If you haven’t read My Journey into The Master Cleanse (Day 1 of 10) I suggest you read it, as this is a followup entry. It will give background info on what I am doing.
Day 13 - The Complete Return to Food
All things that have a beginning have an end. Today this series officially comes to a close. In my eyes though, this experience has been a new beginning: a beginning of greater awareness of my own health, of food, and of food’s effect on my body. Today I had some more of the soup at lunchtime, and for dinner I made some delectable Sicilian Lentil Pasta Sauce which I used with some whole grain spaghetti noodles. While the sauce may seem slightly unusual (to non-Sicilians, at least) because of its use of lentils, I thoroughly enjoyed coming off the Master Cleanse with this meal even though I am, in fact, not Sicilian or Italian.
The Cleanse wasn’t always easy, and there is nothing particularly fun about it. Any fulfillment one gets while partaking of the cleanse is due to having more time on hand. If one isn’t skilled in focusing their time doing the tasks they are supposed to do (or indeed, want to do), this cleanse will not help your life be any more enjoyable.
Having a Wealth of Time
In this way, the cleanse is rather like being wealthy. The difference being that your wealth is time instead of purchasing power. When one is wealthy with time, they express more of themselves and can effectively be “more of themselves.” This is similar to how money can allow a person to express oneself in greater capacity. Now that I have come off the Master Cleanse, I’ve realized that being able to handle having “more of yourself” is a quality that is learned through time and patience with oneself.
If I could send a message to myself in the past on August 10th, I would still tell myself to do this cleanse because of what I have learned about myself, my body, and good food. Recommended this experience is, but only if you truly desire it.
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Below is a guide to all articles within this series:
Congratulations! You made it. That’s great!
I like what you said about time, and having found more of it. Too bad you can’t bottle that up, since most people complain about not having enough time.
What I’ve observed, is that some people “choose” to use their time in what could be described as “unproductive” ways, and then complain they don’t have enough time. But, yet it’s ironic that when something they want to do comes up, they “make the time”. Hmmmmmmm
I guess you could say, it’s about the choices we make. And as we teach our children, all actions have consequences, good or bad.
Thank you, Barbara. I’m glad to have had the opportunity to share this experience with the greater community.
Time is most definitely our greatest resource and is weighted on priorities, as you allude to. Priorities are persistent choices that arise from habits, but I will stay on the point:
One doesn’t have to bottle up extra time. One only has to find the extra time and utilize this. Anyone can find more time if they only clarify what they wish to accomplish first, because time is a mental projection of an illusion.
Does time exist outside of our minds?