Dharma Healing Center Of Samui, fasting, holistic weight loss and healing retreat by the sea

Preparation

If you would like the fast to be more effective it is important to make adjustments before you come. To help the cleansing process it is very beneficial to eliminate cigarettes, coffee, drugs, processed foods with sugar, salt and white flour, alcohol, fried foods and other heavy foods.

It is a good idea to begin eating an 'organic whole foods diet'. This includes: freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, fresh fruit, vegetables in salads or lightly steamed, whole grains like brown rice, millet, quinoa and amaranth, fresh unsalted seeds and nuts and different kinds of sprouts.

A couple days or even a week or so before you come try eating just fruits, and fresh vegetable and fruit juices.

For your health and others during the program smoking is not allowed.

If you are on medication you need to check with your doctor about going off the medicine during a fast. We are not medical doctors and can not be responsible for any medical complications that may arise during the program.

Things to change in your diet

	Watch how much you eat. At meals start by taking smaller servings. Help your digestion by finishing your meal with that still slightly hungry feeling. This way you will not be stretching your stomach from over eating.
	Stop eating animal proteins, especially cooked. These are difficult for you to digest and your body will cleanse better if you haven't been eating them before your fast.
	Watch your snack foods. Most all prepared and processed foods are heavily salted and with loads of chemicals. If it comes in a brightly colored bag and has a long list of ingredients that's what we're talking about.
	Stop adding salt and sugar to any of your foods. This includes staying away from artificial sweeteners (aspartame products) and foods flavored with them. Allso, please read all labels, it is a real education.
	Stop eating all fried foods. The oils in fried foods are usually rancid from heating and difficult for your body to work with. And talking about oils, use only cold pressed and chemical free oils in moderation. Margarine is also on the stop eating list, try a little extra virgin olive oil or organic flaxseed oil on your bread.
	Stop eating dairy. Milk, cheese and ice cream are highly mucus forming and many people have health problems related to milk. Check out www.notmilk.com
	Stop drinking coffee, black tea, alcohol, soft drinks and canned, bottled and packaged juices.
	Start combining your food properly. Try to eat fruits alone, not for deserts or with nuts, grains or yogurt. This is because fruit digests very quickly and mixing it with anything else will slow its digestion causing fermentation. Don't mix complex carbohydrates and animal proteins together for the same basic reason, they don't work well together and inhibit proper digestion.
	Stay away from airplane food. Most of it is heavily salted, made with rancid oils and also preserved with chemicals. Ordering a fruit plate on all your flights will help you ease into and out of the fast.

Basic Foods To Have On Hand

	Eat fresh fruit on its own
	Eat raw vegetable salads with animal or vegetable proteins like beans, nuts, seeds and avacados
	Eat vegetables raw or steamed with nuts, seeds, grains and/or beans

Replacement Food List

In the morning drink liquids like water, herb teas or fresh fruit and vegetable juices as long as you like. When you are ready to eat your first meal is the best time to eat. Good breakfasts are fresh fruit, your own homemade porridge, your own homemade muesli with your homemade nut or seed milks, salads, smoothies, and fermented nuts or seed cheeses on sprouted bread.

Before lunch have freshly squeezed vegetable/fruit juices of any combination: carrot, cucumber, apple, celery, ginger, pineapple and beet root.

For lunch have a fresh herb salad with lemon juice and a little 100% extra virgin olive oil as a dressing or some lightly steamed vegetables. This is the time of day to have a complex animal or vegetable protein such as fresh fish or chicken.

As a snack in the afternoon have a piece of the fruit of your choice, or have a carrot, cucumber or piece of celery.

In the evening time have a small bowl of brown rice, or quinoa or millet with or without lightly steamed or raw vegetables and seaweed, or have a fresh vegetable or fruit salad. Don't overeat in the evening. Eat lightly.

During the day replace coffee and black tea with herbal teas, fresh juices or nut and grain milks. If you are out of the home then I suggest you carry a warm or cool thermos all the time to sip on.

Take flax seed oil and Vitamin E a couple times a day

Make it your motto to eat foods as close to their natural state as possible, this means eating: fresh fruit raw or juiced, fresh sprouted, raw or juiced vegetables, salads and lightly steamed vegetables,
quinoa, millet brown rice (non gluttonous grains), daily milled and freshly baked whole grain breads, baked potatoes (once in a while). Eat fruit that is: 1. grown locally, 2. that is in season, 3. that is tree/vine ripened. For more information check www.rawfoods.com.

What to Bring

We make a strong suggestion that fasters don't use anything on their skin with chemicals. If possible it is a good idea to buy natural soap, shampoos, creams, shaving cream before you come, although, many products are available here in Thailand, you will have abetter choice abroad. Deodorant isn't needed. Natural sun screen is also a recommendation and can't be found here.

Pure Ascorbic Acid powder with mineral ascorbates is a good thing to bring if you can find it. We have some ascorbic acid powder but it isn't with mineral ascorbates.

Good friendly bacteria is provided in the rejuvalac drink given at the end of your fast. Some people are allergic to garlic. If so, then it is a good idea to bring your own acidophilus, especially if you are planning to travel to India, Nepal, Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Viet Nam and China .

Beneficial Homeopathics to bring if you are planning to continue your travels are: Carbo vegetalis - for gas; Nux Vomica - for nausea and sleep; Arnica - for accidents; Cina – for worms and parasites; Coffea cruda – for insomnia, depression and overcoming coffee addiction; Colocynthis – for menstral cramps; Magnesium Phosphate – for headaches and also muscle cramps; Nat Sulph and Nat Phos – for nausea; Nat Mur and Kali Mur for muscle cramps for excess acids coming out and Bach's Rescue Remedy . . . I am sure many of you have other remedies that you think would be good to have on hand.

A good liquid organic mineral solution would also be good to bring such as Ionic Minerals, or Colloidal Minerals.

Dodo in the Mango Tree

Hin Lat Waterfall

Refreshing.

Morten.

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