Step 5 - Morning Release

To Help with waking up refreshed in the morning do something very simple.

Just before you go to bed, take a glass of water (preferably purified water), sit it on your night stand, and cover the glass with something, a lid, book, sheet of paper. In the morning when you wake, as you sit up in bed, drink this glass of water.
Those of you that do not go to the bathroom first thing in the morning or do not have a bowel movement first thing in the morning, this will help you.

Drinking a glass of water first thing in the morning alerts the body to begin releasing toxicity from your body. During your precious night sleep, your body is doing massive amount of work of restoration, rejuvenation, detoxifying. It is breaking down foods, sending nutrients to the proper places, and getting toxins prepared to be released.

The Digestive system turns into a major cleaning machine at night between 10pm - 2 am. It basically is cleaning house when we are asleep. As when we are a sleep we are not doing to much to bother the mind/body so it can do it's work in peace. (however, those of us who have chosen to eat just before bed, may have given the body more work to do that is for sure and therefore it may not be done with the house cleaning by the time you wake up, which makes for a sluggish wake up call.)

Wake up refreshed and clean and help your body by drining a fresh glass of water to help each morning.

Water recommendations:
Reverse Osmosis
Distilled

Brand recommendations:
Penta
www.pentawater.com

Step 4 - Proper Sleep Habits

It is best to get into the habit of going to bed 3 to 4 hours after your last meal. By doing this we allow the body time to begin to digest the food we have taken in.

When we go to sleep right after eating this makes it harder for the body to digest the food and then promotes more bacteria growth, weight gain, poor health, poor sleep, and sluggish for the next day mentally, physically, and emotionally.

How does this happen you may ask. Once we lay our bodies down for rest we no longer have the help of gravity to make it a bit easier for digestion to move downward. When we lay down our bodies energy has to work harder to break down our foods without the use of gravity hence the digestion functions alot slower. when food is not properly digested it promotes poor health.

If we enjoy a nice dinner around 6:00pm or 7:00pm in the evening with a bedtime around 10:30pm this will be extremely helpful. After you eat it is nice to go for a short walk even for 5 or 15 minutes to help aide you in digesting your foods. For the evening enjoy nice relaxing reading, or light conversation after dinner.

Yes, I know there are many of us that maybe have schedules where we eat late and go to bed late. So, while it is preferable to eat evening meal between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. If this cannot be done on some days, then at least use the rule of thumb to eat food at least 3 to 4 hours before you go to bed.

- The evening meal should be a lighter fare if possible with vegetables, soups, rice type of items.
- If you drink alcohol in the evenings it is best to drink before the meal . If alcohol is taken after the meal it is slower to digest and promotes bacteria growth and weight gain.
- If you are having sweets with your meal, like ice cream, cake etc. It is also best to eat these items prior to the main meal.

- Sugar digest very quickly in our bodies. It is always best to eat sugary things first to aide in digesting them quickly. For if sugar is left in the body to long it hangs around in the heat of your digestion system and it starts forming bad bacteria, which leads to yeast infections and also gastrointestinal upset, and weight concerns.

- For example if you eat chicken, potatoes, and vegetables for a meal and then have your alcohol, ice cream, cake, etc. The chicken will hold everything up in your digestion system for hours as it takes at least four to eight hours (sometimes more) for chicken to digest depending on your body and depending on the time of day that you eat. Now imagine you go to lay down for rest just after you eat this, you can only imagine how long everything would take to digest.

When we do not eat properly and allow for proper digestion, and in this case associated with our sleep. We wake up later than we want to, feeling really sluggish, we do not want to get out of bed, moving slower than usual, our mind does not seem to be working, feel heavier, not able to have a morning bowel movement to release (please note: everyone should have a bowel movement two times a day).