
This third feast has helped me on many levels understand the nature of addiction to cooked foods. During my first two feasts (14 days and 28 days) I was still very dependent on the juice itself, wanting large quantities and sometimes chugging down a quart so fast my tummy would bloat. On this third time, I am feeling more mindful, and now choose to be more conscious as I consume juice–both of it’s vibration, ingredients and essence, and of my own body’s sense of fullness and satisfaction.
This feast has been different as I have added the use of Universal Principles of the Law of Attraction (LOA) to my practices, with the overarching goal of re-programming my subconscious and patterns into permanent health changes. This includes achieving my goal weight, getting daily exercise, re-inventing my self-image, and continuing towards the end result of being a 100% live foodist. At this current time, I am other than 100% positive that I can achieve that, so I will just continue the reprogramming aspect of my mind during the juice feast and see what happens at the finish line. Prior to this, I was counting almost exclusively upon the detoxifying effect of the juice to remove all cravings for cooked food. And in that I live in a household of others who eat cooked food, perhaps this is unrealistic. My current approach is to also add the practice of strong imagery, self-suggestion, written affirmations, and visual meditations to seed and cultivate a new mindset for myself during the feast, so that the stream within which I play is flowing within the live food river.
This is important to me for many reasons, the primary one is that it seems to be a no-brainer to choose the path and diet that brings optimum health. My experience in the past was that I could maintain a lifestyle of about 85% live foods, but that remaining 15% of cooked was sometimes the un-healthiest of cooked foods, the forbidden foods that cause a brain state change, and were every bit as anesthetizing as liquor to an alcoholic.
So this is a commonality among all of us who were born into the “slavery” of being presented with (and addicted to) a cooked food diet from a young age. As a baby, I was given cereal at age six months so I would sleep through the night and not bother my mother. Unknowingly, she drugged me on the opiates in the grains, and I have been struggling with this addiction and the resulting weight issues ever since.
In my juice feast clarity, detoxed, spiritually open, and aware, I seek permanent solutions to this cycle, knowing full well that the temptations (like crack to an addict) have not left the planet. So the onus is upon me to reprogram my subconscious in the most positive, most uplifting way possible, so that I can co-habituate with the all the cooked-eaters on the planet and feel joyful and happy.
I recently attended the San Diego County Fair and had a great time wandering around in front of all the food booths, deeply sniffing the air and savoring all the aromas of the life force escaping in the food. I was not tempted in the least, and chose to really enjoy the smells, even of meat and foods that I would never choose to eat. I was in a place of no-mind, non-judgment, just “loving what is”. As I took the tram in from a remote parking lot, I consumed my last cold jar of juice for a while upon arriving at the fair, so just drank water for the rest of the day until around 11:00PM, when I returned to my car and my juice stash. There was nothing to buy at the fair that I could have, so I lived on the smells and the sights, and found that they actually fed me and energized me. Last year, I was there with many jars of juice and prepared raw food goodies, making repeated trips to the cooler in my car to get my food while those with whom I came gorged themselves on deep-fried this and that. This year I paid attention to the auric field of those eating this food, their glassy-eyed stares, their bloated faces and bodies, and I said a prayer of gratitude that I have been graced with a bit of sanity and freedom.
Stats: I’ve released 5.5 pounds to-date on this Summer Juice Feast (day 25), and about 15 during my 2nd JF of 28 days in March, and 28.5 pounds since January. I am grateful and feel much better, enjoying the looser feeling of my clothes. Yet I feel a tad frustrated in that my mind is now reprogrammed at a lower weight, and my body is slower in bringing that lower weight into realization. So this “gap” creates a dynamic tension which is, I presume, the Law of Attraction in action. Aaaah, patience.









