Can you even think about fitness after losing your health? Depending on your diagnosis, the loss of your health may have you feeling like you have one foot in the grave.

When your legs are shaking and you can’t make it to the bathroom before your bowels are firing, fitness is the last thing on your mind. That’s because sleep is the only strength builder available to you.

Once you have reached a place of stable balance, you start to feel restless… Ants in your pants! You think you need to shake off your laziness and get back to being YOU.

Problem is, your butt is dragging, yes? So, … what can you do to get your butt off the floor and get back to feeling more like yourself?

For starters, be aware that the restless feeling is an indicator that you are needing to do some house cleaning. Your system is overloaded with waste.

* When you are ill, there just isn’t enough energy to keep up with the accumulation of toxicity that stimulates and irritates your system.

* You feel grouchy and irritable, you just can’t get comfortable, maybe you’re a bit feverish off and on…

* You are dealing with a stock pile of yuck, that you need to get rid of.

You can bet that cleaning up your system (detox) is one of those very important health related fitness components… because until you can calm the restlessness, you can’t rest. Ever find yourself so tired you couldn’t sleep?

*?* Very important tip you don’t want to miss: All insight and all healing are found in stillness. Until you catch up with accumulated waste, you can’t rest and you can’t be still!

What is the best way to reduce this waste build up so that you can get comfortable and rest?

1. Take a long hot bath to help eliminate toxicity as well as hydrate through your skin. Add epsom salt to the bath to aid in relaxation.

2. Sleep as much as possible, use supplemental phosphorous and rest if you can’t sleep.

3. Go on walks in the fresh air, but don’t over do it.

4. Drink plenty of water. If you are ordered by your health care practitioner to limit fluids, then make ALL your beverages WATER. (room temperature is much better than cold)

5. Take long slow cleansing breaths frequently throughout the day.

6. Drink fresh fruit and vegetable juices, and let them be your meal until the restlessness subsides. (from the juicer not the can)

7. MAKE SURE your blood oxygen level is AT LEAST 92% at ALL times! Use supplemental oxygen if necessary to prevent harm.

Once your strength returns, you are likely to go back to old habits. Promise me that you will go right now to your journal and record exactly how you feel.

Really give it some reflection. How DO you feel? … Now, make up your mind to be well, and to nurture and value your health from this day forward. You MUST take care of yourself or you will suffer the consequences. Health is not an entitlement, it is something to be cultivated.

Do you understand why you got sick in the first place? There may be many variables that are contributing to illness in your situation. However, every action you take towards building health is a step in the right direction! It’s as simple as that!