The 3-Day Energy Fast: Cleanse Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Claim Your Spirit
Are you longing to change your life?To detoxify your body, to be renewed and replenished, but feel as if you don’t have the time or the money? Now you don’t have to go to a posh spa to rejuvenate — you can restore yourself in your own home in just three days. Pamela Serure’s The 3-Day Energy Fast makes available for the first time her legendary ultimate life detox program — an integrated body, mind and spirit health plan that will help you get your juices flowing and feel physically renewed and spiritually replenished.
Every one of us needs cleansing because we live in a world that is becoming increasingly toxic — environmentally, chemically, physically, emotionally and spiritually. From the polluted air we breathe to the chemically laced food we eat, from the unfiltered water we drink to the negative relationships we tolerate, we are filled with toxins, but you can change the quality of your health. You can detoxify your body, and you can start doing it today.
With The 3-Day Energy Fast you can clean yourself out, top to bottom — mind, body and spirit. Say good-bye to all the chemicals and toxins trapped in your body, the negative ideas that are lodged in your head and the destructive behavior patterns that are ingrained in your psyche. Serure’s program allows you to break with the past and create new beginnings.
She offers an easy-to-follow three-part approach: “The Fast” shows how to make simple combinations of fruit and vegetable juices, along with easy vegetable mineral broths for the evenings; “Meditating and Breathing” offers exercises specifically oriented to the process of cleaning out emotional, spiritual and physical toxins, finding quick energy, calming down, balancing the body and spirit and helping to support fasting and healing; and “Creating Ritual and Discipline in Your Life” teaches you how to set up your own “sacred space” to which you can surrender your fears and dreams, and to schedule daily meditation and journal writing.
By following this extraordinary plan, you will experience a new dimension of health, vitality, beauty and clarity, including a healthy body, clearer skin, brighter eyes, weight loss, enhanced energy, minimal anxiety and maximum creativity. The 3-Day Energy Fast lights the path to an approach to food, wellness and spirituality that can last a lifetime.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars worth the time to at least read chapter one
I’ve often been attracted to fasting over the years, partly because of being fat, but mostly as a spiritual discipline and practice.
However i have also been singularly unable to properly do it, never lasting more than 4 days. That won’t start me from continuing to try, only a warning that i can not practice what they are preaching.
So, in anticipation of trying again, more consistently, over a longer period of time (not fasting but attempting to make fasting part of my lifestyle)
i emptied the local public library’s shelves of books on fasting, juicing and the like.
I read the first, last and skim the rest of the book when they come in the front door, or make a good attempt to do so.
This book struck me then as being heads and shoulders above the rest, it is literally the only one of the pile i’d actually recommend reading.
First, she is just simply a passionate and interesting writer, in her case practicing what she preaches consistently over the years.
Second, she is aware of the spiritual dimension not just of herself and people but of the topic-fasting. None of the other books even gave it (spiritual dimension) a passing note, except in one case that referenced fasting as a buddhist spiritual pathway. It is a significant part of the book, of her practice and i think of the topic in general. Even in our materialistic age, fasting as a spiritual discipline, as a spiritual exercise is obvious enough to at least warrant attention.
The book is half way between a polemic and a how to do book. It’s first priority is to relax people and lead them into her particular 3 day fasting program. To take us by the hand, convince us that reading the book is just a first however good and necessary step, only that a first step, the second step is to commit to doing it. If the idea just stays in her book, without anyone practicing it, she will have counted the book a lose. The how to do section is mostly step by step, chapter by chapter introduction to the why and how of her fasting program, with attention paid to keeping a journal and asking yourself sets of related questions as you go along.
It is advice like keeping a journal (i think one of the most important things a person can do, to talk to themselves through time in a systematic way), doing particular kinds of juices during different parts of the day and of the fast, silence, bathing, exercise etc that are the reasons this book is superior to the average one i picked from the shelves. It’s specificity, its instructions borne of experience, the structure inherent in following her particular plan for a 3 day fast. These beat the rest of the genre hands down with their generalities and nonspecific friendly advice.
Its a breezy read, i practiced my speed reading techniques on it, if you are going to do her fast, you’ll need your own copy, the organization is by the day of the fast. The best part of the book is probably the 1st chapter “Take my life, please” which is her story and how she got to where she was when she wrote the book, so start reading there to see if you like the book. It could benefit with a little more medical advice or to science of what is going on inside during a fast. It could use some pointers to longer fasts and advice on where to go from here, just enough to tie this book into the literature and the field. Like i said above the spiritual dimension is obvious and part of her process, it would be nice to have tied it into particular religious traditions a little more, but that is difficult without driving other people away. And there is nothing in the book that attempts to do anything but attract and soothe people, trying to pull them into her fasting program.
so it achieves it’s goals, looks ok to try, is a competent and interesting book. if you’re interesting in the topic, at least read the first chapter.
4 Stars Just What I Needed!
I decided to do the 3-Day Energy Fast right after New Year’s. It was exactly what I needed after the holidays. During the three days, I felt great mentally and spiritually. Physically, I experienced some caffeine withdrawal (which is addressed in the book)that passed without too much discomfort. What I really liked about the book was the way that Serure not only provided me with recipes and menus for the three days of drinking juices and vegetable broth, she also included suggestions for meditations, walks and journalling. This was truly a mind-body-spirit experience! And, I was not hungry at all during the fast. My only criticism of the book is that it does not provide the reader with enough information about how to change eating habits after the fast is complete. While Serure does address what to eat immediately following the fast, I would have liked more information about how to change eating habits on an ongoing basis.
1 Stars dissapointed in the “new”(and unenlightened) age
If you are interested in learning about the healthy benefits and factual information on nutrional fasting and detoxification this is not the book for you. Serure’s ideas on the benefits of healthy nutrition and the need to reduce stress in one’s life as well as examine fundamental aspects that make us unhealthy are well meaning. But like so many alternative health guides today, its credibility comes into question with her descriptions of “psychic visions”, new age superstition,as well as descriptions of visits from dead friends from the nether world (Really, would you trust someone like this with your health?) Starting out on the right track to healing she asks the reader, as a part of her healing program, to take a step back into ignorance and delusion (and eventually unhealthy denial), by surrendering to a higher being. Is this what unhealthy people need–to bury themselves in more unrealistic dogma? Lets get real, boycott ignorance by not purchasing this book.
5 Stars Awesome cleansing program!
I’ve done this cleansing program for 3 years now and love it. It really works and the juice recipes are easy and taste good. I’ve recommended it to all of my friends when they are feeling run down and just need a few days to themselves to get rested and healthy again.
1 Stars Did SHE ever try it???
My reactions to this book, and to the fasting method it promotes, are mixed. I have strong suspiciouns that, like most self-help books, the need to pad a small amount of essential information has led her to add many things that don’t need to be there–the daily routine she prescribes is utterly unrealistic for a person eating three solid meals, let alone existing only on juice and broth. But my biggest complaint is with the juice recipes, which she clearly has never actually made. About the “morning drink” recipe, made in a blender, she says, “If there’s any left over, have that for an afternoon pick me up.” Lady, if you follow your recipe, it makes nearly a half gallon of the stuff. Sorry, but I’m getting a little cynical about the new age cash cow.
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