08/13/2024
DETOX SYMPTOMS SUCK
I'm posting this partly cause I'm tired, cranky, bitchy, and my body aches. 🤣 But mostly because many of you go through this and don't know it!
I've made some very deliberate choices over the past couple months. Choices yes for my physical health. But even more than that, choices for the energy level and standard with which I choose to live.
The only way I can create, conduct, and compose music at the level I KNOW, is with s**t tons more energy! Mental energy, emotional ease, physical vitality and purpose! There is a very special and unique way with which I can help and serve the world. And it requires a LOT MORE energy, fitness, vitality, resourcefulness, and more than what was the previous norm. And that's just the musical part of life! There's a LOT more
So how has this manifested? Many ways, here's some examples:
- regular and daily jazz piano practice
- regular and daily sight singing practice
- nearly daily prep for Jazz Singers audition on Aug 25
- cold showers 4-5x/wk
- daily gardening. Grounding, physical, enriching
- an umbrella for the backyard so I can be outside more
- near daily eye exercise to improve eyesight, focus, and "vision"
- 3-4 infrared/red light saunas per week
One of the biggest choices was to have new labs done to assess where I'm at biochemically and make necessary changes. This has led to some radical upgrades and changes with diet, supplementation, more.
This is all fantastic right?! Super effortless. Totally inspired by the call for MORE!
And holy f**k has it HURT sometimes! omg
The demand for more has required literal and physical change. Changes in biochemistry. Changes in sleep patterns. Changes in bloodflow and available metabolic energy. Change in daily habits and routine. On and on.
What I'm finding is that my body is DETOXING a ton. Sometimes I'm achy. Sometimes my energy level feels like a 2 on a scale of 1-10. Sometimes I have full robust energy, and bam it drains in like half the time of normal.
I know that heavy metals are detoxing out of my cells. I know that viruses, bacteria, and more are purging from hidden corners.
Since Saturday, my throat has been so swollen that I could barely speak or swallow. Yet I'm not sick. I feel great. AND sometimes require hours and hours and hours of naps. LOL
You can Google things like Keto Flu or Detox Symptoms, and you'll find more.
What I really wanted to do here is point out that this s**t is REAL! And what may look like "sickness" sometimes is not. It's not a breakdown. It's not a weakness. It's not a failure.
It's actually part of a healthy process. Almost like an addict weaning off of drugs, or an alcoholic who gets sober.
When we choose to make a change in our lives, when we choose MORE, when we upgrade, optimize, advance, etc, it requires a new blood chemistry. It requires a new standard of emotion. It requires different upgraded thinking. It requires more Community and connection with spirit.
This can have the effect of purging and cleaning house on what was there before, while going through the transition.
It sucks sometimes. Truth.
And this is what it is. Commitment is commitment.
Hopefully this helps shed a light perhaps on some of your own experiences.