It has been two weeks since my trip to Canada for the K-CAP conference. Traveling to the out-of-the-way town of Banff took a total of 22 hours of continuous travel each way. The ordeal of traveling for such a length of time twice within one week certainly took its tole on my body. I'm feeling the damage now.
I've found that one faces three reactions for neglecting the body. One the next day, the next two weeks afterwards and another as a reduction in one's overall life-span. While I haven't yet experienced the last one (or I can't remember those many past lives where I have experienced it), the first two certainly hold true.
Now, two weeks after my return from Banff, my digestion system has gone on strike. "I will digest food no more!", it says. "Too much unhealthy (wheat and dairy) food, too much flying in toxic airplanes, too many long nights without adequate rest".
For the last week I've been having intense stomach pains exactly an hour after attempting to eat any type of food. The undigested food passes straight through me.
I know what this is, of course. It's not like it hasn't happened before. A newly formed ulcer is sabotaging my colon. Ulcerative colitis in all its glory. The result: I've lost what little weight I had (now weight 57 kg), sleep for 12 hours a day, have no energy and am really irritable when I am awake.
Solution?
I'm (again) taking a colon cleansing juice-mix that Dr. Philip Weeks recommends:
- juice of 3 apples
- juice of 3 carrots
- 1/4 of a lemon
- thumbnail size chunk of fresh ginger
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
- 4 cloves of garlic
I hate this juice and certainly don't recommend it for anyone. The garlic especially wreaks havoc on my consciousness. It has great healing properties, but has equally great disturbing effects on any kind of meditation practice. I can't concentrate on anything.
Anyway, lets hope my body starts working again soon. It's really annoying when this happens. I'll have to start all-over, slowly building the body back up. If nothing else, it is a good lesson for what the time of death is like.