Spring into detoxification

by Karen Bruno, PT, DPT

Detoxification can be one way to heal your body and set the stage for sustainable weight loss and pain management because it assists in decreasing inflammation. It helps to reboot your hormonal system, cleanse your liver, cleanse your intestines of unfriendly bacteria, reduce chronic inflammation, and all of that helps with weight reduction and minimizing the inflammatory response that creates pain.

​There are many different cleanses out there, and you may or may not choose to do one, however, here is a short visualization to pave the way for creating a healthier you and rejuvenate your body. Visualization can be used to communicate with your body and put it in a calm, relaxed state so it can rebalance itself and become healthy. It is a gentle and natural approach to allow your body to restore and repair itself. ​

• Find a quiet place and sit or lie down in a relaxed, comfortable posture.
• Begin by taking a deep breath in and then breathe out, allowing tension to release. Repeat this 2 more times.
• Imagine a beautiful ball of bright, white light in your navel.
• Imagine this light circulating inside and around you, getting bigger and brighter.
• Imagine yourself in an infinite ocean of beautiful, bright, white, healing light.
• Allow all of the pores of your skin to open up to allow this beautiful, bright, white, healing light to come in from all directions.
• Feel the light in your chest, lungs, heart, stomach, intestines, pelvis, back, arms, legs, neck and head.
• Let every cell in your body be filled with this beautiful, bright, white, healing light.
• Everywhere this bright light touches, it cleanses your body, nourishes your body and heals your body. You feel every cell in your body saying “cleanse”. All 70 trillion cells are saying at the same time, “cleanse”.
• Feel all the cells in your body starting to cleanse and getting ready to let go of any excess weight and any excess toxins. These are all being flushed out of your body, illuminated and evaporated into that infinite ocean of white light.
• Imagine every cell of your body feeling clean and light.
• Feel yourself and your system going into a better state. You are filling yourself with health and vibrancy, feeling purified, healthy, light and clean. You are feeling calm, centered and relaxed. This is easy and effortless for you.
• Enjoy this feeling of well being for as long as you would like.
• When you are ready, take a final deep breathe and know that your body has switched into a detoxification mode and you can lose weight easily and effortlessly, and eliminate excess toxins to bring more comfort to your muscles and joints.

​Adapted from The Gabriel Method.