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Another cleanse program which you can do is: Eat only one food for multiple days on end. This is referred to as mono-eating, and some individuals actually do this but with the wrong kind of food. Quick hint: This does not actually cleanse and detoxify your system if you eat nothing but pizza rolls, or nothing but chicken wings for an extended period of time.
I have heard of this being done using foods like oranges or watermelon, but what I’m going to focus on in this segment is grapes. I actually completed a nine-day grapes-only cleanse AKA a Grape Fast and it was an incredible experience.
For me personally, I gained a lot of benefits from this experience. By the end of the grape fast, I had relieved a lot of tension in my back, neck and shoulders. Throughout the week, I observed sort of cracking and crunching sounds occurring especially in my upper spine, head, and jaw area. It is very strange to try and describe. I felt lighter, more energetic, and more calm by the end of it. I even had dentist appointments scheduled not too far apart, before and after I did the grape fast. After it was completed it was reported to me that my gum levels, which had previously been reported as having receded, had improved significantly. ‘I don’t know how this happened,’ said the dental hygienist at the time. ‘We basically never see gum levels regenerate back after they recess below that level.’ Pretty cool!
The grape is used as a detoxification, cleaning, and rebuilding tool for a number of reasons. First of all, it is a highly astringent food, and one of the most astringent fruits behind perhaps the lemon and lime. The astringent nature of the grape causes it to pull out acidic and ‘dirty’ chemistry from the body, much like the chemistry of a cleaning solution would do the same on a dirty, greasy corner of a garage. The high liquid and electrolyte content of the grape also is extremely hydrating. Not only that, it is a very easy food for the body to digest . And, from a nutrition standpoint, it is packed with antioxidants, vitamins and flavonoids, giving your body the fuel and micro-nutrients to heal and repair itself.
In terms of pointers if you are going to do the grape fast, there are a few to keep in mind.
— There are no rules about how much grapes you should eat. Eat as much as you want at any point throughout the cleanse. Personally, by about the third day, I didn’t have any cravings for other food and was quite happy just eating grapes. Also, by the end of the program, I had less cravings to eat and would eat less grapes overall.
— Look for organic grapes. If you can’t find organic grapes, consider waiting to do the cleanse until you can find them, or choose another fruit. Conventional grapes are notorious for pesticides being sprayed on them. If you absolutely can’t get organic grapes, make sure to wash the grapes fastidiously.
— Even with the organic grapes, you will still want to wash off the dust and debris from the grapes, using a produce wash. After washing them, dry them off. This will make sure you are not eating random dust, toxins, and chemicals from tap-water. If possible, store the grapes in glass containers and refrigerate them.
— You can find this produce wash at:
RapidRegeneration.com/producewash
–Look for ripe, firm, sweet grapes, which is not always easy. Generally speaking, the darker the grapes, the more packed they are with flavonoids. Try and find super dark, purple organic grapes and you’ll be in heaven for a few days.
— Go as long as you can and push yourself, but don’t run yourself ragged. Keep in mind that after you’re done with the grape fast, you’ll need to transition back to regular foods.
— When breaking the fast, a rookie mistake is that you could go from a week of eating grapes only to the drive-thru window, or even in your own kitchen at home, cooking up a big feast. Breaking the cleanse program with a big cooked meal — especially of starches like potatoes, corn, bread or a heavy food like beans, or things like meat products — could throw your body into a serious shock.
— Try and ease your way back into eating more normal routine foods, and still eating as much raw as possible. For every two days you do the grape fast for, try and follow it with one day after breaking the fast eating very clean, healthy, and as raw as possible. This will help you retain as many benefits of the cleanse program as possible and carry them into the next phase of your life.
— If possible, try and allow yourself plenty of time to rest. You may want to do this, if possible, during a vacation from work or when you can take a few days off. If you can’t afford to do that, then that’s OK, and maybe you will just want to go for it anyway. What I found is that during the course of this, there were times when I fell into a state of deep simplicity and meditation and just sat in a chair letting go of my mind for a couple hours at a time.
I actually received some bonuses from doing the cleanse that I didn’t even know that I would get. It was a profound and spiritual experience, although the further away that I get from doing it, the less vividly I remember how powerful of an effect it had on me. During the course of the nine days, I reached a real calmness and contentment, where previously I had been pretty listless and wound up most of the time. Also, I had several important realizations about my life, and about the course and direction that it should go.
This will sound crazy, but I actually had visions and saw into the future, experiencing revelations about the next five to ten years of my life and how it should unfold. It was presented to me what was my real true purpose in this world and the path was laid in front of me of how to pursue that. It brought me back to dreams and convictions I had when I was about 13, 14, and 15 years old and it was a powerful closing of a loop or resolution of loose ends. What is interesting is that now three and a half years after completing the grape fast, at the time of writing, I am decently far along that path I had envisioned for myself and have made significant progress towards fulfilling that mission which became so clear to me at that time.
You could say that I definitely got more than I bargained for, because I was really just wanting to cleanse out my body and do a reset at the time, to really accelerate things towards fixing my health problems. At the time, I was still trying to eliminate the last of my health problems which had plagued me for so many years and which I had been so desperate to resolve. I ended up making a significant dent in that department, which also getting some bonuses in terms of spirituality and tuning up my compass of where I was going in life.
The power of the grape fast is there for those individuals who really want to see some quick results and a boost to their overall wellness journey. If you are not satisfied with the steady, plodding pace of just eating a balanced, clean, hopefully mostly raw food intake of foods, and the steady but gradual results you get from that, then perhaps you may want to step on the gas for a few days and really throw your body into overdrive in terms of cleaning, alkalizing, and repairing itself from the grape fast.
If you are already cleaned out and healthy and vibrant, but simply want to kick it up a notch and go to the next level in terms of awareness, energy, spirituality, and self-discovery, then it seems like this elevating experience surely is for you.
Go after it, and don’t delay! Your future of vibrance, great health and abundance is waiting.