8 Steps to Your Full Potential Self

1.    Daily Detox Ideas

Castor oil packs – The castor bean (oleum ricini, also known as Palma Christ, due to the shape and healing qualities. This oil is known as a CATHARTIC, a strong LAXATIVE. A gentler use of this oil is in the form of a pack placed over the abdomen with heat applied. Anything we place on our skin goes directly into the blood stream. We see this with muscle rubs and hormone patches. We can take advantage of our bodies wonderful mechanism of how the skin absorbs through using castor oil packs. The oil is absorbed into the body, and stimulates lymphatic flow. The Phytic Acid in the castor oil stimulates the Pyers Patches of the small intestine causing Lymphatic Cleansing to take place. To create your own Castor Oil pack you will need: CASTOR OIL 2' X 1' PIECE OF COTTON OR WOOL FLANNEL HOT WATER BOTTLE OR HEATING PAD SHEET OF PLASTIC (SARAN IS OK) OLD COTTON TOWEL Decide how many days a week you will do your Castor Oil Packs and for how many minutes. Place the pack over the Liver. Your Liver is in the upper RIGHT hand quadrant of the abdomen just lower than the ribcage.

CASTOR OIL PACK INSTRUCTIONS: 1.    Drizzle CASTOR OIL on the cotton/flannel. Fold the fabric in half to help saturate, but do not drip. (the first few weeks you will need to saturate every couple of days. Eventually, the fabric will become saturated enough that you should only saturate every other week or so. 2.    Lay an old towel out on the surface you will be lying on. This will prevent staining. Castor oil stains. It is most likely that you will not be able to get it out. 3.    Lie on your back with your feet elevated. Place saturated fabric over the Liver. 4.    Cover the saturated cloth with a piece of saran or plastic with a heating pad on the top. 5.    Leave pack on for at least 30 minutes. This is an excellent time to do your self-hypnosis. You may wear the pack on all night by using an ace bandage to hold it in place. 6.    You may choose to remove the castor oil when finished with the treatment. You can use 2 tbs of baking soda to 1qt of water, or you may leave the oil on the skin to be absorbed. 7.    Store the saturated fabric piece in a zip lock bag. Reuse the pack until it changes color (usually over several months). Add more oil if needed to keep saturated.

Dry skin Brushing – Our skin is a living and breathing organ. Anything we put on our skin goes directly into the blood stream. Our skin is permeable in both directions. We can put stuff on us to absorb into the skin, and we can pull stuff out of the body through the skin. With dry brushing the skin, we can eliminate 16 oz toxins/acid per day. Directions for DRY SKIN BRUSHING: 1.    Brush on dry skin, working inward from extremities towards the heart. 2.    Best to do before a shower. In addition to dry brushing treatment, use 8 DAYZ RELAX ESSENTIALS oil to aid in optimum release of toxins. 3.    Pink up skin in all areas. Just enough where it is not painful. 4.    Areas that have trouble pinking up are stuck areas of lymphatic flow. 5.    Be patient, it will take several dry brushings to open up.

Drink 12oz warm lemon water with half a lemon in am and 4oz organic cranberry juice LIVER CLEANSE – When you wake up in the morning your digestive organs are relaxed and open. When you drink your water with lemon it can move more quickly through the digestion creating a fantastic digestive and liver cleanse. Lemon itself is a great cleansing fruit. Adding lemon to water is not just for the summertime, it is great to help support the liver. Prepare the water and lemon the night before. Use an organic lemon. The water should be as sour as you can stand. Drink mixture at room temperature first thing in the morning. As soon as you sit up, drink the mixture. KIDNEY CLEANSING – Organic concentrate cranberry juice is a wonderful way to flush your kidneys every morning. Add 2-4 ounces of organic cranberry concentrate to 20 ounces of water the night before. Drink the first think in the morning. As soon as you sit up. Allow your Inner Physician to decide which morning cleanse is right for you.

Take a warm Dead Sea Salt bath – Dead Sea Salt baths are a relaxing way to use the skin as a wonderful exit for cleansing the lymphatic system. Dead Sea Salts are the highest mineral content sea salt. This high mineral content allows for maximum detoxification. DEAD SEA SALT BATH CLEANSE – It is best to DRY BRUSH before your use the salt bath. 1.    Bring the tub water to a temperature that is as hot as you can stand. Remember to consider any health complications that may require you to lessen the temperature of your bath water. 2.    Place 1 cup of Dead Sea Salt in the tub as it is filling. (one cup is the amount for a regular sized bathtub. A Jacuzzi tub or extra large tub may require up to 3 cups. 3.    Relax in your tub for 20 minutes and enjoy relaxing music or Deep Breathing techniques.

Magnetic Clay Bath – Clay baths are significantly more detoxifying than Dead Sea Salt baths. The magnetic clay baths have detoxifying herbs to pull out heavy metals and environmental toxins. Directions for Magnetic Clay Bath: 1.    DRY BRUSH skin for optimum results. 2.    Fill a large clean bucket with very hot water. Add clay slowly so clumping does not occur. Use a wire whisk and stir clay into water. This will take a few minutes of hard whisking, be patient. 3.    Once an entire bag of clay is in the bucket mixture with all clumps being mixed out, blend the mixture into the hot bath water. 4.    Bath should be at your desired temperature. 5.    Submerge your entire body into the bath and relax. If you can only fit half your body into the tub, do not worry. The magnetic clay will still have a powerful effect. 6.    You may begin to notice black spots on your skin. These are toxins leaving the body. Wash the off by taking a shower after the clay bath. 7.    Carefully get out of the bath as the tub may have become slippery. 8.    Drink plenty of water and take your remedies to support the detoxification, as well replace any electrolytes while the detoxification process may have a slight dehydrating effect.

Organic Apple Cider Vinegar – take 15 minutes before every meal with 3-5 ounces of warm filtered water. Many times we eat before the stomach is ready. We rush around in life, and quickly fit a meal in. Organic Apple Cider Vinegar prepares the stomach for food. Take your dosage, and then sit down and slow yourself for the appropriate speed of eating. Chew a bit at least 10 times or your stomach will not be able to break down the food. Organic Apple Cider Vinegar replaces the good stomach acid HCL. Heartburn in most cases in not an over acid in the stomach, but rather an under acid issue. It is food that could not be digested because the stomach lining has been destroyed from processed food, coffee, black teas and soda. The food hits the stomach where there is no acid to digest it. Then, the food ferments up in the throat. We incorrectly call this heartburn or being over-acidic.

Drink half your body weight in ounces of water per day – If you weigh 100lbs, you should be drinking 50 ounces of water per day. Hydration is essential to the healing process of the body. Detoxifying the body without drinking enough water is like trying to flush the toilet without any water. Hunger may be mistaken for being thirsty. When you are hungry, first drink a glass of filtered water.. After so many years of being dehydrated, our first response becomes altered. Processed foods, caffeinated drinks and prescriptions can vastly dehydrate the body. Try using cell salts, or bio plasma salts. This makes our cells more permeable to water you drink. When we drink water, but it just flushes right through the body, this means that the cells in our body are not absorbing it. Spread out your water drinking throughout the day. Do not wait until the end of the day to get your water in. drink water like you are sipping hot tea. Slowly and the body will absorb it in the cells more. Drink quickly and the body will assume it is for flushing the kidneys, not for absorption in the cells.

Juicing – Pasteurized means something has been boiled a few times before being bottled. Boil a fruit 1 time and see how many vitamins and enzymes are left! Juice only ORGANIC fruits and veggies. Juicing is just as powerful as the remedies given by a naturopath. Try some of the following combinations: LIVER/GALLBLADDER DETOX – 8 carrots & 1 cup beets. Or 8 carrots & 2 oz ginger. JOINT/KIDNEY DETOX – 6 carrots & 10 celery stalks. Or 8 carrots & 1 cucumber. DIGESTION CLEANSE – 8 carrots & ½ bunch parsley HORMONE BALANCE – 8 carrots & 4 cups spinach Use lemon rind  or a whole grapefruit to any mixture.

Other Detox Ideas: Add detox teas to your water – if you drink black or green tea, make sure that your teas are naturally decaffeinated. Get more rest Have 2-3 bowel movements per day

2.    Daily Self-Hypnosis
Self Hypnosis benefits you! Some great things that Hypnosis will do for you:

1.    Cleanse tension and remove mental stress – We are constantly storing stress and tension through our choice of thoughts daily. It is important to do not try to multi task while ridding the body of "stress thoughts" through self-hypnosis. There must be a break in the middle of the day, otherwise it is hard for your body to heal itself properly. Stress hormones can coat your organs causing them not to absorb vitamins and nutrients, lose weight and heal.

2.    Detoxify the body and mind – Toxins and an over-acidic body are the same thing. Toxins are acids. Approximately 60% of out body's toxins are eliminated through the breath. It is important that we first know how to breathe. It is important that we do not become chest breathers, but rather breathe through our diaphragm. Breathe and allow our stomach to go in and out. Deep breathing once a day is a powerful cleansing technique that you can use to support the vital health of your body.

3.    Stabilizes neuro-net function and reforms healthy pathways in the brain – as we practice right thinking, we are attracting the right things into our lives. However, when we practice unwanted thinking, over years of doing so creates a rut or routine in the brain that will take much self love and encouraging thoughts to retrain or correct.
Your brain differs depending on the thoughts you think. An artist's brain differs greatly from an accountant's brain. Different parts of the brain are more developed.

You must practice positive thoughts. A runner wouldn't wait for the day of a race to prepare practicing. Athletes practice the same thing over and over again in order to create muscle memory. If you want to change your reaction to fear and anger, it is important to practice relaxing and breathing and centering yourself and your thoughts, to train your brain to think in a new way.

Self Hypnosis allows you to control your response to the world instead of being a wound-up reactor. Your inner peace can become independent of your surroundings.

4.    Allow a deeper connection to your Full Potential Self – It is important for us to connect to how we feel. Through making peace with the emotion, and allowing ourselves to feel it, we can move up the emotional scale, towards joy.

There is a scale of emotion ranging from Depression to Joy with many different emotions falling on graduations in between. Don't expect to go from depression to joy overnight. Allow yourself to move up the scale one emotion at a time.

Remember that what you resist will persist. Make peace where you are by allowing yourself to feel the emotion. This is the first step.

3.    Daily Diet

We need to understand the importance of what we eat and how we eat it. The foods we eat and the way we prepare them have a vital roll on the health of the blood and tissue in the body. If our foods are devitalized or contaminated with chemicals or metals, our blood, which eventually becomes tissue, will be compromised. If the blood is deprived of healthy foods that have been properly prepared over a period of time, degeneration and cellular transformation will occur.

With 1 in 3 people at risk for cancer and so many people dying of cardiovascular diseases, it is essential that people take charge of their own health, eat the right foods, and prepare them properly.

All foods have energetic qualities. Unfortunately, most cooked foods have lost their energy and are dead.
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4.    Daily Exercise

1. Set a time. Decide whether you're more likely to stick with it in the morning or lunchtime or evening, and stick with that time   

2. Send yourself a reminder. Then, when you get the reminder, do it right away..
 
3. Start small. This is perhaps the most useful suggestion of all. When I start exercising, I always start with lots of energy, enthusiasm and ambition. I think I can do more than I can. However, doing too much in the beginning leads to burnout, which leads to quitting your habit. When you first try to make exercise a daily habit, chances are, your body won't be used to that kind of stress. The key: only do 20 minutes in the beginning, and do it nice and easy. Nothing hard. Even 10-15 minutes is fine at first, if you're just starting out. The key is to get out there, get your body slowly used to daily exercise, and form that habit.
   
4. Progress later. Once your body is used to daily exercise, you can slowly start to increase the amount and intensity of your exercise. Wait at least two weeks before starting to increase — that's the minimum your body needs to adjust. Once it begins to feel way too easy, you can start increasing the length of your workouts, to 30 and then 40 minutes, and eventually up to an hour. Once you do that, you can gradually increase the intensity — running faster or harder, for example. Try not to increase both distance and intensity at the same time.
 
5. Make it pleasurable. If you associate a habit with pain, you will shy away from it. But if it's fun, you'll look forward to doing it.
I've been focusing on pleasure. I go slowly, enjoying the fresh morning air, the beautiful sky, the quiet time of solitude and contemplation.
   
6. Lay out your gear. The fewer obstacles and less friction there is in forming your new habit, the more likely you are to be successful. If you have to not only wake up early but get a bunch of gear together while half awake, you might just want to go back into bed. But if you lay out your workout clothes and shoes and watch and mp3 player, or whatever you need for your exercise, you'll be ready to go with no friction at all.

7. Just head out the door. My rule is just to get my walking shoes on and get out the door. I don't worry about how long I have to go or how hard it will be. Just get out and get started. Once I've done that, it's a piece of cake.
   
8. Mix it up. Use different muscles. That gives the body a chance to recover, because without recovery, you're just breaking your muscles down over and over.
   
9. Have a relative rest day. Again, recovery is very important. Which is why you need to give your body a chance to rest. If you're taking it easy, and only doing 20 minutes, you should be OK without rest days. But it's still good to have one day of rest, where you're not doing the same exercises as the other six days. You don't want to skip the day completely, because then you're not being consistent with your habit. If you need more rest, you could just do 20 minutes of walking, or even just a session of meditation. The key is to do something every day, preferably something that gets you moving (meditation isn't the best example, but at least you'd be doing something) and keeps your habit formation going.
 
10. Don't skip a day. It's easy to say, "No problem, I've been doing it for five days ... I'll just skip today!" But that will make your habit formation harder. Consistency is key, so try not to skip a single day. If you do, don't beat yourself up, don't judge, don't feel bad — everyone messes up sometimes, and habit formation is a skill that requires practice. Just start your 30-day challenge over again, and try to identify the obstacle that led to your skipping a day and prepare for it this time.

5.    Take your remedies
The remedies I am speaking about here are not pharmaceutical medicines. When I am saying take your remedies, I am meaning to become aware of your body. Get an accurate read on it. Go see a professional for help. But ultimately, be your own physician. What I mean by this is research for yourself. Take time to meditate and ask your body "what do you need today"? If you are consistent with checking in, your body will begin to feel the validation, as well as provide clear clues for it's needs and cares.

Remedies have been around for centuries. They vary from the use of natural herbs and essential oils, to the nutrients and minerals we find in foods. Remedies can also include affirmations and positive self-talk. Many say that remedies "encourage the body to do its natural process of healing itself". Truly, your body is created to heal itself. You do not need a magic prayer or pill for that to happen. With the right conditions, your body can do what it is designed to do.

Take a look in 8 dayz Remedies section within the Learning Library. Although this section is filled with Remedies and aspects of mind and body connection, it is not considered a licensed physician. It is important to communicate with a licensed physician when there is a legitimate healthcare need. Please feel free to check through our directory if you need to find a local practitioner.

6.    Daily Gratitude

Gratitude Theory The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network): 7/12/02 The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network): 12/19/01 Researchers find the virtues of gratitude include good health. In recent years, many scientists have begun examining the links between religion and good health, both physical and mental. Now two psychologists are working to unlock the puzzle of how faith might promote happiness. Dr. Michael McCollough, of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and Dr. Robert Emmons, of the University of California at Davis, say their initial scientific study indicates that gratitude plays a significant role in a person's sense of well-being. From Cicero to Buddha, many philosophers and spiritual teachers have celebrated gratitude. The world's major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hindu, prize gratitude as a morally beneficial emotional state that encourages reciprocal kindness. Pastors, priests, parents and grandparents have long extolled the virtues of gratitude, but until recently, scholars have largely ignored it as a subject of scientific inquiry. McCollough and Emmons were curious about why people involved in their faith seem to have more happiness and a greater sense of well-being than those who aren't and decided to study the connections. After making initial observations and compiling all the previous research on gratitude, they conducted the Research Project on Gratitude and Thanksgiving. The study required several hundred people in three different groups to keep daily diaries. The first group kept a diary of the events that occurred during the day, while the second group recorded their unpleasant experiences. The last group made a daily list of things for which they were grateful. The results of the study indicated that daily gratitude exercises resulted in higher reported levels of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, optimism and energy. Additionally, the gratitude group experienced less depression and stress, was more likely to help others, exercised more regularly and made more progress toward personal goals. According to the findings, people who feel grateful are also more likely to feel loved. McCollough and Emmons also noted that gratitude encouraged a positive cycle of reciprocal kindness among people since one act of gratitude encourages another. McCullough says these results also seem to show that gratitude works independently of faith. Though gratitude is a substantial part of most religions, he says the benefits extend to the general population, regardless of faith or lack thereof. In light of his research, McCullough suggests that anyone can increase their sense of well-being and create positive social effects just from counting their blessings.

Getting In Touch With Gratitude: Step 1   Returning after a long time to your childhood home, you may find your bedroom pretty much unchanged, though someone else may live there now. In contrast, the body in which you live is constantly changing. As you know, over a space of seven years your body replaces practically every single molecule with a new one. But did you know that every morning, the first time you open your eyes, the top layer of your vision-sensor receptors is simply scorched away, and you literally see the world with new eyes? And still more amazingly, that two million of your red blood cells die every single second; and two million new ones take their place? Step 2   It is one thing to see bones, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels depicted "out there" on your screen; vividly to connect these mental images with this living body of yours is quite a different thing. It takes training; you have to shift your attention. All this million-fold dying and renewal is actually going on within you at this very moment. Just think of it: two million red blood cells – that is more than the population of some countries! Close your eyes and say a few times slowly, "Now, now, now," aware that with every "now" this million-fold renewal is happening in your body. Now, now, now: a pure gift. Maybe it was an experience like this that made Abraham Heschel exclaim, "Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy." You may want to repeat your "now" a few more times, with closed eyes – not so much thinking about, but feeling the life force at work within your body. Step 3   You have been focusing your attention inward to become aware of the blessing of life bubbling up within you. But you can also expand the conscious awareness of your embodiment outwards. Where are the borders of your bodily reality? Are you imprisoned within your skin? Is not your very skin an organ of encounter and exchange? Every breeze that touches your cheek connects you with the farthest reaches of the earth's atmosphere. A whole ocean of air has gone through your lungs, wave by wave. Portions of some storm raging now in the arctic may once have been inside you. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke mused on this and called our very breathing an "invisible poem." Your eyes take in stars that are unimaginably far away. And what about the food your body takes in? At every meal, what has been alive and died becomes alive again in you by nourishing your own aliveness. Eating is an act of Holy Communion with the Earth. Letting this sink in will take time, but you can make a start at any time. As you pause for a moment before your next meal, you can think of the cosmic connection established by eating. Promise yourself right now to do so. Step 4   Which of the marvelous functions going on in your body amazes you most? Your heart has been beating uninterruptedly since before you were born. What keeps it beating? You eat an apple; a mysterious life force made a tiny seed grow into the tree that produced this fruit. That same life force will guide your digestion, turning this apple into energy to move and think, even the very thought you're thinking now. You drink a glass of water, and your kidneys know how to take care of the rest; the same life force guides them. Have you ever shown yourself grateful for these everyday marvels too deep for your mind to fathom? Now is your opportunity. Say the simple sentence: "I am grateful for my... (eyes, kidneys, spine, teeth, lungs, etc.) ... because..."  To write this sentence down is a helpful exercise. It gives your gratefulness a body.

7.    Daily Truth
A common dictionary definition of truth is "agreement with fact or reality".

There is no single definition of truth about which the majority of philosophers agree. Various theories of truth, commonly involving different definitions of "truth", continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; what roles do revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute.

Daily Truth is all about your conscious presence within yourself making the final decision as to what is right for you. Regardless of how another person may view truth, Your Truth is something that cannot change, does not change, and has permanence within your being.

Unlike facts that change with time and experience, truth is everlasting. To know your truth, you must know the everlasting aspect of you being. Many consider the everlasting aspect of being to be "Soul". This is the part of us that we can be disconnected from consciously, however, many agree Soul cannot be disconnected from its Source. Therefore, connecting with the Soul is vital in connecting with Source energy or Personal Truth.

Like a radio frequency, it is important to "tune in" to a channel on the radio in order to connect. In the same way. It is impossible to connect with our Source if we are bombarded with information. As bits of jargon and various vibrations of information exist in our bodies and minds, they distract our conscious connection to our Source channel, and therefore keep us in the dark from connection to our own Truth and Source Energy.

Meditation and clearing the constant incoming of information is key to being open to "hearing" our inner truth as well as living as One with our Source.

8.    Daily Creation
How to Create Your Day
By Dr. Joe Disepenza

The most often referenced interview in the film is Dr. Joe Dispenza's comments on creating his day. In response to the numerous requests, the following is the transcript of that part of the interview.

"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

"So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.