Dr. Simone Laubscher recently shared the benefits of safe cleansing as the season’s change—and has kindly shared her go-to cleanse tips for upscaling your health—with a heart-warming self-loving visualization ritual to start each day with.
Hydrate
Hydration is the most crucial part when you do a cleanse. The body has a break off digesting food and has time to mobilize toxins so they can be flushed out of your urine, sweat, stool and breath.I mix up a 2L jug of good filtered water like Therasage.
Add in the juice of one lemon, add in fresh mint leaves to help my brain stay focused (for treating clients each day). I rip the leaves, so they infuse beautifully with a good-sized thumb of ginger and grate into the water.I sip this all day, and I have 1-2 cups of herbal or green tea to reach 3L per day.
If you are prone to dehydration, hold water in your mouth for 10 seconds or so when you drink water before swallowing. Choose a water filter like the Therasage Water Purification Pitcher that uses nanotechnology to hydrate you at a cellular level further.
Up Your Greens
Green veggies and super greens are high in chlorophyll, a green pigment that gives plants and algae their green colour.It is such a powerhouse to absorb toxins so your body can excrete them via your stool.
It is wonderful to balance your blood sugar levels and reduce appetite, too, so eat more green leafy vegetables and salads, particularly bitter greens like rocket leaves, for anything bitter helps turn your appetite down. Greens also act as an internal deodorant to help with smelly breath and sweat, which can occur when you do a detox.
Sweat
If you have access to a sauna or warm weather, try to sweat! This is my favorite detox method.I use and recommend Therasage FIR. I then follow this with skin brushing from my feet to my heart and a cold shower; I can’t tell you how amazing this makes you feel.
I do this on a cleanse, and most days, for I love the way it makes me feel and the glow it gives to my skin.
Get Good Sleep
Without good restorative healing sleep, you cannot have a successful cleanse and detox, for this is the perfect fasting partner of your cleanse.
Use a wind-down routine at night with a bath or foot bath with 1 cup of Epsom salts, high in magnesium, to help calm your nervous system and support sleep.
I also love frankincense and lavender essential oils and often give myself a hand or foot massage with these oils in an avocado oil base from my kitchen.
Boost Your Fibre Intake
Fibres are essential as your digestive tract needs help to hoover up all the toxins and break down faecal build-up.
The average human colon weighs about four pounds empty and can hold up to eight meals’ worth of food before digestion finally occurs, so if you picture eight meals in your mind, that is quite a lot of undigested stool, so this is why doing a cleanse is essential to help the body clear the backlog of undigested food.
Eating more fibre from seeds such as chia, flax, pumpkin, and sunflower is great to increase faecal bulk acting as a colon scrubber.
Supplement
An integral part of any successful cleanse is to supplement.
The mind and body need help to open up your detox pathways; otherwise, you will not feel well, get headaches, and get skin breakouts as your body can’t handle the toxic load being released.
I use our 30-Day Health Reset pack, as it comes with a full wellness/cleanse plan and all the supplements you need are listed in this blog. If you want to extend your cleanse to only have a smoothie for lunch, you can, or you can have a meal.
Always go at your own pace, and you can even mix it up day to day depending on work/life demands.
Have Fun
Doing a cleanse doesn’t have to be traumatic. Choose to sing, laugh or do breath work like Wim Hoff to help detox and oxygenate your body. Go on lovely walks, bike rides or swims but be gentle and take it easy.
Book in a massage if they are open again or try reflexology or acupuncture.Take a long soak in an epsom salt bath with essential oils, put on a face and hair mask and light some candles.
Get your barefoot on the earth or your hands in soil in the garden. Put on your favorite music and dance; maybe add in some karaoke.
Watch funny movies to make you laugh out loud, meet a friend, share a green juice or cup of tea, do this over zoom, and have a heart-to-heart beautiful chat.
Nature is so healing, so maybe even pack a picnic and drive to a lovely place you haven’t been to before. Whatever it is, make this a time to nurture and bring forth joy into your heart.
Be Still
Give yourself a healing with time each morning and or evening to connect with you, and add any prayer and meditations practices that you may embrace. I know you have many responsibilities to others but you need you too!
Like on a plane when they say always put your own oxygen mask on first. Life is like that unless you are good with you; it’s tough for the rest of your life to flow!
10 Minute Morning Ritual
Here is a little ritual I suggest to my clients each morning, and it only takes 10 minutes or so:
Take a moment to connect with yourself, run your day through in your mind (like a mind movie) and see yourself moving through your day elegantly and with ease, staying out of stress and emergency mode.
If a stressful internal or external issue arises, then take a step back and ask yourself, is this something you can change or not? If you can change it, add this to your to-do list.
Suppose you can’t choose to let it go and trust the universe to take care of it.
Visualize all of your cells in balance and yourself in optimum health both mind and body, feel this right into your bones and nervous system.
Sit with this amazing feeling that all is well with your health for 1-2 minutes and feel it to the point it makes you smile.
Take a moment to also sit with the feeling of all the things you are grateful for.
Find a time to do this each day, and at the end of your day, take a few minutes to give thanks for your day.
You can journal this, but lately, I’m loving feeding this gratitude into my heart and every cell of my body and connecting with my higher self to do so.
With love,
Simone
