfectlifetoday.com”.

I think “therisingspirit.com” or equivalent would be much more fitting.

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Shame is a funny thing, and it makes people do funny stuff. Shame is a type of a control that prevents us from doing certain acts or from thinking freely. Shame is also a check, to balance our courageous spirits. What’s interesting about shame is that it is a self-imposed guilt-creating mechanism.

Why am I talking about it right now? Well, because I’ve been reading my old journal and I came to a few conclusions.

What happened

I wrote about innocence and about losing my innocence within my journal as pertaining to sex. I talked about carelessly performing sexual acts and feeling even worse for doing it with someone I was not, first of all, dating, and someone I actually liked.

I also wrote about hating myself for being a certain way. I hated myself for being too nice, or too cruel to people. I hated myself for coldness and compassion. Basically, it was a lose-lose situation. Hate was part of that shame, a burden I put upon myself and carried with me. Every other line of my journal contains a hint of how ashamed I was of my friends, of my family, of who I was, of my body, of sex, of my performance in bed, of whom I liked, and so on. Just a lot of shame.

I was hard on myself when it came to school, when it came to arts, when it came to reading, and everything else too.

What I noticed right now

As I was reading through the journal, I felt the feeling of shame creep up on me again. Why? Because I was ashamed of feeling shame (wrap your hand around that!).

What I realized

I thought I had lost my innocence and that I was becoming a bad person. It was hard to cope and it was hard to decide whether to embrace who I was (a “bad person”) or to change who I was (become a “good person”). That put a lot of stress on me.

Today, just looking at this today seems a bit ridiculous. Having sex with someone on the first date, because I was infatuated with that individual seems completely acceptable to me. I had no expectation of that happening and I even tried to stay away from it by not initiating the action. Today, I look at this and find myself wondering, “Why should I abstain from pleasure?”.

I wonder, where did I get the idea that I should be ashamed of all those things? I wonder what I saw as an ideal back then.

There were rules that I created for myself and that I could not follow. So where did I come up with these ideas?

I was hard on myself and to be honest, I am not ashamed of who I was. I coped with these ideas as best as I could and through who I was then, I became who I am today and the person then is not someone who is to be judged because he was wonderful.

What that means

Shame can push a person over the edge, become doubtful of oneself in every instance in their life. It can push them to hate themselves, others, and everything. It also puts them in an awkward position where one has to battle between who they think they are and who they think they should be. It put me in a terrible situation. Shame causes stress and uncertainty.

I believe in openness and acceptance of oneself because accepting everything about yourself (even the “shameful” parts, even the “disliked” parts to be a part of you) will help you overcome many problems and issues within your life. It helps relieve inner tension. I know this very intimately because that is what I am doing right now. It is something I am still tackling, self-acceptance.

I’ve talked about facing the past before. I’ve talked about moving on, and not dwelling on those issues. Well, I’m back again where I started, trying to resolve issues that have crept up and showed themselves to me recently. I found an old journal of mine that I wrote during a time that, I had not expressly thought to be too troubling, not as troubling as my childhood for example. After reading several pages, I found myself wondering, “Was this really me?” and “Did I forget all of that?” because what I read was least to say, “disturbing”.

I continued reading, and I started to get annoyed with myself. I thought my past self to be pathetic, stupid, desperate, and needy. Not only that but much worse. However, I caught myself and stopped myself momentarily to see why I reacted this way, and why had I been that way.

I reacted so negatively because back then, when I wrote the journal, I was equally disgusted with myself and wished myself to change into someone..well, someone like me today. Through years of struggle, of feeling shame, of feeling insane, unfortunate, terrible, angry, depressed, and much worse, I finally made my way to be coming the me now.

Why is this important then? What’s done is done.

Yes, well, there is much more to it. I kept up an illusion then, judged people and things harshly, and that judgement stuck with me. Also, by trying to become more peaceful, less inhibited, less angry, and more, I snuffed out the opposite experiences that I found myself lacking such as reserved, controlling, angry, emotional, and spontaneous. I’ve always heard it’s good to have a balance of opposites in your life, here I came to a conclusion that it’s good to live everything to the fullest. And so while I have been enjoying my simple, nice life, with my simple “nice” emotions, there was something missing. Occasional outbursts within me and faint hints of those past feelings kept me uncomfortable.

So that is my why. If I can go back and disillusion myself about many of my beliefs (blaming others for situations, etc), I believe I can bring myself further along my path and journey to self-knowledge and truth. And, I would enjoy that

Recently, also, I have been given a card reading using cards called “Cards of Initiation” which discussed forgiving myself (I did not understand this at the time), acceptance with love for individual destinies, universal truth, and eliminating things no longer productive to my growth.

What I’ve learned so far

There are a few things I’ve learned so far, and here is how I handled them.

1.

Relations with my ex

– I think we’ve all had to tackle issues with an ex before: closure etc. However, my issues are a bit more involved. My feelings and emotions toward this person have fluctuated over the years. From utter hate and annoyance to utter worship. At one point, her and I got along very well, as if we had become friends again but then, we became strangers. She started to ignore my phone calls, messages, and me altogether. There was actually a point where I stood in front of her for good two minutes, said hey, and she completely ignored me.

I could not understand why for the longest time, and from time to time, I sent her a long message discussing these things, proclaiming my love for her again, etc. In the end, I even wanted to be just friends because she had been there for me during several crucial moments in my life and she was a really nice and interesting person. So why?

Then came the disillusionment. I talked to her several nights ago, and as most of my conversations with people who don’t want to necessarily talk to me go, she stopped replying. I picked up my old journal the next day and started reading. I found out that I had ignored her many times because I simply did not wish to deal with her, even though she wanted to be friends with me. I treated her harshly at other times, and let’s just say, some of the things I did then were quite disturbing.

One time, for example, I called her, left her a voicemail that cut off in the middle because I pretended to fall. On myspace (at the time a popular site haha), I posted a bulletin discussing this made-up event. I became angry when she did not respond in any way, became angry that she did not care if I had injured myself.

This is not the only time I had done such a thing either. I had my friends call her. When she would not pick up, and I would call her tens of times myself. At one point, I spoke to her again, and again, I pretended to have a drug addiction, wondering if she would take pity on me, or I’m not even sure what I was expecting then. When she found out it wasn’t true, she hung up and I haven’t heard from her for about a year.

The incidents go on and on and on. It’s quite bizarre, and I’m not sure what made me behave the way I did. Why I was so judgemental about her at first, hateful, and then so desperate for attention. It’s something very hard for me to admit, these things, because I am, honestly, very judgemental about them myself.

Through more and more delusion, I grew to  hate her even more, settling to be an incredible annoyance within her life. I’m still not sure why. Maybe I’ll be able to find out one day but for now, just the realization leads me to a few points.

How I dealt with it: Well, here’s what I came to. I’m not sure I’m ready to confront her yet, I’m not part of her life. I don’t owe her anything and she does not owe me anything either. After so many unfortunate events that lead me away from her, I’m not sure I am willing to let her know of my realization, or actually, I’m not even sure what to say. To myself, however, I have much to say. I’m growing to understand that part of my life that reflects upon today. I’m able to see things much more clearly, less one sidedly and lost. I’m happy to announce that I realize I will always be deluded to some extent and I’m also happy to announce that I have started to see that some events in the past, although I felt justified from my point of view, were definitely uncomfortable for others.

I acted out in many ways, and wished for attention, that is not something I will deny. And that makes me realize that I still do that in some ways. Make hints, motions, speeches, or whatever, just to receive attention, to illicit a response from someone, whoever that may be. I connected this past situation with my ex to a recent situation, and I suppose that I’m still a bit of a slave to this mindset, but at least now, I’m more aware of it.

I plant to look into this issue much more deeply because my ex represents a lot in my life. She represents the turning point in my self-esteem, how I felt about people, my sexuality, and much more. Over the years of crazy relations we experienced, she became a symbol of unrevivable friendship, and now I know why it became this way. But, enough about that.

I’ll continue the list of issues and more in the next article

This year has been one of the most eventful in my life. And as I’m writing this, I remember saying the same exact same last year. It is because with each year, I will my life gaining more and more momentum, hurdling toward an unknown future, shaky plans, and another year full of LIFE. Every year, I always write a little “run down” of what’s been going on, from school to family to love interests, new friends, new experiences, providing myself and others with highlights, that frankly, may not be as interesting and important as the feelings, my private thoughts are.

I could tell you about my first semester at University of Houston, really digging into Math. I could talk about having a strange love interest. I could tell you about an amazing vacation with my best friend that turned into an extended stay in Georgia with her, and a change in life. I could talk about how I abandoned my family in favor of myself. I could talk about new friends, rekindling an old friendship with an old friend, or even losing old friends. It’s a cycle in a way.

But, I want none of that. I actually don’t know what I want to say. I’d like to tackle some interesting concepts and changes that occurred within me. Like how in January, I would eat steak two times a day, bacon for breakfast, sausage for snack, and now in December, I’m vegetarian, staying away even from Skittles and Jello (gelatin = pick’s feet). I could talk about how I wanted a “girlfriend” so bad that I found myself in a very loving open friendship with no strings, no expectations, and no rules to govern me or anyone else involved. I guess I could talk about how I desperately tried to keep old friends, and being closer to those I had been once, but in the end, letting them go and realizing I had just dreamt a distant memory.

No, I want none of that either. How about freedom? I could talk about how I moved out away from my family, and lived how I wanted to. I could talk about how I let myself go with food and finding the right balance, with money and finding myself in an enjoyable debt (with priceless memories as a payment), with sexual inhibitions/obsessions and reaching experiences I’ve never dreamed of, and let myself go with thoughts and believes and finding myself within a vast mind of mine.

Haha, I won’t talk about those experiences with freedom either. They’re fun, they’re there, and there will be more. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll talk about spirituality. Would you like to hear about my meeting with my spirit guide? My new found abilities to communicate with nearly everything? My new clarity of mind? My sensitivity to others, myself, and the environment? Nah, too boring.

Maybe a few more other things that I’ve learned about: herbs, openness, honesty, friendships, selfishness (the good kind), and much more. But that seems too crude and short.

So here goes. I’ve had a wonderful long year. At the beginning, I was enjoying the lavish luxury of fine friends that let me enjoy the perks of friendship I had no experienced before: long nights out, fun, love, and everything else. I started going to University of Houston and enjoyed some fabulous advanced math courses. Also, at about that time, I was very tightly friends with several people that I was helping go through some things. One of them was my ex-girlfriend who was looking for love. Another was just a really good friend whom I’ve become great friends with since.

As months passed, I hopped from one girl to another with my interest, hoping to find someone interested in me and I found someone truly intriguing, someone who resembled an old friend of mine. (So many friends!). I got close but then she pushed me away and I pushed myself further toward another friend, one that opened my eyes to my hypocrisy. Yes, hypocrisy.

My life changed then, I became closer, this time, with some rather interesting people that had a single interest I shared with them for a while (secrets, secrets). I moved away from the previous people so distantly, that I don’t talk to them anymore at all.

With “hypocrisy” in mind, I ventured further with some important concepts within my mind. I started this blog as a result of some things that happened last year. This blog was the child of success of a website I designed last year and sold this year. And it became that one place where I shared my thoughts, my deepest, strangest thoughts. I started writing more poetry, stories (flight through dreamland), even started doing tarot (loosely), and exploring the concept of “solipsism” and “positive selfishness” more than before. It became an era of Renaissance for me. Discovery there, and here, amazing mathematics, amazing mind-altering substances, amazing people that I cycled through like toilet paper (does that even make sense?), and much much more.

I came to a decision in January that followed me through until early June where I finally let go and gave up on that restraint, letting my mind wander far. I was supposed to move in with my brother but upon his arrival, I flew away to another state to live where I thought my mind will flourish much more (and it did!). I came to Georgia for two weeks and enjoyed what I can only call an ORGASMIC time with a friend that, with me, had been venturing there to the ends of our minds. We connected, we clicked, we decided to live together and enjoy each others’ company freely. Within the months around this point, I got piercings, tattoos, and much more, something that still signifies me and myself.

I ended the semester, moved, and faced challenges I’ve not known before. The challenges of money, the joy of money, and the struggle of money. I started communication with the ouija board, and ventured into many shamanistic ways wherein I smudged myself, the house, and my friend, burning herbs, drinking my own tea blends and much more. I connected with nature, spoke to trees, spoke to rocks. I felt the subtle energy changes within my new (decorated, no longer sterile) home and the outside. I felt the emotions others felt as if they were my own and even after that, I felt the mark they have left upon their environment.

I met my spirit guide, one whom I’ve seen before, a tree of life. I talked to my spirit guide and found out things I had not known before. But then, I left my spirit guide to find me, within me, and outside of time. I realized that the time, past, future, and present, is happening at once, together. I found myself trusting the universe to take care of me, then fighting it, hating it, and then trusting myself. I found myself opening up to myself and to my best friend about things I had kept from myself, denying.

I questioned myself, and all my actions, tracing them years and years back to see where they had come from, finding their true cause, and accepting myself. That was a huge step for me. It was a huge step to be so loving and kind as I wanted to be, without restraint. I got to feel accepted, fully accepted, for all my glory and faults, faults that became a badge of honor. I felt loved, loved by others and by myself.

The second part of the year, after I moved, was so eventful in terms of spirituality, my own progress, acceptance, love, and so much more, that I can’t even list what happened. I can’t list how I’ve had sex in so many different ways with such different meanings that it would take a whole page. That was important to me, and how I’ve evolved in this aspect, going from fear masked by bravery to freedom and openness. I don’t think I can list my sweet moments and the things I’ve done.

Haha, now I realize that by writing all this down, I am boxing it, defining it on paper, so that it cannot be changed. Simultaneously, I know it can be.  Simply, let me not judge my actions good or bad, or defining what was or was not. Simply said, much happened it was glorious, and I loved every minute of it.

<3 I don’t even know what can happen next year because what happened this year was beyond any fathom of dream or imagination I could put together.

The mind cleanse is a bit more complicated and less “mechanical” than the body cleanse. I’m working from home for the next couple of days therefore I have an advantages. Here is what mind cleanse will involve:

• time-consuming, draining activities (such as being on the computer for no reason) will be cut down or cut out
• more reading
• meditation
• cleaning the house – cleaning everything else
• washing the dishes
• doing other chores
• “me” time

Believe it or not but once you clean your house, your mind will automatically start to declutter by itself. I’m also washing the dishes which will help me stay away from food. It’ll keep that idea out of my mind which is very important because the body cleanse relies on the absence of food in the system.

By time-consuming and draining activities, I do not mean work outs or anything like that but rather the time I usually spend online, reading mindless articles and wasting away hours, or watching non-stop television. By cutting down on that, I will create more time to simply sit and do nothing. I will not, however, cut it out completely because some recreational time is needed.

More reading? Well, there are a couple of books I’ve been meaning to read, one of them being Siddhartha (I have not finished it yet). But I will not force myself into anything, that was more of an idea. Reading is a very stimulating activity.

Meditation is not necessary but some time to sit quietly will do me good so I will definitely have some of that. I need to clear my head so what better way than clear my surroundings of noise and clutter? Meditation will help

Chores are very interesting activities. We can do them without having to think about them, and therefore our minds are free to explore the depths of our spirits without having to worry about the body (and attend to the body’s need to “scratch” and “twitch” which is very common during sitting meditation).

Last of all, there is “me” time where I will do everything that pertains to me, me, and me, and no one else. I’ll do what –I- want and what’s good for ME.

Mind cleansing will involve much more but this is the simple summary.

The body detox is basically colon cleansing mixed with fasting and taking care of my body. So why am I even detoxing? Well, I’ve started craving and ingesting a lot of sugary things, cookies, candy, and such. I normally don’t do this so I think it’s time to stop for a minute and let my body catch up and find out what’s behind these cravings and need for sugar. I’ve also been eating a lot more so I’d like my body to relax for a couple of days and take care of all the nutrients currently present. In addition, my bowel movements have been irregular, so that’s a sign that I should get back to my natural rhythm.

Not only that, but over the past few weeks, I’ve accumulated a lot of tension and stress within my muscles so that will need attention. Again, that’s not all. There are numerous other things I need to take care of and adjust so taking a few days break from food, and such will be great for me.

Here is a rundown of what will happen (I’ll also explain more thoroughly later):

• On the first day, I’ll finish eating all fruits and food I’ve cooked in this past week (not much, just a small dinner)
• In the following days I will abstain from eating and ingest only soup broth, tea, smoothies, and lemon water
• I’ll perform a single enema at the end of the three days to make sure there is nothing left in my colon.
• Yoga will ensure my muscle relax and stretch. It will also reset my bones to their proper position (and help me get rid of several calcium deposits)
• Regular long walks and belly breathing exercises will get me back into the habit of breathing deeply

There’s more I’ll do but those are the basics.

A few tips

One thing I’d like to stress is that fasting is not meant for weight loss. Yes, I will lose weight by not eating for a few days but I’ll gain it right back after I start eating again. Fasting is meant not only to clean the colon but also to teach the body to survive without food for a few days (which I think is an important trait) so that our bodies are not always ruled by hunger.

Also, I don’t like using any pills or supplements meant for cleansing. If I do wish to use something of that sort, I usually check the ingredients to find out that most of the “natural body cleansers” are extracts from plants and herbs I already use for making tea. Here are some teas worth noting that work this way:

• ginger tea
• chamomile (treats inflammation, quiets the stomach, good for digestion)
• green tea
• black tea
• sage tea
• peppermint tea
• lemongrass tea

and many more.

I also use enema to clean out my colon more thoroughly (and because for some sick reason, I enjoy getting enemas). You don’t have to do this, but if you do, use the simplest solution available at the store (such as saline solution, or Epsom salt solution) and if you wish to make your own, use chamomile tea because it works the best (coffee works too by the way).

One thing I’ll also be doing is creating a sort of “spa” for myself which includes a long ginger bath, self-massage, and cleaning of the body. It works wonders to your body but also to your mind.

Sometimes, your mind gets so cluttered you need peace.

Sometimes, your body gets filled with toxins and it needs to be clean.

Sometimes, your spirit’s energy is soiled, like water with a drop of ink in it.

So sometimes, you have to perform a cleansing ritual, and this is the time for me. I’m about to start a three day (or more) detoxification of my body, clearing of my mind, and cleansing of my spirit. What does this entail? A lot. In the next few articles, I’ll explain everything that goes on during a cleanse.

The body will be detoxed and taken care of.

The mind will find peace, meditation, and entertainment.

The spirit will find a sanctuary within and energy all around.