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It sometimes appears that we have so many problems in our lives. Our children, health problems, money problems, divorce, home forclosures, painful lessons.....you name it, things can get pretty crazy. Now, with the ecomomy being so challenging, we really can get stressed.

Let's just STOP and take a look at reality. Are you breathing? Do you have a roof over your head, at the moment? When was your last meal? Are you reading this newsletter on your computer? Do you have some cash in your wallet? Do you have some jewelry in your closet? Are you going to work tomorrow?

I was waiting for my car to be serviced a few weeks ago and there was a National Geographic magazine in front of me. The cover was from Haiti and it was a picture of a woman making "food" from clay, shortening and sugar. Three inch circular hardened "pancakes".....no maple syrup, uncooked, not at all what any of us would consider to be food. I know that I'm making a comparison that appears to be extremely hopeless. How hopeless is your situation? Do you think it will pass and you will rearrange yourself to get out of your "tight squeeze"? Probably, yes. We will survive this and perhaps we will come out even better than before. That is my hope and my dream.

My dear friend and colleague, Carolle Jean-Murat, MD, grew up in Haiti. Through her determination to become a medical doctor, and so much more, she left Haiti for our country.

She is amazing inspirational woman, a board-certified gynecologist by training, medical intuitive, community activist, award-winning author who now offers intuitive telephone consultations, one-on-one and group retreats and seminars for midlife women ... and so much more.

We met "by accident" through her website, when I was looking for answers to some menopausal questions. She not only answered my questions through email, but called me on the phone. Dr. Carolle asked me to massage her family who live in South Florida. Once a year she understakes a juice fast at my one-on-one juice fasting retreat in Delray Beach and once a year I go to spend time with her at her healing center in San Diego. Together, we now offer Juice Fasting Renewal Retreats for a group of 4 women at a time in her private retreat center in beautiful San Diego.

Dr. Carolle has a project involving the children in Haiti.She is on her way to Haiti to deliver some much needed supplies. It's a desperate situation, especially now with the recent flooding from hurricanes.Currently one of the poorest underdeveloped countries in the Westernhemisphere, Haiti has been and continues to be plagued throughout its dynamic history with catastrophic political upheaval and unrest. If there is any donation that you can make to her organization, please do. Any amount will be accepted with gratefulness.  Please learn more at www.drcarolle.com

Hot springs provide many benefits stemming from various chemical, physical and biological effects.

The chemical effects are related to the minerals and other substances in the water, which are transferred to the skin and bloodstream through osmosis.

The physical effects are due in large part to the water temperature, which helps dilate the skin, thus improving oxygen flow in the tissues that are being treated. The heat also encourages the flow of natural sedating substances in the body, encouraging muscle relaxation. Altogether, these effects create of a sense of wellbeing.

The biological effects are produced by the hydrothermal flora and fauna, integrating micro and macro organisms in a complex union. This effect is called “biogleas” and is composed of thousand of different species which strengthen the skin’s defense systems, helping it to repair itself from external attacks such as aging.

In the 90's I spent 6 weeks every year at Rio Caliente, a spa and ranch near Guadalajara Mexico, working as an Activity Director. I got to soak in those mineral waters every day for the time I was there. I would come home with a new body....first and foremost.

For the past four years, I have been taking a small groups of 5-7 people to a remote area of Central Mexico. I found this pueblo five years ago while traveling on the coast near Puerto Vallarta. Needing a real break from the hurricanes that pounded Florida in 2004, I took off for ten days for a vacation with me and me alone.

I had heard that there was a hot spring pueblo three hours from the coast, way into the mountains of the Sierra Madre range. If you have a passion for the experience of hot springs as I do, you will go almost anywhere for the real hot stuff.

Taking my life in my hands, literally, I drove a rented VW, with a broken gas gauge (didn't realize it at the time) up into the remote mountains with a map and some directions from someone I has met in Mexico. Oy Vey, pretty scary, but by the Grace of God....I made it.

I found Amatlan de Cañas, a small pueblo in an agricultural region famous for its hot springs and papayas. Oh my God, I did think I had gone to Heaven. I also found a lovely small modest but very clean hotel, which I knew would be well suited for my Juice Fasting Retreats. The people of this area,however, make it so special, going out of their way for these gringos and gringas.

Kelp contains Iodine 127. Iodine 127 will prevent the body from absorbing radioactive iodine 131 which is constantly being released into our atmosphere by so-called normal operations of nuclear power plants and weapons facilities. Homeland security is a joke unless you have true security of good nutrition that includes Iodine 127 in your daily diet. This is specific protection for the thyroid gland, and you need to be aware that most nuclear pathologies in a disaster like Chernobyl are related to the intake of radioactive Iodine 131 into the thyroid gland. Rather than wait for the government to dispense potassium iodide to the population after a disaster occurs, eat kelp as part of your daily diet.

Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D. and the staff of his hospital survived the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. The hospital was built of bricks; it was located about a mile from the epicenter of the explosion. Dr. Akizuki and his staff had been eating a diet that included brown rice and miso soup and seaweeds. Sugar was excluded. After the bombing, rice balls, seaweeds, salt, miso and other good-quality strengthening foods were fed to all the patients and staff.

Kelp contains sodium alginate which is capable of binding with ingested particles of toxic strontium 90, cesium 137, and various heavy metals in the digestive tract, thus aiding the body in excreting radioactive fallout. After Chernobyl, the Russians isolated the polysaccharide U-Fucoidan in kelp, an excellent absorber of radioactive elements.

This interesting and helpful article was passed on to me by Gabriel Forzano. See his website at http://www.subtlethings.com

Cleansing Green Drink 8 leaves of romaine lettuce 2-3 stalks of celery 2 small to medium carrots	Celery Carrot Apple 4 stalks of celery 2 large carrots 1 large apple
Electrolyte Drink Two handfuls of parsley 3-4 stalks of celery 1 apple Squeeze of lemon	Carrot Juice Recipe with Ginger and Lemon 4 large organic carrots 1 inch cube of ginger –thumb nail size ½ lemon peeled
Carrot and Green Drink 1 lbs large carrots (washed) 1/2 lemon (peeled) few green leafs such as red lettuce 1 apple	Celery Mix 3 stalks of celery 3 apples 1 stem broccoli (optional) 1/2 lemon (optional)
The Immune System Juice Booster 3 carrots 1 stalk of celery 1 apple chopped into pieces ½ cucumber ½ beet with the greens, beet chopped into small pieces ½ handful of wheatgrass ½ handful of parsley First juice a carrot and half of an apple. Follow with the wheatgrass and parsley. To juice the wheatgrass and parsley, roll each into a beat leaf and juice. Next juice the beets and the cucumber and finish with the carrots and apple.	The Flu Fighter and Immune System Booster 6 carrots 1 apple 2 stalks of celery 2 cloves of garlic
Carrot Juice Recipe   V8 Juice   3 large carrots 1 stalk of celery 1 small beetroot ½ cucumber 4 stems of parsley 2 leaves of lettuce Handful of baby spinach leaves	Beetroot Juice with Cucumber and Pineapple   1 small beetroot ½ cucumber 1 cup of pineapple chunks

 

 

 

I have been a massage therapist for 25 years, specializing in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Geriatric, Barefoot Shiatsu, and Energy Healing. I am 62 years of age and my plan is to continue to work in this profession for many years to come. I am learning how to pace myself by balancing my giving with receiving. My receiving treats are spending time swimming, walking, practicing yoga and meditation, eating healthfully and creating one week twice a year to detoxify through juice fasting. I have followed this routine consistently for 32 years and have found it to be an excellent way to rid my body, mind and spirit of unnecessary and damaging toxic debris. Since I had malignant cervical cancer 32 years ago, and healed it myself using only non-invasive natural modalities, I have been extremely proactive in all that I do in my life. I’m very grateful for the cancer and all other wake up calls.

Since Massage Therapy is quite physically demanding, I value any and all things that will help me to maintain my athletic strength and agility, especially as I now move into my older years. And if that isn’t reason enough, here is my bottom line - I don’t get paid for the days I am sick.

Fasting is an incredibly simple and natural way to clean up your act and get on the right track of a bright and healthy tomorrow. There are many kinds of fasts. Water fasting is the “purest”, but also the most extreme and dangerous. Always be supervised on your water fast by an experienced doctor. Juice Fasting, however will accomplish the task of detoxification along with the support of high levels of nutrition. Whatever type of fasting you choose, you need to follow an elimination regime for a few weeks prior to the fast. Here are some quotes from well-known and highly respected authorities about the general subject of fasting:

• “Fasting is the single greatest natural healing therapy. It is nature’s ancient, universal "remedy" for many problems. Animals instinctively fast when ill. When I first discovered fasting, 15 years ago, I felt as if it had saved my life and transformed my illnesses into health. My stagnant energies began flowing, and I became more creative and vitally alive. I still find fasting to be both a useful personal tool and an important therapy for many medical and life problems.” Elson Haas, MD, author of The New Detox Diet
• “Fasting is the world's most ancient and natural healing mechanism. Fasting triggers a truly wondrous cleansing process that reaches right down to each and every cell and tissue in the body. Within 24 hours of curtailing food intake, enzymes stop entering the stomach and travel instead into the intestines and into the bloodstream, where they circulate and gobble up all sorts of waste matter, including dead and damaged cells, unwelcome microbes, metabolic wastes, and pollutants. All organs and glands get a much-needed and well-deserved rest, during which their tissues are purified and rejuvenated and their functions balanced and regulated. The entire alimentary canal is swept clean. By rebuilding immunity, health is naturally restored and disease disappears. If health and immunity are thereafter conscientiously maintained, the individual is no longer vulnerable to disease and dieting become unnecessary. Surely one of the most overlooked and yet most valuable modes of healing that will be rediscovered in the future of the new medicine is the fast. This is because of the increasing interest in looking to oneself for healing powers. For the fast is an inward process and cannot be entered upon only from an outer approach with any expectation of a lasting benefit. The person must invariably be involved with the overall results. This therapeutic encounter is in direct contrast to the usual non-involvement in the physician-directed, disease-oriented medical practice of today." Evart Loomis, M.D.
• "It is estimated that fasting for the alleviation of human suffering has been practiced uninterruptedly for 10,000 years. No doubt it has been employed from the time man first began to get sick. Fasting was part of the methods of healing practiced in the Ancient Asculapian Temples of Toscurd Guido, 1300 years before the time of Jesus. Hippocrates, the mythical Greek "Father of Physic," seems to have prescribed total abstinence from food while a "disease" was on the increase, and especially at the critical period, and a spare diet on other occasions. Tertullian has left us a treatise on fasting written about 200 A.D. Plutarch said: "Instead of using medicine rather fast a day." Avicenna, the great Arab physician often prescribed fasting for three weeks or more." Dr. Herbert Shelton
• "Almost all diseases begin in the digestive track. This includes diabetes, asthma, cancer, alzheimer's, heart disease, memory loss, fibromyalgia, MS, and too many to even list here. If you are seeking health, and you have not found the answers to your recovery and healing, start here. Your intestinal track is the origin of disease, and it is also the origin of your healing. I cannot emphasize enough how important the cleansing of your digestive system is, to your health." Dr. Joseph Rodrigo M.D
• "Proven throughout history for physical, mental and spiritual rejuvenation, fasting promotes cleansing and healing; helps normalize weight, blood pressure, cholesterol; rebuilds the immune system; and helps reverse the aging process. If we are to get these poisons out of our bodies we must fast. By fasting we give our bodies a physiological rest. This rest builds Vital Force. The more Vital Force we have, the more toxins are going to be eliminated from the body to help keep it clean, pure and healthy." Patricia Bragg, Ph.D.
• "The best of all medicines are rest and fasting" Benjamin Franklin

Some Benefits of Juice Fasting:

Regenerates Through Nutrients and Enzymes

With the fiber removed in the juice extraction process, vital juices retain the digestive enzymes that would have gone to digesting and breaking down the tough plant fiber. These enzymes, instead, get to work on breaking down old food debris in your digestive tract. The nutrients in the juices regenerate the glands and organs associated with digestion so digestive excretions are more vital, muscular action is stronger and your ability to absorb nutrients is more efficient. Less undigested food in your digestive tract means more energy and a lighter state of being. This myriad of essential enzymes, vitamins and minerals in their most natural and potent state are available through juicing that you can’t get in any other form other than fresh plant food.

Reduces Food Cravings

The two main reasons why we crave unhealthy foods are malnutrition and undigested food matter in the digestive tract. When your cells and organs become malnourished from eating devitalized and non nutritional foods, your body overproduces digestive juices. If your digestive system is congested with old hard-to-digest food debris, the digestive juices become attuned to not what your body needs but what is sitting in your digestive system. By drinking fresh juices, you are feeding your body the nutrients and plant vitality that it truly craves.

Rejuvenates through Natural Elements

The health of our bodies is dependent upon ingestion of the same elements that make up human cells. Our cells and organs are made up of primary elements; oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, sodium, iron, sulphur, phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, calcium and other named and unnamed elements. Ingesting enough raw materials to rebuild and rejuvenate existing cells and give birth to new cells is the primary function of the human body, and we need to give ourselves the opportunity for this to happen.

Carries out Free Radicals

Having little magnetism or electrical charge (that is no life and no intelligence), entities called free radicals, are attracted to live atomic energy. If there is little atomic energy in the bloodstream to carry them away and out of the body, free radicals will then accumulate in the body attaching themselves to live healthy cells. Free radicals attaching themselves to live cells are what cause degenerative disease, ineffective organ function and premature aging.

Enhances Our Body Intelligence

Our brain and nervous system is a network of organized electrical and magnetic energy. Eating foods with live energy means an increase in electrical and magnetic energy within the body, increasing and enhancing the receptivity of the brain and nervous system. Improved receptivity improves the body’s ability to communicate its needs to the brain and other parts of the body. Communication between mind and body is called body intelligence.

Assists in Balancing Weight Issues

A healthy and nutritionally satisfied body does not easily gain unnecessary weight. How quickly you lose weight and feel healthier is relative to how much vital food you add to your diet. A healthy body will urge you to exercise and eat lighter because storing food is a drain on the organs and metabolism. Only a day or two of fasting is recommended for people who are underweight.

Improves Your State of Health

Ingesting vital raw plant foods improves health more than any bottled supplement, powder, drug, therapy or health program. Consuming vital plant food in the form of fresh juices improves your state of health without abstinence or self-denial. Your road to good health is entirely up to you. Adding juices to your diet will make dramatic differences to your health.


I hope that I have stimulated your interest in this powerful healing remedy. Now, you need to follow up by researching everything that you can find about the power of fasting. There are some contraindications. It’s the most comprehensive mind, body and spiritual healing tool I have ever found. In order to have success with this process, you must prepare your body by following an elimination diet for two weeks before you go into the liquids. If you don’t, you may not have a very pleasant experience. For example, if you reduce your coffee intake before the fast, you probably won’t get a caffeine headache during the first few days of the liquids. Insomnia, nausea, dizziness, constipation, rashes and other reactions are all possible as the body deals with toxic elements. Seriously ill people should not fast, unless they are completely supervised by an experienced medical doctor.

Jill Ayn Schneider, LMT and Director of Circle of Life Holistic Programs (561) 638-8873 Jill leads one-on-one and small group juice fasting detoxification retreats in Florida, California and Mexico. Learn more about elimination programs to prepare for fasting, juice recipes, books and get a free consultation at www.circle-of-life.net

Benefits for the muscular system:

• Eliminates and prevents muscle adhesions resulting from an injury
• Helps restore tone to flaccid muscles and partially compensates for lack of exercise and inactivity due to illness or injury
• Increases flexibility and strength of joints
• Helps eliminate waste matter from muscles, especially lactic acid
• Relieves muscle tension
• Increases the supply of blood and nutrients to the muscles

Benefits for the skeletal system

• Increases the flow of nutrients to the bones, and promotes the elimination of waste matter
• Maintains posture and balance in the body
• Reduces muscular tension that eventually causes structural problems

Benefits for the circulatory system

• Moves lymph throughout the body, stimulating the immune system and eliminating toxic wastes
• Increases the supply of oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout the body
• Improves blood circulation and relieves congestion

Benefits for the nervous system

• Can either sedate or stimulate the nervous system, depending on the technique used

Benefits for the respiratory system

• Improves breathing patterns and volume of breath

Benefits for the digestive system

• Acts as a mechanical cleanser, pushing out waste products, particularly in those who suffer from constipation

1. Go to a mirror in your home and take some private time to look yourself in the eyes.
2. Ask yourself this question, "Do I deserve to love myself?" Note your mind's reaction.
3. Now ask this, "Can the answers to these questions please come from the heart?" Acknowledge your feelings without judgment.
4. Now, go back to No. 2 and start again. Is there a difference in the answers you are getting as you continue to look into your own eyes very deeply? Some emotions might surface.
5. Now close your eyes, take five very deep breaths and pray for help in learning how to love yourself as you have never loved yourself before.
6. Open your eyes, look deeply into the mirror as you begin to take off your clothes. Look at your body as you remove each piece of clothing. No judgment, just breathe and watch yourself, especially your eyes.
7. When you are completely stark naked, in your Birthday Suit, wish yourself a very Happy Birthday. Look into your eyes and tell yourself that you are beautiful, worthy and happy to be alive, no matter what your mind is telling you. Tell the BS conversation in your head to just take a hike.
8. Accept what you see. Love what you see. Talk to your each part of your body and say Thank you.
9. What would God be telling you in this moment? Listen. Would you be embarrassed to be in your Birthday suit? Hasn't the Creator given you this body as a gift?
10. Look back into your eyes and say Thank You for the gift of this human form.

Continue to do this exercise every day. Notice your attitude to see if there are any changes in how you feel about yourself.

When you love yourself you will become the best that you can be. You will set boundaries that people cannot cross. Your stride will be more confident. Your posture will be straighter. Your breath will be deeper and your voice will appear more definitive and clear.

Pass this exercise along to your children, friends and family. We can all do with a dose of self-esteem.