The human body gets rid of toxins by excreting them one way or another… but since we live in such polluted environments, option B gets used more and more often, which is hiding the waste in fat and other cells in the body. Do I believe all that? Well, yeah…. Do I care? hmmm…. probably. Though, not too much. I mean, we all sit around in front of our radiation emitting devices, holding them up to our heads, while eating the shittiest food we can. Trust me, I”m no angel, and I’m no healthy hippy! I know many of them.

Since I do know a bunch of them, I am at least aware of what I am ingesting, and my environment… So, when I got back from a 3 week road trip, where my diet consisted mostly of Taco Bell, coffee, and other things you can get near the freeway, I was in a mental funk. I did not know what was up, but I highly suspected that the lack of exercise, not taking my various vitamins and minerals, and the consumption of fried crap had a lot to do with it. Within about 3 days of getting back and eating raw food (from the Whole Foods downtown), and taking various minerals again, I was back to myself again.

My normal self can take some rough news pretty easily. But when I’m in a funk, I get shaken pretty easily. My relationships and conversations were even affected, and also affected in a major way was my productivity!

I decided that this would be a great time to join my friends in a cleanse. They were already going to start any day, so why not be in on it too? I had already had a few days of mostly juice and raw food. So, I ordered the kit from Blessed Herbs. Here’s the exact one I got, and I can’t tell you what the experience has been, as I’m only in day #2.  It comes with a colon cleansing kit as well, which is what we’re doing for the 1st step.  That’s an 8-day process.  Basically, I’m on a mostly liquid diet, and am taking these packets, in organic apple juice, then at night, a bowel stimulator…. They want you to have bowel movements every day.  I’m also drinking a ton of water daily now.

I know.. you didn’t come here to read about my bowel movements, but I did title this “Colon Cleansing and stuff” – so, you can’t say you weren’t warned.  Just know that the colon and digestive system are the first to be cleansed, otherwise, you’re introducing the same toxins that are stored there right back into the body. The kit ac

OTHER THAN THAT…. I’m house sitting for Ceci, though I’m writing this from Craig’s house because I wanted to catch up with him, and he’s an expert on this health stuff…. also, he’s a CNR practitioner, so will do some energy work with me.

I tried jogging yesterday in Vibram 5 Finger shoes… they’re shoes that look like gloves.  I’ve never tried a pair, and Craig has an older pair that was slightly torn up.  I tried them on, and went straight into a jog.  About 2 blocks into it, my big toe poked through a hole in the Vibram, scuffed the ground, and the next thing I know I”m rolling around on the ground.  I have a 1/2″ hole in the palm of my hand, both my big toes are scuffed, and some road rash on my left elbow.

Here’s the funny thing that made me smile today.  I called my parents and wished them a good day of trading (they’re day traders), then told them what’s new (They don’t read my blog– otherwise Mom would’ve known we were coming to surprise her for mother’s day), and I included my fall and wounds.  Where previously mom would freak out about all these things, she said “Well, you’re used to getting banged up ”  Wow!  They finally get it!  That makes me happy.

I’m also learning a lot about communications.  I’m used to communicating with people… and thought I was good at it.  My friend Elizabeth PW has told me for a while about this one test, the 5 love languages. While there’s a free test on that site that gives you the gist of it, there’s actually a full test in the book… she gave me the test, and analyzed my results.  The thing is that there’s different ways that people feel loved.  This has been a matter of confusion for me lately, and maybe some of you have had to deal with this.  The issue I notice is that one person doesn’t feel liked, and the other person feels that no matter what they do, the other person doesn’t really appreciate it.

Here’s the thing… different people feel love (or appreciation) differently.  For me, it’s Physical (hugs, hair playing, sex, high fives), Quality time (time that it’s just the 2 of us, and we’re paying attention to each other), and words of affirmation (being thanked, or told you’re liked, or that you’re sexy).  I don’t really care about “Stuff” or having stuff done for me…. I’m very used to doing it all myself.  I buy what I need.  I use what’s around.  However… other people do care about these things.  So, this girl that doesn’t want to be named —

That’s another thing that I’m dealing with… I won’t quite say dating (I’ve discovered that labels cause more damage than they’re worth, but I spend a lot of daily time thinking about her) but let’s say spending a lot of time with… and she doesn’t want her life published. It’s understandable, but she knows me as Couch Surfing Ori, the blogger/photographer/adventurer/jokester (and even part sweetheart… shhh)…. so, that’s part of why I haven’t blogged. A lot of the things I learn or deal with are related to this.

Anyways, we have quality time in common on that love languages thing.  But one of hers for example is acts of service…. so  for example, helping her clean, noticing she’s low on something, so picking some up without being asked, or just giving a massage.  Where as, I like a massage for the physical aspect, she likes it for the service aspect as well… according to that test anyways. I kind of noticed these things before I had her take the test, but I’m sure I thought of it because Elizabeth had told me about the test.  It was a feeling of frustration that made me finally take the test.  Actually, that’s only part true.  It was a feeling of productivity… I had started on this Chocolate Bliss stuff – it’s a superfoods based drink that’s kind of a meal replacement. In fact, I’m using it for most of my meals during the next 30 days, as I do the cleanse.  This stuff practically gets you high!  I had  a few glasses of it, some raw food, and I was more productive than I even get when I am given adderall or massive quantities of caffeine.  I just broke things into small steps, and checked them off one at a time.  One was taking that test.  I wrote it, I did it, I sent it.

Anyways- speaking of productivity, I gotta get back to it!

One last thing that I wanted to share… I’m listening to the radio from Israel right now.  Part of who I am is someone from Israel.  I was there till my 9th birthday (flew to the USA ON my birthday), and I still have pdreams about my old neighborhood, etc… I’m not very in touch with my Israeli side, but I do love the music.  So, if you want to check out some of the music from there, here’s a neat site that has a lot of the radio stations from there.  Just so you know, there’s a lot of American Music as well… they’re still huge into David Bowie, The Cure, etc… and there’s a lot of music that’s played in Europe, and Asia… so… if you’re sick of overplayed music, want to hear some of what I grew up on (they still play a lot of oldies), or just want to check something new out– check http://www.fromil.com/radio/index.php?radio=4 – a small note:  It’s currently set to GalGalatz – when I grew up in Israel, Galey Zahal (Zahal is the Israeli army, and Galey, means Waves of… so… Israeli Army on the Airwaves) — which was news on the hour, talk radio, and the occasional music… but now there are many more radio stations… so Galgalatz is the music station that’s broadcast by Zahal…. Galgal means “Wheel” so this is kind of a play on words….  Anyways, that’s just some miscelania-

Have a (good) adventurous day!