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Group Cleanse Support Topic: Psychological and Emotional Effects (My Experience)

This page is a Support Topic Page for The Psychological and Emotional Effects for our Master Cleanse Group Cleanse. Please check that page for details on our Quarterly Cleanses and our Individual Cleanses.
To learn more about the value of Group Cleansing, check out this report.

The Group Cleanse will not only give us the forum to support each other, doing The Master Cleanse together, but it also enables us to track our experiences by setting standards to the conversation. If we all just posted random thoughts we would get a lot less value from the comments. But if the comments are structured, and relevant by time and topic, we can gain even more insight, more quickly and more effectively. Therefore we ask participants to start and finish the Master Cleanse on the same dates.

This page is the place for participants in the The Master Cleanse Group Experience to post their daily entries. To post, simply leave a comment. You don’t have to be logged in to post. Please provide 100 words each day – don’t worry; that’s not that much. The paragraph below, for example, is 100 words.

What is going through your mind? We have thoughts that seem out of control when we are in our daily grind – many of these revolve around food. We may also feel stress that in turn causes us to eat, to have emotional reactions. Many people report feeling in more control while doing The Master Cleanse – alongside a sense of clarity. Do commercials about food drive you crazy? Are you more patient than ever?

If you are not participating, you can follow the post to get inspiration to try the cleanse or answer the most basic question: Is The Master Cleanse right for me?

Keep it simple, just talk in your own language about your daily experience. The more you are yourself, the more others will connect with you – and the more you can connect with what they are saying – which is what we want after all, a strong support network through a group experience.

If you haven’t yet, go ahead and register for the Group Cleanse to get our “Guided Cleanse Experience” email sequence timed to correspond with your registration and the important days as the come up during our scheduled group cleanses.

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  1. Hazel

    Master Cleanse Day 7

    I made it to day 7! Woohoo! I did not expect this to be so emotional. And not in the sad, sappy way, dealing with all this hurtful old stuff….but the more sharp, on edge, kind of emotions. I thought that after day three or day five at the very latest, I’d just be flying high, full of energy, ready for anything, a healed gem. It seems that I have built up for emotional stress than I originally thought. And that makes sense. It has been awhile since I have done one and it just makes complete sense. I think I was relying on this cleanse to all of the sudden just make everything better. But I of course still have to put forth the work to make the changes I want to see. It seems as though they aren’t just going to magically happen just because I am doing this challenging thing and in my mind that makes me deserve all the good things in the world. Instead, things are coming up that I truly need to work on…like how to handle anger, how to handle uncomfortable situations…the areas that need growth are being revealed to me. Time to become a better adult. And I thought I was already perfect. This has been a humbling experience.
    It has really brought me back down to earth. Last year I had a psychotic episode in which I was hallucinating, hearing voices and for a month and a half I was not in my right state of mind. Finally I started writing and my mind came back. The reason it took so long, I think, is because I didn’t really want it to come back. I was in another realm, and I liked it. I have healed a lot of that experience through a women’s group that I attended for 9 months. I thought some of that experience may surface a little bit….it hasn’t really, but I have been feeling more grounded and “in this reality.” It’s not an easy thing to come back to, because for years I have been kind of avoiding it. I am in denial that I must live in a world that is so screwed up. It has been suggested that I take anti-depressants, but I like to do everything naturally, so before this cleanse I was taking herbs. They helped a lot. I’ve slowly weened them off as my attitude became adjusted and I really thought this cleanse would be the finale. It would just wash the depression and sadness and misery right out of my body. Maybe it will, still. Maybe I need to do this cleanse longer than 10 days. I don’t know. All I know is that it is interesting. I do think that what most needs to be addressed, will be, and it is surprising the things that life is choosing to bring up for me. Definitely not what I expected.

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  2. Hazel

    Master Cleanse Day 3

    Well, things were going pretty mellow until this evening. It seems that my emotions have caught up with me. The ones that need to be let go of are surfacing.
    I find the most challenging part so far not the temptation of food, but explaining this process to others. It takes a lot of energy to explain it to different people in ways that they can understand. Some people want me to fail, others think that I am doing it to get “high.” Since I am in recovery, this is a very maddening thing to confront. I am doing this for spiritual reasons. A member of my recovery circle asked me to explain my spirituality. I am not just going to do that on the spot….like, “okay, here’s God in a nutshell.” And this person happened to be an atheist. I do not like it when people challenge my beliefs. I wish they would just leave me alone. I wasn’t overly friendly. I let the person know how it offended me that they thought I was using this cleanse as a way to get high and hallucinate. I thought it was a very disrespectful. Especially since I have before mentioned my understanding of Source energy before.
    I see myself as a channel. The more space and the cleaner and purer the channel, the better Life Force Energy can flow through. I consider myself connected to all things and have a high respect for nature. I also believe the Universe communicates through sychronicities, signs and symbols.
    When I fast, I awaken more to who I really am. I am able to let go of the things that are hindering me, after becoming aware of them. Spiritual messages come to me via nature, people and the flow of energy I tap into when I am consciously reaching up to a higher power. I am grateful for this wonderful, intricate process. I let my body know what is happening. It doesn’t just think that it is starving. It knows I am emptying my vessel so that more space is created for truth, wisdom and understanding to come through. I am cleaning myself physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. To connect. To let go. To reset myself. I see this as no different than washing a bowl after it is used, or taking care of any other object. Things just need to be deep cleaned once in awhile. The way people seem to be so closed minded to it amazes me.

    End rant.

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  3. Hazel

    Master Cleanse Day 2

    My main reason for doing the cleanse is for spiritual, emotional and psychological reasons. If I happen to lose weight, then so be it :-). I did a juice fast about 5 years ago, and though I was only in my early twenties, I remember feeling 5 to 7 years younger! I had so much energy and I was so happy. I was very responsible when I did this, as I was reading a holistic healing book by a woman who has healed her breast cancer through naturopathic treatments, including fasting. Reading her book really made the system of the body make sense to me. I made sure to balance out my rest and relaxation, while still working. This first fast took place in beautiful Santa Fe, so although it was difficult at times because of all the delicious food there (plus I worked at a restaurant that served their famous native american/mexican influenced dishes), I distracted myself with hiking, rock climbing, a visit to the spa, body work, reading, and staring at the wall. It was beautiful:-)
    After doing that cleanse I have paid great attention to what I put into my body, and so the effects lasted many years and was such a good investment. I know I have certainly built up a lot of physical and emotional baggage since then, and I’m looking forward to releasing it. I have dedicated a journal specifically to this experience. I have written down a list of things that I can do in order to nourish myself during this experience, including song writing/editing, singing, jogging, walking, drawing, yoga, energy work, and in general just connecting to what is happening. I decided the intention of this cleanse is going to be “letting go.” Seems fitting and right. A lot of thoughts and emotions that have been trapped for so long will come up, but it is my duty and responsibility to just let them go….

    Thank for all the support!

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  4. Sunny

    MC Day 1
    It is now 5 o’clock in the evening, I just cooked dinner for my Mother and my Daughter. I made them pork chops on the griddle and egg noodles. I’m not even tempted to eat. I got this!!! I am overcoming the psychological urge to eat. I’m staying calm emotionally, I deserve to be successful with this cleanse, I will not fail myself. I will emotionally get through today

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    • Laura

      MC day 2

      Today has been much easier so far than day 1, both psychologically and emotionally. Woke up with more energy than I thought I would have. I’m not tempted to eat anything, however I am staying away from putting myself in that position too. After attempting this cleanse 2 times before and not making it, I feel like I am in the right frame of mind to complete the cleanse this time. It will be a great feeling to complete it! I’m all over it!

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  5. Diana

    MC Day 10

    There was no heavy emotional or psychological effects that made it hard. It was pretty easy.

    I do see how it would make it hard if your responsible for feeding others. There was no problem with that. I didn’t need to be around much food and I taped all my TV shows so I could fast forward through ALL the food commercials.

    Amazing how many “FOOD COMMERCIALS” there are.

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  6. Diana

    MC Day 9

    This has been very easy both psychologically and emotionally.

    I’m well grounded emotionally which makes everything easier to deal with!

    Thank you, Landmark for your amazing distinctions that changed my life.

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  7. Diana

    MC Day 8

    My emotional state is amazing. I feel light and loving and full of energy.

    I did DREAM of eating something last night…so I think that helped me keep on keeping on for the last 3 days.

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  8. Diana

    Mc Day 7

    Psychologically and emotionally … piece of cake.

    No more thoughts of Pizza!

    That seems to be my biggest craving…even though I rarely even eat pizza!

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  9. Diana

    MC Day 6

    Psychologically and emotionally this has been pretty easy. No upset or confusion around the process.

    There are moments that I will be happy to have it over with for this session…as I just did a 10 day MC in June. But I wanted to be on the same schedule as you guys.

    That does make it easier.

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  10. Diana

    MC Day 5

    My goal is to lose 10 pounds at a time…during my cleanse in June…I lost 10 pounds.
    So, emotionally I’m clear what my objective is and it helps keep me on track.

    After the first cleanse in June…I thought back to the 10 days and the difference it made in just the 10 days…so this 10 days is doing an even deeper cleaning and psychologically is rewarding to know I’m getting some bad stuff out!

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