MISO HAPPY!
What a way to start back to blogging…Ahhh… my precious daughter Johnna just now brought me a cup of warm homemade veggie broth with a tad bit of miso mixed in! The warm cup feels so good on my hands and the wholesome taste of broth really tingles as it goes down. I want to savor this moment – this “miso happy” one.
The broth is so easy to make….
* chop up veggies such as, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes, onion, mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli stems, kale, parsley or even collard greens into a big pot of water. Throw in a few basil leaves too!
* Bring it to a boil and then turn it down to a simmer for about 1 – 2 hours.
* Strain the broth and there you have it!
Then this is where “Miso happy” comes in…
Scoop about a ½ tsp of Miso with a stirring spoon
Dip the “miso spoon” into a hot mug of broth
Stir real slow…..
ENJOY!
MISO HAPPY…. BUT MUST CONFESS
The last we talked was on Day 11 of this “Body & Soul” cleanse. That was 20 days ago – and I said I would only be gone about 5 or so! Well I must confess… this cleanse has been really hard and to think of posting something just urked me! I read about others who are cleansing and it seems they do it with such ease. Not me. Not this time around.
I was doing fine (?) until my husband Bob finished with his fast on day 21 and our daughter Johnna is doing a 1 week raw, 2 weeks juice and now is back on raw the 4th week. So the kitchen is up and running once again… ugh! I’ve been grouchy, noises really bother me like the sound of family crunching on food! Oh and the smell of food… I want to rip their heads off!
Now does that sound like a Godly woman who is seeking after Gods heart?
Finally today I just had to lock myself up in my room … focus, pray, listen to soaking music and now be honest with you. Someone out there please tell me they have felt the same way! Or does everyone just feel great, light and full of energy when they do a cleanse?
Now back to sipping on my “miso happy” broth.
Thanks for listening… and looking forward to your response!
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Time to re-build
December 26th 2004, marked a dreadful day for Indonesia – an earthquake followed by a Tsunami devastated the land and her people – as far as the eye could see. Bob and I were given the opportunity to go and help… but where to begin? We arrived overwhelmed and left overwhelmed.
Unfinished Business in the House
Today God has reminded me of that tragic day - but from a spiritual perspective. The condition of this land reflects the condition of one’s soul. Devastated, barren and it’s now a time to re-build.
As God spoke through the prophet Haggai..
- The Lord is stirring
- Now is the Time – time to build.
- Be strong - I am with you says the Lord
During this “Body & Soul Cleanse” I am feeling the desire to set some time aside from blogging and will be taking at least the next five days or so to ponder on the words from Haggai.
What kind of foundation do I want to build upon?
There is “unfinished business in this house ” – the house of my soul.
My prayer for each of us is… Come Lord Jesus and invade our souls… invade our minds, our wills and our emotions so that we might once again rebuild.
This video expresses it well…
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Marcia does it again!
Day three of this “Body and Soul Cleanse” we talked about “team work” and cheering each other on. Oh my… where would we be if we didn’t have each other to cheer one another on!
Here is another amazing juice created by Marcia that will motivate you to rev up your juicer right now! Grab yourself …
*2 collard leaves
*2 kale leaves
*carrot (as many as you want)
*1 green apple
*1 piece of ginger
… and blend away!
Thank you Marcia for sharing your juice recipe with us!
We all want a to be cheered in life. Whether it be for someone to cheer us on in a juice cleanse, a marathon or sitting at your office desk waiting for the 5 0′clock whistle to blow – we all can use a cheering section!
So similar to what we did on Day 1 …
1. Look around right now
2. Grab yourself a friend
3. Cheer each other on
Life is too short not to!
Just as Paul encourages the Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing…. so let’s encourage each other to continue to grow.. spirit, soul and body!
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Emotions have a voice – am I listening?
I’m going into the second week of this “Body & Soul Cleanse” and noticing my body responding at a deeper level of healing.
Physically – slight headaches, muscle aches, dimming of vision, urine discolored w/slight odor, trouble sleeping but at the same time intense dreams - all the typical responses to a cleanse!
I can remember back to some of my very first cleansings… vomiting, massive headaches, shakes, fevers and so on. Keep in mind that each cleansing builds upon the last- it does get a bit easier!
Mentally- my mind STILL goes a hundred miles an hour. As thoughts come I just jot it down so my mind can be at rest and maintain a focus on what God is saying to me this hour!
Emotionally – Hmm…my emotions are shoutin for my attention! The question of the day; will I listen?
Normally I just shut off my emotions and stay busy with life – consequently God says “Kelly you are cutting off a very part of yourself that I created! Just as my body experiences a physical healing during a cleanse so do my emotions!
Will I heed to the healing?
Physical cleansing will set the stage for emotional healing to act out!
…. and oh boy have my emotions been center front stage!
Feelings of overwhelming sadness, rejection, anger, irritability are triggered at the drop of a hat and just the whiff of fried chicken or coming across an old family photo has stirred long forgotten memories that I had buried in the past.
I have two choices
1. Keep them buried .
2. Give my emotions permission to speak, take the time to listen, embrace who I was created to be and allow the Holy Spirit to come and cleanse; bringing a healing that gives life spirit, soul & body.
Now is the perfect time to go and check out my husbands new post “My Pain – His Pain” as he will help you walk this out … step by step!
Emotions have a voice - will you listen?
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Course of action
One thing I have learned in my previous cleansings is that I can control how quick or how slow I choose to detoxify. Here’s a simple “six step” course of action that can help you along your journey of a “Body & Soul Cleanse”! Most likely you are on the right side of the diagram in your every day eating – cooked, steamed or raw.
As you enter into a cleanse, you want to ease your way across the diagram to a diet of blended, juiced or water. The further you move to the right of the diagram the deeper the cleanse!
As for me and my house
Yup… you guessed it – our whole household is now on a “Body & Soul Cleanse”! We have a big pot of veggie broth simmering, coconuts crackin, hot pot boiling for teas, blenders swirlin, juicers grindin and now today… the food processor creatin!
Here’s a really tasty recipe for detoxifing at a nice “slow” pace. Try my Daughter’s “blended” concoction she created this morning! 
1 avocado + 2 apples + 1 lime + food processor + spoon + glass = mmm goodness!
Bless you as you continue your journey of “Body & Soul Cleanse”!
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Well I’m wired… can’t sleep. This happens frequently on a cleanse, due to an increased metabolism from a lot of cleansing going on! So since my body is cleaning house… I should be trying to rest but am really excited to share something with you…
Ponder on this!
I found this March 25, 2009 article by Anna Forkan & Kristen Overlock on the “The Movement to Reverse Diabetes” website. I bolded the words that jumped off the page to me as I read…
While working as a colonic therapist, I had an insight/inspiration I’d like to share. The first half of the colon (ascending + transverse to the navel) is where the body’s water is recycled. Water holds MEMORY. We hide our deepest, darkest, most painful, shameful secrets in our colons. Prior to colonic therapy, all our recirculated water not only brings toxins to the entire body, but the shames and pains we’re hiding where the sun don’t shine. Once the colon is clean, the memories surface, and the recycled water is no longer contaminated. This contamination is not just physical. It’s mental, emotional, and spiritual, too. Cleansing takes place on all levels of our existence, not just the physical (although the physical level is where most of us are most in trouble). I wish everyone who reads this health and peace!
Hiding our pain where the sun don’t shine!
According to this article … “We hide our deepest, darkest, most painful, shameful secrets in our colons”?!!
Pain and poo ….hmmmm … sort of do have a lot in common!
Ok… let’s ponder a bit more…
I checked the Wikipedia dictionary … “the colon is the last part of the digestive system and extracts water and salt from the solid wastes before they are emiminated from the body…The ascending colon lies on the right side of the body and plays an important function in retrieving solutes and water from the material entering from the ileum. The transverse colon lies in the anterior region of the section.”
Sooo…
If “Water holds MEMORY” is a true statement, and that we hide our deepest, darkest, most painful, shameful secrets in our colons…
The first place my mind went … 
Jesus being crucified… (John 19:34) being pierced in the side, perhaps it would have been the colon area (ascending + transverse to the navel)?
People’s NT Commentary said it was the outer sack of the heart.
What do you think?
One thing we know for sure… He took upon himself even our deepest darkest most painful and shameful secrets.
My thoughts…
We no longer have to have dirty water circulating throughout our bodies reminding us of our shame over and over. Jesus stopped the flow of the dirty water from circulating!
I’d like to research more on “water holding memory” and “hiding our pain where the sun don’t shine!”
Send me your thoughts in the comment section below and let’s ponder together!
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Peeyewwwww…
Armpits are working overtime! Hope that is not too much info – but I did warn you I would let you know when my body begins to respond to this cleansing. I love to watch how God created my body to function during a cleanse by keeping a journal. By journaling you are able to observe your body at work – as it always heals on a priority basis. Isn’t that amazing!
Before we take a look at how our bodies might be responding to this “Body & Soul Cleanse”, let’s run to the kitchen and crack open a chilled young coconut. This is so easy I can’t believe I have waited so long to try it!
Take a butcher knife in one hand and poke it into the top of the coconut. Wrap a towel in the other and pound the top of the knife into the coconut until you feel it go all the way through. Repeat that three more times making a square. Pull back the top, grab yourself a straw and sip away – it’s that easy!
Finished sipping? Take a spoon and scrape out the meat, blend into another juice or freeze it for later use.
Now… where were we?
Oh yea… body detoxification.
Today’s observations
- stinky armpits
-coated tongue
- sweet tasting thickness inside my mouth.
My lungs, skin and liver (channels of elimination) are doing their job!
- slight Headaches, dizziness and shortness of breath
Toxins are being eliminated through my blood stream.
Tip: When I begin feeling light headed I kneel down on one knee and wait a few moments for it to pass.
- muscle aches
Toxins that are stored deep into the muscle tissues are being awakened and released!
For some you might already be experiencing this or other modes of detoxification and for others maybe not. Your cleanse depends upon your normal diet to begin with and also from your experiences of your previous cleansings - as each cleanse builds upon the last.
No two alike!
What an incredible Creator we have. Each one of us will have different experiences during a cleanse because we are unique individuals – no two alike! But one thing we know for sure are the words King David spoke so well…
“I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works – And my soul knows it very well.” Psalm 139:14:
This is something worth chewing on!
Please take a few moments and leave a comment on your experiences during this “Body & Soul Cleanse”.
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Let’s give three cheers to Marcia from Brazil for sending in her favorite juice picture while on her “Body & Soul Cleanse”! Way to go Marcia, your juice looks amazingly delicious! Here’s her recipe…
2 kale leaves
2 collard leaves
1 bunch of celery
2 kiwis
1 lime (complete)
1 piece of ginger!
1 green apple
Juice all !!!! It taste wonderful with the ginger and kiwi ! It is a very good boost for the wake up morning!
Love and Blessings!
Marcia
Wow… a green drink with a punch! When you get a chance send Marcia an email at marcia@rawangels.net to cheer her on as she continues her cleanse.
When doing a “Body & Soul Cleanse” I like to observe how my body is responding physically, mentally, emotionally and discover what God is doing spiritually – hence “Body & Soul Cleanse”! I want to fine tune my life, spring house clean so to speak to rid those things that hinder me from moving into deeper intimacy with God as my Father. Just like a watchmaker who takes a part a broken watch, fixes it and puts it back together again so that it works more precisely. Or how about when a car breaks down, a mechanic takes it a part, fixes it, puts it back together so it runs like new! I’m sure you get the picture. This “Body & Soul Cleanse” is my time for a tune up, to slow down, to be reminded to stay on the potter’s wheel (or the surgical table!) and allow God to be God in my life – in every area body, soul and spirit.
For example, here are my notes from today.
Physically
Today I felt weak and slow moving upon arising. I managed to drink 16 oz. of juice but it just didn’t sound good nor taste good to me today. I am making sure to drink lots of water. So far my body has not responded in any major areas during this cleanse (that I can tell) but I will definatley let you know when it does! I did have a slight headache earlier.
Evening I went to the gym for a light workout.
Mentally
As soon as I awoke, my mind was running a marathon, making mental lists of all that I should be doing and continutes to keep adding to that list throughout my day – what a task master mind I have! I can’t seem to get away from it. Ha. So I make sure I have my pencil and pad nearby to jot notes down.
Emotionally
A bit irritable. Usually it takes me a week or so into a cleanse before I can really tap into what exactly I am feeling deep inside. I’m so used to my mind taking charge -that who has time to feel?! So I have a chart that has all those little faces on it… you know happy face, sad face, shy, angry, jealous, confused etc. By looking at that chart I can at least start to identify what I am really feeling! If you would like a copy of it, email me and I will send you the document so you can begin to chart your emotions!
Spiritually
Today during my quiet time it took my mind time to settle down, but I continued to press in by listening to “Dream Maker” by Julius Magan. Just resting in God… thanking Him that He is my strength, my resting place. I’m hungry physically but I have a greater hunger spiritually. I’m desperate for His presence and power to be released in and through me – nothing hindering. How about you?
Whether you are cleansing or not, please feel free to join in by sending your favorite juice recipe with picture included to kelly@freedomquestinternational.org. Let’s cheer each other on!
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Today I heard a quote by a Presbyterian Pastor that goes right along with my Body & Soul Cleanse! Speaking with such fervor from the pulpit the Pastor belts out…
“The body and soul live so close together that they catch each other’s disease!”
That statement could be applied to so many areas of my life! Before the preacher finished his message I was asking God to give me examples (but not too many at once!) of what diseases were causing dis-ease within this body of which I live. I want to be able to live a life of ”No more dis-ease”! It definately is a process.
It didn’t take long before the Holy Spirit began showing me examples – and more than one.
- I hold emotions of anger and unforgiveness in… my body begins to react with sickness.
- My body feels pain and my mind immediately says cancer followed closely by emotions of fear and worry.
- I hear a siren, my mind says “oh no your son has been in an accident”. My response – fear, worry plus anxiety.
- I emotionally eat; my body pays a high price.
- My mind makes a list of things I “should” be worrying about; family, finances, future, health, ministry, my reputation.
Ok … OK… I get the picture! Enough for now!
I’m realizing that how I feel – affects what I believe and what I believe – affects how I live.
Thank you Holy spirit for showing me the diseases that stir up fear, anxiety and worry and are still operating in my life. If we choose to listen, emotions are our friends and can express to us what’s going on inside of this “home” in which we dwell. Thank you for giving me the grace to say no more living at dis-ease! Together we can walk it out.
THAT is “Body & Soul Cleansing” in action!
Speaking of cleansing… how bout some “Dandelion Greens”!
1 cucumber peeled
1 lemon peeled
3 celery
1 pear peeled
ginger (quarter size & peeled)
dandelion greens (a handful!)
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chop ingredients and blend in a high powered blender
adjust ingredients to taste – enjoy!
* if you can’t get dandelion greens then use kale, spinach, romaine lettuce or any other dark greens! (thanks Danielle for pointing this out!)
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Team work!
What a day… I have been full of energy (well it IS only day 3 of this cleanse .. let’s see where I am on day 23 or 33)! I’m really trying to pace myself though - for the long haul. I have a tendency to overdo it at times. But I was able to get lots done, office work, grocery shopping and even juiced up 25 lbs of carrots and other veggies – well with the help of my hubby that is! Bob and I make a great team as we get an assembly line going – he does the cleaning and cutting of the veggies and I push it through the juicer. We only had one argument - how to cut the carrots properly to fit through the juicer. Ha! It is amazing what emotions begin to arise when one is on a cleanse (emotions going wild will be saved for another post!). But it sure does make “Body & Soul Cleanse” a lot easier when you have someone doing it with you. We just sometimes have to remind each other that we are on the same team!
LET THE JUICING CONTINUE!
I know you are just dying to know what we juiced! Soooooo … let the juicing begin! Here are two of our favorites!
GOLDEN DELICIOUS
3 golden apples
2-3 celery sticks
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wash, chop and blend in a high power blender
or juice it!
Add water as needed
SWEET BEET
3 red apples
1 small beet
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wash,peel, chop and blend in high power blender
or juice it!
Add water as needed
Keep it as simple as possible as you want to save energy for your body to utilize for the cleanse and not to stress out on how to cut carrots properly!
Oh I just had a great idea pop in my head!
One way we can cheer each other on is by sending in a recipe and picture of your favorite juice blend to kelly@freedomquestinternational.org and I will post it!
If you don’t have a picture never mind, you can still send in the recipe for others to try!
That is teamwork!
