Why cleanse or fast?

People often ask me why I fast or cleanse and the answer is very simple: Because I want to. 

However fasting and cleansing both have many benefits.

"Fasting is a period of restricted food intake, and cleansing is the removal of waste products from the body.... This combination of fasting and cleansing is a most effective healing method. It is essential for overcoming chronic diseases, and for rejuvenating an aging body. It is also excellent for ensuring continued health, and minimizes the risk of a disabling disease later in life." More

 

I enjoy the feeling, the heightening, my body getting a break from working to digest food and the mental clarity it provides.  IDEALLY while fasting or cleansing you would eliminate ALL toxic things including: people, ideas, situations, environment, etc.  However you work with what you have so try to at minimize those things and remember to drink plenty of water, remove the waste (GO TO THE BATHROOM, sweat, blow your nose...)  and do meditations or some sort of focusing.  The meditations are to mental with the mental cleanse/fast removing negative ideas, self concepts, intentions, memories and heal our minds while we heal our bodies.

On a sidenote when you do either your senses, emotions, and sensitivity will be VERY HEIGHTENED!!!  So that can be both rewarding and challenging.

As with anything do your research if you plan to do either and set small goals but most importantly listen to your body.

I have outlined a few easy fasts and cleanses below:

 

Simple Cleanse

Breakfast – Fresh fruit, smoothie, protein drink (eat between 6am-8am)

Snack – Light snack (fruit or veggie) Eat between 10-12pm

Lunch – Heaviest meal of the day (still free of fried, dairy, sugars, MSG, high fat, etc) – Eat between 12-2pm

Snack – Light snack (fruit or veggie) Eat between 2-4

Dinner – Light meal (vegetables largest portion of the meal) Eat between 4-6

NO meals after 7pm. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!!!!!!

 

3- Day Detox

1st Day

Drink 8 oz of protein drink, every 2 hrs for a total of 8 hrs (5 drinks) starting no later than 8:00am & ending by 4:00pm (i.e. 8, 10, 12, 2 and 4pm) or (7, 9, 11, 1, and 3pm)

8 oz. of water should follow EACH drink every 2 hrs for a total of 5 8oz glasses (minimum)

At 6pm eat a garden salad & add a protein (6oz of lean meat, or 2 tblsp of olive oil or 1/2 avocado)

2nd Day and 3rd Day

Every 2 hrs, eat fruit 2-3 oz of fruit

Strawberries, Watermelon, Bananas, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Melon, etc.

At 6pm make big garden salad add a protein (6oz of lean meat, or 2 tblsp of olive oil or 1/2 avocado)

4 days off (Be mindful of your intake during this time) you can repeat as many times as you would like

 

Master Cleanse

Mix 32 oz of water- preferably distilled (warm water if you’d like i.e. tea)

Lemon (2-2 ½ )

Cayenne Pepper (desired amount of heat)

Sweeten with pure maple syrup (Grade B or better is best) to taste

* can also add tsp or ½ tsp of apple cider vinegar for extra cleansing properties

Drink 32oz several times a day, every time you feel hungry

You can do 3, 7, up to 21 days (You should start small and build up if you are not used to fasting)

It will cleanse your entire system. Please note that you cannot return back to regular eating habits immediately following this cleanse. You need to come off properly to ensure that you do not experience serious stomach issues. In closing the cleanse, drink 100% orange juice for each meal (no other foods or drinks) (besides water) for at least 2 days (more if you feel the need to). You know your body so do what is best for you. (I sometimes do broths or raw soups and they work fine) Then transition to eating fresh fruits & add vegetables. Resume a better eating habits after 2-3 days of fruits & veggies.

 

Juicing

Freshly juiced – Carrot juice or other fresh fruits for vegetables

Juice organic carrots (or other vegetables) through juicer (Champion juicer is a nice one)

Drink 8 oz every 1-2 hrs.

Can do for 1-2 weeks or longer if you’d like

Make sure to drink PLENTY of water. If you don't have a juicer you can purchase fresh pressed juices from several health food stores... even schnucks carries them (in produce area)

 

Raw Food Diet

Only consume fresh fruits and vegetables over a 2-4 week period. You can also eat/drink smoothies, raw nuts, pates, etc. Ensure that you consume plenty of water the entire time. Eat often (at least every 1 – 2 hrs).  There are a wide variety of foods and recipes but you have to be willing to put in a little time. 

Deep inside "Confessions of a faithful woman"

For those of you who dont know I published "Confessions of a faithful woman" nearly a year ago.  Since that time I have been working to change "the norm" into what is natural regarding sex, love, relationships, lifestyle and much more.  The feedback and conversations that have occurred have be nothing short of Divine.  With the love and support of friends, family, readers and The Universe we are healing and expanding the world. 
Sooo one day Im wrapping to my sistar Super Blue and she dropping the sh*t in my ear as only she can. She basically told me "Get your ish together and stop fawking around,  the world needs this and you better make it happen".  As she ran down the "Get yourself in gear" list a blog dedicated to Confessions... was right in the natural progression of things.
Within the next week I had created "Deep inside the "Confessions..." series by Milele" a blog dedicated to the book, characters, stories, readers and energy behind it all.  So check it out!!!!
Also feel free to "like" Confessions FB page (the link is in the first line) and ask questions, post pictures, write reviews, share your thoughts or just say "Hi".
If by some weird time space continum shift you have not gotten your copy GET IT NOW!!!!

Much love to my sistars Kita and Free who have been showing me much love.

Fighting an infinite octopus (I’m a visual person)

Goal:  Living a good life and passing it to the next generation

We all what to live in a loving, prosperous and advancing environment where we can express ourselves freely, enjoy life, and reach our full unlimited potential with the people we care for. 

Problem: Fighting an infinite octopus

Everywhere people are fighting for THEIR cause and ignoring all others.  But the secret is that we are all fighting the SAME infinite octopus.  An “infinite octopus” is a central body that has many “tentacles” that grow, change, adopt, adjust and regenerate. The more we try to defeat only the tentacles the stronger the body grows. Think about it: if EVERY grouping has an issue with something in the society, doesn’t it stand that there is something wrong with the SOCIETY and not ALL of the people.  And yes the people make the society however our society’s governances force mold, shape and create people to FIT into it instead of us being able to create what fits for us.  The octopus that teaches each of us from birth what is “socially acceptable” is the same that keeps ALL of us oppressed.  The octopus tells us how to think, dress, eat, live, act, talk and treat each other it is so engrained in us it is at times hard to tell what is the octopus and what is us.  Now we can say that we have a choice in the matter but do we really?  Let’s look at it….  If a group of us decide we are fed up and want to become sovereign can we simply move to someplace where no one lives and began to build our own community and begin to farm and raise their own animals?  Can we raise our children by our customs and traditions without external influence?  Can we handle our own justice system without “having to answer to” a larger governance system? Can we freely trade and barter with other sovereigns? NO WE CAN NOT. We HAVE to buy the land, get “permits”, purchase certain “regulated” goods, and abide by the “laws of the land” we are DEPENDENT on the octopus in every aspect of our life and we pay dearly. We have to become (in thought and action) an octopus to survive but our spirits and true selves know there is something wrong. We begin to fight back for our “god given rights” and work with others fighting for theirs.  So then each “activist group” is focused on the tentacle that is holding them down instead of the larger body that is holding EVERYONE down.  Whether we are fighting for gay rights, muslim rights, christian right, woman rights, transgender rights, little people rights, animal rights, prison rights, poor rights, homeless rights, black rights, asian rights, fair housing, etc., etc., we are ALL fighting the SAME THING. Now of course in any fight we try to contain that which is directly impacting us at the moment however we can NOT ignore or forget that there is a bigger force that we ALL must fight together. The fight is very simple humans against savages.  Whether the tentacles (person, idea, system, practice, etc) are racist, sexist, classist, chauvinist, religionist, capitalist or any other “ist” they are savage.  They are savage values, practices, beliefs and allow for savage behaviors to humans daily.  Calling them anything else gives them room to wiggle out of it “I am not *insert ism* I just *insert explanation for ism* (i.e. I am not racist I just get tired of black people getting a free ride.)  Not only have the savages taking over main stream life by causing us ALL to be dependent of them for food, shelter, water, clothing, defense and the rest they have also convinced us NOT to work together AND disguised themselves as different “social issues”.   We are collectively in a perpetual state of indentured servitude.  From a very young child we are focused on “what we are going to be when we grow up” and the “educational” system begins to shape us into workers; squashing free thinking, creativity, collectivity, cooperation in very simple ways.  We are taught working together is “cheating” and doing things in a manner that fits us is “misbehaving” we are taught that taking something without permission is “stealing” yet everything in this society was taken by force or trickery (now this is tricky because we want to have boundaries but naturally when we live in harmony with others we give and take freely without issue), we FORCE our children to sit in classrooms all day and learn how to be a part of the system. Now this isn’t by chance that these are some of the things we HAVE to do, no loving parent would intentionally subject their children to this programming if they didn’t feel like “it was the only way to make it in this world and live a “good life””.  Let’s zoom out a bit back to the body of the octopus.  Its goal is to keep control of all things and have all the worldly resources at its disposal perpetually, this process began THOUSANDS of years ago and continues to this day.  The octopus knows that only way to control people… any people is to control their means of providing for themselves and so them keep all of us dependent on them.
 

Solution: Know the problem, Educate our children, become self sufficient and be human

There was a time people lived harmoniously globally.  They traveled, traded, bartered, studied one another, shared technology and resources, sustained their own culture/lifestyle and lived in harmony with nature for THOUSANDS of years before this octopus begin to emerge. That is the place we are all striving to get back to whether our vision is convoluted or not.  We must remember that we do not have to fight one another for that.  Natural resources are not scarce it is access to them that has been restricted, limited and bottle necked for profit and control. 

Simple steps

• Destroy the savage in us. Constantly keep ourselves loving, optimistic, advancing, growing and helpings others do the same
• Destroy the savage around us.  Don’t support businesses, ideas, people, issues, etc. that are savage (support any of the ism or destroy the environment)
• Work together.  We can buy more, share and get better usage collectively
• Control our spending & utilization of resources know our needs vs. our wants
• Live healthier (more in tune with the natural flow of things), less processed foods, less package and prepared “foods”, cook more, create menu and plan ahead
• Drink clean water and keep our water clean.  Our bodies and the planet are 70% water so in order to stay healthy we must work to ensure our waters are unpolluted internally and externally
• Recycle, Reuse & barter. Create less waste and “front end production cost”, buy used vs. new when ever possible and exchange services, products, resources, etc
• Produce for ourselves, grow our own food make, fix, alter our clothing, build, create, fix household items or support others (with the same values) who do these things
• Build/maintain our own homes or support others (with the same values) who build/maintain homes
• DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!! If each and everyone of us made one of these changes the result would be EPIC. 

I know this was a lot and I appreciate you reading it.  Oh just in case “Octopus” is used as a metaphor there isn’t a giant invisible octopus running things……… OR IS IT? *dun, dun, duuuuuun*

P.S. FUCK RACISM, SEXISM, CLASSIM, CAPITALISM, CORPORCRACISM (democracy run by corporations), CHAUVANISM, PRIVATISM, TRIUMPHALISM, AND THE OTHER FUCKED UP ISMS

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with this code L9VA86RP until March 31st. Adults of all ages and backgrounds can enjoy the colorful mix of arousing and enlightening stories and poems. Our collective understanding of sex needs to be normalized in a manner that is holistic and mature so the experiences we ALL have can be healing, nurturing, satiating and organic. It is far too often where we describe things of a sexual nature as “dirty, freaky, nasty, raunchy, hoeish, slutty, etc”. If we shift our mindsets to embrace the spiritual nature of the physical acts we can change not only how we do it (pun intended) but also the lasting impact it has on each of us mentally, physically and spiritually. The “Confessions….of a…” series is designed to take the reader on a journey of discovering or deepening the sacred understandings while arousing the mind, body and spirit.
Our spirits are what move and motivate us, without that our bodies are literally lifeless….dead. With that in mind the draw, attraction, pull we feel for other people comes from that spirit and our bodies react. When we can understand the energy behind the physical arousal we can manipulate it in a way that is beautiful, beneficial and lasting.
There are many teachings on “Harnessing sexual energy, Tantra, Taoist, Kemetic and other forms of “spiritual sex” but the truth is ALL sex is spiritual the only difference is whether those evolved know that it is.
So enjoy your reading, expand your mind and arouse your spirit. There is much more to come and you will come much more
Love and Light
Asante sana (Thank you very much)
Keep an eye out for the book in the series “Confessions... of a spirit woman”



"Confessions of a spirit woman" is coming...

Greetings good people!!!!!!

Well I am sure you all have made many changes and improvements in your "sexual" self and now more fully understand that “sex” is another expression of our divine spirit.  It is now 2013 (Gregorian calendar) which means that "Confessions of a spirit woman" is due out.  I appreciate all the love and support for "Confessions of a faithful woman" the 1st in the "Confessions of a..." series.  I hope that reading, hearing, experiencing or being exposed to these works has opened new doors for you and yours.

I love the feedback and the stories that have been shared with me from readers and family (anyone I care about I consider family).  I appreciate everyone who has taken the time and energy to travel this journey with me.  This has been an amazing process for revealing, sharing, understanding, healing, growing, discovering and manifesting for me.  As a maturing Afrikan woman I understand the power of words and the power of expressing our individual truth (confessions) which leads to a collective, connective and an holistic understanding of ourselves, each other and the Universe. 
Our bodies are sacred, they are our temples, and they house our divine spirit.  It is with this understanding I do my writing from.  Currently “sex and spirit” are looked at as things outside of our daily routines.  It is something “special, forbidden, taboo, private or scary” to speak about openly and honestly.  We use terms like “freaky, creepy, weird, strange, hoeish, etc” and many other belittling terms to explain how we express our physical (sexual) and non physical (spiritual) acts. We box in our ability to love freely and label every aspect of our lives as if life is this segregated scripted play.  But let’s break it down
Humans have a common or super destiny: To be divine (God like, exemplifying higher characteristic) and a personal destiny which is our path to the super destiny.  It is like humanity is taking a collective trip, some walk, some run, some fly, some wait and start later in life but we are all going the same place.  Each and every one of us came here to be physically manifested AND spiritually connected.  Our spirit is what animates our body and is indistinguishably a part of our life.  As a small child we are more closely connected to spirit and where we come from.  As we get older we become more connected to the physical world learning, touching, smelling, sensing, tasting, enjoying and experiencing more things of this world but the spirit of things are still there.  The process of “enlightenment, evolution, initiation, being called to spirit/service” is simply reconnecting to the spirit and operating on the visible and invisible plains simultaneously. It becomes hard when systems are not in place to support this process or reinforce a holistic way of life.  That is what has been lost in westernized societies through the disconnection of the invisible (spirit) and over stimulation of the physical (body).  Now I am not trying to get all deep and ish, I am laying some foundation for better understanding of the “Confessions of a” series.  This series is writing from the connective perspective, what you see is not always what is truly there.  The physical is a reflection of the invisible and the invisible expresses itself through the physical. As expressed in “The spirit of intimacy” by Sobonfu Some “sex” is a sacred physical expression of a deeper desire, drive, push to be connected to spirit.  Spirit is what motivates and animates all things.  My point in writing this series is getting us back to living in a spiritually connected way.  In each story in “Confessions of a faithful woman” a character is presented with an opportunity to change and move past their own imposed “limitations” and those placed upon us by society some are subtle and some are more obvious.
Through the physical they reach new personally, emotional and spiritual places while enjoying divine intimacy with themselves and others and have a wonderful time enjoying “sex” fully, completely and unfettered. 
In the second of the series (which I am currently working on) “Confessions of a spirit woman” the characters are in different stages of reconnecting to the source of all things and living a holistic, spirit driven life which includes, of course, their physically intimate relationships.  This delves more into the rituals, rites, celebrations, practices and customs of operating from the visible and invisible world.  Most of the characters are new some are a continuation but all play upon humanities super destiny and how each person gets there. I will continue to “confess” my truths through my writing and lifestyle.  I hope you enjoy your reading journey and are compelled to confess who you are through your art, work and life.
Love & Light
Milele

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