Day 17: Relaxed Vortices

I'm feeling exhausted when I wake up. This has been for the past 2 days. It's a level of exhaustion I haven't felt since herxing from Lyme treatment. My body feels completely fatigued when I wake up, I sleep through alarms, and have vivid and disturbing dreams where I grind my teeth and feel like I can't wake up. My suspicion is that the microbes in my body are unhappy that I've decided to take it upon myself to create an inhospitable home for them. I like to be a good host, but not to these little parasites. Once I got up to do the salt flush, I felt much better. One interesting thing that I've been noticing over the past few days is that when I begin hydrating when I wake up, my body seems to know that it's time to flush. Before I even being the salt my body relaxes and begins to easily give up it's waste. I feel like my body is trusting me. Trusting that we are on a path of healing. It's no longer working against me, but with me.

It no longer bothers me to be around people who are eating. Even in the presence of food that smells amazing, I don't have cravings for it. I think how it might be nice to have it, but am just as happy just smelling the aromas. Last night I was too far from the car to make my lemonade, so I had some watered down orange juice. I didn't feel all that great after drinking it. I didn't feel awful, but I could tell my stomach was feeling differently about it than the lemonade. I think yesterday was a difficult day physically. I had mixed maple syrup, missed the salt flush, and woke up feeling like I was run over by a pack of deer. Maybe it was just too much change too soon for my body. I was also up quite late with the ladies.

Last night I drank a water called Vortex 9.5 water. It was amazing. I think I'm addicted. It was the best tasting water I've ever had in my life. Every sip was a beautiful experience. It reminds me of something I tasted a long time ago. Maybe some water I had as a child.

Today I'm in a kitchen hood battle with my neighbors. I'm not sure who I'm annoying right now, but I hope they forgive me. With my heightened sense of smell, wafting odors of putrid oil in my apartment have been causing me a bit of distress. It's a distress that breathing into only makes feel worse. I finally figured out that the horrid smell was coming in through the kitchen vent from the neighbors apartment. After cleaning my vent filter, the smell was still there. Today I'm going to try to remedy the situation by boiling a pot of lovely smelling (hopefully cleansing) water. I have lemon peels, cloves, hibiscus, rose hips, cinnamon, and vinegar simmering on the range. If anything it's covering up the smell of the putrified oil for the day. Hopefully running the vent fan while boiling my concoction helps to clean out some of that horrible grease slime from the vent system. I'm not sure if I'm just hypersensitive, or if I'll think it smells just as awful after I come off my cleanse.

I'm going to end my cleanse after day 20. I want to be sure that I have enough time to assimilate to eating so that I don't suffer any stomach distress while having Thanksgiving dinner with my family.