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Also daily hot body scrubbing (with a wet hot towel), especially on the digestive system area, helps a lot in activating the blood circulation and stimulating the bowel movement.

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Yea! I like this one! ..will be in my program, definitely.

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Last but not least, it's important to reduce or avoid the intake of mucus forming food (mainly dairy products and baked flour/pasta/bread)

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Originally posted by mimirom

Hi all,

some four years ago, my eating habits begun to change. I started to be inclined to eat lighter food of better quality. I ate less and less meat and became gradually more concerned with what I send into my system. This was due to profound shifts in my unconscious, triggered by experiential therapy, where I was blessed with deep insights into the processing of food in the human body, recycling of food on our planet and into the life of plants. Gradually I stopped eating red meat because it made me feel spiritually disconnected, and after some time I stopped to eat even white meat outside my house, only what I prepared myself at home. A few months later I found myself to naturally prefer a vegetarian diet and this stayed so until today. Also the notion of "good food" shifted from pleasant perceptions in the mouth only, to how it looks like (like the beautiful colors of a carrot or green beans and so), what it causes in my stomach and then in my intestines, plus what it does to my awareness. I love to be a vegetarian and feel very well and healthy this way.

Lately, like for a few months, I'm having an increasing urge to learn and start some GI tract cleansing. I've read Yogani's "Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli" and it leaves some questions open for me.
Something's telling me that it would be good to do an initial in-depth cleansing, or something like that. Just the idea of doing it really thoroughly, to have a good start after all these years of not taking any care of it. So that would mean probably dhauti, but from Yogani's writing about dhauti I'm actually not sure if it is worth doing. Maybe it would be better to start off directly with a series of enemas + fasting or "half-fasting" a little, for instance, which is supposed to be more gentle to the organism and is also, unlike dhauti, recommended during the kundalini raising period, in the middle of which I'm right now, I guess.

I've read on the web that it is possible, with a properly done enema, to reach even the small intestine, which would be what I'm after. Experiences anyone?

Also, I followed a link from an older Lili's thread and found out, that our bowels can (and probably do) contain a certain kind of a really nasty mucoid plaque*, which is supposed to be created by stagnating, possibly very old and rotting rests of feces (see some slightly disgusting photos of it here [watch out!]), which it is not so easy to get out of the body and which I want absolutely to get rid of, if it's actually there in my intestines. They offer a "colon cleansing kit," which is supposed to be efficient in removing it. Is someone informed about handling this? Is it necessary to spend the money (the colon cleansing kit is not particularly cheap) or are the simple traditional methods, like regular enema, efficient enough to take the initial care of this?

So what would you recommend? How to best start working on this? Someone experienced?

Thanks,

Roman



* mucoid plaque - a layer or layers of adhesive, hardened mucus lining the inner walls of the digestive tract. It can be from less then one-eight of an inch to several inches thick. It is usually compacted with old fecal matter, bound up toxic waste, "bad" bacteria, and/or unwanted guests.

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