How to Maintain Balance

Throughout this journey of detoxification and regeneration, maintaining balance through your own unique struggles, tribulations, and as you overcome your obstacles is a constant necessity. Losing balance runs the risk of faltering and potentially crashing and burning, setting yourself back and causing you to reach your destination much more slowly.

How often will you have to focus on maintaining balance you might wonder? Well, how often does a tightrope walker concentrate on maintaining balance? The reality is that it is a constant and consistent focus in order to succeed quickly.

Balance within the scope of Rapid Regeneration can be a reference to how aggressively are you pursuing your progress towards total cleansing and rebuilding, versus the comfort of eating certain foods which are indulgent and taste good but don’t contribute towards getting you closer to your health goals.

The same is true for exercise, moving the body, and physical activity. If an individual attacks so aggressively going to the gym, doing yoga, and working out every single day, this may be too excessive in the sense that it is not sustainable over extended periods of time. The result of this imbalance may lead to overeating, lack of sleep, a decline in work/job performance, personal relationships being neglected, or other inequities. By the same token, if that same individual nurtured all these other areas sufficiently but only moved their body twice per month (not often enough), then this person winds up with a body that will suffer from underuse and neglect, with problems ranging from muscle atrophy, to excess weight gain, as well as poor circulation and stagnation of the lymphatic fluids. Either extreme leads to an imbalance on one side or the other.

Another key area to consider keeping in balance would be the use of investing in herbal solutions and the utilization of multi-day cleansing regiments to make quantum leaps forward in terms of progress towards your health goals. On the one hand, you may have somebody who is imbalanced in the sense that they are so frugal and tight with money that he refuses to spend anything on herbal health supplements. Although he has a bank account with a healthy surplus, this person may experience an imbalance in never achieving the deep and effective levels of cleansing necessary to really propel his body towards ultimate rejuvenation.

On the other hand, perhaps you have somebody who dives headfirst into herbal supplements — after all there are so many great and powerful tools out there — and deep cleansing programs. This person invests several hundred dollars per month on herbal supplements and is putting forth massive amounts of time and energy going through deep-cleansing multi-day programs, repeatedly in the span of just a few months.

While this aggressive, all-in approach may work for some (and I would hope you are in this position), in this particular hypothetical case, this person earns a meager income and does not have the cash flow on a monthly basis to support this. He is intrigued by the healing power of these herbs, but lacks the money right now to justify the purchases, so is instead building up a large amount of credit card debt. His complete immersion into deep tissue cleansing is affecting his work performance negatively, and although he is experiencing amazing health benefits and results, he is approaching a point of a financial existential crisis as a result.

You can see that balance certainly applies to the velocity at which you pursue your detoxification and regeneration from a financial standpoint, compared with how you maintain the prospect of making a living and achieving your financial goals as well in this crazy world.

Personally, I can relate to this last example. When I first discovered the power of herbal supplements and herbal cleansing in 2015, I was so grateful and amazed by the results that I really put the pedal to the metal and pursued this avenue like a madman, hell-bent on detoxifying myself to the fullest. I was in such a state of desperation — from years of poor health and thinking my quality of life had been ruined for the rest of my lifetime — that when I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, I became laser-focused and narrow-minded, obsessing on the prospect of transforming my health back to a state of wellness.

At this point, I was in debt with student loans, as well as credit cards. I had actually moved in with my parents for a short period of time. The company I had been working for had closed, I was out of a job, and I had just relocated from California back to my home state of Texas. It was a time when perhaps I should have been focused on clearing my debts, and accumulating savings, so I could figure out how I would sustain myself in the next phase of my life financially. Looking back, I can see that I behaved irresponsibly and that I burdened my parents by overstaying my welcome by several months, I lost momentum personally in terms of career and earning a living, and I racked up much additional debt and credit card interest.

Had I been more of a good steward economically, I would not have spent thousands of dollars on herbal health supplements, the best quality organic raw foods, juices and even crystals over a period of about a year. Also, my work and job life was neglected — I actually spent much time just meditating and clearing my mind and sort of doing a karmic cleansing of sorts. My body rested and I really became centered with the direction of my life, but at the same time, all of that energy and focus could have been applied towards earning more money or getting a higher-paying job.

Eventually, my parents gave me a deadline by which time I had to move out (AKA they kicked me out), which sounds harsh, but it was really a great gift. I moved out, to a new living situation that was far from ideal, and took a job that I absolutely hated. I had no car (mine had broken down and was deemed impossible to recover a few months prior) and would ride my bike every day to this awful job, through the rain and everything, which is a whole other story.

I eventually worked my butt off and of course got a car, got a second job, and finally got another main job that was better and better paying. About two years later, I had cleared my debts and was now in a good operating position financially.

Was my approach worth it? In retrospect, things are always clearer. Looking back on what happened with me, I am not attached to the decisions I made or didn’t make. But, with the benefit of hindsight and the goal of making this easier for you than it was for me, I would have approached things differently and more judiciously. I would have focused more on the whole picture in terms of my overall life balance and not been so myopic early on about my health metamorphosis. No regrets — I just want to share with you my own experience of the struggle to maintain balance along this journey.

That was just one chapter for me, the first chapter in my journey towards total detoxification, rebuilding and regeneration. And you can see that — although I experienced amazing and miraculous health benefits and my energy levels exploded — my life became very out of balance in other areas. Had I focused more on those other areas of personal finances and personal life, etc., then I would have experienced less progress with my own health and well-being. I wasn’t willing to wait, and I put all my chips on the table, going all-in on healing myself as quickly and purely as I could. That was my personal choice, and my own imbalance (some might call this Karma) to then unwind later on. 

Some of the questions you will need to answer will be how will you balance the amount you are investing in your health — in terms of your time, energy and finances — as well as how will you approach what you are eating, how much you are moving your body physically, the relationships you maintain, and what you are spending your attention and focus on, just to name a few.

The other prime example of maintaining balance has to do with what you are actually eating throughout this journey for yourself. What I have found over the years is that, the more cleansing and detoxifying a food is, then the more of a challenge it is to focus intensely on ‘a proper type of work task’. Now you may have a different experience, and obviously this totally depends on the vocation or the position involved. If you’re a professional dancer or artist, maybe eating lots of fruit enhances your work performance — if you’re an accountant, maybe not so much.

For me while going through a health transformation in the big picture, from day to day I was working intensively with clients, trying to figure out how to work with their goals, negotiating with them and trying to put deals together, and doing intensive researching and coordinating between departments to try and solve problems logistically — all while maintaining a system of organization and not forgetting about different clients and different projects in different stages — which is very involved mentally and takes a lot of intellectual capital to function smoothly. If I were consuming let’s just say only juice like vegetable or fruit juice, or just grapes, or just oranges or pineapple, then these are all foods which are extremely astringent, hydrating, and cleansing. However, I noticed that when placed in high-stress and highly analytical, focused situations that if I was fueling myself with the types of foods that it proved very overwhelming for me and I would not function at my best. Maybe I just needed a different job! But all types of vocations involve elements of this need to deal with pressure from the marketplace.

This is describing I guess you could say a different chapter for me, in my own health journey. Now by this point I was trying to get my financial shape into a better state of balance, and so I did make some sacrifices in terms of what I was eating, and I did shy away from the most cleansing foods I could eat — but at the same time, I was also very much healthy and well by this point, and had recovered my health by perhaps about 80%, while still working towards a full recovery (which ultimately happened not too long after).

So I would eat more salad-like meals, with a good amount of avocado, which seemed to ground me and give me a more sustained, slow-burning energy which allowed me to perform a very high level at work. Actually, compared with my colleagues who were eating bread and meat on their lunch breaks, I was running circles around them. As a result, my income continued to increase. I slowly started working in more cleansing fruits into my regiment and continued to keep fine-tuning my diet. And ultimately, due to my higher earnings and savings, I moved into a new place of living which was beautiful and nestled in a setting that was surrounded by nature and this brought to me a whole new level of healing and revelation — so, more income brought me more balance in terms of a more healing environment.

So I sort of swung the pendulum back and forth, which is how it goes. But I had figured out a balance that worked for me and allowed me to function at the things that I felt necessary for me to accomplish certain things in my personal life, while at the same time still making progress towards my health goals. If I had gone all out and just did 100% fruits that were more liquid, tropical fruits and vegetable juices, then I very well may have burned myself out of that job or perhaps thrown myself into some kind of gnarly healing crisis.

One of the risks of not maintaining balance — and let’s say if you detoxify too quickly — is that you could throw yourself at an inopportune time into a healing crisis, which in short is simply a temporary trauma that your body and spirit goes through in order to purge itself of some past or present trauma (for more on this please see the section entitled: ‘What is a Healing Crisis’). It could feel like a common cold, you might have unpleasant sensations temporarily in different parts of the body as toxins are released from tissues and are worked out of the system, or it could be some kind of deeply emotional transformation that you go through to shed some kind of deep, traumatic baggage so you can lose that weight off your shoulders.

A healing crisis is not an imbalance per se — in fact it is your body’s own way to expeditiously and dramatically transform your state to actually achieve a state of balance in a relatively short period of time. So in an ideal world, if you were like Buddha and could just sit under a tree and have all your basic sustenance and shelter needs taken care of, then you could go through healing crises, one after another, like clockwork, and within no time at all you’d be completely healed up. However, a healing crisis is not necessarily something you want to be going through while sitting in an office cubicle, dealing constantly with customers, or having to focus your mental efforts intensely on job duties.

So the challenge ultimately, and what I am trying to help with using these different strategies throughout the course of Rapid Regeneration, is not so much how to detoxify, regenerate and heal yourself — that part is simple and, given the right tools, nature and your body can do that quite easily. The challenge is doing that here on Planet Earth. In fact, this place we occupy is in a constant state of conflict and tension. As much as there is positive and amazing light-force energy here, you also have your very negative, dense forces which are in constant battle for your attention and pervade to occupy the hearts and minds of people. In order to figure out how to heal yourself, you must figure out not just how to detoxify and regenerate, but how to achieve balance on this crazy, war-torn planet.

Dealing with other people is another way that balance is key. You can get burned out by too much interaction with people who are petty, hedonistic, self-destructive, or shallow. But these may be people you have to deal with for your job, they could be some of your old friends, or people you associate with among other groups, or you may even find this is true among your own family members.

I have seen people — many people in fact — who are on their own journey of self-healing who sabotage their own progress because they continue to entangle themselves in relationships that are not healthy. Many times we can find ourselves then trapped into a sort of attachment that can be very entangling emotionally and can prevent you from achieving your own goals. Or you may find yourself remaining attached and involved with somebody who is an old friend but really is not a good influence on you.

Sometimes as kind, gentle souls, we are tempted to try and help people who are sort of perpetual lifelong victims of one thing or another, and we let the dark cloud that follows them around rain down on us too, by proxy. You may just find yourself not able to say no to people, and you constantly give up your time as well to keep other people company but neglect your own needs for personal time to self-reflect, exercise, or nurture your own passions.

On the flip side of this coin, you can become unbalanced in the sense that you become so obsessed and myopic with achieved your health goals, that one day you look up and realize that all your old friends are now virtual strangers to you because you haven’t nurtured those relationships. After embracing a healthier lifestyle, even as you may grow apart from people from a bread-breaking perspective of what’s being consumed from a dinner table, it can still be an important and vital thing for you to continue to maintain contact with special friends and still breathe life, even with an occasional correspondence or from a distance, into those relationships.

None of this is easy, and it all involves balance. It can be easier if you learn from others who have charted their own paths and use their successful methodologies and wisdom. I learned much of this the hard way, although my path was made more swift because I had mentors along the way (virtual mentors whose books I read and whose lectures and interviews I listened to) and I did learn from them. My goal is to help give you more tools than I had to help you reach your health goals, but also make sure that all areas of your life are thriving as well, including finances, personal relationships, and your own passions and spirituality.

With respect to food, it is OK to let yourself off the hook at times for the sake of balance, but don’t use balance as an excuse to let yourself go. What I mean by that is — you’re going to have times if you really do dial up the raw that you’re going to get ratted out by the raw foods lifestyle, especially if you’re eating a lot of fruit. If you feel this feeling coming on — like you just can’t do another day of super healthy eating — then go ahead and indulge. I will attempt to document certain foods that you can use to ‘cheat’ (for more on that see the section entitled: ‘Foods to Cheat with’) which are not as healthy as raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, but are not nearly as acidic-forming as most of the typical comfort foods out there.

You can see some foods to cheat with here as well:
RapidRegeneration.com/Cheat-Foods

The risk you run in NOT indulging yourself (and trust me I have been here) is that, let’s say you might make it another 12, 24 or 36 hours eating super-healthy and raw, but then you could have a complete breakdown from a cravings standpoint (and ultimately what is happening is also an emotional process). If this occurs, and you decide to pull the pin out of the grenade, any number of things can happen which can set you back by a mile — going through the drive-thru and getting double orders of everything, eating a gallon of ice-cream, a large pizza and six-pack of beer, or many other examples of debauchery.

In this example, your overindulgence could set you back 1-2 weeks — in other words, it could take this much longer to ultimately reach your health goals than it otherwise would have. If instead you feel this intense craving coming on and you go ahead and ‘cheat’ and indulge in a cheat meal but with relatively harmless ingredients that still gives you that satisfying comfort food sensation and emotional experience, this would be liable to set you back maybe 1-2 days only. Which one of these scenarios is going to get you to arrive at your ultimate health destination as quickly as possible?

I will follow-up on one caveat to this notion of balance in regard to what you are eating, which is that you shouldn’t use balance as an excuse to constantly cheat more than you know you should — come on, you know better! I have seen people stagnate and prevent themselves from going to the next level health-wise and really solve their health problems, because they are always yo-yoing back and forth between healing, alkalizing foods and foods which are detrimental and acidic. These individuals never really figure out how to propel themselves to the next level to really turn over a new leaf and let go of their old selves and old habits.

There is some of kind of magical ratio, although I suspect it is different for each individual, but I think perhaps it’s anywhere from 5% to 50% cooked foods that an individual can still eat (depending on what that food is — I think generally this notion assumes that these are cooked vegetables) and still maintain a forward momentum in terms of detoxification and healing.

This is a tricky one to figure out, and you’ll have to experiment and see what works for you. After all, there was a period of time when I was eating corn chips (which is corn flour fried in vegetable oil, both of which are quite harmful) as probably 50% of my overall dietary intake, with the rest of my foods being raw with a lot of fruits, salsa, vinegar, pickles, salt, olive oil, avocado and olives. This isn’t exactly what raw food purists would call an ideal intake of raw foods or the sort of 80/20 ratio of raw-to-cooked foods (far from it). At the time, this was my own version of balance, although I will say I was also supplementing heavily and doing multi-day cleanses which gave me tremendous momentum and energy. I actually felt I was making significant progress in terms of my body detoxifying itself still.

I simply had an insatiable appetite for starches and fats and this was my version of balance, in transitioning from a far more unhealthy diet to one consisting of much more healthful raw foods (for more on that please see the section: ‘How to Transition’). Definitely use this knowledge and information as a guiding map, but you’ll need to figure out for yourself what works for you.

These are the types of things involved in terms of maintaining balance. Ultimately, I believe that the more of a unique personal balance you can maintain, the more you are setting yourself up for a sustainable and long-lasting pattern of success as you achieve your health goals and beyond. I don’t regret the times my life got out of balance, in my own journey of self-healing — although I think had I figured out how to balance them better I would be even farther along now than I already am and would have solved my problems more quickly.

It is now my goal to help you solve your own problems as quickly and judiciously as possible. Good luck — I know you can do it!