"The eight-week program consists of small steps that build on each other until, by the time you complete it, you have laid the foundation for healthy living. You can then decide how much of the program you want to maintain on a permanent basis. It's all about changing behavior." -Andrew Weil, author of 8 Weeks To Optimum Health
I found this book on my mothers bookshelf... or it found me. - M-Z
WEEK SIX (of Andrew Weil's Eight-Week program)
Projects:
-Take a steam bath or sauna twice this week. Use it for up to twenty minutes one day. It should be hot enough to make you sweat freely; be sure to drink plenty of pure water to replace lose fluid. The value of sweating: It allows the body to rid itself of unwanted materials and also highly salutory for our minds and spirits.
-Inform yourself on tonics (non toxic, natural substance that has the ability to stretch and tone the body when used regularly over time.). Decide on one that is appropriate for you and find out where to get it.
Diet: -Continue to eat fish twice this week and soy foods twice this week.
-Continue to eat broccoli at least twice.
-Add some cooked greens to your diet: collards, kale. chard, or mustard greens. Greens are high in vitamins and minerals, including iron and calcium in forms that the body can absorb and use more readily than supplements.
Supplements:
-Continue the supplement/vitamin regiment offered in week one, two, and three.
Exercise:
-Aerobic walk: thirty minutes, five days of the week.
Mental/Spiritual: *Recommendations that fall under this heading are most important.
-Extend your news fast to four days this week
-Visit an art museum or try to view some work of art, sculpture, or architecture that you find beautiful and inspiring. Just as music and the natural beauty of flowers and parks can raise your spirits, so can beautiful paintings, sculpture, and architecture. Just admire the art, letting is please your senses and nourish your non physical being.
-Practice all the breathing exercises every day.
Optional (but highly recommended)
Eat nothing but fresh fruit one day of the week, and drink as much water and herbal tea as you want. Take vitamin C but skip the other supplements on this day. Limiting your diet to just fruits and vegetable juice is a way to give your digestive system a good rest.
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Good luck, have fun, see ya next week (I promise ;) !
Love,
Maryam
