Whether it is the incessant needs of an addict who aggravates you and grates on your very last nerve, unexpected demands on our time or other resources, or a juicer that is giving you fits, all of these things can send you over the edge.
Why? I mean normally these are minor inconveniences. Well the answer is your body is coping with more than it believes it can handle now. It has become soft, mentally, emotionally, and physically. That is why I stay away from most people and frustrations during the first few days of a fast. I don't need the additional stressors. However that is not to say fasting is bad for you, emotionally, mentally or physically. In fact your body needs this time to heal, physically, mentally, and emotionally. You need the stressors in your life to make you grow stronger spiritually and emotionally, in the same way you need exercise to make your muscles grow stronger.
Part of the problem with modern society, and in my opinion the reason so many people take medication is because we are so concerned with being nice and polite all the time, we are not honest with others or ourselves. The truth is life hurts. It hurts a great deal. Everyday. That has not, can not, and will not change. They call them growing pains for a reason, and they never stop. You are alive. You are learning. And you are hurting. Sometimes growing and learning is fun, sometimes it sucks. Correction SUCKS!!!1!!! If I could write that word on the moon so everyone could see it, I would. Sometimes that's life.
Modern life teaches us that this must not be so. Life is supposed to be good all the time. Everything is supposed to have a happy ending. We see it in our entertainment. We spend copious resources making our lives easier and easier with fancier and fancier tools. Designing new and more powerful drugs so we feel good all the time, except we don't. We think this is because we are fundamentally flawed, and we are. You know it. I certainly know I am fundamentally flawed. You are not ok. I am not ok. But that is ok. Life is not about ease, and leisure, and always being happy. If that is your goal I pity you. You have set an impossible goal.
The reason I accepted that truth is very personal, as your reasons will be for accepting it. But once I accepted that life sucks, I could set about changing it. However I do not do that by walking out of my life, but by changing my life, or at least those things I can change. So I change those things I can, but much of the suckiest bits of life are outside of my control. I cannot change that certain people I am close to are addicted to substances. I cannot make those choices for them. I have tried. It ended badly for both of us. I cannot change the fact that my house is worth half of what I owe on it. We all have many things in our lives we cannot change.
But when you accept the truth that life sucks, and you cannot change other people, or even many of the circumstances that make your life suck, you begin to see the places you can make changes to make your life not suck so much. I can look for a better job. I can limit the amount of resources I invest in people who drain me emotionally, financially, or otherwise. This is not impossible to do while popping pills to make your world seem better, but it is more challenging in my opinion.
Part of the reason we think our lives suck so much is because we accept and believe the lie that things are supposed to be good all the time, and they aren't. We know they aren't good all the time for us. We also know they are good for everyone else. We are wrong. None of those statements are true. Our lives are not going to be good and happy and sunshine and rainbows and unicorns all the time. No one else's life is either. Those lies, the lies we tell ourselves, the lies others tell us in entertainment, advertising, and the lies we tell others because we are afraid they will know we don't "have it all together" like everyone should, are killing us. Because none of it is true, rainbows are an illusion. Does your life suck? Maybe. Will it always suck? To some degree, maybe. But it gets better if we work at it. However it can only get better if WORK at it. We must strive for wisdom and knowledge, maturity and health. To do anything less is committing a very, very slow suicide.
Part of the fasting process is spiritual and emotional. Your journey will be different, but it will entail spiritual and emotional components. Accept and Embrace those components, as they will determine your long term success. You cannot hope to rebuild your physical body and leave the emotional, and spiritual body as bereft and devoid of nutrients, as you had your physical body. It will hurt. It will be worth it. Rainbows are a beautiful illusion, and a reminder that rains come, but rains also go. Once the rains are gone, the sun shines, the ground is refreshed, and life goes on. All is right with the world, because of the occasional rains, not in spite of them.
Summer Sun Cooler
A very earthy juice similar to a Green Hornet
3 Summer Squash
1 Celery Heart
3 Broccoli heads stalks and all
3 Limes
Pulp or juice with your favorite method and enjoy. Remember juice like life doesn't always have to be sweet, but it need not always be bitter either.
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