Cleanse
It’s just another magic Mungday!
Just over a year ago, life decided to dish me up my very first serious physical clout. It was intense. I remember it like it was yesterday. It started like most things that go pear-shaped quickly: I was in a rush, stressed out, and my mind was far away from now, somewhere on planet future.
Being a bit of a backyard alchemist, I had some extremely potent medicine in my “mooty” box. Miracle Mineral Solution from Jim Humble a seriously strong, miracle solution meant for micro dosing, which can also be used for certain cancers. I had acquired this out of sheer desperation when my grandmother was diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma, a brain tumor. Now its bottle had broken, and instead of doing the responsible thing immediately, I poured it into a water glass to be dealt with later.
The next day, in a mad rush, to set up for our Happy Earth People stand at the market; I drank the entire glass thinking it was water. [Sh!t]
Ignore, run, set-up, rush.
There I stood, high as a kite.
In the coming days, I began to experience the most excruciating pain I have ever felt in my life.
One day whilst pushing and pulling pasta, my partner, Candice (and other Happy Earth extraordinaire) said to me: “Tea, you look yellow. Go to the hospital.”
So I did.
Of course, on arrival there was all manner of paperwork and cost queries for my immediate attention. All this followed by the single solution to put me on a drip for pain.
In that very painful moment, I was faced with two very different options:
One, to submit into ignorance and dull the very loud screech coming from my stomach or two, to use this experience to expand into wisdom (as in knowledge experienced).
So, I did a whole lot of research to acquire the knowledge and sat deep within my pain to experience the wisdom. I took a week to implement what I had felt (within me) needed to be addressed. Which seemed to be an injury in my gut.
The protocol, was to first create a space suitable for healing to take place so I stopped ingesting food and did a water fast for one day. On day two, I cleaned what I could feel was an internal wound with various gentle cleansing herbs including aloe bitters, buchu tea and triphala. Day three was for soothing the injury, which meant a probiotic and liquid fast with Vibrant Health Vibrant Flora and Maximum Vibrance.
Finally I needed to rebuild my damaged gut, which I did with L-glutamine.
Of course, it only made sense that one wouldn’t go off running with a broken leg that’s healing. So I began to devise a sort of physiotherapy for my gut. Something that would cleanse, soothe and allow repair.
My heart’s absolute love for Ayurveda meant that I was familiar with the healing prescription diet of Kitchari. So I adapted this into a gentle cleansing broth as a maintenance plan for my recovering gut.
I get goose bumps sharing with you the fact that I have built the most wonderful, honest relationship with my gut and digestive system since then.
Listening carefully, respecting that it too needs some time off. Caring for myself on a mind-body level. On an experiential level.
I began to practice some wonderful Ayurvedic regimes that have brought me to a place of understanding and love for my body. I now take one day a week (when I can and depending on what time allows) to Mungday cleanse my body and care for me.
Cleanse day practice:
Soak Mungday protein mix the night before.
- Wake up feeling grateful for this wonderful day to be kind to my body.
- Scrape the tongue.
- Drink warm lemon water or warm water
- Meditate, tuning into the sensations of my body.
- Salt cleanse nasal cavities
- Put Mungday Cleanse on to cook.
- Gentle stretching, dry-brushing or even oil pulling.
- Oil massage followed by a gentle shower (as it’s best to leave some oil on the body for the day)
- Have morning bowl of broth and gentle walk (in my case usually to the office)
- Work, having packed a 1liter jar for lunch.
- Enjoy broth for lunch.
- I like to have a small cup of broth or even a kombucha at about 3PM
- After work hatha, depending on energy levels.
- Broth for dinner, followed by some delicious tea. I like ginger tulsi or even a cup of organic cocoa (without milk)
- Meditation and rest.