it’s been almost 6 months since i changed my diet to a 100% raw living foods one, and in these few months i’ve experienced some interesting detoxing (or cleansing) symptoms.
apart from the more common ones like (very bad) headaches, runny nose, coughs, ‘flus’, i’ve also had swollen painful fingers which i couldn’t bend and, just 2 weeks ago, my feet and toes swelled up too, so much so that i couldn’t walk.
i’ve noticed a lot of asian women with this problem, and us asians eat lots of rice so i think rice has something to do with it maybe? if you think about it… rice is like a kind of glue. when you cook rice, you often have to soak the rice pot for a while before washing so that the rice can be washed off easily because the rice sticks to the sides of the pot. i’m thinking that’s what it’s doing inside our body too – probably our veins and capillaries are getting ‘glued up’. (i am just making this up so don’t quote me; it just makes sense to me.)
am just very grateful to sylv who took care of me all this while and assured me that i am fine. she’s been raw for 40 years and went through some horrible cleansing symptoms herself (she was very very sick, which was the reason she went raw and cured herself of all her illnesses) and man, i hope i never have to go through them, though i’m bracing myself for it. i have no idea how toxic my body is before i went raw.
swelling in my fingers have gone down quite a bit and my feet have gone right now. sylv told me that on average, it takes about 1 month for every year you’ve lived to completely detox a person (more if they live in a polluted environment, i.e. the city)… so i’m expecting to come completely right in about 20 months or so.
apart from the detoxing, my energy levels are actually a lot higher and my mind’s a lot more alert and i find that i am better at meditation! something which i found really hard to do because my mind keeps wanderingggg =/
anyways. i’ve been working with sylv on her book on raw food and health for more than 2 months, and in that time i’ve read a lot of other stuff on natural hygiene as well, and after reading what i’ve read, there is no way i am going back to the cooked food diet.
i respect my body as much as i respect a gift that was given to me and as far as i can, i’d like to not defile it.
it’s not so much about wanting to live longer as about wanting to live without pain and suffering and disease. i couldn’t care less about having a long life; in fact i’d much as soon leave this physical plane and go back to Spirit than stay in this physical body. but i suppose i have things to do on earth and what must be done must be done… even though i have no idea what it is i am supposed to be doing.
but when i die, i want to die from death – i want to die because i died, without disease, pain or suffering. 
on a different note, i saw a double rainbow AND a rainbow (both on the same day, different times!!) at oscar’s place the other day.
i really really really really really want to live in the country – live in a home with my own water supply and preferably own power source as well. and on a piece of land big enough for a few fruit trees (feijoas!!!!! figs! mandarins! oranges! lemons!) and a big garden 
