This is a guest post by Henri Junttila.
If you’re familiar with drinking freshly-squeezed juices, I think you already know the powerful effects it can have on your body. What most people don’t notice are the effects it can have on the non-physical you.
Four years ago I had my first real date with juicing. You see, I bought an Omega 8005 Juicer
After awhile I decided to go on a juice fast, which is where I noticed the 5 subtle, yet profound ways juicing can transform your health and consciousness.
1. Intuition
Intuitive knowing sounds mystical, but for me it’s just a feeling or thought that suddenly bubbles up. When I’m doing something I might get a thought or feeling helping me decide which apple to buy or even which country to live in.
When I was on my juice fast my intuition became stronger. It was interesting, almost like having someone there to help guide you through life.
2. Courage
Fear penetrates even the most hidden parts of our lives. We tend to look at fear with fear, but how much would your perspective change if you looked at it with a fresh pair of eyes? Because what is fear? For me fear just shows me where my belief systems are not aligned with who I want to be.
Two of my biggest fears are public speaking and not having enough financially. When you go deeper and observe them, they are really not as big, bad and mean as you think they are. This awareness is amplified many times when you’re juicing and it allows you to break through these barriers and exercise courage.
3. Clarity
As you put less and less strain on your body, it starts to cleanse, detoxify and heal, which leads to enhanced clarity, focus and other mental functions. During my juice fast and when I juice daily I notice more clarity and an increased ability to make decisions.
Clarity is not only important in making decisions in your day to day, but in your life as well. What is your life purpose? What is your passion? What would you do if money didn’t exist? As I juiced, things suddenly started to become a lot clearer. Now, I am not saying I know everything about my life, just that it got a whole lot easier ;).
4. Awareness
Meditation is an awesome awareness expander, but cleaning up your body does that too. I remember walking down a quiet road in Spain (I lived in Spain then and will again soon, but that’s another story) and noticing new trees.
Had these trees appeared out of nowhere? How did they grow up so fast? I finally concluded that it was my awareness that had expanded. It’s almost as if I had been awarded the keys to a new world, the world of hidden trees.
(Editor’s Note: Maybe some of those trees were planted through my Tree Planting Initiative. If you could go back and in time, and all that. Ahem.)
5. Gratefulness
I was never the grateful type when I was younger, but as I’ve gained a few pearls of wisdom throughout the years I’ve noticed that being grateful feels awesome and is extremely uplifting.
If someone as anti-gratitude as me can become 87% more grateful on a juice fast, I’m sure you would notice it even more. How did I come up with 87%? I made it up, don’t you just love statistics?
To Juice or Not to Juice, That is Not the Question
We already know juicing rocks, so the question is: what benefits have you noticed from juicing? Any health benefits, healings or even subtle, transformational shifts?
About the Author: Henri Junttila is the founding father of the Wake Up Cloud, a place where you can discover your passion in 5 days and get conscious about your life.
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Awesome post by me! Thanks for letting me write for the Raw Foods Witch, Nathalie. It was both fun and exciting to get to write about healthy stuff once again ;-)
Yay! Glad you enjoyed it, it was a pleasure to host your writing here. :)
Nice post. I bought a new juicer and I can't wait to try it out. I am 97.5% grateful that you posted this (see, I can make up numbers too :) )
Ha! I love your statistics too. ;) Thanks for sharing Ralph.
I notice my vision is improved when I take in green juice. Thanks for the reminder how good it is for me!
Ooh that is an awesome thing to have noticed.. that in itself is great motivation to keep juicing. Thanks for sharing Carla! :)
Ooh that is an awesome thing to have noticed.. that in itself is great motivation to keep juicing. Thanks for sharing Carla! :)
Wow,,,,,The Law of Attraction at work again!!! I literally just found your blog today, which just so happens to be the first day of my juicing fast!!!! I did a 21 day juice fast a year ago, and my body is telling me it is time again.
What I found last year, around day 4 or 5, was the incredible amount of mental clarity I was experiencing. It was like new, and better ideas were flooding my thinking. My focus became much sharper, almost like I could see the target much clearer, and was hitting the bullseye with more precision. I truly believe that getting those built up toxins out of your system, which happens through a juice fast, has so many health benefits. It also makes you think how much better we would be if we did not ingest all that bad, on a daily basis.
GREAT blog, and I am becoming (along with my girlfriend and mother) a subscriber.
Thanks–Jeff
Awesome stuff Jeff! I totally agree – it's when we move out all that build-up of toxins that we really start to think and feel so much better. Thanks for sharing your experience and for subscribing. It's awesome to have other people on board with this way of eating it and sharing the joys together! :)
Awesome! I just bought the Omega 8003 (only $200 on ebay, great deal) and can’t wait to start juicing. I’ll be curious to see if my experience corresponds to some of the points you make here in your article…
Awesome! I just bought the Omega 8003 (only $200 on ebay, great deal) and can’t wait to start juicing. I’ll be curious to see if my experience corresponds to some of the points you make here in your article…
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