International Lifestyle Magazine Issue 53 | Page 14

Taking daily walks, both gentle and energetic depending on your abilities and requirements, will help you rediscover you. It is easy to clear your mind whilst walking, to look over issues that seemed huge back in your busy life and literally remove them from your mind and leave them behind you as you put another step forward. For me, this is meditating. The elements of nature can be so healing and yet, again back in our busy lives, we forget the simplest things that are on our doorstep and free. Back at the retreat, you will enjoy meditation, one to one yoga, therapeutic massage, NLP, hypnotherapy as well as other therapies, all designed to bring you back into balance, to restore your equilibrium. Just like any piece of machinery, and we are a machine, if it is blocked it will never work properly. I am always amazed that we spend so much time, and money, on ensuring that our cars, boilers and heating systems are working to optimum, servicing them each year, and yet, when it comes to ourselves, we simply neglect to take care of our internal workings until something goes wrong. Juice fasting and colonic irrigation are optional aspects of the retreats, but, these are the tools needed to aid the detoxification process and I really recommend this. If your internal system is blocked, no matter how much good food you put into your system, it will ultimately hit a wall and prevent the changes you are looking for. Everything is carried out with understanding and care so you are in good hands. If you are still wondering about the idea of a detox and colonic irrigation, let me point one thing out to you. If your digestive system is not working properly, in other words, it is blocked with years of poor eating, then even if you were to start eating really well, your digestive system would not be able to digest the food correctly and so you will only get part of the benefit of al H