Shalom Bob,

Thanks for the kind words and the advice. And you are right. I do need to cleanse my body. I've done serious, long term cleanses before and been on special cleansing diets. I also have experienced and know how to deal with the cleansing reactions. However, my experiences with cleansing never brought me fabulous results, even after long term programs. There were gains, but not enough to make me want to rush and try them again.

So, I have been asking God to show me how to get well. For a while, I heard nothing from Him in reply. But, just a few days ago, God finally made me zone in and remember something with this peculiar tunnel vision that tips me off that what I’m seeing is a vision or flash of insight from the divine. In the seconds that followed, I remembered all that I needed to do to overcome my debilitating and life-threatening asthma and allergy problems for a little over 15 years.

This had nothing to do with diet or environmental changes. All I really needed was for somebody to actually give a darn about me and push me to do hard exercise in the form of sit-ups and jogging. I found that out in 6th Grade when a coach at my school took a special interest in getting me well. He became like a second father to me and constantly encouraged me to do both sit ups and jogging in every gym class I attended.

God also made me remember it was no miracle cure. I suffered some serious asthma attacks in my misguided attempts to impress the coach and there were times when my allergies or another cold or flu made it impossible for me to jog. But after learning moderation, I went from not being able to do one sit up to doing 100 and from barely doing one lap around the gym behind everybody else to being one of the top three people jogging at the front of the class by the 8th Grade!

I know what I need. I need to do the ONLY thing that has ever worked for me. It consists of getting in shape with a serious regimen of exercise that makes me breathe hard and break a heavy sweat. In addition to that, I need to force myself to drink plenty of fresh, filtered water and homemade lemon-ginger-vinegar-honey tea. I also need to lay off strong coffee (which I unfortunately love) and go back to drinking weak tea with a coffee treat only on weekends.

Right now, mildly jumping on the rebounder that I just bought for detox and cleansing purposes is enough to get me breathing hard in about 2 minutes, so I need to keep doing that. But I need to take it slow! My first 20 minute workout on the rebounder the other day seems to have triggered one of the worst cleansing reactions I've experienced in a long time and I was only doing the workout on the CD halfheartedly so I wouldn't hurt myself!

I was still recovering from it while also battling a sinus infection. That's where my ginger-lemon-honey-vinegar tea came in. I drank three strong cups of the stuff yesterday morning that triggered a fever, which I experienced on and off all day.

After that, I slept soundly (after two days with little sleep from the sinus infection and detox reaction hampering my ability to breathe, I was exhausted!) and this morning my sinuses are quiet! If you know me, you'd know that my sinuses are RARELY quiet! I have had an ongoing battle with some of the most infected and difficult to treat sinus problems anyone has ever experienced.

I am also going to add cleansing baths with baking soda and Dead Sea salt in the water to my regimen. I have had good results with these before and they made my skin look more youthful to boot.

Anyway, if after six months on my new regimen of exercise, baths, and making better drinking choices doesn’t bring me miraculous results, I promise to keep your cleanse in mind! It does sound intriguing.

So please say a prayer for me, and God bless you in the meantime!

Helena

Hi Helena, wow, i thought i had it bad, you certainly have your hands full, and my thoughts and prayers are always with you.
Maranatha, keep looking up !!