Within/Without

Peace. I said I wasn’t going to do a bunch of blogging about this fast, because there is really not much new to talk about. I do this every year. Every year it’s the same. But… I don’t do the master cleanser every year. I have attempted it only once before and made it 5 days. The salt water flushes did me in. The SWF caused heart palpitations that lasted for 12 hours. I had the shakes too. It was too much for me. According to research maybe I was too dirty to master cleanse. Well I hardly believe that! So this season, I decided to master cleanse at the end of my fast. This way…. I’m cleaner and then I can reward myself when the fast is over. Also… I’m not doing the SWFs. That’s too much for me. I will take the laxative teas but not the SWFs. No. Not gonna do it. Even with the laxative teas… I’m amazed at what’s still inside. I haven’t eaten in over 2 weeks… I assumed everything was out! It’s not…. So far…. The regular fast was fine with the exception of all the free food being th...

Peace. 'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food' ~ Hippocrates….. That quote is not bullshit. I am one of these people who likes to do the Knowledge to the different foods. Normally when I come up on a new food, I want to know not only how to prepare it, but what it’s good for. So I did a small experiment…. I wrote down all the ingredients for food (in this case juice, since I’m fasting) that I have been eating. From that list I researched the health benefits of each of the different foods ingested. It was very easy since I’m, right now, only ingesting fruits and vegetables. Do you know what I found???? I finally understand what ‘healthy’ means. Natural foods are just that… healthful. These foods reduce blood pressure, prevent diabetes, reduce bad cholesterol, anticancer prevents Alzheimer’s, provide antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, and much, much more. If we ate foods in the natural unprocessed state… and by unprocessed I mean without chemical, Franken-f...

Peace. Today marks Day 8 of my annual 21 day cleanse. It’s going fast. Not fast in the terms that time is flying, but all the detoxing and fast symptoms that usual take the entire fast to kick in kicked in almost instantly. Let me lay out the parameters…. 1. The only nourishment taken in is in liquid form. 2. No dairy products 3. Sun Salutations 4. Tumeric/coriander/triphala fibroid treatment 5. Continue to exercise 6. Daily Pranayamas 7. Meditation 8. Master cleanse for a week. So far so good. The results are interesting. Normally I’m not hungry after Day 3, but I am ravenous. It might be because my cycle is due any day now. And every woman knows that her appetite sky rockets before her cycle. A friend of mine once said she was hungry enough to eat one of her children! I expect this hunger to disappear when my period does. I’m being supper orderly with the juices and supplements. The goal is to get protein, simple carbs and a bit of oil. In the morning I make a s...

Peace. I’m lazy. And I’m ok with that….. I am of the opinion that folks do too much. I used to work with this woman who was from Turkey. She could not understand why I was working 2 jobs when I was married and my husband worked. I explained that I wanted the money. We worked the same position and started at the same time. Our salaries were the same so she knew how much I made. She then asked me when is enough, enough? That got me thinking… and I have kept thinking to this day. Yacub’s world manifest teaches that we should always work and work to have more and more. Our closets are full as are our pantries. We have no time for anything other than the acquisition of wealth. We pass these traits on to our kids who are so over scheduled that we have to schedule play dates for them with other over scheduled children. I say ENOUGH! After my contract ran out for the job with the Turkish woman, I moved to Atlanta with my late husband. I was starting completely fresh and it gave me an...

Peace. I have questions…. And this is a consistent question that I have that I have never been able to get a solid answer… And I want you to be mindful that I don’t have all the answers. I just keep working my program with a foundation until I get a result. I am a scientist. But I still have questions….. Fermented foods…. Is this something beneficial to Original people? When I Google fermented food benefits… those touting benefits are always white and Asian people. NEVER Black people. When I have done the Knowledge to African, Australian Aboriginal, Polynesian, South American, etc cuisine, and I do not see fermented foods in their diets. I might be missing something. The purpose of fermented foods is to introduce beneficial bacteria to the gut. From research… and not personal opinion… Europeans always existed in different circumstances than other people. They had to deal with a lot of cold climates, caves, cramped and overcrowded dwelling… this type of existence breeds disease....

Peace! Do you know what follows Raw Food Mondays????? Juice Feast Tuesdays! I have been fasting for decades. I started in dental school. I got "Born Again" for like the 5th time at that point and decided to fast an pray to pass a test. I also studied but I figured fasting and begging white Jesus to help me out would be just the extra I needed. It worked. So I started making fasting something I did regularly for tests. I noticed that when I fasted, my head cleared and I could remember better. It worked so well I made it something I did every week. As I got more "conscious" I did the knowledge to fasting a realized that the effects I was receiving wasn't because of Jesus, but because the body needs a break every now and then. When i began studying Ayurveda, my dosha declares that I should fast regularly. As I am one who wants to be in tune with nature I decided to fast on Tuesdays; because I was born on a Tuesday. So every Tuesday, I come full Cipher. The o...

Peace! I guess I'm getting my blog on..... I always get chatty this time of year because my fast is approaching. And i always have the same goals... (1) fast for 3 weeks which I always mange to do. (2) flush. I manage to do this even though it's unpleasant. And (3) Emerge raw, which I manage to do for about a week. Well the goals haven't changed. Well maybe a little. I plan to do more flushes and I am only shooting for high raw. I plan on starting my fast next week on Monday 2/24. i don't like finishing exactly on the Asiatic New Year because I won't be able to enjoy it with food. So if I start a bit early i can finish it off properly. And not get sick like I have been known to do in the past. But that is completely not the topic of this Build.... Meatless Mondays! this is a new trend amongst meat eaters to try to eat vegetarian 1 day out of the week. Well I am ALREADY a vegetarian and all my days are meatless. But as a firm believer in energies, I want to sha...