Four
weeks ago, my girlfriend sent me an already dated video of a live interview
with the Medical Doctor Raymond Francis from Florida, USA. In 2002 he published
his book "Never be sick again".
To be
honest I am not a person who like all this kind of ‘how to get a better health’
movies, most of the time actually promoting a product or supplement. But it was
short, I got it from my girlfriend so I watched and listened to it.
Clearly a
man with a mission this Mr. Francis. A person who inspires and knows what he is
talking about. Someone who for me shows many similarities with the passion,
engagement and optimism my father always had and showed. Personalities with the
gift to appeal to people out of their best intentions and from their own
experiences to encourage others to live healthy or even more healthy and
support them to enjoy that healthy lifestyle.
Yes,
sure, Raymond Francis is kicking a kind of open door for many people, including
me. I had heard something before but never really thought about how I,
unconsciously and unintentionally, risked and played a game with my health. And
he published this book already in 2002…? Well, better late than never so to
say. Happy now I heard from it and being aware now, take things seriously.
I just
did not pay attention and thought to myself that it was not so bad with my
health. After all, I never took sugar in my coffee or tea, for example, and
drank a lot of fruit juice with no added sugars, etc .. Enough rest and no
stress anymore for about seven years already. Well done, at least I thought so.
And yes,
due to my accident in 2010, I radically changed my lifestyle. On a daily basis
I practice meditation, I exercise a lot by walking firmly with my dog for a few
hours and doing yoga for about one hour. Up to now, never really sick. Still…
Francis'
story woke me up more than I thought. I found some of his statements
astonishing. For example, how only one teaspoon of sugar within two hours for a
period of six to eight hours completely destroys the human body’s natural
immune balance. Reduces it by 50% as he explains. Or that sugar has a much more
harmful influence on your body than alcohol, drugs or smoking. Then the
connections he makes with the influence, just say wide open the door, to a wide
range of sicknesses and their symptoms.
After
hearing his short story, I thought to myself that it was time to really start
to pay attention to this. And starting my regular six-week alcohol-free fast
again last July 1, I thought that was a good time to acutely stop with regard
to sugar too. Something, at the moment, I can say I want to continue.
Indeed,
maybe a simple decision but not yet done so easily. I really never thought to
discover that I was more than super addicted to sugar. It was not just easy
stopping as I without much problems regularly do with alcohol but worked out
more to be a rehab. So yes maybe Francis also in this for me is right, to stop
consuming sugar for me is much harder and more difficult than to stop drinking
alcohol.
It’s easy
to tell yourself I am the boss of my body but my body was just trying for a
long time to trick me and get what it wanted (so far without success).
I have
often written in my blogs that everything you give attention grows. To be
honest I don't think it is even possible altogether to stop with sugar (on a
zero percent level). It is really everywhere, yes nearly in every product you
buy to consume, and not in the least quantities. My experience now is that the
world simply is deadly sick with sugar. It is a more than bad poison.
Why it
was an addiction to me (I can say now) became clear from the following personal
experiences.
For a
period of almost two weeks I felt more than tired. My desire for something with
sugar (my children often call me a cookie monster) increased and I almost
turned my house around to find something that contained sugar. A kind of
playing tricky games between body and mind. Fortunately the games were
unsuccessful and I stayed on track. But not so easily. Looking for sugar
substitutes too. Well, I left that behind me very quickly. That literally
"junk" is much more harmful and ... it doesn't solve anything to get
rid of that sugar addiction.
Good that
my girlfriend could not come to me for two weeks because of her work. My mood,
normally always stable and good, changed drastically and I was a bit bad
tempered on Skype and short in words and expressions. Happy for me my
girlfriend saw and understood all of what happened to me. After all, she too
had stepped into the sugar fast only a little less abruptly than me.
Nagging
headaches, looked like the same I had during my burn-out period. And sometimes
even chills. Extremely strange in the very warm climate here. Still, apparently
my body had to get used to how to turn on the internal heater in a different
way.
These
phenomena are now almost over. Never thought that it would take so long for
only ‘some’ sugar. I just gave away my stock, yes, I really had a lot of
different juices, of packed fruit juices. The kind that show on the package to
distract ‘no sugar added’ but who actually are full of this harmful stuff.
I have
bought a blender and am now making my own juices from the very large and affordable
range of fruit and vegetables that we find here on the local markets. It takes
some time to get used to the new, actually real, taste again. Whoow, what a
great difference. You literally taste nature again.
I feel
good, even better, and have enough energy again.
And yes,
I am not totally used yet. Sugar keeps ogling and saying 'NO' to that longing
feeling is not always easy although it has been successful so far. And whether
I will (still) never get sick? I'll just wait and see. That is actually not the
main reason for me to skip sugar in my food. Also, not to lose weight.
It is
more an ode to my temporary temple, my body, to be able to make optimal use of
it for as long as possible. And for me, being sick once in a while is no more
than a signal from my body that it still can compete with what made me
unhealthy to become healthy again on its own. But if that fight isn't even
necessary because of getting rid of this addiction... then I think you enjoy
living life maybe even so much more.
Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)
Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.
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