868 thoughts on “A Fresh Start – a detox for life.”

1. I find that detoxing can only be part but never the whole answer. For example if I find myself eating too much foods that I know are not right for me and detox these out my diet, my body has less tendency to reach for them but I cannot say I’ve truly discarded them without understanding first and foremost what led me to eat foods that ultimately harm me in the first place.

   1. So true.. things only change when we’re prepared to get super honest with ourselves and feel into the root causes of our patterns and choices-simply by opening up to feel more, within. Otherwise we just end up making superficial choices and transferring habits and patterns into other areas of our lives.

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3. It is like tasting the truth and going for it, but when it comes to living it in a consistency and its resulting responsibility people shy away and turn back to their old comfortable behaviours.

4. What if we live a life in constant detox- meaning not putting things and thoughts into it, that are poisoning its purity?Then you would never have the need to go for a detox like many people do in todays world. What is though interesting, we all feel, that what we do is not true, otherwise we would not look out for a detox in the first place.

5. If you told most people that the reason for doing a detox “was actually about living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be”, they would either be totally shocked or think you were having them on. But I totally understand why you would feel to do this, as for me, living as a woman in this world has been a very challenging time as everything is set up for me to not discover who I truly am, but to convince me that I need to be what society expects; to play by the ‘rules’. What a lot of toxicity must be held in my body from not living who I naturally am, toxicity that absolutely needs to be flushed out of every particle of my being.

6. A true measure of a detox is how we are after it finishes, have we changed or have we just had a respite from our norm and now come back to it. When we are ready to look at how we live and to understand that we don’t need to hold onto those old ways, a detox becomes something very different, a way to observe how we are and consider whether our ways of being do in fact work for us or not, and to know that we do not have to keep them, it can provide a space for us to let go, a deeply beautiful process we can surrender to.

7. We can offer ourselves a fresh start by detoxing our body or through the choices we make, when we realise that we have certain patterns that are not supportive we have an opportunity to let go of those choices and get to the bottom of where those choices came from in the first place.

8. I like this part about not having a goal for your detox, and instead simply bringing yourself to each session and to see what comes next. I like this because it feels more natural, like it is a part of the natural flow and rhythm of life.

9. “My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.” Bringing this responsibility to everything about our lives and not just our internal ‘cleansing and clearing’ suggests that the detox program you chose offered a much deeper and more supportive way for you to continue to make changes to your life once it was complete.

10. On one hand we could say that life in general is so full of disinformation that we have to be on a permanent detox… and this always starts with …. Breathing gently.

11. I have received two chakrapuncture detox and with both of them I have been really transformed from the very roots of what I wanted to change in my life. After them, I had access to a deeper and clearer space within me, which is reflected in my expression since then.

    I love the rose’s analogy, as it’s like that how it feels… a discard of what I’m not anymore (by choice and commitment) and a crystal blossoming of who I truly am.

12. It’s the ultimate detox, letting go of all that is not love to become more love. Once love is in place everything else (diet, exercise, etc) takes care of itself.

13. Great point about how when our bodies feel looked after, fully supported, tended to and loved, we can start to deal with our deeper issues that we may have buried. If we’re stressed and anxious all the time, there’s no way that we can connect to the body on a deeper level to start to resolve and let go of any issues that we’ve held onto and possibly buried more deeply within.

14. Tenderly shared thank you Cherise. I am currently on a detox and whilst I initially said that I wanted to look at practical things like diet and sleep what has unfolded for me is exploring the underlying beliefs that keep me following the same self sabotaging paths but with understanding and compassion of my past choices and not judging myself for them but adjusting my movements to support me to detox unsupportive patterns and reconnect to my purpose and what I am here to deliver.

15. To truly detox is to let go of energy that is stagnant in our bodies. This is the only poison because it leaves the body tired, exhausted even and illness and disease occurs – for the body has to get rid of the energy that does not belong inside. Imagine the constant fight we are under within ourselves when allowing this type of energy to enter.

16. I have just started a detox programme myself with an esoteric practitioner and my body is responding by letting me know so much more clearly what it really needs. In my case I have been wanting to go to bed earlier and have been sleeping more deeply and for longer. I feel less hungry and am inspired to get on with things that I have been letting slide. I can feel not only the deeper honesty but the deeper love that is calling me to care for myself and I am enjoying the feeling that a fuller appreciation of myself brings. I have also had intense headaches and I feel these are showing me how much I have been trying to go it alone and not gather the support that I have needed. My acceptance of myself with the letting go of what might have been is also taking place – and all this within a week of starting the programme. These detox sessions are awesome as we are offered a clearing for our way forward. Highly recommended.

17. It is one of God’s greatest gifts that no matter what “our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.”

18. The greatest detox is letting go of the poisons from the past.

    1. And when you observe how the majority of humanity lives, and when I am honest about how I have lived, we have all accumulated so many ‘poisons’, toxins which permeate every particle of our body and every part of our lives, holding us back from the living the amazing life we were all naturally born to live. To let these poisons go offers us the opportunity to begin to live life anew.

19. It is awesome to recognise that there is the possibility of living without issues dominating our everyday, knowing of course that there will always be something or many things to be working on and developing understanding with, but that these need not be the overall factor of life, that there can in amongst all of this still be joy.

20. It makes sense to cleanse ourselves of toxins we have allowed in, but we have to learn to stop putting it in in the first place. Some toxins are very obvious but some are not, especially our thoughts/behaviour patterns can be so ingrained and we often don’t even realise the level of toxins we have accepted as our make-up.

    1. This is a brilliant point Fumiyo, our thoughts and behaviours can actually be much more toxic than what we choose to eat or drink, and these are ultimately what can lead us to physically consume toxins.

21. Every sunrise is a fresh start, every dawn is a learning.

22. After many detoxes ( and diets) we can revert back to our previous lifestyle, so no true new way of living gets a chance. I love your analogy of the rose blossoming as it evolves from a bud into a full blown thing of beauty. Nothing stays the same and we always have that opportunity to evolve too, depending on our choices and alignment.

23. The fact is we all have direct access to a far greater intelligence that is always communicating with us, sending us signals that we do actually sense in ways such as ‘I feel like I need a change’, or ‘I am never doing that again’ or ‘something does not feel right’. However, we have been raised to avoid and disregard this sense along with the messages we receive from our bodies that we do we feel, as such we have no foundation in which to take heed and honor what this intelligence is communicating to us. It is incredibly empowering when we initiate an open and honest relationship with our body and when we begin to honor what is communicated as we develop a deeper connection to our being and what feels to be in line with this quality and what does not, be it behaviors, emotions, food, lifestyle choices or otherwise.

    1. Yes the body is always communicating with us but for so many of us we have had lifetimes of disregarding this. In choosing to reconnect to our body and its loving messages we are offering ourselves the opportunity to feel the settlement of coming home and the enormous love that we are being offered to support us in making honouring choices for ourselves and others.

24. Once we have made a number of fresh starts and things are going well it becomes a case of building on what is there. We may at times still have to come to a complete stop and it can be a big stop, though, so Cherise, your point is well made.

25. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” A beautiful analogy Cherise. As with the rose, as it blossoms and flourishes it reaches a point where its old petals fall away, but the plant that grew it is still intact and will keep producing new blooms that also will eventually fade and fall away. How simple and refreshing to see that our own lives have this same rhythm, and that we can just as easily let go of what is no longer needed, to allow for what is within us to bloom forth.

    1. Yes breaking patterns of holding onto beliefs and behaviours that no longer support and blossoming in the radiance of our loving selves.

26. A fresh start – I have found that changing my movements gives me a fresh start every moment, many times a day, allowing me to recover or expand.

27. ‘Detox was never about a goal, or attaining something (be that a physical change or an improvement of me) by its completion; instead each session was about whatever I brought to it, with honesty and a willingness to be as open as I possibly could.’ Beautifully put Cherise, when we have no goal and no expectation but an honesty and a readiness to unfold the layers of how we have been living, we are often surprised with how deep we are able to go, and what we are able to let go of.

28. “But what happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete? Do we return to our old behaviours and patterns…?” The diet industry relies on this way of living – go on a diet – lose some weight – put it back on – diet again. So the cycle continues. Only when we truly love and nourish ourselves and feel from our body what is true for us will we break this cycle and live a more responsible and healthy way of living.

29. I don’t think we realise the degree of illusion we live under when it comes to food. Everyone has an opinion of what is good and not so good for you to eat and then come the many rules, diets, ideals and beliefs that dictate a certain way to be. All of it under the one massive umbrella of ‘food consciousness’ that never goes anywhere near the real issue, which is never about food but about how aware we really want to be.

30. The Rose – What a beautiful analogy for a true detox – letting go of the old outer petals (habits, ideals, beliefs) and coming back to the delicacy of the ever blooming rose bud within (our essence).
    “When a rose ages, its outside petals become discoloured, bruised and frayed, like our old ways of living; we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong. We can allow ourselves to name and let go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours that simply didn’t exist when we started out as the delicate little bud”.

31. ‘…instead each session was about whatever I brought to it, with honesty and a willingness to be as open as I possibly could.’ When we try to fix things from the perspective of not being good enough we tend to go into self-bashing and judgment of ourselves hardening as we go. However, if we just observe what is going on for us from a place that knows we are already whole, we can bring a different relationship to what we are observing. It is amazing how many times I have been able to let go more from this place, leaving myself connected and content to be where I am at understanding how my choices have contributed to how my body is feeling.

32. ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ Only then a detox can be a true detox.

    1. The part of us that knows may not be our mind but the body itself.

33. I love your point about there being no end, I think a lot of people hear detox and consider it a means to an end and that there is an end point where everything is cleared and done and perfect, instead of a detox being a support in discarding the things that keep us from naturally being who we are and understanding we’re not designed to be perfect and that there’s always work to be done and it’s an amazing process to undertake.

34. Our detox is not complete until we reign in every last thread of our self that has frayed from the rich tapestry of us. This is a process that can take many lives of dedicated work until will once more stand bathed in the light of who we truly are and are no longer dominated by the shadows that have sought to diminish this glory.

35. This is a great point – a detox or a diet for something in the future needs determination, sometimes a lot of it and once the determination is gone, the retox and weight gain can start. Doing something that works and is enjoyable now is very different as it needs no determination.

36. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.”

    Love what you share here Cherise, let’s a lot of us ‘off the hook’ so to speak to come up with solutions, or fill our need to be right…just allow the space.

37. Spot on Susan, everyday we can choose to have our own mini-detox and start the day afresh.

38. A detox is so much more than ridding the body of built up toxins from food, sugar, alcohol or drugs, what about all our emotions and toxic thoughts as they become a poison in the body that are very damaging as well and need removing so we can feel more of who we truly are. Great blog Cherise, and a reminder of the power of a detox that not only cleanses the body but the entire being.

39. A description of a detox in its truest sense – supporting the release of emotion from the body physically as well as energetically allowing way for the true expression to be.

    1. Yes, it could make sense that emotions are stored in the body – how else could ailments like arthritis be associated with anger? If they can be stored, then presumably they could also be released.

40. ‘a collaboration of self perceptions and past experiences’ this brilliantly captures how we can trap ourselves in old ways and when we shine a light on them, it’s an opportunity, and so great to be reminded of this, that we can let them go and allow new ways of being that are there ready for us when we choose.

41. We can heal, no matter how deep and profound the hurt is, we all have the capacity to return to our true nature, which is love.

42. I think a lot of times detoxes are approached as a ‘quick fix’ or a thing that will bring some relief to go back to the way we were living before… But beautiful how you share here that there is a different way to go through a detox and how it can support us to blossom and unfold more of who we truly are back into how we live our every day.

43. Just imagine if detoxes were built in to our jobs, our education, if everyone had the opportunity to reboot and to let go of all the old beliefs and patterns that we accumulate… What a blessing this would be.

44. When we think about a detox, we usually associate it with only clearing the physical body of substances that are causing us to be sluggish. We generally, do not see a detox as something that can change our patterns, ideals and beliefs for the rest of our life.

45. Amazing to approach a detox, something many people are doing at this time in January, in a whole new way. As a new platform to build from instead of a goal and then a binge back again to the way it was before. Having a detox to clear and build from takes a whole new meaning to it.

46. I agree – a detox is a life long programme we can put ourselves on, continuously refining and making choices to let go of what does not belong to us.

47. It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being. It is a great place to be in when we have an understanding that all our answers come from inside of us and our hurts are not a part of who we truly are but merely something we have taken on emotionally.

48. When I walk into a session with a Universal Medicine practitioner my movements are already showing and exposing where I am at before any word is spoken. To acknowledge and accept where I am at whether it is in joy or a withholding in that moment is truly embracing the present and healing my body. In that moment I can allow whatever it is that needs to come up, be exposed and let it go.

49. I love how you talk about peeling back the layers, those that have faded and are no longer necessary, the more honest we are with ourselves the more we are willing to let go of what no longer serves us or humanity.

50. Cherise you have such a beautiful way of expressing through writing. I enjoyed reading about your detox, that was to uncover more of the delicate beauty within, not aiming for a certain body image or to recover from past indulgences – simply you returning to full bloom.

51. “Our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed” – knowing this at the beginning of any detox program rather than at the end allows us to be able to get through a detox program in a very different way because we are not trying to “fix” something that is broken but rather polish something that has had layers of dust hiding its beauty.

52. Love this – we often look at a new job, or new relationship or new home as a fresh start, but what if a fresh start is only truly fresh if there is a discard-ment of some the stuff we carry around with us that we don’t truly need?

53. It is not diets and regimes that bring about long-term change, rather it is lifestyle, choosing a way of life that is loving and self-nurturing and is known as The Way of The Livingness.

    1. Yes and it is the lifestyle change that brings the long term change rather than the short term ideals and beliefs that go with dieting and New Years resolutions.

54. I recently completed a detox session myself and what I learnt is that to experience the clear future and brand new start you describe Cherise, things from the past have to come up. Things that I thought I had moved past reared their heads again – and showed me that if you don’t truly understand and renounce patterns you have, they continue on, into the next day. But most of all I got to see that I already know the truth deep inside me, so this detox by bringing things up helped me go back to the future.

55. I like to reframe a detox in terms of taking out what we should have not taken on in the first place rather than simply removing food from our diet.

    1. Yes, ideals, beliefs, emotions and much else features here.

56. I love the openness and willingness you describe here Cherise in how you approached your old ways and took the space to look at them and let go. I’m on a detox programme right now and at times I’ve struggled with it as my old ways have been very in my face, and reading today I realise that’s the thing I’ve asked to look at them so here they are, and really it’s about understanding that no matter how much I might think they are, these ways are not me, and it’s time to let them go, and be more of the me I know I am.

57. ‘…our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.’ Gorgeous wise words Cherise. This innate inner self is something we can all rely upon.

58. A detox can be an unfolding as you beautifully describe, Cherise.

59. A beautiful expression, thank you Cherise. I love the flavour of self-responsibility this offers. For example, we don’t go to a practitioner to get ourselves fixed but to get honest with ourselves, to see what we are bringing to life, and what we are doing with life. This feels very healthy to me.

60. Awesome the way you describe your detox as a loving unfolding of you back to your divine essence. The support of a practitioner is also key so that we are not alone as we uncover the things that have been holding us back and resolve to make changes and build consistency with new ways that will create a firm foundation for our evolution.

61. When you stop and think about it we ourselves are like roses that grow and bloom – blooms that then die and fall away to provide space for new blooms to flourish and the cycle begins again. Our day to day life experiences can be a direct reflection of this.

62. I love what you bring with this blog Cherise. Many people hear the word detox and automatically think of food not thought. If we lived with the truth that thought can be just as toxic as food then we would see the importance of detoxing our thoughts and the way we move.

    1. Yes, without censoring or living by rules but just by noticing and choosing.

63. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion”

    Love and support are the ‘secret’ ingredients here…I have tried for many years to look at my ‘issues and hurts’ but it came from a feeling of being less and needing to be fixed and as a result, I never really found anything that worked or lasted. When I truly began to self-care and self-love, and brought more loving tenderness and compassion to my life, as inspired by Universal Medicine, that I started to make true and lasting change in my life and feel the hurts and let them go (which is quite a simple, quick and easy process to do).

64. We are forever invited by our body to surrender, know its full potential and knows its way to move that cares in full for it.. To not let our minds wonder off with the multiple distractions – but to truly take care. For real.

65. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being”. Absolutely Cherise and then have the understanding and awareness around why something was chosen, to then move through it.

66. Yes we like to get onto the band wagon of doing a detox and feeling better for a period of time, but then go back to our ways of living that are not loving or self honouring. Love the notion of detox for life, that way it isn’t a fad or something that has a timeframe, but something that is truly loving all the time.

67. THAT’S IT, I am booking in for a detox!!! Your blog really maps out what true detox is about and what it is not about…. I was considering, if a detox is purely about elimination and is not about reconnecting to the woman or man, it will forever be a momentary or unobtainable thing, that can never be consistently lived, ironically this is where most mainstream fix, diet, detox programs want you to be, as it keeps you coming back for more, forever relapsing and then needing someone or something to fix you up again, in other words, the ideal consumer.

68. I love the concept of not searching for solutions or trying to fix ourselves but rather reconnecting within to a knowing that will guide us to what is right and true and allow ourselves to heal and blossom with that as our foundation. This is a beautiful way to expose and let go of what stands in the way of us moving through life untainted by what has come before.

69. It is true Cherise, the Esoteric Chakra-puncture Detox programs offer a fresh start in the truest sense of the word, it working at all levels of our being, discarding that which no longer belongs to where we are evolving to next. It is a powerful and life-changing program for those who commit fully to what it offers.

70. Thank you Cherise for this beautiful reminder that goal setting and improvement seeking is not where it’s at. I have been feeling to make a fresh start in the area of food but if I’m honest, my focus has been on attaining outcomes that are largely physical. The true point to be explored is my relationship with awareness – that which I seek to avoid through my misuse of food.

71. I have found the 12 week chakrapuncture detox program to be incredibly supportive in letting go of ways of being that do not serve or support me. I can’t recommend it highly enough. If you’re thinking about doing one, stop thinking and just book it!

72. The best detox for our bodies and being is to arrest our addiction to the ideals and beliefs that have us running in circles of exhaustion, falsely believing that we need the patterns and behaviours to be identified, to be accepted or gain recognition, so we can return to be in connection to the purity of our essence within, which is what in-truth confirms and fulfills us the greatest.

73. A detox for life, great line. We think that going on a detox is something temporary, that being ‘good to oneself’ is that way to go for just a little while, whereas being on a detox for life, is all about being loving and honouring our oneself all the time.

74. The body we have affects the thoughts that we have! If our body is carrying hurts that we refuse to let go of then that affects how we are going to be in life and the way that we think. When we go on a Chakra-puncture detox program for example more gets cleared from the body therefore freeing us up in more ways than one.

75. A beautiful analogy Cherise of the way we age and the life of a rose.

76. I have always been a bit stumped by the concept of a detox that was about looking after one’s self for a very short period of time, like 7 days or a month at the most, for some it’s one day. It felt more to me like a resetting so that people then had the energy to go back to disregarding their bodies the minute they had the energy to again. It really does still blow my mind. But the detox you describe here Cherise and the consistency with which it is followed through does make sense, common sense.

77. I agree there are times in life that we look for a new start, particularly with food, because we can feel that the food we are eating is no longer supporting us, a detox program as you have expressed is a great support, because often we eat certain foods because of the way we live, so looking at how we live and our patterns and behaviours is a great support to changing how we live and as a result we change what and how we eat too.

78. “My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.” An esoteric detox that gets to the parts that a physical detox leaves behind.

79. The Detox programme that is offered by Chakra-puncture practitioners is so fundamentally different to anything else that goes under this name. This program really is the benchmark from which everything else should be measured, because it really does take into account every aspect of being in a human body on every level.

80. I love it – from detoxing as quick fix, to a detox grounded in responsibility and evolution. What a paradigm shift for us all to consider.

81. When we are ready to be honest and open, we can begin to detox and let go of what is no longer supportive to our body, letting go of hurts and issues that are buried within.

82. With the many ways we can abuse our bodies, it is important to constantly look at what needs to change from our diet, exercise, sleep patterns etc. so our body doesn’t have to struggle with their impact. However there are so many deeper and more harmful things we need to detox, such as old patterns, behaviours, beliefs that drive our actions. Not living fully as the woman you are is a poison, as is being less than who you are in any way. The chakra puncture detox is such an important part of my year, as it supports me to keep growing and not accepting the lesser version of myself, that ends up causing physical problems in my body.

83. When I find myself doubting and going into my mind I remind myself to come back to me for it is in the connection to myself that I know what is true to me.

84. It is quite astonishing just how many different ways to ‘detox your life’ there are out there. None of which I have to say have ever grabbed my attention as they have all felt the same in their energetic approach to a quick fix plan. I have been on a couple of charkrapuncture detoxes over recent years and whilst it’s not always obvious that things have shifted and it’s certainly not about weight loss, upon reflection I’ve noticed how during the 12 week program I was making choices that were far more supportive than before, and also making some huge decisions that would create future shifts in the way I was living. Subtle as it is, it is far more sustainable and more powerful.

85. It is a huge stop moment to realise that seeking solutions only gives us temporary relief and all the time we created the issue for ourselves.

86. Truly inspiring Cherise! What a beautiful way to detox and clear yourself for a “fresh start for life”.

87. Wow this kind of detox sounds amazing – not just a quick fix to get rid of the excess but an actual stop in the road of life to re-examine a way of living from the perspective of a deep re-connection to who one is.

88. Approaching a ‘detox’ not just from a physical perspective, but that at the same time it is offering a substantial shift in some aspect of our relationship with life that we know contributes to the physical sluggishness or conditions we might have, is definitely not usual. This is a truly holistic approach and makes perfect sense if we do not want to just start re-creating our ‘toxic’ state again once finishing our ‘detox’.

89. The Chakra-puncture detox I did with Michael Benhayon many years ago was literally a life-changing event… an extraordinary practitioner with a wonderful modality.

90. Cherise you have brought a totally new awareness and meaning to detox. I have always taken detox to mean to losing weight by not eating foods and drinks, to help cleanse the body. However what you have shared here is that we can detox anything in our past and old hurts. Emotions and built up sadness. There is so much in life we can bring detox too.

91. I have been finding that nothing can be addressed in isolation of the whole of my life and my chosen relationship with myself, people, God and the Universe. And some of the old patterns are very sticky and ingrained. A detox programme that lovingly supports us to see the issues, recognise our part in creating them and “returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be” is just the ticket to a gorgeous fresh start.

92. Normally a detox is used as a cleansing and after this period life starts again as before, as if it is not possible to live in a way that asks us to begin each day as a new start. A detox with an esoteric practitioner gives us an opportunity to deepen our insight in ourselves and to configure the body in such a way we are more free of the ideals, beliefs and ingrained behaviours that are stored in our bodies. And then we have the responsibility to claim this new awareness and openness we feel in ourselves knowingly our true nature is love.

93. This is beautiful article that exposes the massive difference that comes from our underlying intent and belief systems. A detox in the world today that strives always to be better, the best and never believing we are enough, is about removing the impurities, stripping everything away – so that we can feel ‘cleansed’ and start again.
    The esoteric says – you are already everything. There is nothing you need to strive for, all you need to do is simply allow the real you to start to shine through. A detox from this quality is so very different. It’s about letting go of patterns, behaviours that have assaulted us physically and emotionally and hence kept us hugely capped and thwarted from letting the real us shine through.
    One set of detox beliefs and philosophy says you are never enough, the other says you are already everything.
    I know which one I would opt for.

94. Because I have a tendency to internalise my feelings and experiences, for me going on a health kick would involve actually speaking out more about what my worries, fears and problems. Just to say what bothers me is a healing experience. And so for everyone what it is to heal, to detox, to refresh and renew will be different, but the key is to actually feel, and never just go through the motions, believing what is told but figuring out for ourselves what brings us true health, full vitality.

    1. That’s a great point you make Stephen. A detox is so personal. Detoxing the mind, for example, and becoming very aware of the thoughts that we allow ourselves to be ‘consumed by’ or ‘consume’ can completely change our body and state of being.

95. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” What a beautiful analogy Cherise. A true detox that takes every aspect of your life into account, clearing away what is not true and makes way for your natural beauty and grace to shine through.

    1. Returning to the little bud we started with, the beautiful natural essence, ready to truly blossom once again in its truth.

96. What I love about the focus of this blog is what we are choosing and the opportunity that comes from that choice – letting go of the old patterns. It is not about beating ourselves up during a detox or denying ourselves anything but choosing a fresh start and a fresh approach as a way of living, not a short term solution or quick fix.

97. I love this line “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being”. When we have lived that way for such a long time we can choose to be identified by them, I say choose but it is the choice to not be aware or open to the possibility there is another way that makes it our normal.

98. All the Universal Medicine modalities including the Chakra-puncture Detox Programme has helped me clear so many things and so many layers that I have carried that were not truly me. In fact the Universal Medicine modalities (along with my willingness to heal) are the only modalities that have truly cleared many ill patterns, beliefs, ideals, hurts etc., that other therapies I tried did not even touch the surface on.

    1. My experience is the same, if it was not for the Universal Medicine modalities, I would not want to even think what my conditions would be. I have healed and cleared so much in my life, with my willingness and commitment to heal, I feel like a completely new person.

99. The Universal Medicine Chakra-puncture Detox Programme is unlike traditional detox programmes as the focus is not on eliminating the symptom, but to support the discarding of the cause of the symptom. In this it is hugely successful.

    1. The Universal Medicine Chakra-puncture Detox Programme, is a full body, mind and lifestyle detox, the amount of cleansing that takes place is huge by the end you feel so rejuvenated, revitalised and body just feels amazing.

100. I love fresh starts, and these days I don’t wait for the New Year to make changes. Looking at my choices has become something I keep reviewing, since all the little choices add up to how my days, weeks and months pan out – my life.

101. Now this is an awesome way to approach a detox!

102. I love the different angle you bring here to the understanding of the ways detoxing the body.
     “My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me. I had an openness to whatever was to come up in my life and a dedication to living in a more loving, harmonious, joyful and truly well way”.

     1. It is interesting how we can share and observe that everyone has a different detox program that supports where they are at and what no longer supports them to appreciate what we all have to offer. Wouldn’t it be great to share this with the world rather than the common beliefs that is associated with detoxing the body?

103. Cherise, this is very beautiful to read, ‘returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.’ I really like how simply you talk about us returning to live who we truly are and your analogy of the rose as it ages. I can feel how we are all untainted in our essence and how we can return to this way of living with joy, simplicity, love and sweetness as we did when we were young.

104. Cherise you have raised a great point here that the detox provided you with an opportunity to get real and honest with what was truly going on for you in your life. When we use food or other distractions to numb ourselves there is little opportunity for the body to speak the volumes that it can to bring us closer to feeling our true qualities. The choice then lies in what levels of amazingness do we want to feel and be with others.

105. It is through the increased awareness of those moments of disconnection to ourselves that we have an opportunity next time round to not lose ourselves because we know, especially after experiencing it, what that feels like. It may take several lifetimes but I know it is well worth it as nothing can beat the connection to my soul and to God.

106. For sometime I have been trying to find solutions to an area of my life that I felt needed fixing and have been blaming others in the process. I have come to the conclusion that it was me that needed ‘fixing’ as I was looking outside of me for solutions to fill the emptiness that I was feeling. Whatever it is that I feel needs fixing will come to me when the time is right, it is true for me and that I do not need to try or go out looking. All I have to do is keep feeling and committing to the connection to me.

107. Connecting to this supportive and warm place within us keeps us steady and allows us to meet life’s challenges with a growing confidence. These challenges offer us a new start and often require us to let go of old ways of being in order to move on to realise more of our potential, showing us that we can do/be so much more.

108. A great point raised Cherise Holt. A detox is often associated with a cleansing of the body. Changing the way we eat is often riddled with an agenda to lose weight etc. There is much to be said about the choices to detox other aspects of the way we are living that we know is harming and not allowing us to live our true potential. I found it interesting that this blog title caught my attention as I had just spent the last two days noticing a choice in the way I was living that no longer supported me and could feel the pull to detox and move to the next level of understanding. Thank you for the timely blog. It has been very supportive.

109. I was noticing how you end your blog with a call to return to cherish and accept ourselves and I thought what a lovely word cherish is and how it is not used a lot and then I noticed your name is Cherise and wondered if that comes from cherish and your connection to that beautiful word.

110. Funny as I started reading your blog and read the first words: “At times throughout life we may find ourselves searching for a fresh start” it occurred to me it is not occasional for me, as I see almost every moment as a new moment and every day as a fresh start. But then it also occurred to me I live with very strong rhythms so on the outside my days and way of being might look quite consistent, but inside each moment is an opportunity for awareness and expansion.

     1. I can absolutely relate Nicola. Every day is life changing if we choose it.

        1. ha ha well said – we can choose to learn and evolve or keep repeating until we are ready to learn and evolve!

        2. Exactly Nicola. In the end it is all the same and we get to determine how many times we must repeat!

111. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…”

     I was only just marvelling at the exquisite beauty of a rose yesterday that had been picked and put in a glass jar. Its petals were in full bloom above the surface while its thorns were magnified through the water below. I came to wonder how come the rose has thorns? What does this reveal to us about our nature? What I got from this observation was seeing the layers of protection we build around us to keep us ‘safe’ from harm, a ‘do not enter’ sign and yet despite these thorns, there buds the most gorgeous flower, full of delicateness with soft and scented petals that invite you in. The message I got loud and clear is that no matter the external fortress we may build, we can never mask the beauty of what we find deep within. Our love is a blossom needing only our permission to bloom in full. There are no thorns amongst the petals.

112. Well said Cherise – it feels like you have just re-imprinted the word ‘Detox’. A true detox is as you have said a deep cleansing not only of the foods we consume but also a deep cleanse of all the ideals, beliefs and pictures we hold that keep us trapped in a life that is not true.

113. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” letting go of the layers which are not true and returning to the true person within. It is about that true connection and honesty which allows the depth of the detox to remove the layers.

114. This presents a whole new way of looking at a detox Cherise. I can relate to looking for a quick fix or an end result by a certain deadline, but what happens after that? I have been on that roller coaster ride many times where I make some amazing changes, only to revert back to my old habits after a few months. I have learnt that making sustainable change is about making new choices, little by little, which I build on and then together become a new way of living.

115. Many people seem to have taken detoxing on a spin that just doesn’t make sense. Take a break from bashing your body only to go back and do it again. It’s just a reprieve for the body but does it offer any true healing? I love your description and that the detox was like a catalyst to deepen.

116. It is inspiring to be honest to myself, to unravel deeper the patterns I have, to look at them honestly and see how they affect me. It is also inspiring to see these patterns clearly and be able to appreciate this awareness and how I choose again my next step without judgement. Life is not about perfection, but a relationship first and foremost with myself and with evolution.

117. A timely read during the Christmas period where many overeat and then comes the detox January time. In my life i have done many different detoxes including the Esoteric Chakra-puncture detox which was really supportive. In all of this what is so obvious to me now is what we bring to this (the detox) as this is what truly makes the difference, do we do it to just feel a bit clearer only to go back to old and unloving habits (which I know i have done a few times) or do we truly declare what all of our old patterns and ill behaviours and beliefs are so that we can choose otherwise. The choice is always ours.

118. ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ We can get so caught up in our heads, in the rights and wrongs and the ideals and beliefs we have about how things should be. To bring it back to the simplicity of space is simply beautiful. Thank you Cherise

119. Exposing what has enabled toxins to sit in the body, or sometimes just exposing the toxins themselves ‘with loving tenderness and compassion’ allows us to go further, than we have to date, with our own healing.

120. Imagine a detox programme that actually re-aligns us energetically and offers us the opportunity to make choices in our lives that increase the living integrity of our everyday life… wow… too good to be true ? .. no this is what is on offer here

121. ‘And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today..’ I love this statement. One of the most supportive things we can do for ourselves is to approach behaviours without judgment claiming that they aren’t who we are, but simply choices that can be changed.

122. I see a “detox for life” beginning with the honesty that all is not well in our lives, then identifying the specific parts that need addressing, followed by the taking of responsibility to make choices, that although may be challenging, when committed to will begin to ‘clean out’ all that is no longer needed. It is a detox that is personal to each person as will be the way the process unfolds, but in my own experience is so very worth it; for me it has been life changing.

123. A great line ” We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This really highlights the difference between having people do your healing for you, or empower you to live in a way that is loving and true, so that you become a practitioner of your own life.

124. There is an enormous difference between a short course be that a diet, or getting fit vs incorporating a healthy way of living into our long term every day. The latter is such a support to what we are here to do in life… while the short course is a sticking plaster that does not.

125. I like the fact that your detox was supporting your whole way of being, of being more loving, harmonious and joyful, ‘A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…’.

126. You group these toxins all together as harmful substances Cherise, “such as drugs, prescription medications, alcohol, sugar and gluten.” We may judge one to be worse than another but they are in fact equally harmful in that they are all used to divert, block off and shut down the natural flow of fire in our bodies.

127. Everytime I have a chakra-puncture session, let alone an entire detox program I am completely amazed at the depth of healing that takes places. I feel like I have been completely re-configured and everything is new again.

128. The analogy to the rose is beautiful, and if we care for our selves and appreciate our beauty in the same way as awe always appreciate the beauty of a rose we will bring the care that this appreciation always brings

129. Thank you for sharing how by bringing responsibility and honesty to your detox programme you allowed yourself the space for whatever needed to unfold to do so, thus providing you with a foundation to move forward with your life having no doubt shed many old ideals and beliefs that prevented a connection to the truth of who you really are.

130. It seems as if my whole life is a detox program as there is plenty of tox around to detox

     1. … and no end to the clean up!

131. A rose naturally, starts as a bud, goes through to full bloom, wilts, drops its petals and a rose hip is formed which contains the new seeds that create a new bush, and the cycle continues. Where as we humans are not always aligned to our natural cycles, and have lost the instinct and feeling of reading what it is we are actually choosing to engage and live in. A detox sounds like an opportunity to cleanse what is not us and live in connection to the natural wisdom we all have in our body.

132. The best form of detox is to live the love that we are and nothing less.

133. We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ A lot of us have lost trust. Not only trust in other people but in ourselves. With someone holding us in a space that we can explore for ourselves what truly works for us we can reconnect to the wisdom we have but are allowing to be obscured and disconnected from.

134. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” Very beautifully expressed Cherise – we all love and appreciate watching a rosebud slowly opening until one day it bursts wide open in full bloom – just glorious!

135. How beautiful Cherise, a real honesty and love being delivered here for us all to feel. Being on a detox can be exactly that, it is time bound and has a finite life to it. People jump on the detox band wagon and then jump off after a certain period of time. What if we were on a detox for life…..as you ask. It would mean taking responsibility for what we are eating, drinking, supplements and the like all the time.

136. A true detox reveals that you are so much more than you ever believed you were.

137. A fresh start lies deep within the reconnected heart, for this is, if we live from here, the font of all nurturing and all true connection.

138. Re-defining detox to be a clearing of old patterns, beliefs, ideals, ways of being is such a supportive and healing way to look at it. Physical detoxes are usually seen as short term solutions that will require repeating many many times, whereas with a true detox, although others may be chosen to go deeper with our healing, they are not needed to try to keep the body in a healthy state.

139. I have watched as many of my close friends have had Chakra Puncture detox programs, and Cherise everything you say is my experience too. It’s like this modality supports us in so many ways to let go of the toxic beliefs and behaviors we can pick up in our day. Like a spot of great natural beauty, the treatments help our bodies be reclaimed to the harmonious and clear way they were originally made. The whole process helps me see that every moment of every day is actually a beautiful opportunity for a fresh start, that either cements hardness or frees up my heart.

140. I have done many detoxes but I love your approach “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being”. My next one will have a very different focus.

141. It was great to read this ‘And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise’. So often we look to others to have compassion for where we are at in life or not to judge us or even look to others for the ‘answer’. It is great to feel you claiming this for yourself as it is an important element in true healing. Us taking responsibility for all of our choices whether good or bad and have the self-love, self-care and committment to change unloving patterns, behaviours, ideals and beliefs for ourselves.

142. Solutions just fix things temporarily, which basically means we have to face them again later on, maybe the problem will look different but it will also become more severe each time we just bandaid it instead of addressing it. To honestly address an issue from an inner understanding we can lovingly work on it until it is resolved, we won’t always have instant results, but if we lovingly preserver we will have a long-lasting success and a life-long support, because if we truly heal issues, they disappear.

143. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” This is gorgeous Cherise. We can make a fresh start every day – or during moments in our day – if we so choose. It’s never too late to reconnect back to our natural essence – and it’s great to have the support of an amazing practitioner who can hold us energetically while we explore our innermost.

144. We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” Yes, this feels true.

145. Yes, it really doesn’t serve us or anyone else to hold onto our old ways of being.

146. The thing is , on one level we will find that many people have in a way simply given up on life, and are just going through the motions… imagine reconnecting to something that revitalizes on all levels … imagine that!

147. IT is so true Cherise, the usual ‘detox’ most go on is short lived, attempting to address the accumulated bloat, sluggishness of the past weeks, months or years. The result is however all too often, and despite the best intentions to ‘be more healthy from now on’, that we return to all the past patterns that led to us feeling that way in the first place. Understanding there is a reason for this, and that a detox, to be truly life-changing, must include a ‘reconfiguration’ of the body so that we are not immediately impulsed to resume the same patterns as before. This requires some conscious awareness of those patterns and a clear nomination of why we choose them, in what way they have served us. The Chakra-puncture detox is indeed quite unique in it’s ability to not just support the clearing of what has accumulated, but also of shifting the underlying configurations in the body that keep us repeating the same things.

148. What I have learnt from working with Universal Medicine, and from observing my own life and what works and what does not, is that all that is not truly loving has a toxic effect on me. By listening to my body and being honest about how I feel, I can see clearly what truly supports and nurtures me and what does not.

149. Wow I feel totally inspired to start a detox programe. I have done them before and I know how supportive they are and how much they can bring up to clear. it is like starting a new chapter in ones life, one that other chapters can be built on.

150. Yes Cherise, a true detox encompasses so much more than the physical end-result of living the way we do and therefore offers the opportunity to include looking at the behaviours, attitudes and issues we might hold that have us end up needing a ‘detox’.

151. What’s completely different about the detox modality from Universal Medicine, is that it holds the person accountable for the consistency in which they live before, during and after the detox. It promises nothing but support of the person being who they are. No quick fix, no assurance of weight loss, vitality, energy etc. It places full responsibility on the person choosing to make the commitment, hence empowering them in their choices and then simply supporting them with those choices.

152. I’m currently towards the end of a detox with a Universal Medicine Practitioner, and one of my biggest lessons that I’m forever learning, is to not have a picture of how it should ‘work’ or ‘look’. It can be quite uncomfortable at times, emotionally, mentally and physically. So when I’m feeling more tension in my body than usual, or if I’m finding myself wanting to completely check out and watch TV, I have to appreciate that something is going on that I don’t want to feel, and no doubt the detox is helping it come up and be cleared of my body.

153. A true detox can support us to let go of all that is not us. Not only have we built up toxins in our body from substances, but also behaviours, reactions and thoughts which do not come from our heart.

154. Feeling that our inner knowing remains untouched no matter how we have lived is really lovely. That we can discard the things that have held us back and come back to our inner knowing is encouraging and awesome. This detox sounds really supportive and worthwhile.

155. There are so many things that we have accepted as normal when they are not and detox is one of those. We accept that we can treat the body really badly, deplete it and then deplete it even more by having a depleting detox. It makes absolute sense that a true detox has to build the body up in order to be able to cleanse what is there.

156. ‘A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…’ So many detox programs deplete the body and deplete it rather than cleansing it and building it up.

157. This is a true detox program, looking way beyond simply food or exercise but at the relationship we have with ourselves. The fact is, if we truly loved ourselves, we would not get to the point where we needed to go on a diet or exercise plan to lose weight or get fit, because we would never reach the point where we wanted to fix our bodies. The Universal Medicine detox has shown hundreds of people the importance of stripping back all the doing and hurts and emotions to get to who we are first and foremost – and from there – a very beautiful relationship can blossom

158. ‘living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be’. The more I look at this, setting a self-loving intention seems to be so important in life. Self-love has been misinterpreted in our world to be conceited and arrogant, but in truth it is pure common sense. Self-love is not about ‘bigging ourselves up as better than others’ but about ‘plugging into the grid’. We can choose to be connected to the love in our hearts, rather than seeking it outside in a world of people who are also seeking love. In this way, we become a reflection of how to choose love for ourselves rather than spend our days in what is in fact a fruitless search.

159. Do we ‘service’ our bodies with a detox so we can continue to live the same way we have been living – and ‘re-tox’ them all over again, or with the intention to have a different foundation to work from and stop making those toxic choices altogether? We tend to view a detox as a short-term thing, like a cleansing, but to not choose toxins can be a way of living as well. When the body does not have to use much of its fuel eliminating poisons, that energy can be used in other ways. Works for me

160. Every time I have done a detox it has led to a deeper awareness and helped clear harmful emotions stored in the body. I would recommend a chakra puncture detox to anybody

161. This gets to the root of the word ‘detox’ in that it is what we bring to it and our willingness to be completely honest with ourselves and how we have lived. It is not about a quick ‘fix’, pill or drink but instead looking at how we are living constantly, in each moment. Before we do a detox we need to have a TRUE understanding of energy, the man for this … Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

162. A beautiful blog Cherise encouraging and supporting us to blossom into the gorgeous divine people that we so naturally are. The analogy of a blossoming rose is very inspiring. Thank you Cherise for sharing your experiences of the Detox program and your wisdom.

163. Weight loss for myself and I have noticed amongst many women and men is a topic that comes and goes throughout life all of the time, we don’t appear to truly deal with or be done with it; that is not until we begin to really uncover what is behind it in the first place. Some of us build up our weight as a form of protection and actually choose to be physically bigger than our natural form and equally others choose to stay slimmer and control their bodies through avoidance or dismissal and there are many other choices in-between. Either way, we live in a world where we are constantly learning and uncovering more about ourselves, our relationships and the world around us and so we are constantly dealt experiences to support us to uncover more and more. From this explanation it is simple to see why issues we thought we’d dealt with or have not detoxed completely, such as weight loss as an example, come around again for further exposing and learning.

164. Thank you Cherise I love your understanding of Detox and your beautiful following analogy “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose.

165. Great blog about detoxing in truth. Before I started attending courses by Serge Benhayon and having sessions with practitioners of the esoteric modalities, I only knew the detox with drinking only grapefruit juice for a week and fasting on anything else. This always sounded quite horrible to me and quite harsh on the body too. Your blog makes me understand that detoxing is not just physical but about a unsupportive way of living we clear and can do away with. Yet the sessions alone won’t ‘do the trick’ it has to be applied and lived in everyday life, that is where the true healing begins.

166. Just like we deadhead our roses during the growing season to encourage more blooms and then prune the whole plant back in the winter months so the whole plant can regenerate and begin again in the next growth season, a Chakra Puncture detox too can support us to ‘let go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours’ we have accumulated by the way we have been living and lay the foundations for new beginnings too.

167. I love the image of the rose Cherise Holt and can feel how, until I learned otherwise, life felt like a process of accumulation of more and more information, knowledge, ideals and beliefs – things which I now feel the need to divulge myself of to return to the purity of who I truly am – something which as you suggest has remained untainted throughout.

168. Having lost weight over the past few years – and now being lighter than I have ever been as an adult – I know it is because I have dealt with what has been going on within me rather than seeking to look better on the outside. I had no intention to lose weight at all but to reconnect to a more loving way of being with myself and it is this that has made all the difference. If we don’t deal with the hurts we carry around on the inside it is very hard to change the external appearance and even if we do manage to do so, there is often no real change in how we feel. Life it seems, is very much an inside out process in truth, not outside in.

169. I am currently experience a different kind of a detox within my life during pregnancy. What I’ve discovered from the beginning is that as I choose a new area or aspect of life to bring my responsibility, and that being through pregnancy or motherhood, I am being presented with many areas of my life that require my deepening and further honesty to be lived. There are many things that I would have thought I had worked on and yet fortunately they have been brought to my attention again, to be fully dealt with, claimed, appreciated and sealed up in their old ways in preparation for the new beginnings I’m actually saying yes to. From money to body image, work places to study and of course food as an ever-developing one; there are so many mini-detoxes, if you like, for us to embrace and bring our focus to in life, so that we may continue to embrace living as students and teachers of our own way of life.

170. Our whole life and evolution is a form of detox – to let go of all the poisons, ideals, beliefs and harmful energies we have consumed and identified with, so that we return to our pure one-unified selves.

171. Thanks Cherise for sharing your story. A detox program sounds like a wonderful way to not only get to know yourself on a deeper level but to also keep releasing the layers that simply don’t belong. As you have shown – there is always more to us than just the outer layer. It certainly lightens the load when we are prepared to see ourselves as delicate buds at our core and not all the dramas and behaviours that we so often beat ourselves up about.

172. Cherise your blog is such a refreshing understanding on Detoxs. I used to see detox as purging, fasting and eliminating poisons for the body in lots of weird and often uncomfortable ways. What you show here is it is an opportunity to go deeper and look at everything in our lives, not just the elimination of toxins from the body .

173. Thank you all for your expansive and gorgeous comments, furthering on in my discovery of life as a detox is my understanding that we are asking to shed such old ways all of the time; by virtue of taking responsibility for our choices and through renouncing that which does not truly serve us or our bodies any longer. What a blessing it is to view life as a continual opportunity to choose a way of movement in life that expands nothing more than the true, rich and deeply precious quality that we are.

174. This is a true detox. Just like a clear out of our garage moving all the old and making way for the new, the detox you have shown here Cherise is an opportunity to do just that in how you are living, not just what you are eating or drinking.

175. Many people feel that life has swamped them with an inevitable march to a futile and meaningless death, but within every breath is the potential, for everyone, for a new start.

176. Very gorgeous to read Cherise;
     “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose”… unfolding into the tender, divine and loving people we are; how inspiring.

177. Beautiful Cherise, I loved reading about the detox, the only thing that is needed is honesty in where we are at, and choosing differently, choose for the love we innately are.

     1. Great you mention honesty and responsibility here Benkt. This is the one factor missing from many diets and detoxes of this world and hence the possible key ingredient to making it truly work. Why can’t we sustain the change and easily return to our old ways? Simply because we have not changed the energy behind it all.

178. It’s a beautiful analogy, as we let go of what is not us, we blossom to the beauty we truly are. That is a true detox loving and supportive.

179. “But what happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete?” During my life I have done many detoxes, and after a few months, if the body has not dealt with the buried hurts and issues, the body just goes back. A true detox is looking at the whole body and the 12 session chakra-puncture detox is amazing. I have also had this and you really go deep into clearing the body, so much comes up with self responsibility.

180. I have tried some detox/cleansing programmes before because I could feel I had so much toxins within me, and every time I actually felt totally ‘done’ and depleted by it after the initial high of knowing I had persevered with something very intense, so I would look for another way and so on. It never occurred to me that I ever had to look at the way I was living, I wanted the programme to do everything for me. Amazing how the entire industry relies on the lack of responsibility alone, and keeps flourishing.

181. I love your analogy of a rose – letting go of what no longer serves, so simple, and that there’s this sense of continuum that reminds me that there never is an arrived at point, we are forever unfolding.

182. “the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise”. To me these are beautiful words. Reflecting to me the importance of compassion with ourselves, rather than beating ourselves up, hardening, etc. Allowing myself to nurture myself with my own warmth and care is something I’m still learning. The pattern of going into emotions, emotional eating or abusing myself by, for example, going to bed late or over eating are more common than feeling compassionate with me. I’ve not learnt that and there’s a strong belief that I do not deserve my own Love. And in this I’m determined to prove that I’m okay – related to others (mum and dad). Rather then accepting how Gorgeous I am. As well as compassionate. Compassion actually feels very spacious. Where as the bashing, etc. feels very strict and limited.

183. What stands out for me whilst reading this article is how there is no expectation of what your sessions or your detox should bring you, only being open to allowing the release of old patterns and beliefs – very inspiring.

184. ” Over time we grew to accumulate many beliefs, ideals, constraints and contracted ways of being that resulted in damaged petals, hurt feelings and hardening to protect ourselves from the world around us.” I can completely relate to this, my body harden so much to protect myself, from my shoulders down, arms and legs. It has been a continuous process to release the hardness, by letting go of the control and buried hurts.

185. What we really need is a mental detox, an enema for the mind, as society lumbers along densely supporting the hotch potch of beliefs and fears and misconceptions that make up our lives, so that we can, as a world, start and truly know and feel again that we are one humanity, and that we are able to, if we reconnect, with our one true heart feel this.

     1. I can’t help but laugh thinking about the prospect of a mental enema cjames – but it’s so true our mental thoughts filled with so many ideals and beliefs and fears keep us so separated from our inner divine essence and purpose to life- one brotherhood, one love.

186. Thank you for sharing Cherise, this is truly inspirational as it again reminds me of all the layers of old ways that aren’t supporting me in the current day, there are so many but I can feel how when I am open and honest they are ready to be shed off and left behind, and start anew from the young and shining bud that is inside.

187. What an empowering choice to make for yourself Cherise to allow the space to reconnect to what is known by your body rather than setting a goal to achieve a preconceived result, bypassing the wealth otherwise shared by the wisdom of the body.

188. ” A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” So beautifully said Cherise, thankyou for sharing your awesome experience of a Chakra-Puncture detox. I look forward to the opportunity to do one, in the meantime I’ll be paying extra careful love and attention to my movements, my breath and the choices I make around food. This is my daily choices detox!

189. So often in this life we are told that it is our experiences that make us who we are, so we hang onto the good and the bad experiences believing that these things have made us strong. This is not true, we were ourselves when we were born, everything we needed was there, and we will always be enough. Letting go of all the things that have hurt us is an awesome thing to do and the feeling of lightness and joy that comes with this is amazing, without losing anything of value and gaining so much more.

190. Yes Cherise, a different kind of detox we can do is one based on energy and our body. For where do food choices flow from, but an energy and attitude we align to? Today I am inspired to bring care and attention to the energy I have on my menu, and to discover without judgement what am choosing to fill my body up with.

191. ‘It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.’ Amazing words Cherise and very supporting.

192. Really beautiful Cherise, I have been on many detoxes in the past. Initially they were for physical purposes, to stop drinking for a period of time, look at diet and cut things out. But as you stated, most people, myself included, would go back to the old patterns and behaviours, post detox. I have looked at detoxes differently over the last few years, making them more about me, what is presenting in life, not just how I eat or drink. Long gone is the alcohol today, but there is always more to do with food and how I emotionally and mentally handle life. How reactive am I with people and situations, how can I be more loving with myself and choices I make? What stops me from making these choices. I find it is in how deeply we know ourselves, that we create the situation, opennes and clarity to make more loving choices.

     1. Great point Reagan! Detox is often associated with the food and drink aspect but not what happens with the way we interact with people. This includes choices we make in friendships and partnerships and how we are in our work place. There is so much room to detox other aspects of your life when we broaden the way we view the word detox.

193. My experience of a chakrapuncture detox was similar to yours, Cherise. I had been having regular chakrapuncture sessions for a number of years, but the detox offered me an opportunity to bring a theme to the program, which offered specific insights while feeling held over the entire program … It was like having the veil lifted where I felt supported to renovate the house, so to speak, and rebuild it with more light, love, truth, harmony and joy.

     1. Suzanne, this has been my experience too when I have had a chakrapunture detox. It helped me to deepen my awareness of myself, understand why I do what I do and given me the way forward to change what is no longer working. The thing that is different is that all the answers came from within me, as chakrapuncture assisted me to get very still, connect to my divine essence, which then ensured that I found my own answers.

194. Coming back to your inspiring blog Cherise today these few, but very wise, words really grabbed my attention: “ My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.” – and I went, wow, just imagine what would happen if the whole of humanity went on this amazing detox; taking responsibility for their own health and well being, and bringing an honesty as to how they are truly feeling and living. I am sure that hospital waiting lists would reduce for a start, and the world would come “alive” again, as everyone began to live with their natural levels of vitality. The world would certainly be a very different and much more joyful place to live.

195. I can feel with this type of detox that it’s not about “fixing” anything but about making that reconnection with you – not seeking temporary solutions but rather it’s developing a whole new way of living that’s supportive, nurturing and loving. I enjoyed reading this Cherise and I like the honesty you took to your sessions.

196. I have also experienced the same effects as you have mentioned in your blog, of not only clearing toxins and harmfull emotions but of developing a deeper awareness and connection.

197. Cherise, you have highlighted some crucial differences between traditional detox programs and the detox program you have just been on. The fact is that other programs begin when people are feeling critical of themselves and are often full of self loathing and so there is a hard edge to what they are doing as they feel bad about themselves. It then becomes a form of escape rather than what you describe which is coming from a place of self acceptance and a commitment to allowing whatever is there to be revealed.

198. This is soo Beautiful, and I love linking our unfolding with the unfolding of a rose 🌹

199. I love how you share that healing is not truly about finding solutions to problems but the peeling away of the ideals, beliefs that we have collected over the years. You express this beautifully with your analogy of the rose and by:
     “But our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.
     It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.”

200. I agree Suse. Every day presents us with the opportunity to begin again and learn from past choices.

     1. I love what you have shared here Vicky, so clear, simple, true and inspiring just like you!!

201. Exactly Cherise, such important matter. Detox is the way we can naturally clean ourselves from things we are not. Simple said as possible. I found it a very beautiful example you had given us about the rose. It is true, we have grown up, but we took on so much stuff (expectations, limits, believes and ideals) that hold no love and therefore by holding on to these old things, we actually make ourselves less! Therefore with the understanding of your blog, I have a deeper marker of truth, I know what detox is, so now let everyone know it once again!

202. I love what you have shared here Cherise about allowing ourselves the space to reconnect to the fact that we can feel what is right or not in every single moment. As children we are very ‘switched on’ with this sensing and many of us shut it down as we grow older for many reasons. We can then get caught up in a ‘mess’ as adults and not feel like we have any clue what is going on, or what to do in certain situations.

     Having the support of someone who can allow us to come back to the simplicity of what our ‘problems’ are about is key, so we may move on from them and allow them to fall so delicately as they are not needed, like the petals on a rose as you have so beautifully described. One by one letting go of these problems allows us to feel so much lighter, and with inevitable joy in each step that we take.

203. Embarking on self responsibility as an everyday way of being is a blossoming unparalleled to anything else out there that may offer a quick fix solution to shed this or gain that.

204. I love this gorgeous blog Cherise. As for me it reveals that within us all we know who we are, but we simply have forgotten how to live this. We have instead complicated our lives through investing in ideals, beliefs and layers of protection by not healing our hurts. But as you have beautifully said – ‘our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.’ With true support and loving care we can choose return to this inner knowing that awaits patiently and lovingly to be connected to at any time.

205. “When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices – isn’t this beautiful!” I agree Cherise that is beautiful and I love it that you share this with us. We need this little reminder so that we do not get trapped in our old behaviors or pattern. And it is good to know that there is also a great support in revealing this old pattern in having this great detox – chakra-puncture program – wunderbar.

206. Cherise, you have made it very clear that there is a vast difference between the common understanding of a detox program and what is possible through a wholistic detox program which doesn’t look at the body with some sort of critical lens, but rather as something that is perfectly tuned but needing honest commitment and TLC.

207. “with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.”- what a beautiful recipe of love to start the day from Cherise.

     1. Yes I agree there comes a time to clear out the poisons and muck, this makes for a great opportunity to move forward.

208. A detox program sounds like a great healing Cherise to clear out the rubbish and poison that we have accumulated over the years allowing the space to then feel our inner qualities.

209. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.”
     Everything, we need to heal, you have summed up in this few lines – palpable how you have gone this way, very beautiful and powerful Cherise, thank you! And always and ever a reminder and support to do the daily next steps in this precious process.

210. Suse I love how You say, “each day is a fresh start that gifts us with fresh eyes and allows us to begin again”. This is so true as it allow us to let go of what does not support us and build on what does by the wisdom we gained from what we just experienced the day before.

211. A fresh start is indeed what is being offered to each and every person every day… It is simply in the choices that we make, and yet we feel that we are not responsible for what happens to us, and yet we are with every choice, with every thought, with every breath, with every action, with every deed we are creating our future

212. A really beautiful blog to read Cherise, it brought tears to my eyes. A beautiful rose unfolding with loving care and compassion. Thank you.

213. Love the analogy of the rose Cherise, revealing “..we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong” – shedding all the ideals and beliefs we have accumulated along the way that are no longer supporting us in living a loving way of life.

214. Thank you Cherise, I love the sensible approach to detox you share, that there is no quick fix, rather the opportunity to be super honest with yourself and be prepared to commit to giving away behaviours, beliefs and ideals that no longer serve you or anyone else. Such a detox is really setting you up for a permanent new way, not just erasing the symptoms of an old way which is for me, the only way to go.

     1. Agree Suzanne, well said. The thing that stood out the most in what Cherise shared was the feeling of taking responsibility to truly let go of old unnerving behaviours and patterns. Most of us seek solutions and this is only on the surface.

215. I love the analogy of the Rose as it has a purpose, it lives a cycle from buds, flowers to pollination, to withering blooms, to Rose Hips full of seeds to start the cycle again…
     A fresh start!

216. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This is so so KEY Cherise, the very act of seeking a solution means we have turned our backs on self responsibility, more over this level of honesty creates tension which causes us to run in the opposite direction – when looking at it face on from a simple point of re-connection, we are truly empowered to see the choices before us.

     1. This is so deeply wise Lucindag. I hadn’t seen it quite like this before. It really gives me a completely different angle on what I have been doing in my own life – “looking for solutions”. And where you state..” the very act of seeking a solution means we have turned our backs on self responsibility, more over this level of honesty creates tension which causes us to run in the opposite direction.” Wow, this is how I have behaved. Seeking solutions are a dead end. A false light, and yet it is so supported in human life for us to seek them. Thank you for this Light bulb moment! Allow space to re-connect not seek solutions!

217. Sure there are a hundred and one ways to clear the body of toxins but true healing is a willingness to look honestly at the reasons why we are drawn to the toxins in the first place.

     1. Great point lucindag, and when we are honest and come to realise something, we know exactly what is needed to bring change, and it’s simple because the need for that behaviour has be brought to light and can no longer surreptitiously have its say.

        1. That is gold what you both shared lucindag and rosannabianchini. You both described exactly why the other detoxes are not really working – now everyone has the possibility to choose what they really want.

218. Cherise, it sounds like a wonderful program that unlocked quite a lot for you. The understanding that all the beliefs and hurts I have accumulated along the way aren’t the real me has been a huge area for me to work on over time. I was so used to judging, blaming and generally being hard on myself that I have struggled to discard the ‘toxins’ as they have become so familiar and creep into many little nooks and crannies of my life. Until I attended Universal Medicine and had sessions with practitioners I had never really contemplated life without them. Slowly over time bits and pieces are being replaced with a more solid connection to my core and the more I do connect, the easier it is to see the old patterns when they do crop up.

219. Wow what a detox program. I have also had a Chakra-puncture detox and it was super supportive in address the behaviours, habits and patterns that I would go into on a daily basis. With the support of my practitioner and the detox program I was able to look deeper at this conscious and sub-conscious way I was choosing to live and see the impact that it had on my body and state of being.

     1. Apart from all the other added benefits of this kind of detox, it’s an added dimension to be able to reveal the “sub-conscious” choices we are making. How powerful for us and our lives, moving forward, when we finally clock these ones.
        A detox program that enables such clarity and awareness is a blessing and a gift to us all.

220. Often we associate a detox program with for example, a liver cleansing diet, or some kind of physical activity boot camp. However, the chakra puncture detox program you had was a detox on behaviour patterns and habits and thoughts. This is an everlasting detox, as in order to have a particular behaviour we first must have the thought to do it. This is, in my opinion, is a detox program that is truly lasting.

     1. I must agree there Johanne, I never saw it that way..”A detox on behavior and habits and thoughts”. So true and so needed in our lives for clarity of life direction.

     2. Yes Johanne it truly is ever lasting and supports us to look deeply at the ways we were living that we knew deep down inside made us often question there must be another way.

221. Yes when we make changes it must always be for us internally first, not for the image portrayed to the outer world. As if we make it about the outer first, then we are not really doing it for our self, and then the relapse happens, as we have no real connection as to why we are doing it in the first place.

     1. I agree Gail…true healing must come from within and be for ourselves for it to be lasting – when we do it for the outside world or for someone else it isn’t truly what we want for us, and so the old behaviours return when the outside world no longer satisfies the recognition we are seeking in the first place.

222. It is interesting that our ideals and beliefs cause us much discomfort in our bodies if we are willing to feel this. It makes sense though as ideals and beliefs make us think we need to be something other than ourselves which will naturally cause us some level of stress. This needs to be talked about more as we are a long way from the day that western medicine as well as complementary medicine are acknowledging this to be a very important cause of illness and disease.

     1. Katinka this is so important I thoroughly agree, the stress that we sustain due to living up to our ideals and beliefs is extreme.

223. After many conventional style detoxes in the past, I always noticed how I used to come back to the same place – my habits, my diet and outlook on life, all repeated themselves. Because of the effort and discipline I put in, I actually felt a little disappointed and depressed for a while after. Eventually, supported by the information from Universal Medicine events confirming what I was feeling, I decided, why not address the lifestyle causing the need for a detox in the first place. This has been life changing.

224. I can feel myself as the delicate little bud you speak of here Cherise. When I was born, I was this absolute delicateness, and was treated as such. I can now take this as more of a marker into my day as if I am treating myself as any less than this delicateness, I am doing myself a disservice, as it is who I innately am still.

     1. That is beautiful Amelia “I can now take this as more of a marker into my day as if I am treating myself as any less than this delicateness”. I can treat myself as a new born baby every moment of the day. I feel how lovely it is to accept that I am as delicate as that.

225. That is true Suse, the ever revolving cycle, each day is a fresh start to building a loving healthy way of life.

226. In my experience the Chakra-puncture detox is one that brings about true change within. It does not address the habits of foods we eat or smoking and other reasons we want to change, these are resulting behaviours from a lack of living love. The Chakra-puncture detox addresses this lack of love in our lives, it is amazing and works.

227. I love the analogy of the rose – it is deeply beautiful and truly captures the essence and power of what a detox program offers, should one be open to the learnings it provides.

228. Great to read this again and reflect on how i have completed detox’s before. The way that I choose to live now does not see me completing detox’s how I use to. This is simply because I now live with a loving consistency that there is no need to reach for a ‘quick fix’ or to make myself feel better or purge my ill choices like I used to. A confirmation of the fact that how we live and the choices we make are great medicine.

     1. Beautiful Marcia! It’s in the living of our lives we discover the true health benefits if we apply loving consistency.
        Who would have thought that how we live can be great medicine? However it makes perfect sense. It is our responsibility and our medicine. If we get that balance right we will need less actual medicine from doctors to heal our ailments because we will have looked after ourselves so as not to become sick too easily or regularly.

229. Thank you Cherise. The detox you have been undergoing sounds truly gentle, supportive and transformative, unlike many of the detoxes I tried in my younger days that were actually quite harsh on the body, and they never dealt with the underlying cause of any problems. Your detox gives a totally different perspective on detox altogether.

230. Thank you Cherise – its gorgeous to feel how you have blossomed and come to truly cherish your beauty.

231. Thank you for the reminder Cherise – “…a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” Just what I needed to read at this time – rather than being hard and judgemental on myself for perceived ‘failures,’ to be loving and compassionate allowing for a deeper understanding of why those behaviours are there, and a choice to continue in the old ways or move on.

232. This is beautiful Cherise. I think I may book in for a detox Program with my practitioner.

233. I love the analogy of the rose petals ageing and falling away like old ways of living. That’s beautiful. With support of a esoteric practitioner and in your case chakra puncture practitioner, they give the support that is needed to remove the “ageing petals”. To clear the ideals, beliefs and hurts that hold us back.

234. What is interesting for me these days is to look at my attitudes, beliefs and ideals and see how toxic they are and that it is these that need the most detoxing out of the body.

     1. That’s a great point Elizabeth, ” to look at my attitudes, beliefs and ideals and see how toxic they are” they usually are our motivation to be self abusive, as we do not want to feel the toxicity we have allowed in.

235. What I also find interesting about the usual detox programs on the market today is they are short term and in some cases they actually feel quite an abuse or assault on the body. I have done a juice / enema detox at a retreat. Whilst it does eliminate toxins, it doesn’t discount the assault – it was more like the body was my enemy not my friend. I then found as I gradually introduced food back into my diet, I didn’t really listen to what my body was telling me and basically went back to how I had been living, almost like viewing the detox and the dumping of the rubbish I put in it as something I would do again when I had built up all those toxins again … Maybe next year!

     The Chakra-puncture detox is completely different, in that I didn’t have to follow any strict diets or regime. We worked within a chosen theme and from there it was about connecting to the body and feeling everything that was to be felt. There were most definitely some challenging and uncomfortable times, but as we moved from clearing out the cupboards, so to speak, we were able to build the body back up free of all those unnecessary burdens. I made some slight changes to my diet on my own that seemed very natural and supportive of the body and now well after the program I catch myself in a situation realising I have been able to continue to build on what the sessions offered in more ways than one. There is no going back to how I lived before – the body won’t accept it.

     1. How beautiful is the chakra-puncture detox you have done Suzanne – it is very clear how self-responsibility within this program has brought about a true and lasting healing.

236. I loved the explanation Cherise of the Universal Medicine Detox and it makes a lot of sense to clear our thoughts and ideals and beliefs too, not just diet related as many detox programs are. I enjoyed the analogy of the Rose, beautiful!

237. Since going on a detox through a women’s health program, I have since understood the true meaning of the word detox.
     Yes I certainly was one of those people who thought a detox was only possible as a diet – usually harming myself with a 5 day juice only fast. But wow since I brought more awareness to what is behind something like this, I was ready to see that drinking only juice is like eating a packet of sugar every day. I might as well have had soft drinks all week.
     Diet detoxes were extremely harmful to my body, but I put the hype before how I felt – and this was the problem. Since understanding a true detox, I’ve been able to let go of a lot of ideals and beliefs I held onto that were keeping me from understanding my body on a deeper level. A detox now, is a wonderful opportunity to let go of what is not us.

238. Love the idea of a detox being about an unfolding rather than a system-shock clean-out. There’s a tenderness and preciousness that comes across about your own detox programme, one that puts you firmly in the driving seat, responsible not only for the experience but for the revelations and the new choices that emerge from your exploration.

239. “But our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.” I love this line Cherise and the analogy to the flower – allowing the old ideals and beliefs that do not serve us fall away revealing the true inner knowing that has been there all along.

240. Thank you Cherise for sharing your beautiful words that reimprint what a detox is all about and the opportunity it allows for us to truly choose to live in harmony and joy through the loving choices we make.

     1. Yes and what a great choice. I choose to live in harmony and joy. The trick is remembering that l chose that in the first place. I’m sure l made that choice?!

241. A beautiful piece of writing Cherise – I really loved the analogy at the end which related our way of living to a rose. This is so playful, but also holds so much wisdom. Letting go of our old habits and behaviours that no longer serve is as simple as picking off a dead or damaged petal, and as painless when done gently. A lovely reminder of how to be love and how simple it can be when we choose it.

     1. Simone it is a beautiful analogy, related to our way of living to a rose. It is great wisdom as you say “letting go of our old habits and behaviours that no longer serve, is as simple as picking off a dead or damaged petal, and as painless when done gently”. It really is about being love and choosing it.

242. ‘When a rose ages, its outside petals become discoloured, bruised and frayed, like our old ways of living; we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong. We can allow ourselves to name and let go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours that simply didn’t exist when we started out as the delicate little bud.’
     Thank you Cherise, I particularly feel drawn to this paragraph today. A reminder to always having the choice to let go of what does not work and let that what is already there and truly working unfold and carry me.

     1. This is such a lovely reminder that there is no angst, we are just returning to our natural state.

     2. I love this paragraph too Esther. It is a beautiful analogy of how we build up the layers of protection during our lifetime, but if we allow it, eventually the layers (petals) will fall away and we are left with the beautiful bud that was deep inside us all the time, waiting for its rediscovery.

243. This is such a great question Cherise, what happens when we stop the detox program and return to our usual way of living? It brings to mind and heart, the important question of how we are living. I wonder if every reader, including those who are students of Universal Medicine realise the power in simply asking ourselves, how are we living?… then allowing an answer to come from within us, not so much from our heads, which likes to tick boxes, but from our feeling of our bodies. If we do not do this, or do not know how, I can recommend it as very self empowering thing to learn or commit to, in and of itself, because in opening ourselves to an answer from within us, we access the inner knowing from which true change can occur.

     1. It is very important as you say Simon, to allow our bodies to speak to us, and not put onto them what we want or need from them in that moment. Establishing this sort of connection with our bodies allows us to truly honour them, and experience our health, illness and disease in a completely new way.

     2. What I have come to understand about the detox described by Cherise is that it clears away the accumulated dross that clouds us from accessing our inner knowing. We all know, so much more than we can fathom…there is just stuff in the way. The detox removes it, or at the very least shifts it enough that we get to sense who we truly are.

        1. Yes Rachel, I would agree here based on my relationship with my body and what I have experienced in the last few years.

     3. Great point Simon, it feels as though the detox as described by Cherise requires us to go deeper to truly consider our responsibility in the choices we make. Considering how we live means actually feeling into how our body is and acknowledging that it is the choices we have made to either listen to or ignore our body that results in the quality of life we lead. I am recognising that true vitality comes not from just a healthy lifestyle but from a true commitment to self, choosing the quality in which we live in each moment.

244. I have done lots of de-toxes in my life and the silly thing is that I used to gradually, with most of them, go back to my old ways after a while and then just pile the toxins right back again. For some years now I have been gradually allowing my body to let go of the toxic substances completely so that there is a continual change toward health and well being. I have sometimes gone back to old habits but generally with being so much kinder to myself and my body I am rewarded with more vitality and enthusiasm for life.

     1. Ha ha I have done the same thing elainearthey! In the past I have stopped eating sugar or drinking alcohol for a certain period of time and once that commitment was over – be it a month or a week – then it would be back on, usually with a celebration involving indulgence in exactly what I had gone without. Although it was good in that it gave me a feeling of what my body feels like without the toxins, it did not support me to deal with the root issue of why I was indulging in these substances in the first place. This is what I found the difference is with Universal Medicine – treating the root issue and by doing that there is no need to indulge or escape – because the issue has been resolved. A real detox – one for life and not just for a week.

        1. It is like a vicious cycle with the old detoxes. It is ongoing as it never truly heals as we return to old habits and behaviours. Simone I agree we need to find the reason as to why we are needing to return to our old ways.

        2. Absolutely. We go into blaming ourselves or feeling guilty about our form of escape be it alcohol, food or cigarettes and go on thinking and believing that this is the problem. When, really, it is only the symptom.

     2. Hi Elainearthey, I felt to say I can relate to your comment above, and especially I was drawn to the last line “…I am rewarded with more vitality and enthusiasm for life.” – and for me, I feel that in addition to vitality and enthusiasm for life, I have found more ‘meaning’ to life – life itself makes so much more sense now since I have been a student of the Way of the Livingness and begun to look honestly at the reason why I had chosen and allowed myself to become so wayward and toxic in the first place. I have endless appreciation for Serge Benhayon for sharing the Ageless Wisdom with us all at the Universal Medicine presentations, inspiring a more loving and true way of living.

245. I find the detox program amazingly supportive – I have had mercury amalgam fillings removed from my teeth and, as well as taking dietary supplements, underwent a de-tox program to support my body. The effects have been profound – I have a new-found steadiness in my day to day living. It’s very subtle and there are still other things happening that I need to make choices on, but this feeling of steadiness gives me the confidence to continue making those changes.

246. Realizing that indeed we ourselves know all that we need to know to make the choices that will enable us to heal and become who we truly are – instead of the usually smaller version of us we used to live and show to the world.
     This is such an empowering and beautiful moment – kind of being born again :o)

247. Loving tenderness and compassion – this is a great recipe for my consumption – or should I say living – today.

     1. Absolutely Elaine..take great helpings…and this is pertinent..
        “But our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.” and
        ” – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” The way that you have put this Cherise is new for me to ponder. There is that pure place inside of us that does KNOW ALL. We carry that too.
        We carry that too. We must never forget this!

248. What is truly wonderful is when we understand that each day is the same day, and we live that day being as present as we possibly can,…this really is a fresh start for every day.

249. Detoxing and letting go of all our hurts and unloving ways to return to the tender gentle love filled beings we are, this has been a true and worthwhile commitment for me, in doing the Chakra Puncture detox programme.

250. Every day when we wake up we can make a brand new start, that is what I find so beautiful about life. One change (making another choice) can have already such a huge impact. And true, then there is no end result, but just you living life, day by day, and step by step letting go of what is in the way to be your gorgeous grand self. No need to go anywhere, but just getting out of bed in the morning and experiment.

     1. So true Mariette this past two weeks I have committed to exercising everyday no matter what excuse or more urgent thing there ‘appears’ to be. And my body is loving this commitment to myself and my body, I have found recently that life is simpler if you do what you say you are going to do, all the effort it takes to delay or avoid something can be put into that actually task! For me it is keeping the consistency going and not slacking off once I have got to feeling good, it’s like I forget to evolve the tools I am using to staying in relationship with myself and my body.

        1. I love what you share Vanessa, I can relate to the delay and telling myself “oh I can do that tomorrow” or “I don’t feel like doing this now”. This is not what true commitment for me is about. Actually, when I tell myself I don’t feel like doing something, I make it about me and only me and that is not what life is about.

     2. I love your comment Mariette, so simple and so true.

251. I love the rose analogy Cherise. A beautiful and simple reflection of old choices, behaviours and beliefs that no longer support us. Thank you for sharing this.

252. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not”. This is so true Cherise. I find that I know this, and I know when I need to change something in my life but sometimes I don’t want to accept the change that is required, or I think it is too simple or too hard. Once I create the space to connect with the truth of what I have felt, it then becomes easy to make the required change.

253. I love how you describe a detox as an ongoing process, never ending. And equally so I love your picture of the rose, where each petal is appreciated.

254. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head when you describe that many people would like to ‘feel well in our minds and bodies.’ Many people look to diets first but may not necessarily check in with how we think. Being well in our minds is so important as how we think affects our body greatly and either supports a harmonious environment in our bodies or creates a toxic one. Detoxing the mind is powerful, addressing our issues, bringing responsibility and honesty to what is truly going on and our thoughts, seeking the right support. Universal Medicine has been an amazing support in this process.

255. The idea that we have that our beliefs and ideals are us, is false. To really detox would be to let go of the ideas that hold us back from loving ourselves and connecting and loving others. I have been amazed at the lightness I feel when I am able to let go of hurts I have been holding onto. I had no idea of the extent of the damage they did me until I found the key to discarding them. All of a sudden I was flooded with love. That was a true detox.

256. Forget about the millions of detox programs and supplements for sale out there: this sounds like the perfect detox! It has been a slow process for me to learn that finding solutions ‘out there’ isn’t the answer when problems arise. It’s about allowing myself to stay with my body and really listen to all the wisdom it is constantly offering me – then in that space, I will know what the next step is.

257. Cherise you describe the process of letting go of old patterns and beliefs so beautifully and so supportively this is really inspiring, thank you.

258. So well expressed: “we don’t actually need solutions, just the space to re-connect”. This is my experience with Esoteric practitioners.

259. So great to come across this blog right now, it reminded me how supportive a detox program can be. Having the opportunity to really focus on patterns which are literally creating toxicity my body is a very powerful experience.

260. This article is such a delightful explanation of how instead of a harsh imposed regime, the Detox Program offered by Universal Medicine is a gentle program that honours the body and supports a deepening of our connection to our inner knowing. Where necessary our issues and patterns are “ exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” This depth of care and support has been my experience of the Detox Program and in fact has been the foundation of every single modality offered by Universal Medicine that I have been supported with.

261. Thank you Cherise, for pointing out the difference between the intent to feel temporarily better in my skin or choose to deeply change a pattern through a detox program, which includes a loving way to deeply understand, let go and blossom more truthful then.

262. It’s amazing how much of a trick detoxes generally are. They never call on you to be responsible, it is always about how IT can fix you, and as you say Cherise, it never ends well. We will always be left feeling deflated when a week later we feel the same as before, if not worse about ourselves. It’s such a vicious cycle. My experience with Chakra-puncture detoxes has been one of ongoing support and whilst it can be at times uncomfortable, it’s all part clearing what the body no longer needs, but only if I choose to let it go, and so the responsibility falls back on to me, which is where the true power lies in a detox.

263. I love your blog Cherise. It’s so true that to build “greater vitality and physical energy in our day-to-day routines, where we feel well in our minds and bodies and can live a happy and healthy life” we not only need to detox our bodies of physical impurities but also the energetic impurities – our non-serving thoughts, behavioural patterns and beliefs. I to have found chakra-puncture to be an excellent support in helping me detox ‘stuff’ that is inhibiting my health, vitality and capacity for a more joyful life.

264. It all feels so simple when we realise that all we need is ‘the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not’. So often I have made life complicated by seeking outside of myself, until I have had a moment of realisation, as I find I am finding the solution within. I find that when I am speaking with a friend about a particular challenge, the moment of sharing with another opens me up to finding the answer – another of those ‘aha’ moments.

265. From this blog and comments I am feeling inspired to book myself on a detox programme! Thanks for sharing.

     1. “– returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” Now what could be a more important reason than that to make the choice to have a detox!? I would also add that doing this will enable appreciation of myself also, which would be life-changing with regard to lessening the self-loathing and self worth issues that surface for me regularly.

266. A chakrapuncture detox program is a gift from Heaven. It is pure beauty and a great opportunity to deepen the relation with yourself.

267. Thank you Cherise, it’s great to re-read your blog, as it brings such honesty to look at how we are living. I have found that having a chakrapuncture detox really does undo the momentums behind our choices rendering our body to be free of the behaviour patterns. There’s such honesty in this approach, when one is prepared to look at everything, not just certain aspects such as food.

268. I can honestly say that I loved going on programs – for exercise, eating, anything really. But in that I also discovered it was me giving my power away to something controlling one aspect of my life to the extreme.
     Then I went on a women’s health program – and it asks you to look at everything in your life. It has nothing to do with controlling certain areas, but rather complete support in the choices you make and how you are living , which encompasses how you do things and how you are in those moments.
     It has been a huge journey for me to stop indulging in programs but to rather listen to my body.

269. Thank you Cherise, a super redefining of detox programmes. I have chosen detox programmes in the past: colon cleanse, herbs, fasting, each may have helped clear specific physical conditions but my core patterns and behaviours were not explored by practitioners and remained. I competed programmes, and continued life in the same old way. You have shown how Universal Medicine detox programmes go deeper:’ My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me’ and with commitment to self, consequently do change lives.

270. I love the title Cherise, ‘a detox for life’.

271. A truly beautiful sharing Cherise, I so love how you describe the detox as that which is about letting go of the old ways and behaviors that you had formed that were not coming from the depth of warmth and love that we all hold inside. And how your dedication to this love and living from it enabled you to honestly expose what no longer fit with you. A truer detox cannot be found. If only all in the world could see that our weight issues, food issues, in fact all issues are only present in our lives because we do not connect first to the loving warmth we hold with in. Something that I get a greater understanding of each and every day.

272. Such a gorgeous blog Cherise – I love the analogy to the rose. As you say, I too have often felt that ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not’. This always feels like the most amazing way to heal as it allows us to connect to ourselves and to become empowered. When we seek solutions it doesn’t feel the same – it feels like more of an imposition from the outside rather than the ‘rose’ unfolding from deep within. For me this is the only way it works as each time I go within I find a that I am all that I ever dreamed of – a woman who can express her innateness.

273. What stood out for me today was- “the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise. When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices”. And in not judging ourselves or comparing ourselves with others more self love is embodied.

274. Indeed to move the focus away from solutions and discarding ways of being that are not true feels like a detox which can support me and is more sustainable long term.

275. ‘But what happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete? – Good question, Cherise. I worked in a Health retreat where people came for a week to detox. They had no coffee or alcohol, they exercised and were nurtured and they felt great once the withdrawal symptoms subsided. But many would return next year equally exhausted, even burnt out. They had not been able to sustain the ‘healthy’ lifestyle’ because it was imposed on them, not something they fully embraced themselves and took responsibility for.

276. To be given the opportunity to make new and more supportive choices is amazing. A beautiful sharing with us all Cherise thank you.

277. Most detox programs are something to be endured in order to achieve a perceived aim and, as you say Cherise, the effects are short lived. A Chakra-puncture detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner just asks you to be honest with yourself and look at the habits and patterns in the way you live that get in the way of being who you truly are. A rose dropping its battered outer petals and coming into full bloom and sensing the delicate fragrance at the heart of the flower.

278. Thanks Cherise. A true detox would start from the inside out, and coming from that Gentle and supportive place within us, that knows what is right and what does not belong to us. I really enjoyed reading this. It has a fresh approach to a detox and brings a sense of clarity, and fullness to the idea of what a detox is. A detox is a period of discarding anything which does not truly belong to us.

279. I have fallen under the ‘fresh start’ spell many times; in recent events I have wanted to move from my dynamic and social job to start again. I now understand that it’s me running away from what I must take responsibility for and face with open arms and heart.
     ‘My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.’
     This article is super inspiring as it gives me perspective on how I can choose to be with me; since that is effectively what I am running away from.

     1. Awesome comment Rachael, I understand where you are coming from. I too feel that I have run away from me and hence my responsibilities to myself and then to others, knowing I have so much more to share! It’s been a gradual process coming back to me. I am taking it gently, however I know this time it’s for keeps. A detox on this theme would be greatly supportive. Thank you for the clarity and direction in your words.

280. You can just feel the tenderness and claiming of what you experienced in this detox is real and a true way of living for you now. No going back – a deep and truly loving relationship with yourself is felt and resonates throughout this blog – a true inspiration Cherise. Thank you.

281. A Rose is a delicate flower that deserves to be cherished. Having a detox is a lovely experience and helps unravel so many wonderful things in a loving and supportive way.

282. Every new loving choice is like a new rose bud waiting for us to blossom within it

     1. What a gorgeous image. Yes indeed. Thank you Jaime.

283. Thank you Cherise I love your sharing especially what you say here ‘But our inner knowing remained pure and unharmed’. This feels very eloquent.

284. Cherise I love what you have shared here. A detox is about peeling back the layers but in a loving and gentle way , so as to expose the incredible beauty we all have within.

285. “But what happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete?” Great question, it is so easy to tick the box and carry on in our old behaviours once the detox is over. Not seeing the detox as a goal that we have to achieve but bringing an openness and honesty to each session makes so much sense Cherise, and takes away the drive to think we need to find solutions and answers to our issues.

286. Thank you Cherise, beautiful and inspiring blog. I too am working on peeling back those layers of old petals and discarding them and allowing my true self to be revealed and shared. I am discovering my loving, tender and gentle self through the inspiring people at Universal Medicine – to reconnect to who I am and allow myself to be seen.

287. This is such a wise and supportive blog Cherise, and this line is lovely – “When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices – isn’t this beautiful!” It certainly is.

288. I shudder to think of the radical detoxes I used to do. If one looked in at some of these practices from well outside of our society, they would seem, well, classifiable. Imagine having just carrot juice for 10 days, cycling 15 Kilometers to work, working in a factory for 10 hours, cycling back and then having a 2 hour “colonic irrigation”. Every day! Phew!
     Not too self-loving. I love the detoxes that Universal Medicine practitioners offer… so supportive, so gentle, and no carrot juice!

     1. I have never been on any extreme detox programs because they seem to be very strict and harsh. I have recently been inspired to do a detox through Universal Medicine. It is not like any other detox progam available, it sounds extremely loving and supportive. I love that it doesn’t include anything that is not loving or supportive. Any modality, program or workshop I have experienedd or seen offered by Universal Medicine is always about love and supporting people with extemely high regard and integrity consistently.

        1. I would have to agree with you there Chan.
           l have found that all the Universal Medicine programs that l have attended are always of the highest integrity. Whenever l choose to see a practitioner I invariably feel their utmost love and support during my sessions. And there is never a hook or pull to be obligated to return. I always leave a workshop feeling wonderfully empowered and inspired.

289. Very educational blog Cherise – thank you.
     Detoxes are like Programs. If something keeps coming up for me and I honestly need to deal with it, I put myself on a personal Program. You can look at the issue from a perspective of when you committed to the Truth that it was an issue and needed to be dealt with. Purpose becomes your truth and you are guaranteed to nailing it.

     1. I agree Rik that it is a very loving and supporting way to heal whatever you feel is needed through a program, confirming the commitment you make to yourself.

     2. I have just started doing this with myself Rik, putting myself on a specific programme and it really helps with bringing a new way of being into my life and letting go of old ingrained habits and behaviours.

     3. Thanks Rik – love the practicality of your approach and how you allow yourself space to really see what is going on.

290. Cherise it is beautiful to read your analogy of the rose. I can completely relate to the outside petals being tarnished and brushed or covered in dust and dirt. Yet just underneath are the fresh beautiful, glowing petals waiting for when the outside ones drop away. I used to think what was most important was the outside and would try and hide the damaged petals, so to speak. How much simpler to let go of them as I see the real truth and the most important part to be the quality inside and allowing that out. No need to fix what is broken but allow out what is living inside.

     1. What a beautiful comment David. I can agree with all you say here, the letting go is the key.

     2. A beautiful comment David – I love the way you describe how we try and hide the damaged petals. In that analogy we can clearly see how ridiculous that is – especially when just below the surface there is such a depth of beauty.

291. Beautiful blog Cherise. I love how you shared how you were not looking for answers from your practitioner. I am learning to do this too, more and more looking inside myself for the answers and with loving commitment to not looking outside for the answers and keeping it simple I also realised that: “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This is so true. Thank you for sharing.

292. Cherise, your blog is just gorgeous, I feel the tenderness with how you approached your detox and your unfolding, and how as you say it’s not about solutions from outside, but just having that supportive space to connect back to the beauty and joy of who we are. And much of how we are can be based on past experiences and self perceptions which are just not true, but rather than beating ourselves up, we can lovingly give ourselves the space to expose them as not us and let them go. Thank you for sharing this.

293. Thank you Cherise for this beautiful blog. I have chosen to do a number of Chakra-puncture detox programmes with Universal Medicine practitioners in recent years and each one has been a profoundly transformative time for me. I have found that the detox program is incredibly supportive, and provides the space for me to let go of long held patterns that have infiltrated every aspect of my life. The program has benefitted every aspect of my life, and how I am in all facets including my relationships, work, home, and my relationship with myself. The beauty about this program is that it is true, and long lasting – there is never any going back…

294. I love the analogy of the blossoming of the rose and it really highlights the choice to experience a true change during an esoteric detox, with a Universal Medicine practitioner and a true change because it stays with us and we don’t revert to old behaviours once it is complete.

295. Before I came into contact with Universal Medicine I would often put my self on a detox program which consisted of fasting for up till 5-10 days and having coffee enema. It was very abusive to the body and as you said Cherise it never changed long term any of my patterns or behaviours. I would revert back to old ways very quickly, only to do it all again three-six months later. A couple of years ago I went on a chakra puncture detox program with an Esoteric Practitioner, now this was a whole different experience. It was loving and tender for my body, cleared some deep seated patterns and behaviours that I have not returned to since. This was all done with ease and grace…..and no coffee enemas!!!!!

     1. What I have found with the chakra puncture detox is how much everything around me supports me to understand myself more deeply, my dreams become very symbolic and easy to read, my body clears what needs to be cleared. It is super supportive.

        1. I am very inspired to have a detox since reading all the comments. It seems like an important choice to take at regular intervals in one’s life. In particular, it feels like it would be an incredible support after a major shift in one’s choices to step up. To clear away what is not love any more. To clear away that which is still held in the body but no longer serves, or never did for that matter. Similar to a massive spring clean for the body. We do it in our homes and afterwards they feel incredible and so do we…I imagine doing it for my body and it feels so right.

     2. That is great Mary-Louise and shows us how simple it can be to really make long term and permanent changes in our lives that truly support our bodies and our life styles.

     3. It’s incredible to hear it was so abusive. As coffee enemas seem so popular and all the rage. Something about coffee. I never felt that was any good for the body. Even though l was seduced by the smell and social aspect that was coupled with having one and drank it for many years.

296. A poetic blog that leaves me feeling the truth of what a true detox is all about.

297. One of the things that struck me on reading this article is just how much we know that our life style choices are harming us. If we did not know this then why would we have so many detox clinics to rid us of what we put into our bodies.

298. A detox I have always perceived as something you abstain from and change your regular living to see how not living with whatever has been removed feels like. This is something I did a few years ago when taking certain foods out of my diet or taking late nights out of my routine. What I am curious about now is what is I abstained from certain emotions or distractions such as songs in my head? Or even a detox of avoiding people and being open with others. Often I would assume that the program I agreed to would be my saviour when actually now having realised that it’s not only the program I am on that supports me but more so its my active choices to follow the program that produce the results. Thank You Cherise.

299. Cherise, the way you write is truly amazing. It is timeless and all-encompassing and each time I read something you have written it inspires me to no end. Thank you for being you and serving in the way you do.

300. Cherise- lots to ponder in what you have written. I feel that I am detoxing all the time! I am committed to acknowledging and clearing what is not truly part of me but what I have chosen to absorb in my daily living. I am committed to looking at the behaviours I have that may not be serving me or those with whom I live and am around on a daily basis. I am committed to observe what is going into my body in terms of food and fluids with an intention of living in the utmost clarity at all times. I am committed to looking at all the ideals and beliefs that do not serve me and to discard these as much as possible. My detox is fully supporting me in how I live each day.

301. We often associate a detox program with food, when in actual fact a true detox is all about energy. De-configuring energetic patterns that are established within the body and mind to keep us making the same or similar decisions. Why do we keep making similar choices is all about habit, but underneath is an energetic pattern that encourages this, debase this then we are free to make other choices and re-imprint another way.

302. Love the ‘Detox’ offered by Universal Medicine practioners – a real refresh start, very timely reminder for me – thanks Cherise

303. There is so much shared wisdom in this blog. I particularly love the line “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” Very confirming to remember that we all do already know, thank you.

304. You nailed it Cherise when you said your detox was never about a goal, that is what brings us undone.

305. Here’s a bit of a ‘hair curler’ for you. Toxicity can be a 3-way street. And here are 3 experiences to show what I mean. One time I felt hurt by a friend and took it personally. One time I absorbed another person’s anger. One time I was running away from being drawn into someone else’s complications. Three occasions where I let toxic emotions into me, evidently because I still carried toxic hurts from which I’d react to what other people did. How many of us have been living our lives like this? What was ‘striking’ (a pun you’ll understand in a moment!) about these 3 occasions, is that during my immediate reaction to each of these 3 events, I was bitten by a very venomous animal. One was a female Redback spider on top of my head. One was an Eastern Brown snake on my finger. One was a Red-bellied Black snake on my toe. The snake bites involved a night each in hospital and several weeks of jittery nerves. The spider bite caused 6 weeks of excruciating pain and my whole face a puffy, scaly red mess of rashes. What a lesson – to heal emotional toxicity within, so I don’t take it in from outside, so I don’t get shocked to awareness by venomous fangs!

306. I love this article Cherise ~ thank you dearly. I particularly loved reading your description of a true detox being like the blossoming of a beautiful rose.

307. Like almost everything in life you get out of it what you put in. The more truth we bring to whatever detox we do the more truth comes pouring out.

308. Do you remember all the super food trends we have seen over the years – spirulina, chia seeds, wheatgrass, kombucha, Acai, Macca powder, Goji berries etc? They take off for a while, being the next big marketing thing. This alone is saying that people are looking for something more. That there is some recognition that something isn’t quite right. Serge Benhayon has been the first person I have heard talk about how our way of living is our medicine. No super food is ever going to clear our choices, but looking at how we live day to day can completely change our experience of life.

     1. Absolutely Vicky, no super food is ever going to make up for not being honest about the consequences of all our choices. Being open to seeing how we live each day and developing love in all areas of our lives can have a huge effect on how we feel.

309. Cherise we all need to be reminded of this “to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today….” and what makes it enlightening is your addition “and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise.” Great guidance.

310. I love the idea that a detox can be so universal, looking at all aspects of our lives, rather than just one part, for example food, hoping that will fix everything else. A detox can apply to how we speak to people or whether we engage in hurried or stressed behaviour…lots of things can be examined as part of a detox.

311. What a beautiful sharing, thank you Cherise. Can feel your openness to re-connecting to the naturally responsible, beautiful, tender, loving you, allowing you to make the most of the Chakrapuncture Detox program. And, so true, the program is an opportunity to look at our whole way of being, addressing the energetic root cause of our woes, truly potentially life changing.

312. Dear Cherise, I am touched deeply by what you have written here and shed a few tears reading this. This line really stood out for me – “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.”. I realised how hoodwinked we have all been in how we have been living life – always looking for solutions (detoxes being one of them) which actually just adds to the ‘woes of life’. It is, as you say, being really open and honest with yourself in the most compassionate and loving way possible to look at what might be running your life, and to support yourself to let go of what no longer serves you and embrace your inner-knowing which is always there for us. No solutions needed – just a deep knowing of that is right and loving and what is not. It is the best in-built barometer I have ever know. Thank you for the reminder and the wisdom you shared so beautifully with the world.

313. There is no relief in this detox, no momentary high, if you are willing to be honest and open to unravelling the source of your toxins/disharmony then the relationship with self that evolves is remarkable. The lived quality of the practitioner allows us to feel inspired and empowered to unlock patterns that we have long accepted as part of us. As Cherise shares so beautifully ” And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise.”

314. Cherise what stands out for me in your blog is responsibility and compassion and it seems for any detox or reflection on one’s life we need both together. Otherwise it can be easy to fall into the trap of exposing our weaknesses but then beating ourselves up about them. So yes it is important firstly to be honest about our behaviours and patterns but what I really loved about your blog was how you brought compassion into it, and I could really feel in your writing that you were holding yourself in compassion with the understanding that you are not your patterns and underneath all the layers there is a beautiful essence always there.

315. The detoxes you describe at the start of your blog only set us up to fail. They do not provide a space to deal with our issues or why our body got to a ‘toxic’ state that it required a detox. What you describe, Cherise, is a beautiful process to deal with our toxic ways so that we don’t continue to repeat them and therefore require ‘new years resolutions’ or an annual detox – no solutions, but rather true healing. Thank you.

316. Cherise, you outline here very beautifully the distinct difference between a detox where it’s all about looking good from the outside and quelling a fundamental sense of insecurity and lack of self-worth, and a very different kind of detox which is all about discarding what is no longer who we truly are — amazing already from within. One type of detox leaves you at the end feeling dissatisfied, looking for the next solution and fix, while the other with a warm gorgeous feeling of our inner most essence coming through and shining. I’m pretty clear which kind of detox I’d go for 🙂

     1. Me too Katerina, without a doubt.

     2. Great summary, of what the two kinds of detox are all about: one creates more problems and unanswered questions in the long run and the other cuts right to the core of the issue; thank you Katerina.

317. Thank you Cherise, I love how you have explained so clearly that “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This is what I love about my sessions with Universal Medicine practitioners – the opportunity that is presented to re-connect and the inspiration to continue to deepen my connection with myself – as from that place, there is no confusion, I no longer look outside of myself for answers but can trust the innate knowing that has always been there.

     1. We so often get lost in searching for the explanations and in making plans how to be better in the future, that we just forget how simple life actually is. If we simply are ourselves in every moment, everything else will unfold naturally.

318. I loved how you explained that a truly supportive detox program is not about a quick fix solution, found in a book, herbal tonic, diet, colon cleanse etc. It offers so much more if there is a willingness to be honest and feel the truth of what the body is wanting to reveal, and then we have a choice to learn from this or not.
     I loved the analogy to a rose-” A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose”

     1. Indeed Loretta. This is what I have found in general with Universal Medicine: it is truly supportive, as it does not only look at the surface, but at the reasons that are beneath the symptoms. Working hand in hand with conventional medicine this pair is incredibly powerful. One will address the symptoms and physical aspects, the other the causes underneath and how you can support and love yourself again, by being honest and making loving choices.

319. Yes I agree what I have learnt through attending Universal Medicine events has been like one huge detox. It has supported me to let go of heaps of toxic stuff I have taken on and in that is not me or mine. Ideals, beliefs and thoughts that were so automatic I thought they were mine but they were not. Over time I let go of so many of these heavy thoughts that I lost close to 35 kilos. Since many years now I have been steady at a very healthy weight but I still continue to lighten up in other ways and seem to be going against all trends in getting fitter and having heaps more vitality as I approach my 60s.

320. Cherise, what a beautiful and vivid picture of us blossoming through life like a rose. I instantly had the picture of an old Centifolia coming up: magnificently scented with hundreds of silky petals covered in with morning dew – must be the gardener inside of me ;o)
     With every new petal of us that unfolds something new can be seen and we evolve further. Old and frayed petals we can allow to fall off. And there are seemingly endless petals left in our middle to unroll, unfold and shine. We are beautiful, grace every place where we are with the our presence of eternal beauty and invite everybody to smell see and feel this beauty and be inspired to open up the flower bud that they themselves are and shine and scent with us. The beauty of the ages.

     1. So beautifully expressed.

321. The Chakra-puncture detox supports everyone exactly wherever they are, with no goal or objective in sight. It’s a beautiful way to re-establish a deeper connection and make space for more love in our body and life.

322. Your bring such a new quality of beauty to detox in the unfoldment as you described with the rose analogy.

     We become an active part of the detox in our clearing and healing, we actually lead the way with the support of our practitioner…that is true healing not giving our power to someone else to do it for us…to choose to do detox is a choice to clear what is holding us back from living our lives in full.

     “….with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be”

323. Cherise thanks for showing that toxicity is “the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences”. It gets to the root cause, thus there is a way forward into loving change instead of the bandaid of solutions (that encourages more of the same old behaviours). Keep blossoming, rose!

     1. And it gives a new definition to the word detox – we come to understand it is about everything that is toxic to our ability to love.

324. We simply cannot have a detox and go back to our lives, think that it will be different and expect to not get the same problems as before the detox if the detox itself has not inspired a deeper way of being and a richer way of living within us.

325. I love this line, ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’

     Too often I have looked outside myself for solutions, which was me really wanting to erase what I knew inside: the pain of knowing I’d overridden what I’d felt and been disregarding. Sometimes I think yes, having that (a better car, a better home) would improve my life and make it better, rather than taking responsibility for where I am at and making more loving choices.

     I know that sometimes I’ve dug a deep hole and it seems hard work getting out of it, only because I’m learning about making loving choices consistently. I may not like waking up to where I’ve put myself, but this is where I learn to develop a greater depth of understanding and love.

     It is only when I am honest about past choices that have often been about desperately trying to secure this outside thing that will make me happy, that I can come to understand how I created the mess that I lived in. This honesty frees me from being a victim, to seeing how my choices are incredibly powerful. This honesty reveals how I can turn things around when I make choices that honour what I feel and not shy from this, but trust myself.

326. This is such a gorgeous blog and one of which I happen to return to just at the right time. Thank You Cherise for the reminder that everything is already within us, all the answers to our life. And when we take the time to connect to ourselves that is when things change and never can the world outside of us change our lives for us, we have to make the first move.

327. A deeply beautiful blog Cherise. You have offered so much wisdom through you experience and knowing. I too have found that Chakra-Puncture is a powerful modality that offers the opportunity to re-connect to the truth of who I truly am, Love, and to feel how harmonious this feels in my body. From this point, or marker I can feel what choices truly support me, and this connection, and what choices do not. It is so true what you say – ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ Thank you for the beautiful reminder of how loving tenderness and compassion are also a self-loving choices that we can make when we are addressing the choices we have made which are not serving or supporting our connection to who we truly are.

     1. I agree Carola.

328. Cherise, beautiful blog. You showed how gentle we need to be with ourselves while calling out what is not love within us. I really loved the line, “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not”. This line allowed me to connect straight back to my divinity and feel how simply it could be.

     1. This is so true Kim and I love this line ” just the space to re-connect ” as that is all we really need. I know when I allow myself that space everything is very clear.

329. I so enjoyed re-reading your post, Cherise. Unfolding back to who we truly are – and forever deepening our connection – beautiful.

330. Thank you Cherise. Re-visiting your article revealed more to me again, and I love the rose analogy. Thinking about detox programs, what I have found with chakra puncture detox is that it debases the ‘program’ inside us that, it is from that base what we stood on, when we made choices that we know are not good for the body. When there is no base to stand on, instead though, a deeper connection to ourselves, a feeling of love that is inside us, it becomes harder to continue those unserving choices we had previously been making. Chakra puncture detox certainly takes the notion of a detox program to a completely different level.

331. It was such a pleasure to come back to this article again. To re-read the simple message in your words has given me a boost of willingness to keep on going, keep developing and changing and growing. Thank you Cherise.

332. Cherise your blog is so in depth and complete to read, everything I could want to know about clearing and letting go the old and making way for the new. This could be my year for my first Detox! With thanks.

333. “Old ways don’t have to define who I am today”. Like old skin that can be discarded when no longer useful, I too can leave behind old ways of being that do not support me and choose a soft, caring, loving and responsible way of living the rest of my life.

334. Universal Medicine provides a fresh start for the whole of humanity, from philosophy to science, from healthcare to religion, Universal Medicine is the ultimate detox, and not an enema in sight ☺

     1. Ha ha, absolutely true cjames!

     2. Absolutely cjames! The ultimate detox which really does work. No ememas just bucket-loads of warm love.

     3. So true Chris … And no raw acidic juices that tear at your digestive system, simply an opportunity to let go what does not belong to you and your Livingness.

335. Cherise, I love the title of this blog ‘a detox for life’. You shared a different way to detox, one that is ever lasting, not a temporary fix and requires an active and loving commitment to self. Shedding fading rose petals as life unfolds. Beautiful.

336. A detox that gradually unfolds us back to our true essence is a perfect and lovely description of what Universal Medicine supports people to do, in their many individual ways and own timing of course. I too feel truly blessed to have found Serge Benhayon and his offering to support me in the ‘detoxification’ from my body and life of that which is not truly me. And like with any good detox – I feel lighter.

     1. Yes Jeannette the support from practitioners allow us to feel the layers drop away petal by petal.

337. Your wonderful blog has reminded me of the many detox programmes that I have put myself on over the years which in the end only offered me a momentary change in my life. I have just realised that the best detox I have ever begun was the day of my first Universal Medicine workshop, and 10 years later it’s still in progress, and I’m loving the results. I definitely feel like the rose having its old, and no longer needed, petals gently peeled back to reveal the original bud; the true essence of me.

     1. Thanks for sharing Ingrid, I love that a truly supportive detox actually has no end date.. it just keeps shedding the old and allowing the rose to hold more of its true essence, so beautiful to know there is no end-depth reached.

338. Cherise, I love the way you present what life is actually is about. It is about living to our true essence, that warm place inside as you describe it so beautiful. That life is about peeling off the old and damaged petals that do not belong to us and that his will bring back to us the innocent rose that we have started life with. This way of living asks of us to honestly look at the issues we encounter and from there to make the self-loving choices for ourselves. And I can agree with you Cherise, living like this is beautiful!!

     1. Thank you nvanhaastrecht, I often feel the wonderment of how simple life can really be with this knowing and understanding – that life is about living our true essence – so that we may complement and equally share inspiration with all others. There is a quality about this way of living I feel that expands and confirms all the time.

339. So gorgeous Cherise, I love your description of the rose, thank you.

340. I have in my life followed detox programs bought from health food shops thinking I was doing the right thing by my body – but back then there was no consideration for the whole body or truly taking responsiblity for how I lived. A healthy life perspective only came from what you ate followed with extreme exercise. Today I much prefer Cherise’s version of a detox – it has changed my life in such an empowering way, thanks to the support of Universal Medicine practitioners.

     1. I’ve seen such detox programs in the health food shop only recently Christine and it was interesting to feel the ‘solution’ that they were offering, however that’s all they were offering – without any true support for the whole picture and therefore were severely lacking in bringing any real answers. I couldn’t help but feel how they were quite manipulative and seductive in the way they were advertised to hook people in for a ‘quick-fix’ when in reality the ‘quick’ part really only relates to the quick-term solution they provide

        1. And there does not feel like the depth of responsibility that needs to be taken, when we look for these quick fix answers.

341. Loved your rose analogy, I always used one with an onion but a rose sounds much more lovely.

342. Cherise, over my life I had many detox experiences that were not based on love and afterwards as you describe, I went back to the way I had been living before so nothing changed. After meeting Serge Benhayon I also had a detox that was so much more than just about food and drink. It was ‘a truly supportive detox . . like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…”

343. I have come back to your blog again Cherise, not by any accident it seems. My detox program starts in about 10 days time … And so the rose continues to unfold 🌷

     1. En-Joy and give it your all .. It is an amazing and beautifull opportunity for you to embrace all who you are : )

344. I love how you have shared in your blog Cherise that a detox can (if we allow it to) be so much more than just about food and drink. We can explore our behaviours, our beliefs and our patterns and work with an overall detox of not just our body, but our mind and way of living. The 12 week detox program that you embarked on with your Esoteric Healing practitioner sounds like just that, a program that has supported you not just through the 12 weeks but into life ahead.

345. Detoxing damaging beliefs and ideals and indeed anything that is not based on a foundation of love is certainly the way to go. Very inspiring Cherise.

346. Food is such a focus for “detoxing” but Cherise has pointed out that we can detox many things – our behaviours, beliefs, everyday lifestyle choices, and so on. Just like food that causes pain, discomfort, or ill health, so can all of these things create havoc with our being and health. Detoxing everything that is not loving for us would have a profoundly positive effect on all aspects of our health!

347. So often detox programs are seen as a quick fix when someone wants to lose weight or post-Christmas over indulging, but nothing changes, as these detox programs don’t provide a new foundation from which to live from, they simply press the pause button from a way of life that is hurting the body. What you have described Cherise is a loving 12-week program where you get to look at your life and make changes as you go and therefore at the end of the program, you have a new foundation from which to live. Truly beautiful.

348. Great blog Cherise. I love the analogy of detox with that of a beautiful blossoming rose. Through the detox we get to look at our ideals and beliefs and patterns of behaviour, shedding those which are holding us back “..so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ouselves to be”
     Beautiful.

349. I loved your approach to what a detox program means for you Cherise- not a quick fix, no goals but an opportunity to deepen your own love with you.
     “-A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose”
     An opportunity to stop, feel what is getting in the way of this – ideals and beliefs, momentums in how we are doing something or are with someone etc.,- nominate this, and then claim more of our true self back. Shedding the old, and revealing the true inner beauty of who we are – tender, loving, precious. Very empowering.

350. I can relate very much to this – “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” I know I can be unsure of things at times but if I give myself the space to connect deeper with me and all my feelings then the way forwards becomes much clearer.

351. That is such a great way to look at a detox. Just seeing that there are petals to be shed to allow the beauty of the rose underneath to shine. We have to look at the belief systems behind our behaviours for our behaviours not to come back again, or lurk in the background waiting for a weak moment to pounce!

352. Wow Cherise, your detox program consisted of support for the physical body, Esoteric healing, working on emotional issues and old patterns of behavior, diet, and living as a woman with love and self worth. That is a very holistic approach; no wonder you feel like this detox has given you a fresh start to life.

353. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” I actually feel a well of sadness at just how mixed up and back to front we all live on a daily basis. I so know what you are saying here Cherise, deep in my heart. It is amazing even with this knowing we all get hooked into either seeking solutions outside of ourselves or becoming the one who tries to find solutions for others. There are no solutions as all Universal Medicine Therapy Practitioners know. We are indeed like a rose bush producing roses all the time with a scent so sweet and pure but rose bushes need tender loving care to produce those gorgeous tender delicate petals that are naturally there waiting to bloom. Universal Medicine Therapies have been the only therapies that have allowed me to find my way back to what I have always known and connect to the wisdom that is within me with no interference.

354. I love the use of the analogy of a rose that as its outer petals are no longer required they drop off leaving beautiful fresh, dewy looking petals that are still supported. So it is for us. The perfect de-tox.

355. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” Wow, could it be that simple, making the space to stop so we can feel what is true for us or not. Awesome article Cherise, you expose much here in a very simple and practical way and a testimony to the care and responsibility that you live.

356. Cherise I really love your line, ‘ these old ways don’t have to define who I am today.’ I have a few patterns of behaviours I once defined myself by. I know that although they are still current and irksome I am working to letting them go completely and a huge part of this is realising they are not part of me so letting them go I not only don’t lose anything about me but gain more of who I truly am.

357. Thank you Cherise. From this blog I can feel what a detox is truly about, it is about growing and blossoming in all of your beauty and letting go of all old beliefs and ideals that keep us small and not growing and blossoming in our full glory.

358. I love what you say here Cherise. ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ It’s gorgeous to read this, my body just lets go to the truth and the magic that is, nothing to solve just to let life unfold naturally.

359. As I too detox, it amazes me how much my hurts that I carry around with me impact on how I react to people and events every day. Uncovering a new one is exciting because then you can let it go and that thing – relationship, task etc you found so difficult is now easy, caring and a joy.

360. This is so true “our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.” and “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being”. Both of these sentences highlight how important it is to accept, love and appreciate ourselves because if we don’t it is a trick to not go to this next step, of seeing the issues and letting out our natural way.

361. Simply beautiful Cherise, you have captured the essence of a true detox, one where letting go of layers and behaviours is a unique process of returning to who you are in essence. I can feel the way you have lived this detox and this is so inspiring to anyone who is genuinely ready to make true and lasting change in their lives, it offers a true way forward through the dieting and body-bashing fads we see around us. Thank you.

362. I agree there is a lightness and joy in your article and I love the part when you say : “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” Re-connection is like a foundation to all we choose…

     1. Absolutely Andrea, when we fill our foundation with connection to ourselves it will expand and always be there as a tool for us to come back to — and as it expands, the spaces that we’ve founded on disconnection become less, by virtue of our commitment to living more of our quality connection in every moment.

363. What is particularly lovely about this article, is that it is about something that many people would consider arduous, but there is all this joy that shines through it. This opens up the possibility that the healing of our old hurts, reconfiguring our patterns, and gaining a totally new perspective on ourselves and life, is totally accessible.

364. You have really exposed just how much all the diets and detoxs on offer are a waste of time, as they present a promise of something only if it is adhered to for the duration of the exercise, however if the commitment and responsibility to actually looking after yourself is not truly there in the first place (everyday, with no exception) then how can any of it really work for more than a week? We can’t decide to fill our car with petrol once a year and hope it finds a source of fuel somewhere else to run it for the next 50 weeks remaining of that year.

365. How easy it is to harden to protect ourselves from the everyday world. Cherise, a beautiful reminder that underlying our purity remains intact and to reawaken and confirm this with a detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner. Bellissimo!

366. Knowing our true beauty is the way to naturally detox everything that is not that…I love it…you have exposed all those ‘detox’ diets and fads with that simple truth

     1. Absolutely Rebecca. When we live our true nature, what we have accumulated will fall away. It is not needed because it is what we need to prop us up when we have ignored or deviated from our natural selves. I love this blog Cherise.

367. Beautiful Cherise! I love the line “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” – so very true.

368. Cherise I love your take on what a detox can truly be when approached with openness, self-responsibility and a very supportive practitioner who lives what she practices. Very inspiring.

369. A beautifully written blog Cherise. I love the analogy of the rose. Our true beauty is forever waiting to be discovered.

     1. Yes Annie I totally agree. Such a beautiful analogy.

370. Cherise, great blog! As someone who is usually pretty hard on myself, what stood out for me were your words ‘And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise.’ Wise words indeed for me to carry into my day. Thank you!

     1. So true Helen, I have allowed the guilt and the shame of past ill choices to define who I am today and remain stuck in old patterns of self abuse. Cherise’s blog offers a choice of just observing and not judging myself and coming back to live in the now and choosing to live in a more self-loving and caring way.

371. I have done many detox and strict health regimes over the years punishing my body with strict diets or fasting for days! Only to return to the old ways of being.
     Only now through the work with Universal Medicine am I changing to a more connected loving way of building true health and vitality.
     Thank you Cherise for your article.

372. Loved the way you expressed your detox program to be- no strict diets, fasting, but instead “my detox program was about being responsible and honest with me”.
     In doing so no self bashing is needed, but instead “loving tenderness and compassion”.

373. I enjoyed your blog Cherise especially when you say- ” My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.” Feels amazing.

374. I just love the new and true meaning you have brought to the word detox. Not the outcome focused, quick fix to our ills, but a daily and lifelong commitment to the health and welfare of our body. All we have to do is stop and allow; “the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.”

375. When I did my detox programme with a Universal Medicine practitioner, she kept saying to me the sessions were only a small part of the programme, and how I lived in between the sessions were what really counted. To be honest, I really had no real sense of awareness as to what/how I was doing, but it was during that 12 weeks I was able to come to the clarity that allowed me to look at my life, and make changes that really supported me and the people around me. And I am eternally grateful for that.

     1. Great point Fumiyo. The Chakra-puncture detox program is over 12 weeks and it is how you choose to live and what awareness you choose to bring to your daily life that is the true power of the detox. It is about supporting you in your everyday livingness. The sessions are but a small but truly powerful part of the whole program.

        1. Absolutely true Penny and Fumiyo. Life is the whole program and every choice is interconnected in someway, which when embraced opens up more opportunities of healing and powerful moments.

376. This is very beautifully expressed and I love the metaphor of “a beautiful rose”. Thank you Cherise for writing this.

377. Your blog gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘detox’. Taking into account what you personally bring to each session, choosing a practitioner who already lives in a self loving way, looking at all aspects of our physical bodies, beliefs, ideals and patterns. This sounds like a truly healing detox that creates lifelong changes.

     1. Agreed Karen, “a truly healing detox that creates lifelong changes.”, not short lived. I have found once I am aware of how I have been living and the effects that has had on my body, it is then easier and most of the time a ‘no brainer’, choosing another more loving way that has lasting effects.

378. Thank you for sharing your detox experience Cherise. Having a supportive practitioner sharing their experiences from what they have actually lived is so powerful and supportive in our unfolding development.

379. This feels like such a beautiful way to approach a detox truly honouring yourself and allowing what is there to come up without judgement. I particularly loved the line “When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices – isn’t this beautiful!” – such a healing and supportive way to look at our choices and the opportunity to choose differently.

380. That is an amazing approach to detox Cherise – thank you for sharing this.
     To detox for life is a great concept, which was introduced to us by Universal Medicine and it so rewarding! I feel better, I look great, feel more vital and have more joyful relationships and really I love myself a lot more overall.

     1. What you describe about yourself Judith is our natural way of being and true freedom to be ourselves.

        1. Indeed, Bernadette, it is our natural state of being, and a state of being that everyone can connect to. If we were to stop wasting time and energy on the quick fix or solutions, which don’t work in the long term, then we could take the pressure off ourselves and start to live with the true freedom of choice that we are innately born with.

381. So beautifully expressed Cherise – “We already know what is right and loving and what is not” My body tells me always – and how I choose to embrace this. I am at a point where now I’m refining my choices. This I feel is all so possible with the support from the amazing esoteric practitioners.

382. I love the commitment you have shown in the way that you have approached your detox programme and how you are embracing a whole new way of living as a woman.

383. My shoulders dropped just reading this line – thank you – “I was able to say that the detox program for me was actually about living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.”

384. I love this paragraph Cherise:
     “When a rose ages, its outside petals become discoloured, bruised and frayed, like our old ways of living; we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong. We can allow ourselves to name and let go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours that simply didn’t exist when we started out as the delicate little bud.”

     I also like to think that we are beautiful at all stages of life, when we are developing like a delicate little bud, when we are blossoming and even as we let go of those old layers, there is something lovely about all the parts of the cycle.

385. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” What an awesome way to detox – through loving tenderness and compassion. Beautiful, thank you for sharing Cherise.

386. Thank you for a lovely understanding of what a true detox can be when we take full responsibility.
     I agree very much when you write “ I chose the support of a practitioner who I know already lives this way, who only shares from her way of living, never imposes and who radiates true responsibility and integrity.” It is only possible to develop a deep and truthful connection with our own choice for well being if the practitioner and method matches the truth and care we hold for ourselves

387. Beautiful analogy Cherish using the rosé to describe the discarding of old petals and patterns of behaviour, I love this one.
     I have participated over the years in many harming forms of detoxing the body from extreme yoga techniques to various herbal and juice cleansing with no sustained healing resulting from such unloving choices.
     The work I have done with universal medicine has been more healing and detoxing on a real sustained level then anything in my past.

388. It is a great reminder that in every moment, we can make other choices. We don’t have to stay in the past and think that we can not change, because we can make different choices every day. Thank you Cherise for this timeless reminder, and you have given the word detox a completely new and truthful meaning.

     1. It is a very deeply held mind set that we cannot change, and it is false as the day is long. A true detox is for life, not just for Christmas – or a new year’s resolution or a trip to the beach….

        1. Sandra the saying a leopard doesn’t change his spots comes to mind re the mind-set that we cannot change. It’s really supportive to remind myself of the many ways I have changed that aren’t me resisting the temptation of old patterns but looking at them in disbelief and never imagining to do them again.

        2. Yes Sandra, it is a very deeply held belief by many people that we can’t change, and Karin – I love your expression about the leopard and its spots, followed by reflecting back to the changes you have already made. I can only say the same… looking back – huge changes have been made and, I’m sure more are to come, this time much more joyfully though.

389. What you describe here in this detox program is revolutionary – not about a quick fix, or about a certain outcome. You offer a way of true health and vitality- very inspiring.
     And such an important point – ” I chose the support of a practitioner who I know already lives this way, who only shares from her way of living, never imposes and who radiates true responsibility and integrity.”

     1. That is so true Loretta. No quick fixes with this detox.

390. The way modern society looks at health is so focused on quick fixes and keeping the way we live the same all our life. In your blog you give a great reflection of that it is the inside that we have to look at to truly change our health, and that we in the process have to change some of our daily habits.

     1. Could it be that the quick fixes come from a place of irresponsibility, not wanting to look at ourselves for fear of having to come out of our comfort? It is true – true and lasting healing comes with looking within and dealing with our stuff.

        1. Awesome question Sandra, there are many places within our lives that we can look for a quick solution or a fix to a situation where we’re not feeling quite right – but the truth just may be that when we do this out of comfort, as opposed to choosing the honesty and allowing ourselves to feel what’s really going on, we then just add more comfort by adding a solution and the discomfort that we felt in the beginning that we didn’t want to feel is actually now lying under another layer of discomfort.
           Since when did we think that comfort was truly comfortable?

        2. Spot on Sandra, lasting healing doesn’t come from taking on someone elses idea of a diet/detox. It’s true it comes with looking within and dealing with our stuff ourselves.

     2. So true Benkt… We don’t have to accept the choices that society gives us. We can make choices that work for us and break out of the mould – in both senses of the word!

        1. The problem is that we have been set in that mould for long we have accepted it as our normal way of being, and this applies to comfort to, as Cherise reiterated above, “when did we think that comfort was truly comfortable”, we have been in comfort for so long, we think THAT is our true way of being too, even though it doesn’t work and we are all suffering because of it. Even though being in comfort is ultimately uncomfortable, many of us would rather stay in until something comes along that shakes us out of it. I would rather come out of comfort by my own choice.

391. What a very honest approach to a detox, with it being for the whole body not just about a certain look or outcome. It’s about a true commitment to self. So beautifully expressed Cherise thank you

392. My favourite line was ‘I chose the support of a practitioner who I know already lives this way, who only shares from her way of living, never imposes and who radiates true responsibility and integrity.’
     This is such an important decision, if true healing is Truly sought!

     1. I have found this to be true for me, finding an esoteric practitioner, who is living her truth is worth a million, and this allows me to go deeper with my own healing.

        1. Yes Sandra finding an esoteric practioner that lives their truth always gives me the space to trust and fully claim my own healing too.

393. Hi Cherise I loved your blog on detoxing. I could feel that it was one that you enjoyed and the benefits were lasting. I like the way you gave your detox programme a theme “living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.” For me that would be very supportive during a detox to feel it is not just about cleansing the body but making it more specific around a certain topic. I know I still carry many ideals and beliefs around being a woman that I have not yet cleared.

394. I love the analogy of the rose, it’s staying with me, the peeling back the old rose petals to our cherished delicate self… it feels miles more loving and beautiful and true … rather than the old onion analogy, urgh!

395. Wow Cherise, this is beautiful. This would put all those detox clinics out of business. I love how you described it as– A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…What you have shared is a TRUE detox and an inspiration.

396. “….simply providing a space for me to re-connect to myself and inspiringly shared with me from her own experiences and way of living. We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This is gorgeous Cherise – an opportunity is provided for us to choose to change by “truly loving ourselves and letting go of poor choices and old ways” as Susan commented above – or not. Thus, as a client, I am free to choose to heal – or not.

397. I have never tried a detox before but your beautiful blog reveals that your detox program with Universal Medicine Practitioner was not invasive and rigid but full of love and support. I am inspired to try it myself as it is unlike any others available, it allows you to connect, nurture and heal in a very loving and gentle way.

398. The way that you have expressed this is incredibly profound and empowering to read.
     It is indeed a light bulb moment when you receive a reflection about an aspect of your life, behaviour, a relationship, a habit, etc. and suddenly you ‘get’ the bigger picture, have an opportunity or insight into what was truly going on, and can then decide to make different choices.
     I recently had a light bulb moment in relationship to my son’s behaviour. I had been a bit frustrated that quite often when we were getting ready to go out somewhere, he would retreat to his room and find some sort of distraction – maybe a toy to start playing with.
     I finally asked myself “what my role is in this behaviour?” and brought some awareness to how I was feeling and what was going on for me as I prepared to go out, and much was revealed!
     I found that I was often feeling anxious, under time pressure, feeling nervous about the day ahead, feeling unprepared, feeling tired and sometimes sad.
     SO, my son was actually feeling all of that and choosing to remove himself from what he did not want to feel or be part of.
     I am now choosing to support myself by looking at the issues that come up, one at a time, and work on them.
     I have also spoken to my son about what I had observed and we agreed that if he noticed me getting anxious about going out, that he could call me on it so that we can return to being playful, ourselves…..a little evolution!

399. So beautifully written Cherise, I feel the delicateness of the rose bud.

400. There is nothing to fix, just an opportunity to reconnect. So supporting when a practitioner facilitates that process!

401. Thanks Cherise for sharing your experience of what a true detox can be. 🌷

402. Your blog Cherise was so beautifully expressed. Could feel the joy of you as a woman. A great example to us all when we commit to truly loving ourselves and letting go of poor choices and old ways.

403. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” I find this to be so true, Cherise. I have found Universal Medicine practitioners to be true healers in the sense that, as you say: “she was simply providing a space for me to re-connect to myself and inspiringly shared with me from her own experiences and way of living.” It is so empowering to be able to re-connect to our inner-most and to have a practitioner who can help hold the space for us to do so, who is living from their inner-most, allowing us the opportunity to present what it is we feel to look at.

404. Hi Cherise, I love your blog very much; what I love is how you describe how many of us have been using a detox to fix and clear some accumulated toxins out of our bodies, temporarily, but then often going back to the old ways of living straight away, as we did fail to look at the underlying emotions. This way of detoxing with the support of an experienced Universal Medicine Esoteric Practitioner you describe is so much more. And that’s because you got yourself true support, allowing yourself to let all the uncomfortable feelings come up (the feelings we do a good job stuffing down with food or drink or drugs, to not feel) and feel them and let them go, peeling back the layers, allowing more of the real you to come to the fore. Thank you for your beautiful sharing.

405. I loved so much about this, Cherise. That it’s not about solutions, just allowing the time and space to realise that we already know what is right and loving for ourselves. I also appreciated your old rose analogy, peeling back the bruised and damaged petals to return to the exquisite bud within…..that’s what I call a true de-tox.

406. I agree Tony – what’s next after the goal is attained is not thought of. This is why goal setting is seen as so important – we have to keep striving to be better, whether that is a detox, a diet, earning more money, or a relationship. When really all we all want is to be at ease and joyful with who we are…

407. When you write that your detox program consisted of twelve 1hour sessions I felt it related to the twelve constellations of the zodiac. I imagined moving through the signs releasing what needed to be released under the impress of each sign. Something to ponder.

408. I love the analogy of the Rose starting out as a lovely fresh bud, and through the knocks and scratches of life we end up a little battered and faded, but inside we are always that beautiful, tender and soft bud. Thank you Cherise.

409. Cherise this is the most beautiful, tender and understanding blog, with no room for judgement or lack of self worth. It is beautiful to feel and read that simply we are more than enough, everything is there inside us waiting to unfold. This brings about a beautiful stillness and a joy to my body. And how solutions are not what we need, and really just take us further way from “the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” So true. Why are we naught taught this simplicity and self-love from an early age? Can you imagine, the world would be a much different place.

410. Thank you, Cherise, for this moving and inspiring blog.

411. Great article Cherise….”Detox was never about a goal, or attaining something (be that a physical change or an improvement of me) by its completion; instead each session was about whatever I brought to it, with honesty and a willingness to be as open as I possibly could. ” … that whole outcome, end point focus of some programs, that once finished, people reward themselves by returning to all that they have done previously…doesn’t make sense

412. A beautiful blog , I like the the sharing of gentleness and creating the space through connection and healing “so that we may unfold” to understand and accept ourselves and learn to become more loving .

413. Now that is the type of detox I could do! I have tried others and have been left feeling the same within no matter what type of detox it was. When I did my first chakra-puncture detox, the effect was instantaneous. From the very first session I felt a shift happen in my body. It was incredible. The chakra-puncture detox is very powerful in so many ways and truly supports us to let go of what is not working for us and what is keeping us stuck in life. And this is so very needed for a permanent change to occur and not just a temporary one.

414. Cherise thank you for your Rose filled blog; it was so lovely to read and feel revelation that the rose offers us all. The symbol of the Soul.

415. Thank you Cherise; your blog sheds a much needed light on what a detox can truly be. Detoxes are chosen to clear poisons of our bodies, when our way of life puts toxins into our body as you describe such as alcohol, too much sugar, drugs or other things that are not agreeing with our bodies. Are not our ideals and beliefs, that keep us from being the lovely persons that we are, even more poisonous? Then how much sense does it make to ‘detox’ these?

416. Yes, it is a sad fact that most people do look upon detox as a short term solution to specific ills and are often impatient to get back to former habits. As you have shared the Chakra-Puncture detox offers so much more than this, providing an opportunity to reconnect and discard whatever is not needed.

417. I used to be on the oscillating detox and partying game. It was only when I approached health as you did that I saw a true change. By being open and taking responsibility and having understanding and compassion for ones journey, great healing and health begins to unfold.

418. Thank you Cherise for sharing how chakrapuncture detox truly supported the changes in your life. I too have experienced a chakrapuncture detox and agree that the space and stillness I found within my body during the 12 weeks, allowed me to question why would I want to put into my body the vicses/substances that actually disconnect me from feeling this vibrancy I connected to within me. Having felt this stillness within, allowed space and opportunity for me to see how I used these things like sugar, to feed my patterns of behaviour, to keep me in motion and away from stillness. So in effect, undoing what’s behind and driving the motivation of particular habits and behaviour patterns that do not serve us well.

419. Thank you Cherise for this beautifully expressed blog – I did receive much from reading your words and analogies. It is so very clear that the supposed de-tox programmes that are generally on offer in the weight-loss industry are far distant to the love that is felt in your words as you came closer with each step to re-visiting the truth of who you are by having chosen a de-tox programme using chakra puncture and choosing a practitioner who personally lives the truly joy-full life you felt to re-claim.

420. Your sharing Cherise is so inspiring – “but our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed”. Beautiful. I really feel that.

421. Dear Cherise, thank you for your sharing – it is so true that detoxes have become quick fixes instead of us looking at what causes the toxin build up to begin with. But how much more powerful it is to address the two as you have done – to detox from the old patterns but to also look at why that came about to begin with so that true change can then be made…

422. Thank you Cherise for your insight into how to truly approach a detox. It’s not about getting somewhere, or gaining something, or striving for perfection, it’s about letting go, unraveling, allowing who we truly are to be breathed forth. What a sigh of relief. I feel in someway that reading your blog has been a detox. Powerful words and experience. Thank you!

423. Beautifully expressed Cherise. A detox that helps to bring your to more honesty and clarity about how you live will always be setting you up for a more vital healthy body as your choices deepen in self love, self nurturing and care with the deeper awareness you gain from living these choices. That is the detox that I want.

     1. Wow Zoe – you express this so clearly and powerfully, this the detox for me as well.

424. Having watched many colleagues under take these “so called detox program” with the usual results of repeating the program or continuing the habits and patterns that have lead us there in the first place , It is such a support to know of real program that offers not only the physical but the emotional support in understanding what is happening within our bodies

425. What a delightful and inspiring blog! Thank you. It’s worth reading many times over. I am about to start a program myself and I will bring these words with me every time “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” Also, I know that I will get out of it as much or as little as I invest myself, – so therefore your words “My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me.” will resonate during the program.

     1. I agree nathaliesterk, like most things in life, we get out of it what we put in. I have done a detox program where I took no responsibility and just wanted the detox to ‘fix’ me. I have also done a detox where I went in to it with the responsibility, the willingness, and to be as honest and open as I could. After the former one finished I went straight back to doing the things I had done that got me to having the detox in the first place. After the latter detox, I came away with some amazing results and the understanding of why I chose to do certain things that were harmful to me and so I was able to let them go.

426. What a timely and moving blog. As a rose in my garden today it has blossomed magnificently. I love the line – ‘we don’t need solutions, just the space to reconnect to what we undeniably know what is right and loving and what is not’- I needed to be reminded of that today.

427. Cherise, this is so beautiful I can feel every word. You paint a beautiful picture… ‘a truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…’

428. I loved how you said ” With a deep commitment to me – and life – my detox was supporting my whole way of being”, beautifully expressed Cherise.

429. How simple “just to find the space to re-connect…we already know what is right and loving and what is not”. It’s finding this space or stillness in today’s world, that is constantly pulling us away into a toxic existence.

430. I felt myself become more tender reading this beautiful piece, a nurse taking loving responsibility for her own state of health and healing in every aspect not just the physical. How awesome to be nursed by you!

431. Love your rose analogy Cherise. Yes, the use of detox is to rid our bodies of poisons we have filled them with, and if they are poisons then what are we consuming or doing to allow such toxic build up that hold us in a struggle, when in truth we are already a beautiful essence? We just need to let go of what we are not.

432. Coming back who we are, letting go of what we are not – healing in its purest from.

     1. Yes, I absolutely agree.

433. What a revelation to present this understanding that a detox is a taking of responsibility for life. For you, “about living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.” So simple and yet the understanding of this really shatters the illusion that so many have of what a detox is about. I know so many people who do this all the time – drinking tons, poor food choices, over eating, etc – but then justifying that with occasional ‘cleanses’ in which they assuage the abusive ways temporarily. They report to me how great they feel after but then – in some sort of insanity – go back to “reintroducing’ gluten, dairy, alcohol – all the old ways – pretty quickly. Imagine if we said “ok for 10 weeks I am going to make choices that really honor myself as a woman during my detox program, and then after that I am going back to reintroduce my dishonoring choices again”……hmmmmmm.

434. Normally when we hear the word “detox” we think of it as something that is arduous, difficult, forced upon us, a relief when it is over etc. The way you describe a detox Cherise is gorgeous because you make it sound like fun and a joyful thing to do. That is how I have always found a Chakrapuncture detox from Universal Medicine to be. After a detox program I simply feel more myself, with more space within me to be who I truly am rather than a reduced version of myself.

435. Ahhh… reading your blog Cherise was like one big exhale. You can feel the true process of a detox in your words and what was released from your dedication, honesty and willingness to let go of old ways and to embrace your true loving way.

     1. So clearly expressed Marcia. A true detox is more a letting go and an embracement – rather than ‘a clearing out’.

436. Wonderful. Detox is to let go of what we have accumulated. It is not to become something what we are not yet. So it is to detox from what-we-are-not and so, what-we-truly-are will be left. I found it very facilitative and delectable – if not deeply healing – that I am already all what I have to be and just to get rid of what I am not. Then also, to let go of all that hinder me to live the beauty that I am, is easy and joyful.

     1. I love the way you have expressed detoxing as letting go of what we are not to feel how we already are all we have ever wanted to be — so simple.

437. I have never had a formal detox, but recognise the benefit of making healthy choices. The notion of a supported detox I can now see supports more than just the body, it nurtures the mind and brings alignment to the soul. The rose analogy is brilliant, the layers we put up to protect ourselves and yet if we can break these down we are the same beautiful soul we have always been. Thank you for helping me understand some of my habits and protections that I can more readily let go of. However I can sense this is best done with support and a graduated program would be one that could really free me from some beliefs and behaviours that are not me.
     many thanks Cherise

438. We use detoxes as a mini fix for not feeling so great then continue with exactly the same habits and patterns that lead to us feeling that way. A detox is not a quick fix that corrects what we have done to our body in a matter of days. If we understood that a detox was an opportunity to look at the way we live, the choices we make, habits and patterns and let go of what is not supporting us to be vital and healthy then we would use them more wisely.

439. Cherise, your blog made me consider that so often, detoxes are only considered to be something only to fix up the external health of our bodies. What a great approach to consider that they can be used as an opportunity to be honest with ourselves and work on our internal health and wellbeing.

     1. Agree Angela, so often we do think of detox as a fix for all the wrongs we have done to our bodies. In most detox programs there is no real addressing of how we got to be where we are at, whereas what Cherise so beautifully describes is the way forward she came to from what she willingly let go of in her detox program. The practitioner did not give the answers, simply let her express and gave her inspiration. I Love the simplicity too.

440. “When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices.” This is very true Cherise. Once we have the awareness of our past choices we are truly free to unfold anew with a commitment to making more loving choices.

441. A beautiful account of a false and more true and healing detox Cherise, and your words “…returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be”, being the key to the ‘spring clean’.

442. Cherise thanks for sharing what a Chakra -puncture detox allows us to feel without imposing or pushing solutions. The fact that these sessions offered by Universal Medicine practitioners “allow space to reconnect” is the greatest part of the healing process.

443. The true healing power of the Chakra-puncture detox is felt by all those who have had the experience. It is indeed an opportunity to leave the past behind on so many levels.

     1. A great reflection Greg – I’m starting one this week and I’ll report back.

444. This is beautiful Cherise. What you have presented has exposed much about how we treat our bodies and how we look for the quick fix to undo the damages we have done by over indulging. The quick fix approach also provides no space for truly owning what we have chosen to do to our bodies. It is only through honesty without judgement that we can truly start to heal.

445. This is very delicious to read!
     I can feel how much deep loving care you and your practitioner brought to your Detox-program. Amazing ! And I can agree that this Detox Programm is a really beautiful opportunity to leave the old behind (on so many levels), to clear and to re-fresh!

446. Cherise, you have exposed so much about the detox ‘industry’ and its ridiculous yo-yo quality in this blog. I speak from experience of the eating plans, the vege juices, the lemon juice, the grapefruit….you get the picture. A few weeks of desperate starvation…then back to the same old, same old. Poor body contending with the oscillation between the extremes of “good” self abuse and “bad” self abuse, and at the end no lasting change – for how could there be. It was all a form of abuse.
     And here you offer the truth. You entered your detox program from this fresh perspective:
     “With a deep commitment to me – and life – my detox was supporting my whole way of being.”
     Yes, a whole way of being.
     I am at the third week of my detox program. The tattered petals are gently peeling away, revealing the delicateness and at the same time the absolute power of me. I am redeveloping and refining my life to support this delicate way, and expressing in a way that claims and affirms that power. True commitment. There will be no return to old ways, because every step of this detox is laying a fresh new foundation for the way forward.

447. I appreciate you wrote this blog. So far I didn’t have a detox program, but I do intend to start one when I am able to. It is beautiful this program is not about not consuming sugar are other toxic foods, but about the patterns that lie underneath the need of eating or drinking them. I love that you remind me that underneath the patterns resides our pure and unharmed inner knowing, thank you for that.

448. It is so lovely to see the power of a “real” detox – to claim what is, as Cherise so beautifully put “living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.” and to discard that which does not support who we truly are.

449. I agree there is a difference between seeking a solution/escape from the consequences of our choices and asking for support/inspiration/guidance from others while we are trying to overcome something or make changes. The difference between these two is responsibility.

450. “New and supportive choices” it feels like this every time I lovingly choose to make an appointment to visit an esoteric practitioner. Thank you Cherise for sharing.

451. The way you explained the detox process Cherise is exquisite, illustrating how we limit ourselves by beliefs and aims that fall so short of true healing. Gorgeous what you wrote about us as a rose. Its so true, inside each and every one of us is a delicate and precious being just waiting for a chance to unfold, back into the light.

452. Thank you Cherise, what you have written is pure gold and not often looked at like this from the mainstream perspective, I too have had a Chakra Puncture detox and have been blown away by the level of true healing it initiates, as you said Cherise “my detox was supporting my whole way of being.”

453. This is beautiful Cherise, thankyou. I love how you used the symbolism of a rose. Reminds me of the beautiful delicateness we are naturally. A great blog to consider a true way of living that actually supports vitality and health.

454. This article made me think of the saying, “Start as you intend to go on. It made me appreciate the power of our intentions. If we start out wanting to fix our bodies just so we can get back to our old patterns, then this is all we will get and will not create true health or change. Whereas having the intention to peel away the old, unloving habits to reveal more of our inner beauty, feels like a commitment to self and lasting change.

     1. Fiona I appreciate the wisdom in your statement about the power of intention – is it real to do a detox, exercise programme or the like in order to get ‘better’ or ‘fix our bodies’ and once ‘fixed’ ‘reward’ ourselves by immediately beginning the journey through our habits again. Fix, relapse; fix, relapse; fix, relapse. A true ‘detox’ requires a commitment to further our connection with what is truly us by discarding what is not us – more something ‘acquired’. This is the peeling away you refer to and yes real change follows in my experience.

455. Your story made me think of the saying, “Start as you intend to go on” and made me appreciate the power of our intentions. If we start a detox just to fix us up long enough to get back into our old habits it cannot ever hope to lead to real change or healing. Whereas if we start out to clear away what doesnt support us and reclaim more of the lovelines we naturally are – well that’s a completly different intention and commitment to our selves.

456. Thank you for your blog. I love the rose analogy too. I have begun the pruning and am delighted by the new flourish of growth it brings.

457. “But our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed”, so beautiful Cherise. It makes peeling back those old damaged layers of hardness and protection so worth it. Thank you

458. There is so much more to life and our health than meets the eye. Cherise, you explain this so well again and again. Thank you.

459. I’ve enjoyed how you have redefined the term “detox” into something that feels way more supportive and shows a true foundation for your life going forward. Most detoxes I have either been on or heard about are usually focussed on the quick fix and short term goal rather than a true unfolding like you have so beautifully described here.

460. With Universal Medicine I learned that a simple detox can be how I get my body out of bed in the morning. To start my first moves with love and care changes my whole day and supports me in a way, that I feel less need for toxic foods like sugars etc.

461. Beautiful!

462. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” Well said Cherise. With the abundance of detoxes and cleansing programmes available on the market today, how many of them truly support and nourish your whole body and being like chakra puncture does? I do not know of any. Thankyou for an awesome sharing.

463. To detox our bodies has definitely become a main stream health tactic of sorts. To detox energetically, as so eloquently described in this wonderful article, is the next step – I’ve done a few of these myself and they’re worth every penny.

464. Hi Cherise. I have participated in quite a few detox’s both for myself and assisting clients. Mostly they are used as a form of relief from the way that we live and how we treat out bodies.I spent a couple of years working in a colonic irrigation clinic and we had quite a few clients who would seek this because of how they felt about the way they ate. I too had convinced myself that this was really good for me, relying on what I was reading and not listening to what my body was actually saying to me. From my experience, personally and professionally, nothing really changed in this process – except for having a squeaky clean bowel. What you are offering here is completely gorgeous, as there is nothing to remove or get rid of. Just a program that supports you and the loveliness that you are and by doing this the old ways and behaviours we have and develop to protect ourselves – just naturally fall away because of the loving approach that you have offered yourself. It changes the whole feel of the word for one of a chore to something supportive and totally nurturing.

465. Going into a mini detox chakra puncture program a while back my diet was the best it had ever been, I had dropped most, if not all foods that were not supporting me at the time and I was weighing in at the same weight I was twenty years ago. During and after the detox I was getting some pretty severe cravings for various foods which I caved in to. By not fully addressing what the detox was removing or instead not filling the gaps it was making with love I was leaving myself open to old ways of numbing. Hence the cravings. Just a little trap I won’t so easily fall into next time.

466. “My detox was supporting my whole way of being”. That is so different than other detox programs. And I love the analogy you make Cherise, when you say “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose”

467. This has been one of the biggest yet simplest changes to my life since having sessions with Esoteric Practitioners – “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being;” I could relate to all the detox programs you spoke of, and I never went into a detox with a view to look after my body… it was more from wanting to look better, feel better, clear my skin or lose weight. Thank you Cherise for such an exquisite and loving look at a true way to detox our hurts and issues.

468. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” This is such a great and true statement, Cherise, that I had to repeat it here. And it is very precious and immensely supportive that Universal Medicine practitioners afford the space for this to happen and for their clients to gently unfold from within, without any impositions or lackadaisical prescriptions.

469. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” This is such a beautiful analogy Cherise – I have been through the detox process as you describe but I felt that I had a ‘plan’. Wanting to know that I was going to be changed at the end. It felt a bit like opening the door a little way but making sure that the door is kept at the point where I felt comfortable – in other words controlling what the process actually was. I appreciate your revelation of how it can be to surrender and be open.

470. Cherise thank you for sharing what having a true detox really is about. I was deeply touched by “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.” Something I am commited to live everday.

471. I will the keep the image of the beautiful rose with me to support my journey to reconnection. I am inspired to want to do another detox to be held in that lovely space you describe. Thank-you.

472. Cherise it was lovely to read this again after being on a detox recently and its helped me reconnect to that and appreciate the process and unfoldment. I completely agree that a detox with a universal medicine practitioner is very different to the traditional “fad” detox to lose weight and then go back to your old ways.

473. What a truly beautiful sentence ” Our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed”. How very true this is and something that we all know deep down no matter how much be trash ourselves and try and suppress our inner knowing.

474. Thank you Cherise for so beautifully revealing how we can return to our true way of being. I felt the analogy of the rose made it so simple for me to see the beauty in me and that my hurts are just outer layers that I continue to carry around cloaking my heart. Let go of the outer to reveal what lies within how simple is that.

475. Cherise that’s a great set of observations, and your new style of loving, self-aware detox with Universal Medicine is the missing link in so many detox programs. I’ve worked a lot helping people detox, including myself, and see why often detoxes aren’t as effective as they could be. One issue is that ‘beating yourself up’ is toxic – so when people are disgusted with themselves for being a certain way, it produces more harm in their bodies that then has to be cleared as well. Any physical detox program they may be doing is thwarted by ‘attitude’ toxicity. “The compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise.” – a big yes!

476. This blows out of the water ideas that detoxes are an intense thing that we force ourselves to do for an outcome. They can be, but they can also be like a blossoming rose.

477. Love what you have shared Cherise thank you. I to am unfolding and detoxing with love.

478. As you shared the beautiful analogy of the rose, I would like to joyfully go on with it, becoming aware, that the little bud is already wearing the blossoming and the beauty and preciousness in it and nobody has to tell it how to blossom, just see it, smell it, and love it in its blossoming and beauty. Thank you for this beautiful blog.

479. So beautifully expressed – I just love the line “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” – it perfectly describes the gentleness with which we can support our own blossoming from within. Thank you Cherise.

480. Thank you Cherise, your description of the detox process is paplable, and inspiring, its like i got a detox just by reading your blog!

481. Before I became a student of Universal Medicine, I went so often to Practitioners,
     who told me what to do or not to do, but when I felt and looked at her/him,
     I did observe very often they not living for themselves what they expressed to me.

     What a blessing for me and everyone else that we can now have the opportunity to
     go to an Universal Medicine Practitioners, who present their experiences and knowledge with Love and Integrity.

482. This kind of detox is a true and deep detox, unlike the way the word is commonly used in society. I recently had a discussion with friends who were discussing what they would be giving up for the month of February – chocolate, alcohol, coffee… I asked them what happened in March. Simple answer – they would start up again. I asked what the point of it was – a few reasons were given and it was clear the farce of it all. Why detox something you know is bad for you? Doesn’t that expose how you are harming your body? And to give yourself a break from this harm, how does it then feel to return? Hmmm…..

     1. Great comment Nikki. You have exposed the falseness of the traditional ‘detox’. “Why detox something you know is bad for you” It shows how ridiculous our decisions and choices are when it comes to what we eat and drink. What is it that blinds us to the fact that we know what we do is not supportive yet do it anyway?

     2. I agree with the absurdity you have exposed here Nikki. The whole detox/re-tox thing has never made sense to me, although I do understand how fashionable this is…!! By subscribing to this notion of ‘detox’ we get to kid ourselves that we are doing something healthy (by MOMENTARILY choosing to avoid foods and substances our bodies clearly say ‘no’ to) and then we set ourselves up for the next bit: the re-tox! Where we get to say ‘gosh, I did something great for my body there, it was hard work but I’m healthy now. Healthy enough to further kid myself that I have wiped my slate clean so I can now reach for that beer/burger/chocolate etc, whatever makes you salivate the most and that you choose to reward yourself with for a job well done. Um…hello? Is that not the same energy running the same show? This becomes an endless cycle: eat bad, feel bad, eat good, feel good, feel so good it doesn’t matter if you eat bad again until you eat so bad, it hurts and you need to eat good for awhile…STOP. There is no ‘good’ and ‘bad’, they are simply opposites on the SAME pole. In truth there is only that which truly supports your body and that which goes against it. Superficial detoxes are not a support for the body, they are a very clever and deeply cunning trick that most of us fall for. The trick being – all they do is provide us with an excuse to further abuse our bodies in the future. Nothing healthy about that!

483. Cherise, you have expressed our unfolding process with absolute grace and beauty. I know I will come back again and again to read and feel all you have offered.
     So precious, thank you.

484. Having recently completed a 12 week detox program myself. I found that every session was a beautiful time to recognise old patterns and beliefs that I may have been holding for many years. This in turn allowed me to feel the true tenderness and grace that was always there, but was hiding away under the old rose petals that had just not been shed yet.

485. Universal Medicine detox supported me to understand I have a choice in life. Whaaaaat!!! You mean I’m not a victim and it’s not everyone else’s fault. I‘m not sure if this detox is for me. If I am not the victim of circumstance and I don’t get to scuff around in irresponsibility and arrogance forever then who can I blame, who can I manipulate when things don’t go my way? Ok… This detox feels like what I want truthfully because I am tired of scuffing, I am tired of having issues, I am over blaming others, I am fed up with playing small, I would like to understand why I overeat at times even when body says no and my head says your eating it anyway. Sign me up I’m all in, as I can feel this is the support my body is calling for. I’m ready to deal and let go of my hurts, I am ready to feel the beauty-full, vital woman I know I am. I want to come to understanding and clarity on why I make choices that are not loving.

     Over the course of a twelve week Universal Medicine detox I learned more about myself and life than all the years of primary and secondary school combined. That’s epic. Twelve weeks of a Uni Med detox with a divine practitioner who’s unwavering integrity and care was able to support me to understand my body, my behaviours, my choices past and present in crystal clear simplicity. Over the course of twelve weeks with the support of chakra puncture this detox enabled me to feel I had a choice in life. A choice to choose what is loving and what is not, and to begin to actively commit to the loving, vital life I always felt possible. This detox felt like a bit of a spring clean of the body, actually a huge one to be honest. It was the support it needed to dust out the old and feel the shine that was always there within waiting to shimmer in all of it’s glory. Thanks Cherise for expressing about your detox. It has allowed me a moment of wow, and appreciation for everything.

486. At this time of year when so many people have started their New Year’s resolutions that often include a detox of the over-indulgences at Christmas, it is great to read about what a true detox can be. Already by late January many resolutions have faltered, or people are at least having trouble with the discipline needed to approach a “goal driven detox” in the way that is required. The detox you describe is heartening – to allow the unfolding, to commit and be lovingly responsible, and to allow what is there to be cleared to be cleared. No drive needed.

487. This sounds awesome Cherise. I am inspired to also get a Real Detox with a Universal Medicine practitioner down the track…I can already feel possible themes I would like to work on to deepen my relationship with myself and to open myself to humanity to provide true service. The absolute care and support I have received from UniMed practitioners in sessions has really supported me – so imagine continued support to grow for 12 weeks- what a life changer!
     And yes- before Universal Medicine- I always thought that detox was associated with food and exercise…it was me imagining drinking and eating everything that is green and that’s all: green veggies, green juice, green soup, cholorophyll, peppermint tea, etc…ha. Not that these things aren’t super great for the body…but a diet with those restrictions never sounded appealing or supportive.
     But to know that a true detox is letting go of things in the body that are holding – makes sense that it is more than just food associated with ailments, weight and vitality in the body.

488. This is beautiful Cherise, thank you. Feels like the true meaning of detox and the only way for lasting change. Getting rid of what we have taken on and being left with everything that we already are. Superb!

489. What a refreshing article, Cherise! I remember myself doing all sort of cleansing and detox programs while I was smoking and drinking alcohol-to keep it balanced-ha! And only after Energetic Detox program I felt how much poison of different kind-my ideals, beliefs, emotions, self-loathing, disregard – is in my body. This type of poison only can be removed by me making loving choices and with the help of UniMed practitioners.

490. I love your analogy of the rose Cherise, we are forever the purity at our deepest level and the Universal Medicine Detox programme allows us to shed the ‘what is not’ for the ‘what is’ to be reclaimed.

     1. Here here Shelley, simply spoken.

491. Thank you Cherise for expressing so beautifully what a detox truly stands for. A true commitment to you and to support the whole of you. Loved it!

492. Hi Cherise, I loved the rose analogy. It is so true. ” When a rose ages, its outside petals become discoloured, bruised and frayed, like our old ways of living; we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong.”

     And yet so many of us discard the old petals, and then, in the discomfort of feeling naked, try to put them back on. In my experience, a true detox gives us the opportunity to feel what it is like to be free of the physical and emotional impositions we have allowed to be placed upon us, but in that space if we don’t deeply accept that those ailments are not truly part of us, then they soon creep back in to our lives.

     There always seems to be a period of integration to me that is important after a Detox programme, where we need to be super aware of the new patterns that we choose to bring into our life, and ensure that we don’t try to make the old ones fit.

493. Hi Cherise, you write with such tenderness and respect, it is a pleasure to read and made me want to be much more gentle with myself today! thankyou

494. Thank you Cherise. In the past when I went on any kind of detox program it was because deep down I knew changes were needed. However the detox programs I would try were never about making a sustained change – one that changed how I was living.

495. An awesome piece of writing over what a true detox is. So many women will relate to what happens to the body once the detox (the quick fix solutions found on the internet) is over, great to expose this and then show how; ‘ With a deep commitment to me – and life – my detox was supporting my whole way of being’. I can feel how your commitment to yourself and life impacts your detox in allowing; ‘ the letting go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours that simply didn’t exist when we started out as the delicate little bud’. A beautiful expression Cherise.

496. Thank you Cherise for your beautiful experience by creating yourself more space to unfold and create a ‘detox plan’ that was without exception or goals but by only respecting that everyone knows what they need and what there body is asking for.

497. Cherise this a beautiful blog, a beautiful expression about how when we remove, or detox all that is not truly us, all our hurts and pains, ideals and beliefs we “unfold back to our true self who lies within”. You have summed up an experience that it is so wonderful and inspiring at any stage of our unfoldment, no matter where we are at in our personal development and highlighted the importance of considering the integrity of the way our practitioners choose to live themselves.. I hope many get to be inspired by your writing so I’m quoting you here again: “With a deep commitment to me – and life – my detox was supporting my whole way of being. I chose the support of a practitioner who I know already lives this way, who only shares from her way of living, never imposes and who radiates true responsibility and integrity.”

498. A lovely article to read Cherise. If only we actually understood that a true detox was all about energy first and the deconstruction of the life patterns. So often a detox is a fix/solution to a problem or even a rest from the over indulgences of life. If we saw ouselves as delicate flowers we wouldn’t do most of the things we do.

499. “My detox program was about being responsible and honest with me. I had an openness to whatever was to come up in my life and a dedication to living in a more loving, harmonious, joyful and truly well way.” These are very inspiring words Cherise.

500. Thank you Cherise, this is what a detox is truly about, the openness to feel whatever comes up and let it go and so on and so on. To deepen the relationship with yourself key is, like you’ve shared, having a practitioner you know who is living with this commitment to herself and life. A self loving way so you have this reflection of responsibility and integrity. My experience thus far is that the practitioners of Universal Medicine live and work in this true responsible way.

501. I have found an Esoteric Medicine detox is an opportunity and a commitment to reflect on what does not support me in living lovingly with myself, identify where this is coming from and let it go. When I am with the practitioner I find I am more honest and willing to say out loud to myself where changes in the way I am with myself will take me back to the true and beautiful me that is waiting within.

502. Cherise, this is a beautiful blog to read and so very inspiring. Detox to me, has always meant a hard way of denial of all sorts of things to purge the body along with colonic irrigation and herbs. The detox with Universal medicine practitioners is a million miles away from this – gentle and an amazing space to let go of the old. I love your analogy of the detox and the rose – ‘When a rose ages, its outside petals become discoloured, bruised and frayed, like our old ways of living; we forever have the ability to peel back the layers that no longer belong. We can allow ourselves to name and let go of the old comforts, needs, expectations and behaviours that simply didn’t exist when we started out as the delicate little bud’.

503. This blog reads “like the blossoming of a rose” Cherise !
     Feeling into those 7 words: “our inner knowing remains pure and unharmed ” empowers me to ” return to cherish and accept ” who I am, with tenderness and love.

504. Yes, when we remove the pressures that conventionally come with any ‘detox’ (i.e. to reach a certain goal, weight, to permanently eliminate x, y or z from our diet), does it not become an awful lot easier? When we just say ‘this is about me living the love that I am’, we can let go of the expectations of any particular outcome, and just allow our body to get used to being treated in and with a more loving manner: the excess behaviours/activities and foods which do not belong to this will then naturally fall away, without any effort required on our part.

505. Cherise, love how you share that the detox is giving the “space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” To approach a detox in this way is a more loving way.

506. Cherise, I love how you say that the detox you have done was never about a goal or attaining something by its completion and that in a way it has given you everything you were ready to accept.
     What a difference with the detox programs you find on the internet, they promise you to reach a goal but the goal it delivers is never long lasting and you mostly return to your old state of being, or even worse because of the failure you experienced with the program. What a great healing the Universal Medicine detox program delivers!

507. I relate to the wobbling you share of Gill, and must agree that when we really set a supportive and tangibly honest and trusting relationship with ourselves and with how we want to live, whatever wobble happens there is a consistently deepening baseline to come back to. This feels to all be apart of the learning and unfolding for me, and each aspect presents another opportunity to appreciate where I’ve been and who I am.

508. Thank you everyone for your comments. I agree, the beginning of a new year is a big time for people to be thinking about and planning to make new supportive choices in their lives. And I couldn’t think of a more supportive choice we could make than to be loving and supportive of our bodies and whole being. I am continuing to find that every moment is an opportunity to make a new choice, or to repeat an old one .. and either way there is so much to embrace in the learning that comes with them.

     1. Beautifully said Cherise, thank you. I remember Serge Benhayon saying “Choose Love Now, and the next moment will have Love in it”. Yes every moment really does hold the potential for true change.

509. “With a deep commitment to me – and life – my detox was supporting my whole way of being.” Love this Cherise – a detox – not just to get over holiday excesses.

510. In this season where many may be thinking about doing a detox, you offer a refreshing view on how a detox can be approached Cherise, which can result in new life long self loving habits.

511. What a beautiful blog. I love how you describe your detox and the responsibility you shared about your committment to being open and honest with yourself at all times.

512. It was a beautiful time for me to read your gorgeous blog Cherise, as I am half way through a detox program at the moment. There is an awesome experience just in the commitment itself and then as it unfolds, to embrace the unfolding of all that is revealed. I am often so surprised that when I meet yet again my stubbornness, I welcome the opportunity to let go a little more, as it is so tenderly and lovingly explored by myself and the practitioner. I know there are many more petals to release and drop away, but I know that deep within is the essence of all that I am.

     1. I love this too Susan, that we can meet our old behaviours or patterns over again but with a seeming new depth of honesty to see more of it with and I also agree that it is so beautiful to be so welcoming of all that comes up, and to support each petal that is ready to drop away.

513. I agree Cherise that a detox program is an ongoing unfolding and peeling back the layers and behaviours that have nothing to do with who we are. This allows a greater awareness and connection to who we really are. It is not the way detox programs are usually portrayed – a short term goal orientated program with short term benefits or relief which invariably return back to the usual behaviours without any real change.

514. One of the key points that I feel in your blog is about honesty. When used honestly, honesty and truth is a detox in itself where we can become aware of the things we eat that no longer feel right in our bodies or ways of being that might emotionally poison us. I’m finding that it is the first step in letting go of the things that don’t support me in living a life that is joyful and abundant in energy. It’s a daily learning process.

     1. Gorgeous point Jinya. I am finding that I feel poisoned simply by holding back an expression and not speaking up when I need to. This leads to feeling resentful and bitter and frustrated which builds up inside me. I then go on to eat too much simply because I am already feeling bad about myself and I don’t really want to feel this. But it obviously makes it all worse as then I feel angry with myself for over eating on top of everything else. It is a horrible cycle and one that certainly needs a detox on many levels!

        1. I know that negative cycle so well Rebecca! It is hard to break and needs an enormous amount of honesty, as you say, Jinya. Food seems to be the first and last addiction, and become all important in our lives, whereas we actually don’t need to eat as much of it as we do, and that has been said again and again by many people over the ages. We only need to eat as much as we need to support and nourish the body. Eating any more is abusive and creates physical problems. Yet this is also true with many of the activities we partake in in life. Eating seems to reflect our whole attitude to living. Taking space to feel what is true for us seems to me to be the first step to change.

     2. I agree with and love your point on honesty here Jinya, without it we are left to flounder in the dark on what is really going on for us but with honesty there is a self-empowerment and a beauty that comes with the daily learning process you share of and the more we let go of those things that don’t feel to support us the more I feel my level of honesty deepens; and becomes more solid in my daily way of life.

515. I love how you share about the wisdom we have inside us, the wisdom from our body: ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’
     I can relate to this. To stop and connect to what I feel allows the answer for whatever is there.

516. A great reminder for me to keep choosing tenderness. I may have some damaged petals on the outside but being rough with a rose only bruises more petals.

517. “But what happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete?
     Do we return to our old behaviours and patterns, find ourselves frustrated or deflated when the body physically changes in a way we do not like or when we find ourselves feeling sick, uncomfortable and discontent in our own skin once again?” Re-reading this this is such a pertinent question as many people will feel to detox after over-indulging at Christmas.

518. This is a real delight to come back and re read to remind me of the simplicity of continuing to choose my own self worth and love.

519. This blog describes the detox as such loving support to the body as it unfolds, thank you Cherise. It’s a growing development of self that continues to deepen well after the programme.

520. I like the way you have made it so clear that there is no goal, Cherise. So many diet plans out there in the world have targets that create an opportunity for failure, whereas the Detox programme you describe is about the process, and that becomes ever ongoing, being honest about what is happening emotionally and physically every day, with no attachment to outcome. A detox for life, and living life respectfully and lovingly.

521. ‘What happens to us and our bodies when the detox program is complete?’ is a great question and I wonder too what is happening to our bodies during a detox as some of the detox programs I have tried require you to go entirely against what your body is telling you. I love your analogy of a supportive detox being like the blossoming of a beautiful rose.

522. I love the idea of peeling back old layers, letting go of things that no longer serving me as I change. To think a few years ago, I used to hate change but now I embrace it as a way of cleansing, just like clearing out some cupboards. Letting go of old stuff that no longer serves is so liberating . A great point too Joan, thanks, about not accumulating yet more too, by living in the present moment.

523. I really connected to this quote “living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.” A great place to initiate a detox, not seeking a quick fix physically but committing to looking at everything that impacts on how we feel ourselves to be.

     1. I agree Samantha, it is gorgeous to connect to that place within us and then make our choices to support that. Dieting and detoxing is so often undertaken with the want to ‘improve’ rather than simply allowing what is already there to just be.

524. It is so clear that everything is about how we are in the present moment, to feel with honesty how we have been harming ourselves, and where we have been nourishing ourselves, and so have a clear picture of what needs to change. This way we do not accumulate yet more of what needs to be cleared. In the present moment a choice can be made that beings about that change because we are fully focused and fully present.

525. A fresh start is an ongoing process of deepening this cleansing of ourselves at more and more levels like at home always clearing out the clutter and rearranging things to feel reimprinted with more love to support ourselves and our bodies in life. I love this article and all it offers in our unfolding journey into ourselves and with everyone, Beautifully presented thank you

     1. Tricia, this is a timely reminder for me that our environment is all about who we are so without addressing what is around us at the same time as addressing what is going on within nothing will truly change because we will forever slip back into our old negative patterns.

     2. We are coming up to that time (New Year) when we are encouraged to make a fresh start, discard those habits that make us less than perfect. (Whats perfect anyway?)I loved this article, how much more honouring of our bodies it is to simply allow that space to reconnect, and make our own choices.

526. I love your description of a true detox. “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not”. Most people do detoxes as a solution to the loveless choices they have been making without really addressing why they have been making those choices. To allow yourself to go deeper with this, with allowance and understanding, is a real inspiration.

     1. I totally agree Michelle it is really inspiring to look at what is it that I am trying to have a detox for whilst having the Universal Medicine Chakra-puncture detox is incredible powerful. Allowing what needs to come up and clear and bring awareness to the process is one that I have not experienced any where else. Amazing

527. The love you express, ‘But our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed.
     It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be,’ feels truly nourishing for where I’m at today. thank you so much.

528. I love your analogy of the rose petals and that we can peel back those discoloured layers that are hiding the beauty underneath.

529. I remember doing several detoxes in the past, at first just because it seemed like the thing to do, but it was never for anything other than supporting my way of living at that time, so I could go back to abusing my body with clubbing just with a slightly clearer conscience. It was not until I came across Universal Medicine that I realised that a true cleanse of the inside is not just the internal organs but of the patterns and beliefs that if held on to will harm the body as well as our general way of being. Thank you for sharing this!

530. Hi Cherise, I love the sound of your detox program and the line, “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” I have found this to be true too.

531. Your detox programme Cherise feels all encompassing, there is more room for true change when we address the whole picture. A detox that only looks at the food we eat does not allow for the reasons why we chose that food in the first place. It makes sense to be open to everything that is going on, and start to understand better why we might want to eat certain foods and why we may act in a certain way, taking our healing from the detox to a whole new level.

     1. Yes, changing our diets without looking at why we we are reaching for certain foods at a certain time is like pulling teeth, addressing the root cause allows the rose the space to unfold.

532. Hi Cherise, I really enjoyed reading this, especially the part where you say, “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” I have found this to be true.

     1. Absolutely agree Susang12 with the above quote that all we need is just the space to reconnect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not. Discarding what we are not to discover who we are is one of the keys to well-being. Great blog Cherise, full of gems to treasure.

533. I love this knowing too Jane, and with acceptance of this truth we will naturally nurture the very essence of who we are and in doing so naturally shed the layers that never belonged.

534. On reading this for a second time, it’s a timely reminder that we are simply discarding what is not us to reveal the inner beauty. warmth and tenderness that has always been there. No need to look outside of us, for this is the place to go to when we need true support in our lives. Thank you.

535. I have found the Universal Medicine De-Tox a most gentle and lovingly supportive treatment. I have been able to deeply rest my body whilst able to feel what is truly going on in my life and having the space to make different choices about every aspect of how I am living.

     1. I agree Carmel. I have also found this process to be very supportive on many levels.

536. Thank you Cherise for your very real account of a true detox program and it’s immense support in all areas of your life, in reclaiming yourself living as a woman honouring and loving yourself as you naturally know your self to be.
     It is very inspiring and with the help and support of Universal Medicine, it’s Practioners and different healing modalities I am choosing to do the same thing and it becomes a way of living truly unfolding and cherishing the love we are and know ourselves to be.
     Beautiful

537. “The objective is usually to live with greater vitality and physical energy in our day-to-day routines, where we feel well in our minds and bodies and can live a happy and healthy life.”
     This is great, we all want it, but unfortunately most go for the quick fix. It is only when we realize that we can live like this all of the time, without the pressure of a diet or a detox, that we can make choices that sustain and support us everyday so that this becomes are way of living, not just a fad.

     1. This is so true Jenny, I feel so fortunate to have been shown a way of living that allows more joy and vitality on a daily basis where the loveliness is forever evolving instead of coming to an abrupt stop after a quick fix.

        1. Give me the loveliness of forever evolving over the quick fix any day Fiona. I’ve never dieted, but have seen the effects in others, and how, almost inevitably, their weight yo-yos all over the place. When I changed how, and what, I ate there was no expectation of an outcome, and I was totally surprised when I slowly changed back to my natural shape. With more energy and vitality, no stress or cravings.

     2. So true Jenny, the quick fix is not sustaining and will keep us in the belief that we are working on our health without having to change our way of living, but in truth this is a illusion and will not bring us true health.

538. My old experience of detox was a harsh way of purging my body of whatever the detox was offering to get rid of. I never enjoyed it and at times I ran a mile from it.
     Fully expected something similar from the Detox program with Universal Medicine. But of course it was not, as Universal Medicine does not do harsh and only ever does gentle, honouring and working with the body. I was also curious since I had heard stories from people who had already gone through a program. Someone had dramatically changed his diet in his program and subsequently lost a lot of weight, another person faced a lot of memories and issues which they had lingering from their childhood, and another had all sorts of different things come up. Well for me, I got my legs back! Prior to my detox I hated walking any distance and slowly throughout my program I started noticing I felt lighter on my feet and by the end I was happy to walk over half hour to my session instead of catching the bus. It was not what I had consciously planned or even thought a detox program could help me with, but my body knew better and used the opportunity. Thank you for the beautiful analogy of the rose, with us forever shedding the outer petals that no longer belong and open the beautiful tender blossom from within.

     1. I am so inspired to have a detox and fully embrace the awareness of old patterns so I can let them go and start afresh with a more loving way of being and commitment to myself.

     2. It is a great point you make, Golnaz, that detox is associated with purging the body which sounds and is harsh while Universal Medicine does only gentle. As the many comments attest to this detox programme is very loving, supportive and with a wide variety of results as your own experience is witness to. For myself there was nothing dramatic but afterwards felt lighter, clearer and with an inner feeling of a change that was enhancing.

     3. Very true Golnaz, the detox offered by Universal Medicine is far from what I expected a detox to be. I went into my detox with no preconceived ideas of what was going to happen. I just let my body do the healing it needed to do and was very surprised at what came up for me. It gave me a lot of answers to issues I have and I came away with a deeper understanding of myself.

     4. Thank you Golnaz for your inspiring comment – like you I always viewed a detox as something harsh and purging. Now I realise, with the support of Universal Medicine Practitioners, that it is gentle and unfolding, and a path that will, when I am willing to surrender, finally enable me to shed all the outer petals and to reveal the tender bud within.

539. Detox’s don’t fix anything is so true, but they do give us the space to connect and see what is true and loving in our lives and what is not. I have not had a detox for a few years, but I do remember it to be very exposing of the things that are not true in my life, but it was then my choice and how honest I was with myself as to whether I truly made the changes or not. I remember being quite hard on myself so it was lovely to read your analogy of the bruised rose petals, and the hurts we hold on to. I could feel the delicateness with which to allow the detox to unfold peeling off the old no longer needed petals, tenderly and gently. I love this last paragraph, “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts we carry that are not our natural way of being; but rather a collaboration of self-perceptions and past experiences that need only be exposed with loving tenderness and compassion – so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be”.

540. Cherise. Such an open and honest comments, and truely inspirational for all.

541. Growing up Cherise I would need “a fresh start” every few months or at least a couple of times per year I think! It’s so interesting looking back and seeing the times and moments where something is not quite working so we have “a fresh start” but end up back in the same place. Even typical “detox” options like Juice Fasts, Enemas or salad diets don’t seem to actually help change anything – apart from a carb break -perhaps! The chakra-puncture detox is something that is so fundamentally different and feels like it helps detox and rebuild a new foundation instead of letting us fall back to where we started.

     1. I agree David and for me there has definitely been something around the fact that I have been repeating the same cycle of behaviour .. and therefore was seeking a ‘fresh start’ to leave that cycle behind again, however, without understanding the choices I have made that contributed, the ‘fresh start’ is actually a myth that keeps us thinking if we ‘do something differently’ we will find the answer we’re looking for or perhaps a different outcome.

542. Indeed a detox that is a long term commitment – and consistently so.

     This beautifully sums up what is said here; ‘When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices’

     A gift that keeps on giving

     1. A beautiful gift indeed hvmorden, and an awareness that continues to deepen with no end point.

543. I would say that all of Universal Medicine workshops and courses are one big detox along with all the modalities that are on offer. The depth in which you choose to take this ‘detox’ is up to you as it is all about self healing and development. To be open to looking at all the patterns and behaviours that we have accumulated over our lives and start to let go of them is so empowering and freeing. The CP detox is incredible also and can support with specific issues that you want to address and clear out of your being. Everything that I have experienced with my Esoteric Practitioners and Universal Medicine has been absolutely supportive, loving and caring in every sense of the word in letting go of what is not me and allow space for all of me to shine. This I am internally grateful and appreciative for and no words can express my deepest thanks.

     1. Thank you for sharing Natalie and I completely agree with you that every Universal Medicine workshop, course, retreat and one-day event is a detox in itself. I find that they have always supported my evolution and return to the inner Cherise that I know myself to be and support me to discard more ideals and beliefs, patterns and old behaviours that I don’t need to carry anymore – a ‘detox’ really does leave you feeling lighter! but from the very core of who you are

544. I agree Ariana and Vanessa, ‘deep down we are all so keenly aware that we need to change how we live’. People open up so quickly when they are given the chance and allowed to say what they feel. Universal Medicine has been this inspiration to change I was searching for most of my life, I knew the way I was living and those around me was not true, I knew my family whilst looking polished from the outside was not truly loving yet I played along wanting it to be loving and not thinking I could have more. Before Universal Medicine I had accepted that life was a struggle, that it was better to be ignorant and blissful rather than seeing the misery people are in. Now I know it was a blessing I had glimpses through the fog many of our eyes are/were clouded by, it was with the love and support from Universal Medicine that I was able to see through the fog more and have been given the tools to change the way I live, the way I thought as young was possible but as I grew up gave up on.

545. An important piece of writing. The only detox program I have ever taken part in was with an esoteric practitioner. I have never felt the urge to subscribe to the fads that we are tirelessly sold in our lives, you know you’re being set up to fail in one way or another. However with the esoteric chakra puncture all I felt was support and love, it was a growing and a developing not a stripping back and self criticizing regime which often seems to be the case as we endure a diet or a detox and fail looking at our previous choices or if we slip up and eat a cookie when we shouldn’t have or drink a drink and are no longer 10 days sober. It’s incredible we put ourselves in these situations with so much pressure when really these things can be tackled but lovingly so – when we look at the issues beneath them rather than the act themselves.

     1. My situation has been similar to yours and yes I think you have summed it up so well with saying how tackling the underlying issues themselves takes the pressure of the little ‘oops’ or binge moments.

     2. It’s very true Jenny, the Esoteric Chakra-puncture detox is nothing like the other kinds that you mention and how heavy do they sound as they come from the point of view that there is already something ‘wrong’ with you or something to ‘improve on’, whereas, we now have a way of detoxing our whole way of living and from a place where we can accept our natural essence and shed what we choose to from there..

        It is incredible that we can place so much pressure on ourselves, and how that comes with a desperation to be ‘something else’; when the loveliness we actually seek is already who we are.

546. This is truly beautiful Cherise. A gorgeous example of the simplicity of a true detox and an honest look at what leads to our need for a detox in the first place.Underneath the toxic choices we make for ourselves there lies a reason why we do this. Your article shows that it is necessary to look at these reasons and work on clearing them to provide us with more of a chance of making positive supportive choices in the future.

     1. Yes Rebecca, and in doing so with self-respect and understanding we are also building a whole new foundation that will support those future choices to be self-honouring and loving ones.

547. Esoteric Chakra-puncture is a Powerful modality like all of Universal Medicine modalities. Particularly the detox program that is on offer. It is unique to each person that chooses to go on it and can support with emotional, physical and mental areas in your life where by they are running you and have control over your being. It is truly profound the treatment once on the table and with the willingness to deeply let go what is possible. Chakra-puncture lets you feel the enormity of where we come from but at the same time and can bring to the fore the rot that keeps us away from our divine power within. Which is critical so we can feel that actually impact of our choices. Then constantly being supported to feel deeper the amazing Love that is the very core of our soul. I love this modality that Universal Medicine has delivered for all to experience.

     1. Beautifully said Natalie –
        “Chakra-puncture lets you feel the enormity of where we come from but at the same time and can bring to the fore the rot that keeps us away from our divine power within. Which is critical so we can feel that actually impact of our choices”.
        As we understand that everything comes back to our choices we can have greater responsibility for ourselves. Chakra Puncture is so supportive to feel where we are ‘off track’

     2. Thank you Natalie and Stephanie, there is so much to appreciate about the modality of Chakra-puncture itself and how it works to support the body to clear that which is not you, to allow the expansion of the fiery spark that is you and was always you to begin with – I love that it is never about being something else and always about unfolding who you already are, with acceptance granted there is a simplicity to this way of looking at it.

548. Upon revisiting this blog the question arose – “what if I considered my life from this moment a detox?” Is not a detox about removing and discarding that which does not support us? What if now, each day I continue to look at what I have allowed to get in the way of me being all the amazingness that I was when I was very young?

     “I was continually amazed by the opportunity that presented in each session, to be honest with any emotional issues, old patterns of behaviour and ways of living – some felt like I had been repeating them for lifetimes! ” What you say here is true and this we don’t have to hold just in a session but can carry with us in our lives onwards.

     1. I love your question mmryan:
        “what if I considered my life from this moment a detox?”

        Each and every day is a new beginning to allow ourselves to be more aware, and discard anything that we may choose and which doesn’t feel to fit, I love this opportunity mmryan and it is a super empowering way to embrace our days.

549. Hi Cherise I thought I would re-visit this blog now that I am half way through my detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner. When I look back I am constantly amazed about the thoughts and way I was living – it was like I was trapped. I look back a week later and again the same – trapped. The detox for me is now much more than something to loose weight of get healthy and better – its something to shed or “de-toxify” everything that i have held onto that has kept me trapped.

     1. Hi David, thank you for sharing your experience as I completely relate. For me it’s like looking back to seeing myself with blinkers on, living in a way or under a guise where I thought there was no other way to approach or view something.
        And in looking back I felt so much appreciation for the blinkers that are now removed and how open, alive and empowered I would feel to have dropped some more seemingly entrenched beliefs and behaviours.

        I also feel so appreciative in knowing that there is always more, and more of these ‘old thoughts’ to nominate and discard and I can already feel the lightness that comes with that – all I have to do is choose to be open to it.

550. Thank you Cherise an inspiring article and sharing of your experience. So often is the case that a diet or detox plan is followed to achieve a certain end and so often the old ways resume when the diet is done. Historically this is a way I have fallen into. From the presentations of Universal Medicine I have been inspired to choose a more true way of being which includes ‘detoxing’ from old emotions and behaviours and taking responsibility for all areas of my life including my diet. The result has been body that carries less weight and an increase in vitality and general well being.

     1. That’s beautiful Beverley, I relate to the self-responsibility you are speaking of and the lightness that it really does bring, often we can misinterpret responsibility to be the heavy part of making change when in actual fact it is the historical repetitive behaviours that we have both mentioned that feel to drag on our natural vitality and joy.

551. This is a great blog that every diet, detoxing seeking person should read. As you say ultimately all the other offerings to cleanse your body doesn’t address the real reason why you do what you do that needs to be cleansed in the first place. It is a solution based approach for as quick as possible with the least amount of effort required. How can any of these be a long term, healthy and pro active approach. As Cherise has clearly shared and from my experience of having the Universal Medicines Chakra-puncture Detox program it goes so much deeper to the real issues at hand as to why you are choosing what it is that you are doing, behaviours that are so deeply imbedded all from the willingness of choosing to be honest and open to looking at your choices in life. The support from the practitioners is incredible with the integrity of such high levels you would be blown away by.

     1. Exactly Natalie, and how self-inspiring it really is to be open to seeking the root-cause and letting go the ‘issues’ we think we have or have held on to for far too long.

552. For me that is just one of the areas the Chakra Puncuture Detox supported me in, giving me the space and opportunity to start to listen to my body again.

553. Beautiful, very inspiring and a great sharing. We are all in our different ways looking to change, clean up and refresh our lives constantly and it is through Universal Medicine appreciation for ourselves and our livingness we can bring the key of being the love we naturally are back to our bodies amazingly .

554. An inspiring blog – I love your closing paragraph which encapsulates the way of life that I have found by aligning to the work of Universal Medicine.

555. ‘with loving tenderness and compassion’ is a lovely way to explore our lives and the choices we have made and perhaps continue to make. It is very easy to be self-critical, but to appreciate just how far we have come is important. ‘so that we may unfold – returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be.’ Beautiful words, thank you.

556. Cherise, I feel like what you may be suggesting is that we can be detoxing our bodies on a constant basis just by the way we live and interact, but not necessarily by some specific method in a given time frame.

     1. Absolutely Michael, we have this grand opportunity to detox, discard and evolve our entire selves and our bodies in any given moment – ah-mazing!

557. Beautiful blog Cherise. Chakra-puncture mini and full detox programmes are amazing. It is a great support and opportunity to get rid of what is not you.

558. Totally Jane that line was the business for me as well.

559. Dear Cherise what an amazing blog. I love how supportive are your lines, ‘ And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise. When we become aware of how we have lived with ourselves and others, the opportunity is there to make new and more supportive choices – isn’t this beautiful!’

     Yes, truly beautiful.

560. Thanks for this Cherise, it has inspired me to consider a detox program. I had not before realised or understood the depth that this program goes to, assuming that it was a physical detox, whereas I can now see that it is so much more.

     1. Awesome Doug, I would love to hear how your own program goes for you.

561. Definitely Jane, I love that comment too, ‘We don’t actually need more solutions….. . Solutions are not the answer, and I agree if I listen to, ‘ what my body is saying I have the greatest guide there can be which is pure gold, in that I have learnt my body will show me whether through aches and pains, change in body temperature, or many other sensations where something I am doing is not supporting me, and if I choose to take note of that and make a change, that change is long lasting’. Our body is our greatest marker of truth.

562. Simply stunning, thank you. I loved how you explained that the detox you went through was not a magical cure-all and take it all away exercise. Instead making a choice to allow yourself the space to feel the fact that we already know how to live vitally and joyfully and what gets in the way of feeling that fact.

563. That is really true Ariana, no one is really fooled and everyone knows they are tender and love, we just have to let go and forgive ourselves to start a fresh.

564. Hi Cherise, I love this blog and the fresh glowing rose bud that we are as children is always there inside and we simply have to reconnect to it and allow it to flower. The detox as you have discussed is an awesome way to clear some of those patterns of living which hold us back from growing. Thank you

565. Thank you it is lovely to share in your experience of the detox with a Universal Medicine practitioner, you write “I chose the support of a practitioner who I know already lives this way, who only shares from her way of living, never imposes and who radiates true responsibility and integrity.” This so true, there is no imposition, or telling what to do in a Esoteric Treatment session, but rather a reflection from someone who is ‘living it’ and this has wonderfully healing potential if we are willing to look and take responsibility for what holds us back. We can peel back the layers!

     1. I agree Samantha, receiving the support from someone who is living self-honouring and responsibly for themselves and who lives (without perfection) to make many loving and supportive choices just oozes inspiration to me! You just can’t help but feel uplifted when you are around them, to live and make self-healing choices for yourself too.

        This would have to be the greatest compliment to all the Universal Medicine practitioners, to know that they inspire so many people – not through imposition, dictations or words but rather through the way they live, the self-choices they have made and the way they naturally reflect to others that a more loving way of living is indeed possible and more accessible than one may think.

        1. So true Cherise, it oozes inspiration for me too. It is such a beautiful and powerful a process.

        2. I agree Cherise and what stands out for me as well is the complete lack of imposition from the practitioners and a feeling of harmlessness.

566. This is beautiful Cherise and I love the analogy of a rose. I could so relate with the bruising and hardening of the external petals, and that they can be easily discarded, while the inner is forever growing and unfolding. And yes any true support will assist us in our unfolding and discarding – the Universal medicine Detox program does this so well.

     1. I agree Golnaz!

567. Thank you for sharing what a true detox is about. I love how you have shared “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not”. This space we create is undeniably healing as many revelations can be felt in it about the choices we make and where they come from. This space allows us to say no to what we have realised doesn’t come from love and to say yes to, and to explore, the choices that do – leading to a much more joyful, vital life.

568. Really great to read about this beautiful process showing what a real detox is . Offered with Universal Medicine practitioners as an ongoing part of ones life of honesty and commitment.Thank you Cherise very inspiring.

569. I love how you described the main difference between a detox for a solution to a problem, and a Universal Medicine detox which is not driven by results, and allows the space to be one’s self. I haven’t had one before but from reading this I know I would benefit much more from the latter, even if I didn’t end up with a beach bum.

     1. Thank you Cheryl, you sure gave me a giggle, my bum isn’t ‘beach style’ since committing to this detox program but I certainly accept it as a part of me and know I can make choices to support my body in any way that I choose.

        1. I’ve found that Universal Medicine teaches me to look at why I don’t like my bum in the first place, rather than go out and change the one I’ve got to feel better. I find when I look at the root issue, or even get honest – I can live with myself (and my bum) a whole lot better, having only changed a few simple choices which aren’t result driven. 🙂

570. Cherise I too have taken part in this amazing 12 week program and felt the contrast of other detox programs over the years. The support allowed me to truly be honest with myself and let go layers that went deeper than any weight loss or physical changes.

571. This is a beautiful writing of what a true detox of our whole being can be like, I have constantly been amazed at how supportive and loving as well as clearing out of the bruised petals as you so beautifully described. I love the last part of your sharing it felt like I was being caressed by your words, it helped me to conned to the delicate rose bud inside tender and yet bursting with life.

572. I love how every opportunity is a new thing to look at, it changes the way I feel about my issues completely. It’s a way of being able to peel back some of those layers without judgement of myself, and to move on in a different way. It supports my whole way of being.

     1. This is beautiful Gill and so true, every situation offers an opportunity to grow and learn. As I am learning to let go of self criticism and self judgement it allows me to be more kinder to myself this then allows me to more present and clear with all I meet.

        1. Awesome sharing Gill and Samantha, I also love that peeling back the layers and letting go of the self-negative talk doesn’t have to be our actual focus – when we give ourselves the permission to feel how amazing we are and allow ourselves to live with and express with this knowing, the old patterns have nothing solid to stand on at all and naturally fall away as our new (and truer) loving foundation holds steady.

573. Thank you for sharing Shirley-Ann, I can share that from my experience all of these relationships you speak of (with food, work, our home and with others) developed in one way or another, throughout my detox program. It felt like the more honest and open I was to re-imprinting things and making new loving choices, the more opportunities were presented to do just that.

574. Cherise this is beautiful and great to remember: We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not. It’s so easy to get caught up in looking for solutions….

575. Thank you Cherise for this fabulous and inspirational blog. I’ve tried various detox programs over the years all of which were temporary fixes and solutions like you say. I knew deep down that I wanted another way of living and I wanted these detoxes to change my life in some miraculous way. Of course they didn’t address the inner hurts I was holding onto and the results were superficial and short lived. I’ve also done a Universal Medicine 13 session detox program, this was like no other as it was truly healing – I could feel the difference. It supported me to make lasting changes in my life as I was prepared to see and let go of some of the old attitudes and beliefs that were holding me back from expressing the real me. There are layers for me and there is more to let go of so I definitely intend to do another one but how I feel now is simply amazing compared to after the others. Life hasn’t changed but I have. My commitment to me, life and Love are everything I’ve been looking for all these years.

     1. So beautiful Heather. I made the commitment to completing a detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner again this year, and for the third year in a row I can absolutely relate to what you say about there being layers! The new changes I have made are also lasting ones, and when I feel open to the fact that there are always more opportunities and more loving choices for me to choose ~ I can see that peeling back the layers is the most beautiful part, and just when I thought I couldn’t feel any more beautiful!

        1. Yes Cherise, there is indeed a real joy in the unfolding of the layers, each one bringing a deeper connection to our beauty 🙂

576. Cherise I love the way you write. I can feel the joy pouring out of you. You are an inspiration for anyone wanting to truly detox.

     1. Well said Rebecca, it’s a great reminder of how to truly approach a detox.

577. Sounds amazing that you are creating a new way of life, truly inspirational.

578. Years ago I tried a ‘Liver de-tox’ and it was some ghastly mix of warm water and olive oil and I-can’t-remember-what-else but it tasted disgusting. How different is the Universal Medicine De-Tox programme, where loving support is offered to cleanse not just my body, but my mind. For me letting go of old patterns of behaviour has been truly cleansing for my body, no longer bringing in the poison of jealousy and comparison, the need for approval, the need to be recognised. It has been amazing how my vitality increases every time I let go of another debilitating way of being and learn to appreciate and truly be me.

     1. Thanks for this comment Carmel another great way of looking at a detox which I will definitely adopt. ‘no longer bringing in the poison of jealousy and comparison, the need for approval, the need to be recognised.’ Priceless Carmel Thanks

     2. Yes, I did the liver detox too Carmel (amongst several others) and it was totally awful! For myself, as well as the specific Chakra Puncture Detox, attending any training course or workshop presented by Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine is an amazing de-tox in itself and so true in what you say – “where loving support is offered to cleanse not just my body, but my mind. For me letting go of old patterns of behaviour has been truly cleansing for my body, no longer bringing in the poison of jealousy and comparison, the need for approval, the need to be recognised.
        It is so exhausting being stuck in these old patterns and so rejuvenating to work through them and appreciate myself in another way.

579. I so agree with what you say Jane. In the end it really does come down to us and our daily living choices.
     Thank you Cherise for this ground breaking article that presents another way and with all these comments, this is a true confirmation that this is possible for any of us if we choose.
     I know my body is thankful that I no longer do the new years resolutions, the fasting on grapes and all my diets that never ever worked.

580. I agree most people are looking for fresh start,

581. Thanks Cherise, I’m starting a mini detox next week which is only six sessions but through your inspiration I think I’ll adopt the being responsible and honest with me theme.

     1. Thanks Kev. Enjoy the abundance of opportunities to make new and loving choices for ourselves that come, when self-responsible and honesty are in our very foundation.

        1. This is very inspiring and opens the discussion on why we are not honest with ourselves in the first place.

582. “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose”… that is so beautiful Cherise! Thank you for sharing your experience that a detox doesn’t have to be just about cutting out foods, to be ‘healthy’ or lose weight. There is soooo much more!

     1. Thank you Laura, and it’s so true that making a detox about cutting out foods only serves only to limit the loving potential that a truly and fully supportive detox really can be.

583. A lovely article on what this form of detox can support and allow. It is a bit ‘like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…’.

584. Thank you Cherise for your article, just started a detox last week and I am really loving it.

     1. That’s Awesome to hear Alexandre, I look forward to hearing of your Detox experience in the future.

585. Knowing that our innermost is pure love. “It is from this supportive and warm place inside us that we can see the issues and hurts”. When I try to deal with my issues from the hurting place I go round in circles, getting nowhere and the trying continues. When I choose to remember who I truly am – pure love – then I can deal with things. I can choose to detox some areas of my life every day, as each new day offers me choices – to stay small – or to recall who I truly am, a powerful amazing woman, just like all women, when we choose it. Thanks for a beautiful article Cherise.

     1. that’s lovely Sue, and so true

        1. Loved it too Heather, Sue says it all here.

        2. I agree Heather. Your comment is lovely and powerful Sue and I resonate with what you say ‘when I try to deal with my issues from the hurting place I go round in circles’ so thank you for reminding me to be who I truly am, so that I can deal with things, as a powerful amazing woman, just like you and as you say, all women and I would add, all men too.

586. You have found the simple truth of this blog Jane, ‘in the end it is down to us and our daily living choices’

587. The Detox Program with a Universal Medicine Practitioner is profound on so many levels and I highly recommended them. They are not a quick fix solution in fact they are not a solution at all but as written here they provide a “space to reconnect”. In the past I have done colon cleanses, liver cleanses, urine therapy (yes I know the things we do in the name of health!) coffee enemas, raw food diets and fasts and can now see these as the quick fix solutions that they are, without lasting benefits, and all of which I would say now are not really loving and supporting the body. I completed the 12 week detox earlier this year, it gave me the space to eliminate foods and drink that do not support me and even though I knew they didn’t but found it hard to stop eating and drinking them. My body feels clearer and stronger and I felt more connected to me. It gave me the time and support to look at areas in my life and change them for good. Also as written here they are not just about food or drink they can help support with anything in your life that you feel you need support with. The support I received from the practitioner was phenomenal, of the highest integrity and very much appreciated.

     1. Awesome Vicky, I loved hearing about your experience of the Chakra-puncture detox. You are so spot on. I have had the same experience trying all sorts of detox’s in the past none of which goes anywhere near the true level of healing I received whist on the Chakra-puncture detox and it didn’t just stop when the sessions stopped, the benefits of this detox are still with me today. With the support I received during the detox I was able to let go of some pretty self sabotaging behaviour.

        1. Hi Samantha that is so true. The benefits of the Chakra-puncture detox don’t stop when the detox stops they stay with you, it is changed for good. I was able to let go of self sabotaging behaviour too. The program can be subtle yet very powerful.

        2. Thank you Samantha and Vicky, it really does change how the whole word ‘detox’ is used and shows us that there is a totally loving, self-supportive and self-healing way to ‘cleanse’ the body of all that does not feel loving or supportive anymore – not limited to any particular food or part of the body, but of our very being ‘who we are’ as a whole.

        3. What a great article and detox has a whole new meaning. A chakra puncture detox program is something I look forward to experiencing so I can clear some of the self sabotaging beliefs and behaviours in my life.

        4. I too have found the Chakra-puncture detox to be about so much more than just a physical detox, with the support I felt to see and let go of harmful behaviours. It was easier to see things without self-judgement and from there make the choice to do things more lovingly.

     2. This is really inspiring to read Vicky thank you, the chakra puncture detox sounds very powerful.

588. When a detox programme is lovingly and ongoingly embraced, rather than endured short term for a quick fix or outcome, everything changes and the joy of us and our responsibility is revealed. Thank you, Cherise.

     1. You’ve nailed it there Matilda, the word endured leapt from the page. A Universal Medicine detox is en-joyed.

        1. I love that Catherine – absolutely to be enjoyed!

     2. Having endured one detox I can confirm that I just went back to my old ways and nothing was really achieved, apart from realising I really could not consume dairy. Though I did for another few years. Not until I came across the teachings of Universal Medicine and the ageless wisdom to love your self and care, nurture deeply yourself can any real true change be sustained.

        1. This has been my experience too Vanessa. When I came to Universal Medicine and started to deeply care for myself real permanent change took place and as Catherine has said it has been and is something I am so very much enjoying.

589. .. a detox with all of the right ingredients! Thank you Cherise.

590. Thank you Jane and I so agree that solutions do not work and yes it is very empowering to realise that we are our own best medicine if we choose everyday to make choices that support and take care of our body.

591. A true detox from life with Universal Medicine I too feel is the most amazing gift for us all .Thank you Cherise for your beautiful writing and sharing with love and tenderness.

592. Beautiful blog Cherise, The universal medicine detox is so much more than just a detox its an opportunity and you clearly have embraced it!

593. I am inspired by the forever unfolding that is offered in your writing, Cherise. That a truly supportive detox supports an ongoing re-discovery of the sweetness and tenderness that we already are. Thank you.

     1. Beautifully said Matilda and thank you Cherise, an inspiring article.

     2. I love how you have expressed it Matilda. Very inspiring Cherise.

594. Love the Rose analogy. Very cute. And very tenderness-connecting (is that a word?!). Thank you.

595. Thank you Cherise for this very tender article. I too am discovering that there is a more loving way to deal with my hurts – one that includes honesty and tenderness.

596. Thank you Cherise for your article and all the supportive comments following and a true understanding of detoxing with support from Universal Medicine and the intent from ourselves and the way we live to follow it through. We all know we need to detox and cleanse ourselves but this is with a full responsibility and lovingly from within and feels so so different from anything else and like something we can choose and begin everyday with ourself – a fresh start ever evolving and growing in depth beauty and love! Wow and with all the support too now! Amazing, it’s inspired my day again

     1. When I felt the impulse to go on my first 12 session chakrapuncture program I thought it was to support me in becoming a vegetarian. I didn’t give up eating meat at all during the program or subsequently. My desire to become a vegetarian was more a top layer of a deeper desire to detox and begin to let go of a life of old patterns and habits and seeking. It’s only now after reading this blog that I appreciate the enormity for our lives when we complete this esoteric chakrapuncture detox program. Thank you for sharing this Cherise as it’s important for people to know what a true detox is.

597. I have just claimed doing a detox program and your words are inspiring, especially being tender and loving as we expose the hurts. I look forward to my own healing.

598. Cherise thank you for your beauty-filled article.

     The rose bud reference reminded me of their source – rosebushes. I assist a lady who is now unable to garden for herself. It surprises me each year just how much she want me to prune from her roses, not just removing the suckers, cutting away at what seems like a key part of bush – I just can’t imagine that they will survive. Yet year on year they come back stronger, with new growth and beauty.

599. I’m joining both you beautiful women with all my love and self worth. Gorgeous!

600. I recently completed a Chakra Puncture de-tox to help support my body after having mercury fillings removed, and found that, as well as helping my body to stay in balance, it also helped uncover some of the ideals and beliefs that were limiting my expression. Cherise, I love your words ‘the detox program for me was actually about living as a woman, with the love and self-worth I know myself to naturally be.’

     1. I agree Carmel and Ariana, thank you it’s really simple when put like this, living as a woman with love and self worth as a basis of the detox program feels amazing.

601. Thank you Cherise because quite simply this article has got me to look at myself and uncover those pretences. So much time is spent fooling ourselves in to thinking that we are detoxing when in reality we’re preparing our bodies for more abuse. Now we have a way and you’ve nailed it so beautifully.

     1. Yes, I agree Michael, the dictionary definition of a detox is: ‘a process or period of time in which one abstains from or rids the body of toxic or unhealthy substances’. For a lot of people doing a detox means purging their bodies of whatever toxins are in there only to go back to those toxins once they have finished the detox. The detox is seen as just a ‘quick fix’ and gives them permission to go back to their old ways. I have recently completed a 12 week detox with a Universal Medicine practitioner and the responsibility and understanding I received from the detox will ensure I never go back to the old way of doing things.

602. Very well said Ariana, it’s inspiring to read the loving way of bringing up and healing the hurts that are there.

603. Such wisdom in these words : ‘We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.’ Your article would benefit all those sitting in waiting rooms around the globe!

604. I loved your line, “A truly supportive detox is like the blossoming of a beautiful rose…” That it is not about obtaining a goal of how we look, or what we weigh. Thanks for writing.

605. How important it is to choose to be supported by someone that lives with responsible care for themselves. That is a great place to seek support from.

606. This is such a great blog Cherise, presenting the true meaning of detox, to let go of the issues and choices that do not serve us in our essence. I love how you have used the image of the rose and it’s petals. Thank you.

607. Thank You Cherise Holt for such an amazing insight into what a true detox is. I also love your style of writing which is clear and light.
     For me every new years resolution was about a detox and then when that went out of the window within a week or two, I would fast or do my usual colonic’s. I hated this colon cleansing business but became addicted to them. I convinced myself I would be clear and clean inside which gave me permission to put trash back in. This yo yo way of life went on for around 30 years.
     I have done the 12 session detox program you mention with an esoteric healing practicitioner and Yes it made a huge difference. Having done one a year for 3 years I cleared out my insides in a way that is beyond words. The biggest thing I noticed was the cravings, the old beliefs and choices that I was making to hurt myself were just no longer there. It’s like I had a new brain with deeply loving thoughts coming through that did not allow harm to enter.
     I agree with Jo Billings comment above – ‘with honesty and self love we cleanse away the beliefs and ideals that allow us to live in a way that pollutes’.

     1. Very inspiring Bina.

608. Wow…so from reading Cherise’s blog and all the comments I am left with such a clear and simple expose of what to truly detox means. Instead of just sending a clean up crew into the body to clear out the litter every time it gets too bad, we go from the inside out. With honesty and self love we cleanse away the beliefs and ideals that ALLOW us to live in a way that pollutes. We expose the harmful WAYs we treat ourselves and melt away the reasons WHY we do it and THEN we can go forward making new and loving choices without the old imposing structures in the way of our natural will! Beautiful!

     1. So true about exposing the harmful ways we treat ourselves. I am currently in the early stages of a detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner, and even in the early stages, I have been seeing some ugly truths and make some life changing adjustments which leave me feeling more open in the world and able to connect with people at a whole new level

     2. What a beautiful description of what the detox Cherise discusses means, and how it is indeed a fresh start to life.

609. In reading this I can really feel the tenderness with which you now hold yourself and how you have really demonstrated words in action. Thank you. This is such inspiration for me as I approach the second week of my detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner.

610. How cool: ‘In the end it is down to us and our daily living choices’…so simple, so empowering. The joy of responsibility. Thank you Cherise and Jane.

611. Thank you Cherise for a powerful blog on the power of the detox program with yourself for life. A great reminder on how we live and choices we make to be ourselves and get rid of all that is not us to just be the pure love we are and to cherish ourselves in the process.

612. I love the blog. A great bridging article for those new to Chakra-puncture, Esoteric Healing and Universal Medicine. You so beautifully express the difference of a traditional, goal orientated detox and a chakra-punture one. Thank you,

613. I agree with all you have so clearly written Cherise thank you. I have completed a detox recently too and felt all the support as the challenges and the choices unfolded. It was amazing.

614. The world would be so much more of an enriched place if the true meaning of detox – which you share here Cherise – was widely known and commonly accepted.

     1. Well said Shevon – to detox old habits and beliefs that have cluttered up our true beauty – and return to cherishing and accepting ourselves and our true essence. A detox that benefits not just one person but all those who have a relationship with them.

615. I love all the comments for this wonderful blog. Thank you Cherise. Your last sentence made me smile – ‘returning to cherish and accept who we are and live the love we know ourselves to be’ – as your name is almost Cherish, and that is what you have returned to.

616. Great blog Cherise. Diets and detoxes are designed for that ‘quick fix’. Unless, as you say, you make it ‘a way of life’ it can never be sustained. I am just about to start my detox in August and will be looking forward to letting go of more issues.

     1. Agree Tim there are no quick fixes or off the shelf products that truly detox and change our lives unless we make the changes a way of life. Enjoy your detox in August Tim.

617. Beautiful article Cherise… After building a rhythm with myself for the last 6 months I now find that my whole life is what people would call a ‘detox’! I also feel that there are many ideals and beliefs about detoxes being harsh on the body, and some kind of struggle (some can be VERY harsh on the body!), when actually there is much joy in looking after your own body and clearing the poison of the choices you have made in the past.

     1. Of course…our whole lives are a ‘detox’: ever refining and deepening our relationship with ourselves and what supports us to live a vital and purposeful life, dispensing with old patterns and habits that damage. Our choices today create our tomorrows. Thank you Cherise, Ariana and Susie.

        1. ” Our choices today create our tomorrows” Love these words. Thank you Matilda, also to Ariana for bringing these words to my attention today and Cherise for this inspiring blog as I am on a chakrauncture detox currently and de-cluttering. In fact all the comments expressed have inspiring words…..

     2. A simple statement Susie but unreservedly true – there is ‘much joy’ in self nurturing and giving the body the opportunity to clear the effects of poor past choices – to the body’s delight.

618. There are so many wise words in this blog, the part about solutions and issues that Lucy shared also resonated with me deeply. When we connect with ourselves and live what is true for us the problems just aren’t there anymore.

619. I remember when I had my first session with the Esoteric Chakrapuncture 12 week detox program. After 10 or so years of different types of healing therapies I stepped off the table saying “I have never felt anything like that before” What I now accept is that all of those other healing modalities never brought me to my inner knowing. What I now accept is that feeling, I thought I’d never felt before, was inside me all along, I had just buried it in all of the things I was involved in in the world, hence leaving behind the essence of who I AM.

620. Thank you Cherise for your inspiring post. I love the way you describe us a rose and the detox is about shedding the bruised and battered leaves of old habits, beliefs and hurts we have accumulated on the outside in order to re-connect to the beautiful bud within, the part of us that has always been there. What a delicious and welcoming journey and as you say, one that is supported by a practitioner who is doing the same but does not impose on you the way you should do it. What a true treasure you have shared with us.

     1. Thank you Rowena, it really is something to be greatly appreciated – that we have the support of Universal Medicine practitioners, those that are living with such integrity and responsibility that they never impose on us or on our programs. They simply support naturally through being themselves and I can really now appreciate how beautiful this is..

        1. I agree Cherise, this way of supporting feels truly awesome and is naturally inspiring… I too appreciate how beautiful it is.
           Universal Medicine practitioners live with such integrity and responsibility and never impose is a first, I have never come across this before and it is an incredible experience. I welcome this as a way forward.

621. Cherise, I love what you’ve shared and the grace and tenderness with how you approached it. The image of the rose and the petals is lovely – shedding those things we’ve accumulated that just aren’t us and we no longer need. I’ll take that into my day 🙂

622. Cherise, I love what you’ve shared and the image of the rose and the petals is lovely. Shedding those things we’ve accumulated that just aren’t us and we no longer need. I’ll take that into my day 🙂

     1. I love this Monica, how often do we really stop in our day (in any moment) to feel the delicacy and tenderness we naturally are – you have inspired me even further. Thank you.

623. A really holistic way at looking at detox. I too have been on a detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner and found it to be a truly supportive modality that helped me heal and discard some old non loving patterns.

     1. Awesome Debra 🙂

624. I really liked this blog as it dispels the commonly experienced ‘rollercoaster/yoyo detox/diet’, and instead focuses on unfolding from a place of “loving tenderness and compassion”, not continued self-punishment based on not meeting what we believe the ideal person should look/be like

     1. So true!

     2. Wow Jess defiantly, when I look back at the detox’s I have done in the past before Universal Medicine there had been an underlying current of punishment and need to be better. This is a totally different approach to the loving all encompassing way in which I know the esoteric practitioners conduct the chakra puncture detox. A total new way of being.

     3. Thank you all for sharing – I feel that the ‘punishment’ we can place on ourselves by putting our body through such things needs to be openly exposed once and for all.. If we are aware of the potential, that there is a more loving way to live with ourselves and our bodies the last thing we need to do is be hard on ourselves ..it’s with openness and tenderness that our bodies will naturally feel more themselves and begin to reflect the loveliness that we truly are on the inside.

     4. Very well put Jess. I have done a few diets in my time and none of them could be sustained because firstly my ‘ideal’ of me would never materialise and then as you say the self-punishment would start and then you go back to eating cream cakes and cider, and secondly there was never any ‘loving tenderness and compassion’. Combine that with a lack of awareness and there you have your yoyo!

        1. Well shared Tim, I can completely resonate with that, I also did many different forms of diets and cleanse and they never lasted. Because as soon as you finish cravings kick in and you go back to old habits. Mainly because there was no understanding around tenderness, compassion and lack of awareness around feeling the body.

        2. As the wife of Tim Bowyer I confirm that he has done a few diets to deal with his ‘morbidly obese’ issue. Nothing ever worked and he would be back to cream cakes and cider.
           We even spent £8000 and he went off to Florida for a raw retreat where they juice everything under the sun and no tv, computer and mobile phone for 3 weeks.
           Yes his skin looked great and he lost 4 stone but he just told me recently he had pizza on the way home at the airport.
           It was only after meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine events that things started to change slowly. Today mr slim Tim has let go of over 12 stone and has no saggy skin and looks 20 years younger.
           The Truth is no diet works. Yes changing your food is part of it but the real weight was lost by Tim dealing with his lack of expression. Now mr chatterbox charlie says what he feels and our life is truly and deeply magical. I feel blessed – we have a fresh start in life.
           Thank You Cherise for this powerfull blog.

     5. Absolutely Jess, the “I need to go on a diet” ideal simply re-inforces the fact that we do not love ourselves to start with and often they seem like a deprivation regime. Cherise has shown us that a true detox starts by us accepting ourselves as we are first and not seeking a solution, but simply looking deeper within ourselves and shedding what feels outmoded. It’s amazing how once we examine our emotional and mental ideals and choose to detox these, that our food choices seem to naturally fall in line.

        1. “A true detox starts by us accepting ourselves as we are first” well said Rowena

625. What you wrote about compassion really resonated with me. Thankyou

626. Thank you for sharing your detox experience. Very inspiring.

627. Thank you for sharing your experience of your detox program. Very inspiring.

628. Thank you, Cherise. Throughout reading your blog I smiled. At the foolish-ness of the patterns we continue to live with, apparently at the mercy of the ebb and flow of life, and the simplicity of arresting this, by listening quietly to our bodies and allowing the natural strength within to become part of our every day.

     1. Thank you Matilda, I too love the smile on my face when I expose such ‘foolish-ness’ for what it really is – something that does not need to be me anymore and certainly has no place within my body.

     2. Loved that Matilda, Reminded me of Serge Benhayon’s words about ‘swimming in the sea and not getting wet’

     3. I agree Matilda.

     4. Love this comment Matilda.

629. Awesome blog Cherise. Thank you. I love what you say here “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” So True We always know.

630. I deeply enjoyed this blog, thank you Cherise. I will carry your words ‘And yet the compassion I chose to gift myself allowed me to know that these old ways don’t have to define who I am today, and once declared and seen for what they are I can choose otherwise’ with me by way of reminder and inspiration. I love the remainder that none of our old ways need define us, nor remain part of us.

     1. Thank you Catherine, re-reading these words I can feel the potential that they bring – an opportunity for consistent reminder of this very fact, that we can choose otherwise, everyday.

631. Thanks Cherise – a very different perspective on detox plans indeed! This I will definitely keep reading.

632. What an awesome approach to detoxing. This way we take the detox to a whole other level – we have to take responsibility for the choices we make. I love what you say here “We don’t actually need solutions to the issues that present in daily life, just the space to re-connect to the undeniable fact we already know what is right and loving and what is not.” So true. Thank you Cherise

     1. Well said Lucy, I love that part too.

     2. A great article and so true Lucy. A detox program with a Universal Medicine practitioner is an opportunity to be totally truthful with yourself.

633. I like how you talked about the tenderness of a rose bud, with the purity and great inner strength to make living changes. very inspiring.

634. What a beautiful expression of the unfolding process that our Soul supports us to go through, like a rose with the external petals being the ones less in line with the essence and most ready to discard. And how important it is to honour this process by enlisting loving support when choosing to engage more deeply with it. I have found the detox program offered by Universal Medicine practitioners to be amazing for this.

     1. I agree Golnaz, having that support during a detox programme is the real game changer, helping to keep the focus on what is really going on as we look to shed another layer. Thanks for pointing that out.

     2. Absolutely Golnaz and Simon, with the support of the Universal Medicine practitioners – those around us who are living with such integrity and love who are providing true support, we are so easily able to allow the process to unfold. I would describe it as being held with an abundant amount of warmth and love, whilst I am on a process to remembering this warmth has always been within me too.

        1. Cherise, I love how you said: ‘being held with an abundant amount of warmth and love, whilst I am on a process to remembering this warmth has always been within me too’. just reading that fills my body with warmth and love – thank you!

635. Thank you Cherise for showing us that there is a way to detox and cleanse the body whilst taking responsibility for your body. I have done a dew of the other detox programs in the past – 7-10 day juice fasts etc.. at the time after a little struggle I felt great but then would return back to normal – I remember doing one in thailand, and I was talking to some others who just finished their fast and went out drinking and taking cocaine – not really a great way to end a cleanse. What it showed and shows me is how most people want to cleanse their body of the toxins it has built up from them un-lovingly living and polluting their body to then afterwards be able to go out and abuse their body again. I know I certainly did abuse my body after the fasts. They lacked the support and love as they had a desired outcome.
     What you have shared is so simple and nurturing – it feels like a whole body embracing rather than a shock stark treatment trying to kick the body back into gear. If we treat the body with love, naturally it will seek love.

     1. Thank you James for sharing this experience with me, I personally hadn’t tried the week-long cleansing however from your comment I can now see that my behaviours after dieting or ‘going without’ would often result in me thinking I now ‘deserved something’ – perhaps to now eat more again, or go out afterwards and have fun.

        I have also seen the behaviour of punishment on myself, for having ‘tried so hard’ to make my body feel better — when all I truly felt to do was be nurturing, supportive and loving with myself and my body. It feels like the complete opposite! Honouring my body and treating it accordingly – is what it truly deserves.

        1. Great point Cherise and thank you for raising the ‘reward factor’ mentality as it gives us an excuse to do what we want to our bodies, as we can justify our actions. Even though it may be the complete opposite to what our body may be wanting.

636. I am loving this blog at the moment as I have just started my detox for life and come over that first hurdle. It’s so awesome for you to share this

     1. So awesome to hear Phil, enjoy your program 🙂

637. Thank you for sharing, I am going to be starting a detox program soon to, and its great to hear you speak about how its not about having an expectation of an outcome, but just being open and honest, lovingly looking at whats not us.

     1. Thanks Rebecca, I love this too and the fact that our programs have limitless possibility of exposing ‘anything’ in our everyday life that isn’t quite working for us anymore .. and all with such a self-loving view. I’d love to hear how your detox program goes 🙂

638. Thank you Cherise – I love what you’ve said about “our inner knowing has remained pure and unharmed”.

639. I’ve been talking to a friend these last few weeks about this…..but I didn’t know what I was trying to say! Because I had not yet had the sessions I wasn’t clear enough to identify what I wanted them to be about. Now you’ve done it for me. Thank YOU, Cherise. Your blog (sharing your experience) will help me embark on my own detox program in a way that leaves me feeling like I have a head start. I’m very appreciative of you showing me the way.

     1. Awesome Gail. Yes we can learn so much from each other when we are open.

     2. Thank you Gayle, I would love to hear more about your experience on your own detox program.
        I love that there can’t be a ‘picture’ or ‘expectations’ about how our unique programs are going to pan out .. I have recently completed another detox program this year, and whilst the very purpose for this particular one exposed many other layers and a greater awareness of how I am living – the impulse to and opening to living more truthfully as myself in the world, never ever alters.. Such programs really deserve our greatest appreciation.

640. I Love how you write our inner knowing remains pure and unharmed, this I have found to be true. When ever I step away from making supportive choices for myself it is this inner wisdom within that is there waiting to be connected to, so I can once again make supportive choices for myself.

     1. I agree Toni.

     2. This is so true, it resonates so deep with me.

641. What an awesome description of the possibilities a chakra-puncture detox with a Universal Medicine practitioner offers us. I too have found it an extremely supportive and self-loving way of supporting me to unfold back to who I know I truly am.

642. What a great blog Cherise, truly self honouring- no gimmicks diets or the latest fads, just a dedicated honesty with yourself and the unfolding back to you as you are naturally. It is lovely to feel the blooming rose you are.

     1. Thank you Victoria

643. This is a truly wonderful piece of writing about the detox program that most of us have sought to purge ourselves of the way of life that does not truly support. Thank you Cherise for pointing out this difference and allowing me to re-connect to the fact that I do know what is loving or not in every instance. My next detox will certainly be more founded in the love that I am.

     1. Thank you Lee, and yes enjoy your next detox !

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