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Fasting
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Body Mind Spirit
Check out the benefits of Juice Fasting for:
Allergies
Arthritis
Cancer
Constipation
Detoxification
Diabetics
Lose
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Toxic
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Do's & Don't
Some suggestions of what you should do and not to do for a Healthier
Lifestyle
Sauna
The wonderful benefits of a Finnish type Sauna
Hot Tub
Benefits of Hot Tub Hydrotherapy
21day Fast
Frank's diary of his experience with The Living on Light Process
Books
Books on Fasting Health & Healing that we recommend
Christian
Fasting Retreat
Is Moinhos Velhos fasting retreat suitable for Christians?
Fasting at Home
How to do a fasting program at home with much information on the benefit
of juice fasting.
Fasting
at Yoga Camp
Fasting Programs at Sivananda Yoga Camp in Canada
Fasting in India
Fasting Programs at the Sivananda Ashram in India
Payments
Physiospect
NLS diagnostic
Computerized Biofeedback scanning and therapy
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Fasting
Detoxification
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Detox and Colon Cleanse
at Home
Benefits of Juice Fasting
Doing a Fasting Program at
home is of course very different from participating in
a Fasting Program at a residential fasting retreat like
Moinhos Velhos. Totally different. Yet people often ask
us, Can I do the fast at home?
Of course you can, but do not expect the same results.
Many people contact us stating
that "I would love to come and do your fasting program
but I can not get away, I do not have the money, I do
not have the time, I can not leave my children etc"
They ask: "Can you please tell me what products to
use, how do I make the juices, which is best, juice fasting
or water fasting etc?" How can I do your program
at home?
Well you can not do our program
in your home. I did not say that you can not do a fasting
program at home, which of course you can, but the Fasting
Programs at Moinhos Velhos is a complete package encompassing
first of all our unique location, a tranquil power valley
away from the hustle and bustle of daily life, the yoga
and meditation for both the body and the mind, our alternative
therapies to effect a total detoxification and balancing,
the sauna - pool and nature walks, the organic products
from our own garden, and of course the testing for herbs
and allergies and the support of everyone here at Moinhos
Velhos.
But the Benefits of Fasting
are so unique, that even if you can not do a residential
fasting program, you can experience great benefits doing
a home Juice Fasting Program. There are numerous testimonials
to this.

Moinhos Velhos Fasting and Purification valley
We do not offer any recommendations or advise
on how to do a Home Fasting Program, nor do we sell any of
the products that we use.(But we are happy to tell you what
they are) We are not set up for this. However there are other
websites that have a multitude of information on the benefits
of fasting, who sell supervised fasting programs that you
do at home, with pages of testimonials of the benefits achieved
with their fasting programs.
Fasting Center International has been online
since 1995:
www.fasting.com. They
claim to have the "World's Largest Fasting
Clientele" for the past 35 years, and this is probably
true, as they
have an impressive amount of information on the benefits of
fasting,
with some outstanding testimonials. On their website, you
will see
pictures of Founder/Director Dennis Paulson with the Dalai
Lama, and
letters from President Clinton to him, with this cutline:
"Fasting
Center International's Chairman/CEO Dennis Paulson working
with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, President Clinton, and other world
leaders
from many fields, on issues close to his heart."
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Below is an extract from a letter that we received
from Fasting Center International (30.01.2009)
We see that Buddha on the wall of one of your
buildings, so we're
certain you understand that 'Bodhisattvas' dedicate their lives
to
helping end unnecessary suffering. Director Paulson was in
communication with President Clinton before he became America's
President, as well as throughout his entire 8-year Presidency,
exclusively in an attempt to gain President Clinton's intervention
with Communist China's leaders, in support of Tibet's remaining
6
million people, who've suffered the longest-running genocide
attempt
in our lifetime, with 1.3 million having been killed or starved
to
death since 1949. Director Paulson spent three weeks in Tibet
in in
1987 with his daughter and son.
If you check another page on FCI's extensive website
www.fasting.com/
compassion.html, you see the following cutlines under that
same
picture with His Holiness: "FCI's Founder/Director Dennis
Paulson
with his friend and teacher since 1982, His Holiness the Dalai
Lama,
reviewing the manuscript of a book His Holiness requested he
write on
the Tibetan Crisis--with a Foreword by His Holiness--in hopes
of
awakening our world before China's 60-year attempt at cultural
genocide in Tibet finally succeeds: 'Tibet: The Final Solution.'"
Likewise, the 'books' you mention Director Paulson
sending President
Clinton are by the Dalai Lama, and on the Tibetan Crisis, with
the
exception of the June 29, 1993, letter reading: "Thank
you for the
copy of the 'Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.' I appreciate
your
thoughtfulness. This has been a difficult time for our family,
and we
are grateful for your support. Sincerely, Bill Clinton."
The father of Bill's wife had died. As I'm sure
you know, Hillary
Clinton is today in a critical position to lobby China on the
Tibetan
issue here 16 years later, as America's new Sec. of State. Likewise,
if you check (on Fasting.com) the book cover to the right of
Director
Paulson sitting with the Dalai Lama, entitled "Voices of
Survival In
the Nuclear Age,"--which was published internationally
in 1986--
you'll see it contains contributions from 120 world leaders
from many
fields, including the President of the U.S., Prime Minister
of India,
Chancellor of East Germany, the Pope and Dalai Lama, 17 Nobel
Laureates, the Fathers of the Soviet and U.S. H-Bombs, as well
as
billionaire financiers, academics, physicians and even actors
of
world-renown.
We all do what we're able, to help stop unnecessary
suffering in the
world. Thank you all at Moinhos-Velhos for your own noble
contribution. Hopefully, we'll collectively create the quantum
leap
in human consciousness necessary to leave our children and theirs
a
world worth inheriting.
Beyond that, may you and your entire staff be
happy, healthy, and
peaceful. May goodness and virtue flourish, and may you enjoy
a
stable, meritorious life. May you practice, as much as possible,
loving kindness, compassion, empathic joy and equanimity, remembering
these words from my friend and teacher since 1982, His Holiness
the
Dalai Lama: "The key to a happier and more successful world
is the
growth of compassion. There exists nothing within this vast
space
that cannot be healed by genuine compassion." Have a wise
day.
Respectfully, Dennis Paulson, Founder/Director, FCI, Inc.
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We all have this to and much
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Dennison offers his Supervised
Fasting Programs from( $319,00 to $ 1119,00 (1986).
For this you will get an information package on
how to do the fasting program, E-mail, CD's etc
and online as well as telephone support. You do
not get any of the products that you need, you will
have to purchase the fruits and vegetables and herbs
for the fast.
Dennison is extremely strict
in the agreement that you have to sign when purchasing
one of his programs. You are not allowed to share
this information with anyone, including your wife,
husband, children or any other members of your family.
Here is part of his sign-up agreement:
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All clients of Fasting Center International,
Inc., worldwide, agree to all of the following statements
in this online, legally-binding, e-commerce Juice-Fasting
Agreement. You're hereby also agreeing not to attempt
self-supervision of our Program beyond the length you're
paying for--now or at any time in the future--understanding
that you're wholly unqualified to do so, and can seriously
harm yourself without even realizing how, as things
can arise in longer Programs which may never be seen
in shorter ones, on three critical levels--physiologically,
psychologically and spiritually.
Filling in, below, your personal and payment information
and clicking the 'Send' button, constitute your 'electronic
signature' initiating this two-way Agreement, entitling
your purchase and undertaking of FCI's Program, understanding
that the receipt, by you, of any portion of our Program's
copyrighted, intellectual property confirms that this
two-way Agreement is irrevocable and irreversible, meaning
that intellectual property cannot later be returned
by you for any reason(s) whatsoever, and that there
are no refunds. No exceptions, period. FCI will email
the first part at our earliest convenience upon receipt
of your order--as noted in the autobot Receipt you'll
be instantaneously emailed--in case you wish, as many
clients do, to begin your Program before the remainder
arrives via FedEx or alternative delivery.
You're also agreeing that our Program you purchase will
be used exclusively by you, as any and all types of
'sharing' or 'uploading' of any or all portions of FCI's
FASTING PROGRAMTM or 60-page LIFETIME OPTIMUM HEALTH
PLAN TM, protected under U.S. and International copyrights,
is an infringement of U.S. Copyright Law (for
which the maximum penalty is a $100,000 fine and five
years in prison), as well as of all international
treaties; may result in civil and criminal penalties,
and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible
by the laws, as all paying FCI clients, globally, expect.
And because it has happened, FCI emphasizes that this
means you may not share our Program with your spouse,
significant other, family member, relative, friend,
health-care practitioner, or anyone else. Most recently,
for example, FCI successfully sued a Swiss financial
consultant who allowed his wife to purloin our Program,
which we learned when she had the audacity to telephone
FCI with supervision questions, replying when questioned
about why she was doing our Program without being our
client: "C'mom. . .I'm his wife!!"
FCI, over the 35 years we've been blessed as the global
leader in our field, because we continually hear tragic,
health-damaging stories about foolish souls attempting
unsupervised fasting--flying blindly by the seat of
their pants into the virtual unknown--has never and
will never allow anyone to do our Program without our
skilled, veteran, professional supervision, available
only to our our actual clients in 220 nations. Obviously,
since all human body-mind-spirit complexes are unique,
no two fasting experiences are the same, on all three
critical levels; hence, the absolute need, initially,
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Maybe you would rather do a fasting
program at Moinhos Velhos?.
Another extremely prolific Webmaster
is Jos-hua Medicine Man at: http://www.hps-online.com/nsectionfast.htm
Jos-hua contacted us some years ago
wanting to do his fasting programs at Moinhos Velhos.
We declined as he did not seem to be in tune with
our concept of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
cleansing and purification. Since then Jos-hua has
compiled an impressive websites with much information
on the benefits of fasting and colon cleansing,
and again with a multitude of testimonials. Today
Jos-hua seems to be concentrating primarily on promoting
his online fasting programs, only offering a few
selected residential programs at $400,00 per day
per person.
The Home Fasting Programs offered
by Jos-hua starts at $699,00 for a seven day program,
soon to increase to $889.00. (1986)Again this is
only for the information and support, and does not
include any of the products needed for the program.
(maybe I am in the wrong end of this business ?).
But do visit his site, (Google loves him for all
his information on fasting), but like me, you may
get totally lost in the profusion of juice fasting
and colon cleansing information.
If you absolutely have to do a fasting
program at home go to
www.ariseandshine.com We have been using their
"Chompers" herbs for years, and it is
excellent. Arise and Shine products are sold through
independent distributors and affiliates, and will
offer you support in your fasting and cleansing
experience. We do not agree on everything with Arise
and Shine, but then we have a different program.
And their products are good.
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What do I need to do a Fast at Home?
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First of all you will
need the juicers.
If you do not already have a juicing machine
you will have to purchase one for citrus fruits, another
one for other fruits and vegetables. Ideally you should
have a Green Power or Champion for vegetables. and
a special machine for wheat grass, if you are going
to include this. But wheat grass is not so easy.
You do not need a fancy machine for
citrus fruits. We have looked into all of them, and
we do not like the commercial models. We feel that
they destroy the life force in the fruit. Using a
simple hand model, which cost around € 20, is
both easy and effective, producing good results.
We paid around € 1000,00 for our
last juicing machine, but for juicing at home you
do not need a machine this efficient and expensive.
Good machines can be had for anywhere between 200
to 300 Euros.
The Green Power and Champion juicers
are the best juicing machines for vegetables as they
do not destroy any of the enzymes. But they are expensive
and hard to use.
Once you have your juicers you of course
need the products to make the juices. You can use
almost all fruits and vegetables, but some of course
make better juices than other. But
all your produce should be organic. It
makes little sense to do a detox program using fruits
and vegetables that are full of chemicals and poisons.
Get and read "Not
On The Label" by Falicity Lawrence and I
do not think you will ever buy any fruits or vegetables
from your supermarket again. Saving money here may
cost you your health and more.
Ideally your fruits should be picked
ripe. Then you will have the maximum life force in
them, Use fruits and vegetables that are local and
in season. To use oranges in Northern countries may
not be such a good idea if they come from the other
end of the globe. Sprayed all during growing season
with pesticides, picked green for long transport and
shelf life, it is no longer the ideal fruit. Oranges
and lemons are acid, but turn into alkaline in the
body. But this apparently does not happen when the
fruit has been picked green
In our program we start of every day
with a lemon "tea". This is just hot water
and lemon juice and is most alkaline which is very
important for fasting.. No sweeteners
Our first juice in the morning is "orange juice",
which is extremely cleansing. Of course we can just
go down in the garden and pick the fruits.
Our second juice is another fruit juice,
usually whatever is in season.
The afternoon juice is a vegetable juice.
We use a lot of carrot as these as exceptionally effective
for cleansing and there are so many benefits from
carrot juice. Particularly good for the liver.
We also use other vegetables, beetroot and celery,
not alone as this is too strong, but with the carrot
juice. We use a lot of greens. Once in a while we
use tomatoes when we have too many of them.
Ann Wigmore made wheat grass just famous for its rejuvenating
qualities and yes, most days we do offer our fasters
a small glass of wheat grass juice. But unless you
have some long term plans for juicing, do not even
think about it. First of all you will probably have
to grow the wheat grass, as there are not many places
in the world where you can buy it. Then you will have
to purchase a special wheat grass juicers, and they
are not easy to find, nor cheap. But if you have the
place for growing, the time and the money, wheat grass
is very good.
Also very good to add to your juice
is Aloe Vera
In the evening we have a vegetable broth.
The base is potatoes and unions, but we fill the pot
with everything that grows in the garden. Usually
our styaff will make a trip to the garden in the morning
filling a basket with fresh vegetables which then
goes into the pot for the evening soup. We also use
different spices to make the broth more tasty. But
no salt!!!!
In between the juices you can drink
as much water and herb tea as you want
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Next you need the herbs to effect
cleansing of the mucoid layers from your intestines
and to effect a total cleanup of your system.
We use:
Pancreatin, Niacin, Spirulina. These you can
get from your local health food store. But do
not get the "nonflush" Niacin. They
do not seem to work. Take one each time between
the juices, four times a day. Chompers you will
get from
http://www.ariseandshine click here. Co-Ton
you can get from: Roger Groos, tel. 01271-870436
fax 01271-871110, e-mail intshop@globlanet.co.uk
or
The NutriCentre, 7 Park Crescent,
LONDON W1B 1PF tel. 0207 436 5122 fax 0207 436
5171
Both of these two suppliers are located in England.
Telephone country prefix is 44, and from outside
the Uk eliminate the first 0. So if you are
dialing from say Portugal you would dial: 00
44 1271 871 110 for Roger.
We start everyone off on the same
dosage of Chompers or Co-Ton. But then after
a couple of days we start testing everyone for
dosages, and we continue to test the whole time.
Some people may need a lot (4-6 up to 8) each
time, four times a day, to get the desired cleansing
results. Here we can not help you, you have
to use your intuition and go by the cleansing
results that you are getting. If the results
are not as expected then increase the dosage,
but if you get diarrhea stop and go back.
The herbs and pills must be taken
in between the juices
We are almost there
You still need the Bentonite and Psyllium powders
to draw toxins out of your system and to effectively
broom out the debris that the herbs have loosened
in your intestines.
Bentonite and Psyllium you can
get from the health food stores
. These you take at the same time as the juices.
There is trick to this so that you do not get
a globby mass of unappetizing porridge like
glob. About on hour or more before juice time
put about 5cm of water in a glass jar with a
lidd. On top of the water sprinkle one teaspoon
of Bentonite. At juicing time poor some juice
into the jar, then two teaspoon of psyllium,
shake very well and fast and drink the whole
thing immediately. Then enjoy the rest of your
juice.
Now you have to clean out your
large intestines with a colonic irrigation.
We find the colonic cleansing to be particularly
useful where our clients have problems with
constipation or if they are very toxic. Often
during the first days of the the fast you may
get a headache and using a colon cleansing unit
can be of immediate help. Here at Moinhos Velhos
each bathroom is equipped with a Clysmatic,
which we recommend to be used twice a day. The
Clysmatic is manufactured in Sweden and you
can get it from: Birger Ledin AB. Hammarsmedsgatan
26. 542 35 Mariestad. Sweden. Tel: 0501-195
55 ..or nutri-gold
. Cost around £ 180.00 from nutri-gold
Another item that we use for facilitating
the detox process and that you can have at home
is "The Detox Foot Bath"
You can really see the difference in the colour
of the water after a few days. There are many
different models available, cost from €
1000.00 to € 2000.00.
Then we use the Zapper
to eliminate parasites. Different models available
from € 65 to €250.
So that should be all the information that you
need for you to do a Juice Fasting Program at
home. And we do not charge you anything for this
information, we are happy to share it with you.
But please remember that most experts in the field
warns about doing a long fast without some expert
supervision. So read up on the subject, get whatever
support you can without it costing you a hand
and a leg, and good luck
We have a friend and client who
also is the supplier of our reverse osmosis
system. He has done two or three fasting programs
with us. Some time ago he decided that he needed
to do another fast but he just could not take
the time off from his business. As we do not
sell the fasting herbs, he got the complete
package from Arise and Shine, plus all the support
from us. He faithfully followed the instructions
and did a two week fast. His reaction was: "It
did not work, it is not the same" Two
of his friends did a fast at the same time,
and their experience was similar.
It is not that "IT DOES NOT
WORK" Of course it works, but
it is not the same. Why not? Stop
and think about it.
When you are doing a fasting program
at home you are portably involved in all the
daily activities of your life, going to work,
family, children etc. It can be extremely difficult
to fast under these circumstances.
When you do a fast at Moinhos
Velhos it is a completely different situation.
First of all you are removed from all your daily
stress, work, family etc. You are also removed
from all the toxic influences of the world.
Your cell phone does not work in the valley,
there is no TV or newspapers. The time is only
for yourself, with the support of yoga, meditation,
therapies etc. Judy Fox describes this experience
very well in her article in the Wave
magazine. For other similar experiences click
on an article at the bottom of this page. Or
read some testimonials.
Many people have experienced a dramatic change
in their lives after doing a detox program at
Moinhos Velhos.
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Lagos 8600-077 Portugal
Tel: 351 282 687 147 Fax: 351 282 687 697
E-mail: fasting@ip.pt
http://www.moinhos-velhos.com
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