Why Cleanse?

Up until the turn of the 20th Century, cleansing was an integral part of all natural healthcare systems throughout the world. Only recently, with the over-dependence on allopathic medicine and the denial of our deeper instincts, has cleansing become seen as unconventional, strange, or just plain unnecessary.

Even in today’s culture few of us think it strange to do a spring cleaning and to clean and maintain our homes, cars, or offices. We also think it unclean and socially unacceptable to not maintain a clean body. These are all forms of cleansing. However, owing to our obsession with externals, we have forgotten about the cleansing and healing of our inner environment: our organs, our blood, our brains, our minds, our emotional bodies, and, finally, our spirits. As children most of us were not taught how to do an internal cleanse. Most of us didn’t even know such a thing existed.  But aren’t most of us looking for a way to recapture our health in body, mind, and spirit?
 
Our bodies are being challenged in ways that we have never seen before on the planet. The soil is depleted of minerals and filled with heavy metals and pesticides; the air is filled with carbon monoxide, lead, and other toxins; the water is purified and nutritionally enhanced with chlorine and fluoride, both carcinogens; and our food is processed, bleached, preserved, and protected by pesticides, also known to be carcinogenic. Mentally, our culture lives in a state of chronic stress, and depression is on the rise as never before. The fast pace of our modern lifestyle, the demands and expectations of our jobs and relationships, and our disconnection from nature, ourselves, and from spirituality have caused a kind of stressful anxiety, a burden on the nervous system, that depletes us to the core of our bodies, minds, and spirits.

In short, we are all stressed, starved, and poisoned, and these states interact to compound their negative effects. If we are starved—nutritionally depleted—we lack the nutrients we need to manage our stress and anxiety. We will also become more vulnerable to the toxins and poisons in our environment, food, water, and news media. If we are stressed, we will burn up our nutrients much more quickly, especially those that manage our stress, anxiety, and our sense of well-being. Fewer nutrients again means vulnerability to toxins and a whole host of other acute, chronic, and life-threatening illnesses.