Water Fasting for Illness or Addictions - How the Course Helps.

•  Water fasting is the most efficient and effective approach in the steps to recovery. Alcohol abuse is not a disease. It is a symptom. Understanding the Purpose of the addiction is addressed in The Course.

• Unresolved trauma and buried emotions are addressed in The Emotion-link (The Course). Those seeking to address the real cause of substance abuse must abandon the idea that other drugs (Rx prescription meds) are the path to recovery. Think about the person addicted to coffee. When withdrawal symptoms arise, the choice is either adding caffeine to rid the headache or self-soothe through the discomfort. One path produces success. The former is perpetual (nicotine patches do not work long term). 

• Any stimulant or sedative is intended to soothe emotional distress (over and under-stimulated nervous systems). The sign of withdrawal for any addiction is the cause and effect. This basic fact is not understood nor applied in other recovery programs. 

• Alcoholism (alcohol abuse) is a chronic condition that develops over the years. Overcoming chronic conditions requires rest, repair, and resolve. The symptoms requiring repair include thickening and toughening of the membranes in the alimentary canal, from throat to stomach, and changes in the liver, adrenals, kidneys, pancreas, and gut bacteria. When you water fast, there is an objective repair of the damaged areas. Furthermore, rest associated with a water fast allows restoration of the nervous system and an emotional reset. When you water fast, a sense of comfort and resolve is certain. 

• Why quitting smoking or caffeine may be somewhat more complicated than alcohol is interesting (I don't believe that nicotine or caffeine is less or more addictive than alcohol). One main difference is that nicotine levels, unlike alcohol, are in a state of a steady 'high,' compared to the elevated peak or varying degrees of intoxication of someone getting drunk. There is no doubt that nicotine/caffeine affects brain function. It is a fact they are drugs. With nicotine/caffeine intake, people feel pleasure, combined with irritability, anxiety, and depression, causing subtle brain impairment (most people refuse to accept that these drugs cause anxiety and depression). This impairment is not significant enough to stop smokers from driving a car or working their job while nicotine/caffeine levels are elevated or decreasing. Understanding that nicotine/caffeine's steady use is a more leveled ride versus the roller coaster drugs and alcohol creates - a blinder that makes their use harder to stop. 

• Quitting nicotine/caffeine requires addressing the root cause (Emotion-Link) nerve repair, and anxiety/depression not being addressed results in the ongoing use of substances. With water fasting, repair, and sensitization, these toxins are guaranteed to taste undesirable or intolerable.

• Another consideration is that nicotine/caffeine (and even alcohol) are not as strong as meth, cocaine, or heroin. The personality traits of those using any stimulant are explained in The Course. If your personality traits and emotional triggers are not understood or addressed, recovery is more of a challenge.

• Many resilient people have overcome their addiction by naturally doing The Course. I encourage those comfortable to take charge to do so. Withdrawal of drugs, alcohol, and stimulants can be harsh or seemingly unbearable. It is essential to be prepared and guided through this process by understanding obstacles. Referring to the "Q & A" section regarding water fasting applies. The symptoms present in any person addicted must be addressed. 

• I maintain that addressing the real cause results in the recovered person having a distaste for tobacco, excess caffeine, spicy condiments, alcohol, and drugs. If your addiction program results in you having to resist the substance after your treatment, it will be a failure. Water fasting allows you to live without 'deprivation' of what you had thought in the past was a pleasure. 

• ALCOHOLISM or ABUSE. Craving alcohol is a stress response. The stress is often a guarded depression or anxiety, leading you to feel powerless. Most drinkers do not admit they are either anxious or depressed. The alcohol sugars provide fast fuel for the stress response (you may substitute alcohol or sugar/carbohydrates). Alcohol is a depressant.

• Feeling powerless is unbearable. The common way to overcome feeling powerless is by feeling empowered by drinking. Once you realize that the cost of this response is not sustainable you will be open to dealing with buried emotions, and water fasting. 

• Alcohol craving and consumption are directly related to hypoglycemia (drop in blood sugar) and stress. Stress being adrenal overload, the sugar/alcohol feeds the fight & flight temporarily. Alcohol requires no digestion and is absorbed easily, it also depresses your nervous system having a calming effect. The purpose of consuming is to satisfy hypoglycemia and provide a dopamine response and a 'high' or calming or distract from painful issues (feeling powerless, or hopeless, angry, or afraid).

• Why alcohol's effect differs from person to person has to do with personality and buried emotional differences in each of us. Alcohol strips you of inhibition and allows for true feelings to surface. Those feelings could be sadness, anger, rage, lust, joy, happiness, etc. 

• The secondary gain of intoxication allows the numbing of painful feelings. Give you confidence, temporary high, stress relief, and escape responsibilities, and or subconsciously punish yourself. In the process of running away, escaping responsibility the core issue creates more pain requiring it be dealt with.

• The alcohol brings out subconscious hurts with the intention of resolving them, or at minimum bring them to light. When we are not able to cope, or we feel shame, guilt, and or self-rejection we punish ourselves with alcohol. Then the healing begins.

• Addiction's constructive purpose is to move from dependence to strength. From feeling unlovable guiding you to love yourself. From being indulgent/impulsive to being self-aware and having self-control.

• The destructive effects are many and not limited to the liver, pancreas, brain, heart, skin, and other illnesses. As you start to water fast and do exercises in the Course you will see remarkable changes.

• The purpose of tobacco, OTC drugs, Rx Drugs, recreational drugs, caffeine, or other addictions is addressed in the Course.

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Caffeine:

The most used drug in the world. It is a stimulant. 

Positive effects:

• Stimulates the nervous system, more alert, increase in energy.
• Lower risk of Parkinson's disease.
• Reduce the risk of heart disease and the number of heart attacks.
• It can lower the risk of type II diabetes if it affects lowering your blood concentrations in your blood.
• It can lower liver enzymes and help with Hep. C or B.
• Lower risk of gallstones.
• Reduced risk of colorectal cancer and liver.
• Reduce kidney stones.
• Green tea may reduce cancers: lymphoma, stomach, colon, prostate, skin, and breast.

Negative effects:

• Stimulates the nervous system, decrease reaction time, increases heart rate
• It can cause anxiety, depression, panic, nervousness, irritability, insomnia, fear, fatigue, and digestive problems.
• Increase the risk of heart disease and the number of heart attacks.
• Heavy consumption (5 cups) increases the risk of angina, heart attacks.
• Impairs sugar handling leading to diabetes.
• Greater than two cups can increase liver cirrhosis risk.
• May increase symptoms of PMS.
• Increase urinary incontinence.
• Increase the risk of bone loss, or osteoporosis
• More likely to develop Rheumatoid arthritis.

Bottom line: Caffeine is a drug that has a cause and effect. All medicines have a cost; the more you use, the greater the cost long term.

* stay away from decaf except Swiss-made decaf.

* ideal to consume after 9 am.

* ideal for women to consume less than 300mg day and men less than 400mg

Alcohol:

It is a drug. Heavy drinking (greater than two drinks a day) is the second leading cause of death in the USA.

It is a depressant. 

All humans have enzymes to digest alcohol.

Moderate drinking for a male is 1-2 drinks a day; female, is one drink a day. 

(1 beer = 5oz wine = 1.5oz distilled alcohol)

Positive effects:

• Produces euphoria.
• Acts as a tranquilizer or relaxant.
• Decreases tension.
• It can help some with constipation.
• It can help with lactation support.
• Small amounts of consumption reduce mortality rates (@ 1 drink a day).
• Small amounts (less than two drink a day) reduce diabetes issues.
• Small amounts (less than two drink a day) lower blood pressure, clot-forming.
• Small amounts (less than two drink a day) increase brain function.
• Wine may reduce macular degeneration.
• Cardiovascular support – reduce clots, increase HDL cholesterol, reducing insulin resistance.

Negative Effects:

• Excess can cause heart disease. Heart attacks and clogging arteries
• Excess cab cause stroke.
• Excess can inflame the stomach.
• Excess can damage brain cells and increase the risk of dementia.
• May increase the risk of cataracts.
• Red wine may cause headaches.
• Increases liver cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, job issues.
• Increases liver cancer, mouth, esophageal, stomach, pancreatic, bladder, and other cancers.

*Alcohol below 16% goes not kill off the yeast—wine, beer, and mead acceptable to digestible bacteria.

* One oz of hard alcohol requires a lot of vitamin C, calcium, zinc, magnesium, vitamin A, B, and folate to metabolize.

* Factors to consider when looking at the above positive and negative factors are age, gender, ethnicity, exercise, stress, and diet.

* Any drink produced from high fructose corn syrup (most USA & Canada beers) should never be consumed. Nor should any alcohol made from GMO grain.

* Any wine produced with high glycophates should not be consumed. European and or Organic wines are the safest.

** drinking on an empty stomach is NEVER recommended and poses the greatest health risk.

DRUG CONSUMPTION - Prescription or Street or Over the Counter

Similar to alcohol abuse/addiction, drugs aid in avoiding painful feelings that some are unable to cope with at the moment. Depression and anxiety at the root, with a feeling you have no control in your life. Feeling powerlessness, or hopeless.

Using drugs over alcohol or cigarettes is connected to personality traits and personal perceptions of the severity of one’s pain. Those believing our perceiving their issue to be greater will use more potent drugs.

Drugs aid in blocking symptoms of pain or discomfort. If something is bothering you, a drug can make the symptoms go away, allowing you temporally function for some time. Drugs don’t cure a condition; even when you think the medicine cured you, you are mistaken. Similar to believing credit cards or loans can cure your money troubles, in time, you will realize the credit was a mask or a trap. For those using the loan or credit short-term and making changes in spending or earning the credit was useful, gain not the cure.  Those using drugs for more than 3-6 months are stuck in a trap waiting for their bankruptcy to allow a reset.

Any type of stress/pain that is overwhelming moves people to deflect, avoid, deny, or distance themselves from the pain. Realizing that problem will not go away by covering it up. If I have emotional, physical, or financial pain, drugs will deflect and distance or block me from the source of pain or discomfort. The intent is to make you feel good or great, allow you to escape from reality and responsibility. All drugs allow you to avoid dealing with the pain or discomfort by numbing painful feelings.

Recreational drugs: give you confidence, temporary high, stress relief, and escape responsibilities. Sometimes they allow you to inflict self-punishment as a source of pleasure, like those that enjoy the pain of tattoos.

Over-the-counter and prescription drugs: block symptoms of pain or discomfort, giving you temporary relief. If daily slights of pain are perceived as too great reaching for socially acceptable pain pills becomes a habit.

If, when taking any drug, you admit that “Dealing with my pain is too difficult at this time because my hurts are too big.” Knowing that at some point, I must deal with the cause and symptoms, these drugs are useful or helpful. They allow you to retreat and muster up the strength to deal with the cause.

If I don’t address the cause, the drugs will (guaranteed) make the symptom and underlying condition worse. Depressants will cause depression; anxiety meds will cause anxiety, opioids will cause pain, tobacco will cause anxiety and depression; heart meds will cause heart failure. Chemo will destroy your immune system. Credit cards will cause financial pain…bankruptcy.

This guide is not encouraging the use of drugs. Nor does it judge those choosing drugs. The constructive/positive aspect of using drugs is to avoid pain because you are not ready to deal with the Emotion-Link. The destructive aspect is to cause more pain to guide you to your purpose and ask you to deal with the pain. Alcohol, cigarettes, pain killers, and prescription drugs are responsible for a huge amount of illness and death.

‘Natural’ drugs like cigarettes, coco, pot, and opium, can be a problem to susceptible people with personality and emotional issues, like anxiety or depression. Why virtuous or resilient people’s interaction with these substances differs from those vulnerable provides answers to the cure.

Why you may not become addicted to opioids after your knee surgery prescription has expired is not so much in biochemistry and the drug instead in your personality.

Constructed use of drugs is to numb pain while you address the cause. Destructive aspects of drug use are illness and break down to guide you to reset and address buried emotions.

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