Juice Feast Intro, Day 6

Its day 6 of my juice feast, and finding so much support from the other feaster blogs has been an inspiration to start my own blog. Today I realised that its good to connect with other people, it provides a support and purpose. I hope to share my journey to inspire other people and to track my own progress in a public format. So far, I am feeling great excitement about going deep into a healing process, discovering how my own body works, and developing positivity and energy that I can use in positive ways. It already feels like the layers are stripping down, I feel great clarity but also a deeper awareness and sensitivity. This can be hard in a busy city environment, Paris to feel so vulnerable to the noise around you. Simultaneously, it affirms for me why dependence to food, alcohol, media, are so prevalent because they block your awareness and sensitivity of the world around you. When i first went raw after juice feasting for 40 days it was a wonderful discovery to feel life so much more intensely, I felt connected and open to my emotions and great compassion for people. When I asked a friend why he stopped eating 100% raw after twenty years, he responded that it is hard to stay raw when life is difficult. I now understand what he meant, that raw living breaks down so many defensive layers, that it can become a very difficult journey to face a less than perfect world in this state. Easier to block it out, as does a huge proportion of our society drink and take drugs. Food, for me exists on a similar level. Our temptation to eat things that we know our not good for us, is like getting drunk on food in the numbing sensation it provokes, otherwise stated, comfort food. I feel that the more people eating raw, feasting, and cleansing, the stronger a community of healthy beings we can become, and the stronger a society of 'functioning' people we will be. Thus the more positive energy we will have can be used to develop and grow collaboratively as a community, in health and in connection with nature(because going against nature only causes harm). Anyway, back to the juice feast. Today I had:

1/4 litre of lemon juice, honey, ginger water
800ml lettuce, parsley, pear, cucumber, lemon juice
800ml pineapple, celery juice
800ml carrot, cucumber, apple juice
1/4 litre lemon juice, honey, ginger tea
skin brushing, enema

Starting to feel positive about the future, feels so right juice feasting. Skin is definitely clearer after 6 days, though am a bit on edge emotionally. Releasing lots of mucus, better out than in, and feel great faith in my body to clease and release all the crap inside it. Loving feeling that I am in a process of change and that I am doing something wonderful for myself.

Love,
Poppy