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Energy Detox VIP – Commentary

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to this month’s commentary. This is actually a very interesting topic to me personally, detoxification, cleansing is another way you can describe it, but it’s all about getting the bad junk out of our bodies. So in past lessons on health and energy I’ve talked about things you can do to get good nutrients into your body, simple things like juicing and other things like that. We’ve talked about moving our bodies.

Everyone knows that exercise is good for you, but detoxing is often neglected.

It’s an often neglected topic because, let’s face it, it doesn’t have such a fun, pleasant kind of feeling, you know? Oh, I’ve got all this toxic junk in my body and I gotta get it out.

That sounds kind of yucky. It sounds kind of gross or unpleasant to a lot of people, for example, my mom. I talk about my mom a lot when I talk about these health topics, because she has struggled with health for most of her life and I’m always trying to encourage her to get healthier.

One thing that I noticed is that my mom really, really, really is not interested in this topic of detoxification, not interested in cleanings, because it sounds kind of yucky, right?

‘Yucky’ means you know gross or unpleasant. So if we think about drinking fresh vegetable juice, oh that sounds nice. You know drink some apple juice, carrot juice, um, yummy. It sounds nice, it sounds pleasant, but if you talk about cleansing what are we talking about? We’re talking about sweating a lot, right? Sweat pouring out of our bodies.

There are a lot of people out there who don’t like that idea, like my mom, for example.

She doesn’t like sweating a lot and, yet, that’s exactly what you need to do to get that stuff out of your body, to get those toxic chemicals and all the other accumulated junk out of your bodies. I mean we gotta get it out in some way. Well, how do things come out of our bodies? Well, sweat is a big one. Our bodies eliminate toxins through sweat.

It’s a major organ, a major channel of elimination for our bodies.

What are the other channels of elimination? Well, you can pee. You can urinate, right?

Or you can shit, just to use the common phrase. If you want to sound polite, you could say defecate; to defecate. That sounds scientific and very polite, but it’s not what we commonly say. We commonly say, you know, to shit. It can be used as a verb. So, obviously, you can tell. If you just use the word ‘to shit’, some people oh, that’s not polite, right? It’s gross, yucky stuff coming out your butt. You’re peeing, you know? It’s not something people like to talk about, peeing. Pooping is another polite way to say it.

Instead of to shit, you can say to poop. That’s probably the more polite way to say it, so I’ll use that one from now on in this commentary.

So pooping and peeing and sweating, none of those are pleasant, polite topics of conversation. We don’t usually sit around with our friends talking about pooping and peeing and sweating, right? But your crazy English teacher AJ is talking about exactly that this month. Aren’t you glad you joined the VIP Program? It’s so interesting. But, seriously, seriously, this is a very, very powerful thing, very important. I’ve done a number of different cleanses. The one I describe in the video is a very simple one you can do at home. That’s why I taught it to you in the video, but there are many different methods of cleansing.

I mean different traditional cultures have different methods that they have used a lot. I mean, for example, the Native American cultures, not all of them, but many of the Native American tribes in the United States, the original Americans, they used what they call ‘sweat lodges’. So they would create these kind of tents, you know using sticks and then they would cover it up. Then inside they would make a fire and they’d put hot stones in there and then all the people would go inside and sit in there and it was, of course, very, very, very hot and they would sweat, sweat, sweat a lot. It was kind of a ritual. Well, they were detoxing. They were cleansing their bodies.

Many cultures have this tradition of fasting, of not eating, just drinking pure water only for a period of time. Again, that’s another way of detoxing, of getting the waste material out of our bodies.

Now, of course, when these traditions were developed hundreds or even thousands of years ago, the earth was much less poisonous than it is now. They didn’t have the amount of industrial chemicals that we have now going into our bodies all the time. And many times these detox and cleansing rituals of the past were done for spiritual reasons. Because, see, when you detox your body, you’re also detoxing your brain.

See, our brain gets filled up with these chemicals and with this waste material and it causes our brains to be less clear and to be kind of foggy. It changes our moods.

It can cause us to have difficult moods and so the ancient people in the past, they would do all this cleansing and detoxing for spiritual reasons to clear their minds so they could develop very clear, sharp, awake minds and a calm emotions. Because when you cleanse well, when you detox, your emotions tend to become calmer, your mind becomes calmer yet clearer. You’re both more relaxed and more alert. It’s very powerful.

And many of us don’t even realize that we’re not clear mentally. We don’t even realize that our bodies are not functioning at their best. Because we’ve been walking around with all this toxic junk in our bodies and minds for so long we feel like it’s normal. It’s just normal to us. We don’t know what great health feels like anymore. Even if you’re eating very well and exercising, you still don’t know until you do a really strong detox and cleanse. It’s just an amazing feeling. Like I said, I’ve done several. I tend to enjoy going to another location, like going to an event or going to a special place to do cleanses and detoxes because, especially if you’re fasting, if you’re not eating or if you’re only drinking juices or something like that, then it can be kind of hard to do it just in your own normal home.

If you have all your kind of normal food around and maybe your normal routine that can be a little bit difficult sometimes, so I often enjoy going away. Like I went to a Tony Robbins’ event called ‘Life Mastery’, which actually we talked about in a Learn Real English Lesson fairly recently. Well, that was basically a cleanse. It was nice, because I went there and there were a lot of other people doing the same cleanse and the event organizers, they provided our juices for us. So it was kind of a juice fast, a juice cleanse and at the end of those, I think it was five days, I felt fantastic, physically fantastic. Like just very physically light yet very energized and mentally very, very clear, very calm, clear, happy emotions, great concentration, very alert, but also relaxed. Fabulous, it feels so good.

So you have a lot of options for detoxification. I recommend you try the one in the video that I taught you in this month’s lesson because it’s very simple. It’s a very simple easy one that you can do at home. It doesn’t require huge changes in your eating habits or anything like that. So that’s why I taught it to you, it’s very easy, but let me talk about a few other methods of detoxing that you could also try at home.

Another one, is what’s called an intestinal cleanse. Again, this is repeating some information I taught the Learn Real English people, but an intestinal cleanse is where you’re basically taking in herbs and other substances in order to clean out your digestive tract. That’s t-r-a-c-t, tract. It just means your digestive system. So your digestive system includes, of course, your stomach and then into your small intestine and then your large intestine. So that’s what we’re really talking about.

What you can do is you can take certain herbs and substances that will kind of clean that out because that gets filled up with a lot of junk, a lot of garbage, a lot of chemicals, all kinds of yucky stuff. And what you can do, very simply, one of the easiest ways, I mentioned it in the video a little bit, you can drink some activated charcoal powder. Mix it up in water and drink it.

You can also drink something called zeolites, z-e-o-l-i-t-e-s. It’s a kind of clay, a kind of powder, and zeolites are very powerful. In fact, zeolites have been shown in research to help pull out toxic metals, toxic chemicals, out of your body, attach to them and then help you just poop them out so that you eliminate them from your body.

Also, zeolites have been shown to eliminate radioactive material from your body and we’re all exposed to radioactive material in our drinking water, in our food and in our air.

Small amounts, hopefully, but it still gets into our bodies. So by drinking some zeolite power in water, maybe doing it every day for a month or maybe doing it once a week every week, however you want to do it, you can start pulling out that toxic stuff, getting it out of your body. So that’s an intestinal cleanse.

Also, with an intestinal cleanse usually you’ll drink some kind of fiber. So you’ll drink some kind of high-fiber drink. You want something natural not chemical and the fiber kind of cleanses and scrubs your intestines as it goes through. It also helps to pull out yucky, junky material. When you’re doing a cleanse you want to eat lightly, eat lower-fat stuff, eat organic, eat steamed vegetables, vegetable juices, things like that.

So, doing an intestinal cleanse. You can get on the Internet and do even more research about intestinal cleanse or cleanses, because there’s lots of different systems and lots of different herbs and supplements you can use in order to do that, but I highly recommend doing that. Maybe once every three months is a good system.

So another kind of cleanse you can do and this one that I’m going to do probably in three months. I’m going to travel in Asia some and then when I get back from traveling in Asia I plan to do a liver cleanse, a liver cleanse. Again, you can get on the Internet and do more research about this, just put in ‘liver cleanse’. You can also do a search for ‘master cleanse’ or ‘the master cleanse’. The master cleanse is a kind of liver cleanse.

So it’s cleaning your liver, helping your liver get toxic material out and eliminating it because, see, your liver is one of your main detox organs. Your liver pulls lots of toxic material so that it doesn’t get into the rest of your body. It’s easy for our livers to become quite stressed now, so doing a liver cleanse is a very powerful thing to do. I have yet to do one, however. This will be my first liver cleanse coming up.

The basic idea of a liver cleanse is that for about four days you don’t eat fat. You try to avoid all fat in your diet. The reason you do that is to let your liver rest, because your liver helps to digest fat so if you don’t eat fat your liver can rest a bit. Then you drink Epsom salts in water, which starts to help your liver kind of open up and relax more and then there are some other supplements you can take. You can drink some lemon juice.

You do some things like that for about four days.

Then on the fifth day or maybe it’s the evening of the fourth day, you drink like a half cup of oil, olive oil or something like that. I think organic olive oil is a good way to go. What that does, the sudden fat, because oil is just fat, the sudden fat coming into your body causes your liver to kind of start squeezing out toxic material. I guess a lot of yucky junk can come out of it and then you’ll poop it out. So that’s another wonderful way to detox your body.

And, of course, on a daily level a great way to just make sure you’re doing at least some detoxing is that every day you should be drinking lots of water and every day try to sweat. Every day sweat, this is one of the key benefits of exercises which we don’t really hear about so much. We hear about the benefits to our heart and to our muscles and to our bones and we know that it helps our immune system. We know that it’s a good cancer preventative. We know that all these things come from exercising, but what we often don’t hear about is that by sweating when we’re exercising we’re eliminating toxic material.

We’re eliminating waste material from our body. We’re helping our bodies detox. So that is a great way to get some daily detoxification, which is to just get out there and sweat every day and exercising is a great way to do that, just sweat. If you have access to a sauna, if you can get to a sauna, well that’s a great thing to do too. You know go to a sauna a few times a week. It’s fantastic. They feel great. They’re really relaxing. You sweat a lot, but it’s that nice warm heat. I find them very relaxing. I think they’re fantastic. Just make sure, again, you drink lots of water, because if you’re sweating a lot you need to replace that water. So drink lots of water or drink good fresh vegetables juices, things like that.

So it’s all about cleaning out our bodies, right? We all know that you’re putting stuff in, but we also need to get stuff out. So we gotta put good stuff in, but we gotta get the bad stuff out and that’s the whole point. So is this a sexy topic? Not really. No. Do people like to talk about sweating and pooping and peeing? No, they don’t. However, I promise you, if you do this you will feel fantastic. This is a major key to having great energy.

You’ve got to detox. You must detox regularly. That might be once a year for you. It might be twice a year. It might be three times a year. Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter, just do it. Please do it.

I know it sounds like an unpleasant topic. I know it sounds strange. I know it’s something that maybe you don’t want to tell everybody about. That’s fine. It’s okay, but just do it. Please, try the detox that I described in the video. You could even try the intensive one. Do it every single day for one month, but even if you don’t do that do it once a week, even just do it once a month. Whatever you do, just do it. It really will make a big difference in the quality of your life, because when you get the bad stuff out it frees up energy. It gives you more energy. Your body becomes lighter. Your body works better.

The benefit to you is, as I said, you feel more energized. You just have more energy through the whole day. You think more clearly. Your emotions are more calm and happy.

It’s an amazing experience and the more you detox, the more you’ll get this benefit. And having that kind of energy and concentration is the key to everything else you want in your life. Every goal you have requires you to expend energy, mental energy, emotional energy, physical energy.

You want to speak English better, guess what? That takes energy. It means when you’re listing to these English lessons, you need to have good concentration. If your mind is not clear then you’ll learn less. If you’re physically feeling kind of tired, you have fatigue, you’re going to learn less. See, those things are going to hurt your goal of learning English better, speaking English better, but if you have more energy, if your mind is more clear, if it’s easier for you to concentrate then, obviously, you’re going to learn much faster. You’re going to improve faster.

This is true of everything. It’s true of your relationships. If you’re more calm, more alert, more focused, more energized, you’re going to be a better husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, child, whatever, right? It helps all of your relationships. It will help your business and your career. If at work you have better concentration, you’re more alert, you’re more relaxes, you’re less stressed, you have more physical energy, you have more emotional energy, you have more mental energy, you have more creativity, you’re obviously going to do a better job and that’s going to improve your career or your business.

It doesn’t matter; any aspect of life, energy is the root of all of it, right? It’s what powers us for everything and to unleash that energy, that natural energy and health that we have, we have to occasionally and consistently eliminate the things that suppress that energy, that hide that energy, that block that energy, right? Because that’s what toxins do, that’s what waste material does in our bodies, it blocks the flow of that energy. You can think of it that way. It’s how maybe traditional Chinese medicine might describe it, blocking the flow of energy.

However you want to think about it, eliminating toxic chemicals or getting rid of the blocks. Either way, by detoxing what you do is you eliminate the blocks to the energy, you get the toxins out and then you get back to that natural state that we all have of feeling very free and energized and alert and alive and calm, with sharp clear minds and a super energized body.

That’s what I want for you. So, please, take this topic very seriously. It’s a very serious topic. It’s a very powerful topic. It’s one of the most powerful topics I’ve ever discussed. I know it’s not the most pleasant. I know it’s not the most sexy. I know it’s not the most trendy, but very, very important.

So this month what I want you to do for your homework, you know what I want you to do, I want you to detox this month. Do the detox in the video. Try it for seven days in a row or 10 days in a row or if you really want to do it, do it for the whole month then report your results on the social site. Please report your results, because I want people to see the power of this. I want more and more people to do this. It’s so important. It can change your life forever.

All right, I will see you again next time. Get out there and clean out the inside of that body. Detox it, you’re gonna feel great. Talk to you later, bye-bye.