Holy sheet - tomorrow at this time, I'll be in a bath, burning, crying and trying to talk my man into letting me out of the bath. I've been soooo scared of this. I didn't do one last month. I have a friend who has a friend that's doing the IP for Breast Cancer, here in town. She helped her with a cold sheet today. We talked on the phone for a bit and she described the whole emotional process. I can't say I'm any less scared. After crying half of last week - I'm a little on edge about it. Ok, I lie. I'm SUPER on edge about it. All the support and energy ya'll can give toward this is really appreciated. Thanks, sniff. :)
You can TOTALLY do this! And like everything else you have done so far, in prepping for, and in doing the IP- you're gonna do AWESOMELY AMAZINGLY SUPERLY DOOPERLY FREAKING FANTABULOUSLY!!!
(ok I just made up a bunch of words especially for you Missy! LOL. I'm sure Merriam-Webster is rolling in his/her or his/his grave atm!) :D :D :D
Seriously, you rock! And I have a not so sneaky feeling that some major-er realizations will be taking place during and after this treatment....God, it's fantastic isn't it?
Sending you love from the North Pole (well not really, but close!),
You are a ROCK STAR in everything you've done so far on the IP. I know that if you thought about it last night (and I don't see how you couldn't have lol) chances are you came to the realization that you've got to LOVE yourself through the cold sheet treatment (just like you've loved yourself through everything so far) and KNOW that you will be healing negative emotions plus any number of things in your body.
I can't wait to hear your fantastic testimony when you're done. I have NO DOUBT you'll come through with flying colors!!!
[Uny Edit] - Please see this post to understand why Miss H appears so "traumatized" in this pix http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1567176 (Quick hint: typically, folks are more 'askeered & bothered' by the hot herbal bath and residual radiating heat than the icy cold sheet, but Miss H's consitution causes her to be more bothered by the cold. By the time most folks get to the 'cold sheet', they're so relieved it's all over that their 'sheet picture' would show a "sigh of relief"...but we're not all the same - and I, for one, applaud Miss H for being gracious & non-egoic enough to post her pictures and stories (and not being afraid to share her differences and uniquity!) [End Uny Edit]
This is what being wrapped in the cold sheet looks like. Yep, it was quite the experience! I stayed sane, the boys laughed and smiled at me a whole bunch and I have to say - the ickiest part about the whole thing was the cold sheet tea. Good Lord - isn't there anyway to make that taste more like Snickers or some such? Bleh!! The roomie took photos sayin in his most pitiful voice, 'Ellllliott, Ellllllliott!!!'
Yes, it's true - it wasn't near as bad as I thought it'd be. The cold sheet didn't stay cold for very long thanks to the cayenne skin. Thanks for all the love guys! This is after having hung up the phone from talking to Unyquity, who laughed hysterically at me.
PS - from Miss H - I totally expect all of you to laugh out loud at this photo. It's ok, don't feel like you're hurting my feelings by laughing at your monitor. It's pretty ridiculous after all. :)
I have been busy trying to accomplish a full IP day (sometimes it's rough and I forget things) and I haven't remembered to write anything to go along with these photos - sorry! In all honesty - I posted them to show the human face behind the dreaded COLD SHEET TREATMENT. I think it's not properly named, really - it should be referred to as the HOT/COLD Hydrotherapy treatment. I guess that didn't make as easy an acronym.
Getting ready for it took a bit. I did choose a sheet I thought would be more comfy and I don't have a white one. Incidentally, I think white sheets are akin to evil that causes folks to constantly stain wash and feel their walls and their life needs to be clean and crisp - an utter waste of time in my book. I think all things purely white in a home tend to make people feel like they can't relax or make a creative mess = evil. :) I firmly believe that sheets should be colored and beautiful. More color = more joy. Anyhow - I digress. I really should go buy a cheap white sheet for this next round.
The boys brought the cooler up to the 2nd floor and I put the sheet in with the 2 bags of ice. I gotta say - the cold sheet is what I was dreading the most. I'm not 'cold' people. I was raised in the South - I really don't like cold, wet stuff next to my body. It seems unnatural. In honesty - that's the part of the IP that's been hardest for me. Spot checking hot/cold therapy like on my liver or my lymph glands - ok. Just not the 'whole body'. Ack!
I dreaded and dreaded it. So much so that I didn't do one on the first round of IP, clearly skirting it and frustrating the hell out of my sweet lil healing coach. I was concerned about falling in and outta myself, consciousness wise and I wanted my man to help me. Seeing as he's in school for programming and working on an i-phone app - I 'see' him pretty much when he comes to bed lately. It's been tough on my emotions to do the IP without him - he's my bestest friend and I've cried and felt pitiful about it. He asked a programmer friend to help with his project so he could help me with the cold sheet, which was super sweet, and then - my relief choice, our roomie (great guy, like my brother and I don't mind him seeing me nekkid in purple latex panties (yes, I went there)) said he wanted to help too. I was gonna let him off the hook but he's a m assotherapist for a living and REALLY wanted to help. Hey - whatever floats yer boat. I been avoiding it for 2 months- but if ya wanna do this wacky thing with me - who am I to refute two strong Earth sign men to help? I'm not.
*btw, he and I are shooting a little film this weekend showing you how to massage/clear your colon properly and pump your own liver- he really knows his stuff. We're gonna draw the liver on me/show you where it is on your own body in relation to your rib cage-then how to physically work with it. It's gonna rock!*
I'd ordered these purple latex boy shorts off a wacky site (perhaps one of the most 'vanilla' things they sold) to protect my druthers a bit more. Remember, I'm working on healing chronic vaginal pain and it just didn't sound like my cup of tea to exacerbate my situation. I smeared with vaseline, sprinkled flour inside the shorts before I eeeped them onto my body, made a few baking/flour jokes and how I was sure hoping I didn't breed wacky stuff between the flour, the vaseline & the spices in the tub - and got in the spicey water. It didn't seem hot enough after a few minutes and they teased me as I rubbed the spice sack all over myself. Honestly - I felt like that was what gave me the experience I needed. I'd made them both read the 2 pages on the CST in the IP Manual before we started and true to their Taurean nature - they were on top of it. The Cold Sheet Tea was downright HORRIBLE and no matter how cute a pitiful face I made - they were makin' me suck it down. Lobelia & Cayenne kept coming. Now, mind you, I'm a MASTER when it comes to taking cayenne so I don't suffer too much. Straight cayenne tincture on my tongue with no water to take 'er down a notch? I hiccuped like that little gray mouse in Tom & Jerry used to. Thrashing back and forth - that's when I needed the cold towel for my head. lol
I think they enjoyed it. Hands down, they kept me giggling. They added hot water to the tub and were very sweet. The man even went so far as to stick his hand in there and swirl the spice sack back and forth for a long time. What a gem, he is. Course, then he started saying in this crazed, mumbly tone, 'whoa that's a spicey hand'....lololol He shoulda been totally submerged!!!
I stayed in for what they told me was a perfect 30 minutes (the lied & later told me I'd stayed in for 40 MINUTES, Woohoo!). I really hated the cold wet sheet. I exclaimed expletives the whole way down the hallway. I was totally shocked at the cold wet sheet. The hot bath with spices of doom? Not really nuthin'. They thought it was that I'm so acclimated to cayenne & spicey stuff that it didn't affect me as much. I dunno - I think it's just as viable that I'd put it up to be more evil than it really was.
I laid in that cold blue sheet, on that krinkly blue plastic tarp for like, 20 minutes, fighting to keep the cold wet sheet from clinging to my belly. Lol - I was SUCH a weenie about the cold sheet. I can drink some wack stuff, take some wack stuff - but a cold wet sheet? Get the sheet outta here, I tell yas.
I lived. I was shocked at the coldness - but remember - I'm a super weenie about cold wet stuff. I guess I'm just designed that way. Moving up North, I had to buy my first REAL winter coat - perhaps that says something. After about 20 minutes, I was very clear minded, a little wobbly, but super clear minded...and wanted FOOD. I ate food and was most grateful for having filled my belly.
Afterward? The next day, my bloating went down considerably. That day, though, I don't think was a good indicator of what I'd gotten out of it. Now - the day after THAT day? Well...I got up earlier, felt like I could greet the day. Wasn't near as depressed and the lump/cysty thing on the right side of my breast had gone down to practically nothing. Yeah - it was that drastic. Don't worry - Uny had a field day with the 'I told ya so' on the phone. That's the look I'm giving in the photo. She was on speaker phone with the boys and I had 3 people I love laughing at me. lololol
Did I hype it up to be more horrible than it'd be? Yes. Did it do more than I'd thought it would? Yes.
Remember the sizable bunion on the right big toe? I've been putting a charcoal poultice on it before bed every other night. It's significantly smaller all of a sudden than it was a few days ago. I find that verrrrrrrrry interesting.
Great story!!Loved every word of it. I would LOVE to try the CST someday, if I could get the help! Did you do the garlic injection before hand? I thought that was part of it. Anyways cant wait to see the video!!!!!!!!!!!~Eme
Yes - I did the garlic injection and it wasn't as shocking as I thought it'd be. It wasn't like a theme park or anything but it wasn't horrible either. :)
I'm excited about the video! He's the A&P master, we've got a diagram of how far up under the rib cage the liver goes. It's gonna be very educational. yay!!
What does "A&P" stand for, and what qualifies someone for "master"?
>>>"we've got a diagram of how far up under the rib cage the liver goes" <<< When you post the video, please be sure to point out that this placement varies SUBSTANTIALLY from person to person, and even varies within a person depending upon the condition of their liver and rest of their body (particularly the transverse colon).
Garlic injection - your reported response to the garlic injection indicates something may have been amiss. I've seen incredibly varied reactions to all parts of the Cold Sheet Treatment, but when folks do the garlic injection it seems the response is typically as reported by Dr. Schulze (and what I experienced)...and that response/reaction is not typically: "but it wasn't horrible either" or "it wasn't as shocking as I thought it'd be".
This is the one part of the CST that everyone I've coached consistently dislikes. I'm seriously jonesin' to do another CST, but I am also dreading the garlic injection...even though I totally understand it's benefits & purpose/s, the cramping and burning (albeit temporary) is definitely an "over the edge" experience.
Garlic Injection: 10 large cloves of organic garlic put into a blender or Vitamix with 1/2 ACV and 1/2 water, to yield a minimum of a cup of 'garlic solution', to be injected anally/rectally.
I couldn't find a rectal syringe that would allow all the solution (garlic pulp) through the holes in the syringe (or one that could be easily filled), so I used a cheap, flimsy 'fleet enema bag', cut off the tip of the tubing so the hole would be bigger in the end (and then rounded the freshly cut edges with a file). I made 1 1/2 cups of solution (knowing some would remain in the tubing and bag). Then ran the "slurry" all the way down the tube, clamped the tubing, and inserted it. Then I twisted the top of the bag down to the 'slurry level', unclamped the tubing, and squeezed the slurry mixture down the tubing as best as I could with two hands (to force the 'slurry' through & out of the bag/tubing). As is typically reported, I could not possibly retain the slurry/solution, and immediately jumped on the potty to expel it.
Dr Schulze in the SYL manual:
"According to Richard Schulze, "It's powerful. It burns. That person lights up. They will run to the toilet, but it doesn't all come out. In about 2 minutes, the burning and the cramping go away. I think it's incredibly grounding. It seems to break any psychological armoring the person has. The person knows immediately that this is something that
they have never had before."
We're all different, of course, so it's possible that Miss H's body didn't experience what the majority of folks do. But when there's something/someone that has a substantially different experience than what's typical reported, it's always a good idea to check and make sure the protocol has been done correctly (and if it was, to point out to others that the reaction is not 'typical').
Anatomy & Physiology master - meaning - he's a super anatomy geek. We're going to draw it on as it should be and then he's going to describe that, of course, as folks livers are swollen, distended and the gallbladder is involved too that it can all droop. Make sense?
ps - when I say he knows his stuff - what I shoulda said, is that until he moved up here with us, he taught A&P for state board exams at a top rated massotherapy school in Florida for structural integration.
I think they should be awesome barter situations. That's what mine is. Why can't folks post ads with whatever they're good at and need help with? Like, 'great cook, loves to clean, would love to have a massage therapist for a roomate. I'll feed you - you fix my bod.' That would rock! I knew a personal chef that bartered like that - there's a barter for EVERYTHING.
I was TOTALLY thinking about that. I have a great knack for writing ads, but I suppose have been hesitant to be so forthcoming as that, lol! But yes, I agree. There IS a barter for everything...well, unless you draw CERTAIN lines, which I have had to, sadly, many times...alas..
Being a single thirty-ish semi attractive lady, DOES have it's drawbacks sometimes, unfortunately, especially when it comes to asking members of the opposite sex for, oh um, help moving my furniture? LOL! Or maybe it's just me who has this problem? I gotta start hanging out with ladies more:)
I say - girls only. Be smart - don't invite someone to work on you or live with you that doesn't have good intentions, personality references and that you'd be vulnerable with. I just wanted to clarify that. :)
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