Today marks the beginning of the days after our cleanse. We are able to eat raw fruits and vegetables today (along with salad dressings), which is a marked contrast to the boiled-down and steamed vegetables of yesterday. Today also begins the decisions about which routines from the fast will stay in our everyday lives. So far this morning, the breathing and stretches and tongue cleaning have all remained.

Morning affirmations and gratitudes will also remain, for these have had such positive momentum for me and feel much like something I thought I had lost long ago. In my early twenties, I was fascinated by the idea of the power of positive thinking. I believed that I could move a mountain (literally) if I could get to the point of real concentration. Although I never did move that mountain, I spent hours thinking and quitly being. Somewhere, I lost my focus on such ideas and the world around me began to feel much more overpowering. I began to feel overpowering, so I did what many students do - I went back to school for my masters degree. Yet, I failed to look at what was missing within me.

During the course of the last two weeks of cleansing, I have began each day with an affirmation. Something similar to I am increasing my abundance and health each day and drawing towards my dreams - it changes each day, as I am barely lucid at the time of the thought. Regardless, I’ve started to see life change around me dramatically.

Most of my goals right now are about happiness and health in friends and family, passion in our business and some prosperity of life (say, a home and student loans paid away). In each of these, I have seen a change for the positive; my family has become interested in raw foods and cleansing after my experience - and this is so exciting, as there is much illness within my family. Our business is increasing in projects we have passion for and we’ve recently upgraded our computer set-ups to eliminate obstacles to creativity and joy! Plus, I have been able to make goals and headway on the loans - and even begin thinking about a home.

I’ll never again forget or dismiss the power of thinking positive.

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