Detoxification Of Your Body is key to good health. Your body is remarkably intelligent and incredibly hard working day in and day out, it processes all kinds of inputs distinguishing what’s good for you from what’s not and doing its best to eliminate any harmful substances alongside routine metabolic waste.
But these days, our bodies are inundated with a never-ending barrage of stressors: environmental toxins, processed foods, unresolved emotions, and psychological stress, to name a few. Inevitably, in attempting to “digest” it all, we accumulate some degree of toxicity—which, over time, can build up in the system, deposit in the tissues, and compromise our health.
Thankfully, there is something you can do to give your body a break. This is precisely the idea behind an Ayurvedic cleanse: to minimize the variety and complexity of inputs so that the body can rest, recuperate, and repair itself. And amazingly, when the deluge of damaging inputs slows, your body will immediately take advantage of the full to do some very deep cleaning.
The practice of cleansing is considered a vital part of an Ayurvedic lifestyle, with great potential for improved energy, strength, and immunity, as well as a renewed love of life.
At its root, an Ayurvedic cleanse improves the strength of agni (the digestive fire) in the GI tract and throughout the body by resting and purifying the digestive system. Ayurveda sees balanced agni as one of the most important requirements in achieving optimal health. Tending to agni, with a cleanse it offers a potent antidote to any imbalances that might be active in your system.
An Ayurvedic detox restores a sense of calm to the mind and the nervous system. Fosters both clarity and groundedness in the mental, spiritual, and emotional spheres. Nurtures an improved sense of energy, vitality, and enthusiasm for life. Supports the maintenance of a healthy body weight. It helps to restore and maintain balanced sleep cycles. Promotes regular and balanced elimination. It also helps to recover each individual’s natural state of balance. Prepares the tissues for deep nourishment and rejuvenation. It promotes optimal health.
Ultimately, an Ayurvedic cleanse is focused on drawing toxins and excess vata, pitta, and kapha out of the tissues and into the digestive tract so that they can be eliminated.
The cleanse itself may not be entirely pleasant; as these impurities are stirred into circulation to be eliminated, they can become more palpable for a short time. However, if a full body cleanse is undertaken correctly, the end result should be an improved sense of balance and overall health.
Below, you will find everything you need to implement a simple, food-based cleanse at any time of year. However, even a gentle cleanse like this one is not appropriate for pregnant or breastfeeding women, or for anyone who is extremely weak or debilitated. On the other hand, if you are preparing for pregnancy, Ayurveda highly recommends that both partners undertake a cleanse approximately three months prior to conception.
This style of cleanse—based on a monodiet—is much less provoking than many forms of cleansing and is generally safer for a diverse range of constitutions and imbalances. That said, an Ayurvedic cleanse tends to move long-standing imbalances into circulation so that they can be eliminated. This is how our bodies repair themselves when we afford them the opportunity.
As a result, a cleanse can be exhausting, emotionally and physically uncomfortable. This cleanse is gentle and should not cause a great deal of discomfort. Nevertheless, it is better to be prepared for some ups and downs than to expect to feel fabulous throughout your cleanse. Don’t let your system get constipation.
You should begin to experience the deeper benefits of the cleanse within a few days to a week after completing it, if not sooner. This process can also stir up unresolved emotions so it is important to be prepared for some emotional cleansing.
It is quite common to have unexpected and somewhat unexplainable emotions crop up during a cleanse. Ideally, we would simply witness these states as they arise, creating space to honor, move, and release our feelings in a healthy way.
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