Hello hello!
Ahh I am feeling really great as I write this 
I woke up this morning feeling très tired. I’m not sure if this was a result of a hectic week, the hip baths or the brown rice fast. Perhaps it’s was a bit of each! I felt pretty knackered all day at work too. But this evening I decided to take myself along to a yoga class and now I am feeling very revitalised and I have a sense of feeling cleaner!! (inside and out!).
Yesterday I decided that I would begin a 10 day trial of Bikram yoga which ties in very nicely with a brown rice fast. I am so glad I’ve started this as I found the experience really amazing and I am certain this will be a helpful cleansing support whilst on a brown rice fast.
Bikram yoga is where you do yoga in a really hot room so you end up sweating buckets! It felt really nice being in such a hot room and stretching the body. I had a strange experience half way through though where I felt almost like I was going to get cystitis (if you’ve ever had cystitis it’s like that really uncomfortable feeling and almost like you need to wee) and then I suddenly felt like crying. So, I let out a few tears and told myself ‘ok, you better get ready for whatever is coming your way’ and started preparing myself for whatever was to follow. However, it seemed to pass by and now I feel great.
I had a dream last night and it seems that that is connected to healing some aspects of myself. I am certain that eating very simple and perhaps doing the daikon hips baths is allowing some trapped energy to shift, hence dreams and memories. This is soooo interesting!
You know what else I keep noticing is that whenever I feel that something is healing, I seem to find myself somehow back in the vicinity where the event that needs to heal happened, if that makes sense? It’s as though I need to physically revisit places to recollect or re-establish energy. I’m really fascinated by this. Everything in this life is just energy, energy, energy, energy!
Oh, I forgot to say that I did a ginger compress on my intestines yesterday and I’ll do one again tomorrow morning. I think I am going to keep this up regularly and do it over a year or so so I can give my intestines a really good chance to heal and dislodge the crap that I’m sure is lodged in there.
I also forgot to tell you that I decided to weigh myself yesterday. It was the first time I have weighed myself in a loooong time. I am interested to see if my weight changes as a result of the brown rice fast. Last time I really didn’t feel that I lost weight or anything. I felt kind of disappointed in a way that nothing much happened for me. However, last time I was eating much bigger portions but this time my inner voice tells me that I should not do that if I want some real healing to take place. So, my weight was 8st 9lbs/55.3kgs. We’ll see if that changes after the 10 days.
Breakfast
Nettle tea – I had this almost as soon as I got up as I was mega thirsty
Brown rice with 1/2 umeboshi plum
Lunch
Brown rice with gomasio & 1/2 an umeboshi plum
Dinner
I didn’t take enough rice with me today & I thought I’d be able to get through the evening without dinner but on my way to yoga I felt really weak and knowing that the room was going to be so hot and that I’d find it challenging, I decided to buy some rice cakes (actually, the only had corn cakes made with corn and salt only so I had to settle for that) and eat a couple of those before the class. I think it was the right thing to do and I’m sure the class would have been terrible had I not eaten. I don’t think it’s too clever to eat this processed stuff when doing a brown rice fast, as the lack of wholesome energy will slow down the healing process, but beggars can’t be choosers and all that & sometimes we just gotta do our best!
I had some dandelion tea (cold!) whilst doing yoga & I’ve just finished 1/2 a baby cup of beautiful bancha tea. I love bancha and after not having any yesterday I really felt the need for some today. Mmmm, it was lovely. I love it when I drink and it feels sooo satisfying
OK, enough from me for now. Time for another hip bath. I think I’m onto the 5th one but I’ve kind of lost count. I’ll keep doing them until the end of the brown rice fast on the 14th February I’m really getting in to the whole hip bath swing of things! yay!
Sending you lots of beautiful vibrant energy
Love
Sharlene
p.s. I have this really lovely strong feeling of wanting to really nourish and nurture myself….ahhhh!
