Prepare yourself for the chosen day starting from its preceding day. Eat an early and light dinner. Go to bed a bit earlier than your normal time to insure a good night sleep. You are going to spend the entire tomorrow, selectively and preferably with your own self.
On the chosen day:
- Get up a bit early, preferably before sunrise. Drink
a glass of water if you have a desire to drink a fluid. Do not drink tea or coffee. If Nature is calling, do heed the call. - Take a good leisurely bath. Then wear comfortable clothes for the day.
- Put your mind in a neutral gear for the entire day. Today you are not going to put your mind and body to work like you are used to doing every day.
- Permit yourself to give rest, as much as possible, to
all of your senses including eyes, nose, ears, and tongue. - In your mind, avoid generating emotional toxins including anger, fear, hatred, violence and jealousy.
- Steps one and two should be addressed in a reasonable time of 30 – 60 minutes. Steps three through five are affirmations for your internal reminder. Now you begin the water-purge operation that is going to empty your stomach completely. The term water-purge simply implies that you are going to purge your stomach completely with water. Naturally, it also means that you will be shitting a lot during the next two hours. The simple procedure and steps for conducting water-purge are described in following item.
- Pour lukewarm water (30-35 degrees C) in a glass
(approx. 12-16 oz). Add one teaspoon of table salt to the warm water and stir to dissolve the salt. The salt is added to slow down and then stop urination during the water-purge operation. - Stand up on your feet and start slowly sipping the
lukewarm salty water. From this point on, keep standing on your feet continuously until the end of this water-purge operation, which may take approximately one to two hours. Walk around the house at leisurely pace, and keep on sipping the lukewarm salty water. Do not engage in active conversation with anybody. Off and on, while you are walking, touch your stomach with open palm and gently massage it in circular motion. The stomach enjoys receiving that attention from you. Continue sipping the salty water from glass until it is finished. - Refill the glass with the lukewarm salty water and
continue steps outlined in item 8. Depending upon your constitution, you may have to drink 6 to 12 glasses of the lukewarm salty water. You will notice that the salty water prevents the urge to urinate; and the water gradually builds up pressure inside the stomach and the entire digestive tract. This is exactly what you are trying to accomplish. - Keep on walking slowly and continue sipping additional salty water until you get a strong urge for bowel movement. Let the goods come out freely until the delivery stops. The job is not complete as yet. Make sure that a potty is readily available for your personal use during the entire period of water-purge operation.
- Resume walking and continue sipping lukewarm salty water until the second call for you to rush to the potty. Deliver the goods again. This time, you will notice lesser solids and more fluids deposited in the potty. You are making progress.
- Continue sipping lukewarm salty water and walking until you have reached a stage where stomach is discharging only fluids and very few brown particles (of you know what!). Soon, most of the discharge from the stomach is almost like clear water that you are drinking. You will no longer feel any fluid pressure in stomach or an urge to revisit the potty. This signals the end point of your successful water-purge operation. The entire water-purge operation may take approximately two hours. If the time required is less or more, do not become paranoid about it.
You have now cleansed your stomach of all food particles and accumulated toxins. The whole abdomen area starts feeling lighter and healthier. Congratulations! - After efficiently purging the stomach, it is time for you to take some rest. Take a comfortable pillow and lay down on a carpet or a mat, but not on a soft mattress. Take a comfortable sheet or blanket to cover yourself. Close your eyes and relax your body as well as mind. Lay quietly for one hour and even allow yourself to fall asleep. Somebody in house should prepare for you a 1:1 mixture of rice and moong beans (without its skin) which is cooked to a soft consistency. The cooked mixture is called in Hindi language as Khichadi. When you wake up or get up after the one-hour of relaxing break, you should eat the Khidachi. Sprinkle some salt, black pepper, and butter or ghee to your taste. It tastes delicious at that moment because you are feeling hungry! Try not to flood your stomach with the Khichadi. You may drink little water if you feel like it, but do not take any other beverage. This is your lunch. By this time it is little past noon.
- After the lunch, you may relax or take another nap, but preferably not go back to any rigorous mental or physical activity. Remind yourself continuously that this is a day of rest committed to your inner peace and rejuvenation.
- Spend the rest of the day with your close family, listen to soothing music or read books that you enjoy reading. Do not snack between lunch and dinner.
- The dinner should be light with simple food. You
may finish the Khichadi that was prepared for you in the morning and complement it with a thin consistency vegetable soup of your choice. - Before hitting the bed at night, count the blessings
that you are enjoying in life. Be thankful for it all. You will awake a rejuvenated person the next morning. Physically and emotionally, you will feel enlightened.
Purging the stomach with lukewarm salty water as described above is an Aurveda technique practiced in India through centuries. It is routinely taught in Yoga classes.
If the above experience becomes truly enlightening, you may want to repeat the water-purge at intervals of 4-6 month or as desired. But more importantly, on a daily basis, you will consciously try to avoid polluting your body with toxic foods and thoughts. With this awareness, you will rejuvenate yourself every day to enjoy a happy, healthy, and peaceful life.
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