PART 2: Pajama Healing Party for 3 Best Friends at Our Hygiene Homestead!

Published: Thu, 10/09/14






 
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August, 2014
PART TWO...
At Our Hygiene Homestead
in The Woods,
3 Best Friends Enjoy
"A 3-Week Pajama Party"
While They Take Their First Fasts
on Their Ways to Getting...
AS GOOD
AS IT GETS!

VICTORIA'S NOTE REPEATED FROM YESTERDAY BEFORE PATTY FINCH SHARES HERE STORY: Diane Emslie is from Utah. She contacted me in May, 2014, and made her 3-week reservation for mid-August at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods. Then, she rounded up her friend Patty Finch in Montana to accompany her. And finally, several weeks later, she enrolled her Utah friend Twila Shipley to join them! The 3 settled into the "takes 2" Critters' Forest by laying out 1 more bed in the form of the foam-cushioned BodySlant. There, The 3 Best-Friend Ladies enjoyed "A 3-Week Pajama Party!" -- but without the feather pillow fights and the duck down flying in the air! Still babying my knees until they are fully healed, I only went up to The Critters' Forest once to see the lay of their land with 1 more bed brought in. Each lady had a definite space to call her own. It was adorable, how they separated up the room. I had impressed these 3 Best Friends with the importance of Energy Enhancers #4 -- Rest & Sleep, and I was concerned that their arrangement would turn into a true party of fun and games rather than a time of true Rest & Sleep. BUT THEY HAD TAKEN ME SERIOUSLY! THEY DID SO GOOD! Each had their own agenda for coming to The Guesthouse. And so, at this Pajama Party, Rest & Sleep was the law! Their Seventh Day Adventist teachings and daily study hour had well-prepared them for a time of obedience to God's laws and to Natural Hygiene's 10 Energy Enhancers and to The Natural, Physiological Laws of Life. It was a visit made in Heaven!
 
At Our Hygiene Homestead
in The Woods, We Live & Learn
The 10 Energy Enhancers!

1. Detoxification & Cleanliness
2. Pure Air
3. Pure Water
4. Adequate Rest & Sleep
5. The Live-Food Diet
6. Right Temperatures
7. Regular Sunbaths
8. Regular Exercise
9. Emotional Balance
10. Nurturing Relationships 

PATTY PRIORITIZES HER LIFE WHILE AT OUR HYGIENE HOMESTEAD WITH ENERGY ENHANCERS #4 -- REST & SLEEP -- HIGH ON THE LIST OF PRIORITIES: Mary, our friend who lives hardly 30 miles from Victoria picked Diane, Twila, and me up at the airport in Seattle and delivered us into Victoria's hands in Concrete, Washington. We 4 ladies walked up the stepping stones to "Victoria's Workhouse." She came out to greet us with smiles and hugs and then proceeded to memorize our names. We then got to meet HighJoy. He is quite the character! Couldn't help but put smiles on our faces! After a short visit, we 4 followed Victoria in her Bronco II to The GetWell Homestead Health Retreat where Mary would drop us off and Diane and Twila and I would spend our next 21 days at, as Victoria called it, "Your Pajama Party!" I drank "Victoria's Green Cocktail" because I had been on a high blood pressure medication for some time and decided to wean myself off so that I could do a what Victoria calls a "Correct Natural Hygiene Fast." I was on the Green Cocktail for 4 days and then went on my first "water-only fast." The experience here has completely changed most of my agendas for when I go home.

VICTORIA'S NOTE: Patty showed up as a relatively well-educated woman by the time she got to Our Hygiene Homestead -- compared to those who come brand-new to Natural Hygiene and live-foods. She was a nurse, for one thing. And she had read The Live Food Factor. Then, she had recently purchased "OUR EASY PICKIN'S PACKAGE #2" at www.thehealthseekersyearbook.com. It was loaded with so much material! And Patty had started to work her way through it weeks before she arrived here.
OUR EASY PICKIN'S PACKAGE #2...
THE ALL-HARD-COPY PACKAGE #2 FOR $130: 2 BOOKS in 1 -- THE HEALTH SEEKERS' YEARBOOK WITH THE BEST OF COMMON HEALTH SENSE ($55) + ALL THESE ACCOMPANYING CORRECT NATURAL HYGIENE MATERIALS:
Common Health Sense, Volume I, Issues 1 & 2 ($35) + Dr. Shelton's Superior Nutrition ($13) + Cookery Crookery ($3) + Second-Hand Foods ($5) + Food Combining Made Easy ($5) + Ralph Rashig's The Food Combining Wheel ($10) + Victoria BidWell's GetWellHStayWell Affirmations for Americans! ($14) + The Fruit & Vegetable Lovers' Calorie Guide ($3) + Dr. GetWell's Book of Nursery Rhymes ($14) + Dr. Goldhamer's Simply Good -- 125 Recipes & More ($8) + Dr. Cinque's Quit for Good -- How to Break a Bad Habit ($10) + T. C. Fry's Self Assessment Questionnaire ($10) + The Happy Truth about Protein ($5) + Your Key to Dynamic Health DVD Movie ($13) + Jack Dunn Trop's LIFE'S GREATEST ADVENTURE! DVD Movie ($20) + Shipping ($25)
-- A $235 VALUE FOR $135! 

  • Still, even with all this education under her belt, Patty had let herself get so tired-out-&-worn-out looking that I feared for her life. Plus, she was so fair-skinned that she had no color at all. This contributed to her haggard look that engendered my further concern. Just looking at her with a first glance, I knew she could be having NO FUN AT ALL! First off, I gave her a long and most serious talk that could have well been named: "IT'S ALL ABOUT ENERGY!" Or: "START GETTING YOUR ENERGY BACK NOW -- OR -- PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER!" This became "Patty's Theme" for the rest of her visit here. I knew she would get so much rest and so much detox that she would go home a transformed woman -- rested and happy and with the energy to have FUN! But I also knew that unless she changed her ways the day she got home, it would be a short trip back to tired-out-&-worn-out and so haggard-looking. Patty's biggest challenge, that is, would not be getting through her fast and breaking it here. Patty's biggest challenge would be getting through her old patterns and breaking them there. Our several private consultations centered around the importance of rearranging her daily habits back in Montana so she could get MORE REST & SLEEP THAN EVER!

    Patty had not weaned herself off the one-&-only medication she was on before she got here. So she chose to do that first off. The Health Seeker cannot safely fast while on medications. When a guest wants to go off medications, I always use my Green Drink Recipe: 1 quart a day of celery and cucumber juice VITAMIXED with 10 huge green grapes to give the drink a mildly sweet flavor and a very few nuts to give the drink a mildly creamy consistency and a pleasing nutty flavor. And, of course, this is to be enjoyed throughout the day along with at least 1 quart of distilled water.)

    PATTY CONTINUES: I was off the high blood pressure pills in 4 days. And my blood pressure normalized to below what it had been while on the pill! AMAZING! The second reason I had been on this medication was to even out an irregular heart beat. These moments of worrisome irregularity would come very frequently and would last up to hours. These episodes always left me light-headed and took my breath away! They were scary. But here, while on Victoria's Green Cocktail, I had such an episode only 3 times after stopping the medication! And these 3 episodes lasted only minutes, instead of up to hours! Already, in just a few days, I was better on Victoria's Green Drink and off the medication than I had been for years on just the medication.

    Then began the FUN/SERIOUS part of my journey -- FASTING ON WATER-ONLY FOR 13 DAYS! (The previous 4 days on the Green Cocktail, Victoria explained, was not a juice fast. It was "The Juice Diet." But it was fasting to me! During these 3 weeks, there were MANY UPS AND DOWNS -- MUCH DETOXING! Twila and Diane also had eventful fasts with detoxing symptoms: headaches, being so tired, light-headedness, nausea, and faster's acid reflux, to name a few. Victoria took all our daily reports in stride and called them: "WONDERFUL! JUST WHAT WE WANT TO HAPPEN -- PROOF YOU ARE GETTING WELL!" Each of us 3 had different disease concerns. That is when the body, once "the fasting switch" has been turned on, works to get rid of the toxins that got us the disease symptoms that got us to Victoria's in the first place and begins the healing. Victoria explained: "Your 75,000,000,000,000 cells are all at work to get you AS GOOD AS IT GETS!  Some systems are on full or partial vacation: cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive, muscular, glandular, and skeletal. Other systems are working overtime: immune, skin, excretory, and respiratory. And your nervous system? It is both on vacation gathering up enough energy to do intense work detoxing; and at times, it is working overtime directing all the new detox and healing activities! IT'S WONDERFUL! IT'S MARVELOUS!"

  • I came to Our Hygiene Homestead more totally and completely exhausted than I had ever been in my life. I had just about used up my energy reserves to the point of a possibly dangerous episode. I was worn out. So Victoria and I worked on sorting out The Energy Robbers in my life at home and worked to figure out how to change things to restore, conserve, and spend my energy supplies wisely. Before showing up here, I knew I needed to be taking better care of myself. But I just wouldn't slow down from my work, my family, my friends, and my church activities enough to avoid getting chronically fatigued. I am a 63-year-old nurse who, by rights, should have known better! Friends and family had been voicing that I was working myself to death and wanted me to stop and think about what I needed. I knew all this. But not until I came here for, as Victoria calls it -- "THE TIME-OUT NATURE CURE" -- and not until my body started going through the ugliness of detox and exhaustion did I realize just exactly how sick and tired I had become. I had let myself go up to 235 pounds.
    While here, I lost 25 pounds. I learned that The Energy Enhancers could get me well so I could stay well. Or The Energy Robbers could put me into an early grave. Indulging my body just because I do not care and want a pleasure-taste-escape-treat is an act of total disregard for my body and for my life and for the well-being of others who look to me for ongoing support! And for me, doing so goes against God's Law of Health for his Holy Temple. God gave us the best diet to follow in Genesis 1:29 so we would not have to be inflicted with disease and die of ignorance. I learned here to be conscious of when I go to take a bite of something. I ask myself: "AM I GENUINELY HUNGRY?" Victoria kept reminding us: "Natural Hygiene teaches us to only eat when there is genuine hunger. After learning the definition of "genuine hunger," Diane and Twila and I had to ask: "Have we ever been genuinely hungry in our lives?" Probably not. So I needed to learn to ask myself before eating: "Am I really hungry? With this bite, am I glorifying my body temple where I want my Jesus to live?"

    Breaking the fast was not what I expected. You know how you can be off your Emotional Balance and you can look forward to a special dinner so you save all your calories for a few days so you can pig-out? After taking juices and fresh live-foods in moderate amounts for 4 days now, I am not that way at all. I have dropped the pig-out mentality altogether. While Diane and Twila and I chatted up in The Critters' Forest, Victoria was preparing  our "Break-Fast Beverage-Tasting Party!" We waited in yummy anticipation! The beautifully displayed array of 6 flavors in little, fancy cocktail glasses with little, fancy garnishes of celery, blueberries, and raspberries took us a good hour -- with much exclaiming and storytelling and laughing -- to enjoy! FUN! But the watermelon on the second day of break-fasting was the  most delightful bite of fruit I have ever tasted! It was a variety of melons for the entire day!

  • But I had just the mouth-watering, sweet watermelon. Then came 2 days of whole-food, live-food meals. We were not staying long enough to have any recipes. Victoria explained: "Your body is not ready for recipes right after a fast. I have seen guests get nauseous, get diarrhea, get constipated, and get upset with me for serving recipes too soon. This just proves that digestionwise, recipe-meals are inferior to whole-food meals. But just try to tell that to the raw food recipe writers and all those Health Seekers hooked on recipes! Guests from The Raw Food Movement come here who have to learn to actually enjoy a whole-food meal! And they are amazed when whole, raw foods, washed and presented prettily on the plate, delight them and satisfy them totally! They are so happy to imagine throwing away all that recipe preparation time for most meals and to save the recipes for special occasions!" We had watermelon for breakfast. And Victoria filled the fridge with the most gorgeous and delicious of organic vegetables and fruits! The colors were brilliant in all God's glory! And so was the taste! Strangely enough, I found that my stomach was not ready for very much food. BUT THAT WAS A VERY HAPPY THING FOR ME BECAUSE I HAD BEEN AN OVER-EATER MOST OF MY LIFE!

  • These 3 weeks have been at times a very hard experience. BUT IT HAS BEEN ALSO VERY REWARDING
    AND MUCH MORE HELP FOR GETTING "AS GOOD AS IT GETS" THAN I EVER EXPECTED!

    E-MAIL FROM PATTY A WEEK LATER... I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU, VICTORIA!!!  You will remain in my prayers always. WONDERFUL!!! MARVELOUS!!! You have helped me to learn to have FUN! FUN!! FUN!!!  TO LOOK FOR THE HIGH JOY IN LIFE! I have always wanted to be joyful. AND NOW I AM! Like I said... WHAT AN ADVENTURE AWAITS THE PERSON WHO LOVES THE LORD!!

    ANOTHER E-MAIL LATER YET... Victoria, just got up from my nap... feels so good to be more rested!! I work at getting rest every day.  Getting extra Rest & Sleep -- Energy Enhancers #4 -- has to be a priority for me, or I will just ignore it like I did before.

    There are many reasons I feel that the time spent at Our Hygiene Homestead is forever a life-changing experience.  For me, it was the spiritual revelation that every bite of food I put in my mouth either honors God's temple, my body. Or it causes Him pain because ultimately it will cause poor health or poor health concerns that lead to a diminished capacity to serve God and glorify Him -- and finally, that lead to an early death. Eating wrong amounts and wrong foods both decreases the mind's capability to be clear, open, and receptive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. So why would we continue to indulge our selfish desires of appetite instead of listen to and respond to His promptings for good health? It makes no sense to be so selfishly indulgent. It then becomes all about what I want and not all about what God wants for me. He wants every one of His children to be well and happy, to be in good health always. He gave us a way to do that with providing for us Energy Enhancer #5 -- The Genesis 1:29 Diet and, of course, by providing the other 9 of The 10 Energy Enhancers.

    Because of this conviction, I AM A CONSECRATED AND CONVERTED WOMAN! That means I am changed by His Grace to live by His power to respect and honor the temple in which I want Him to abide!! I still have a choice every day, over and over throughout the day. But each choice, each decision grows easier and easier with every right choice I make. We have an amazing God that loves us so much that He gives each of us a free will to choose life or death. (Interesting that Victoria's Guesthouse website starts with the words: "CHOOSE LIFE!") It took me 63 years to finally GET IT... I'm so glad God is sooooo patient and never gives up on us!!

    Since I have been home, I have continued to eat raw. And with each day, I grow stronger in more ways than one.  My co-workers and friends and family had not been aware I was going off to "a fasting retreat." All I told them was I was going to "a health retreat." Of course, when I got back, many asked all about what I had done while I was there. It was hard for people to grasp that it was about fasting and cleansing and a time to allow the body to start healing itself. The weight loss of 25 pounds is what they could visibly see. But they had no idea or understanding of the body's capabilities to heal itself. In time, now that I have returned, my lifestyle and example will speak volumes. I'm excited to be a living example of what God can and will do and wants to do when you let Him. JUST... ASK HIM... "AND YE SHALL RECEIVE."

    I am learning to stand up for myself when it comes to taking care of my mental and physical health. I have always been a giver to those dependent on me... to my own detriment. That's called "co-dependency." I am learning to step back from my children and let them come to me. Silence doesn't come easy for me, but seeing the results of it is amazing!! It doesn't mean you stop loving or caring. It just means you are "Letting go an letting God!!!"

    What I am working the hardest on for my well-being is getting enough rest and sleep and not over-expending my recently renewed Nerve Energy supplies by taking on too much at work, at home, at church, and with family and friends. I am working at setting boundaries in all these spheres. The hardest boundary to set is for myself, learning to not put too much on my plate and stepping back so I do not overdo. I want to serve, I have to work, I love to have fun, and I am trying to find the balance with God's help. I just have to listen and comply as needed.

    It may look like I am not as tough as our Mountain Woman Leader. She has mastered how to have "FUN! FUN! FUN! with just about everything she does, every minute she is awake. We had many talks at The Wilderness House about my being too tired to have FUN! -- let alone to have "FUN! FUN! FUN!" When I left Victoria's Retreat, I announced: "I AM GOING TO LEARN HOW TO FIND FUN IN EVERYTHING I DO, TOO!" I may do it in a different style than our Fearless Wilderness Woman. But that's what's so cool about this adventure! WE ALL GET TO BE TRAILBLAZERS! We will learn to blaze our own trails to success with the tools we found at The Wilderness Mountain Homestead. Diane and Twila and I will acknowledge our personal desires. But following, listening, and obeying God's laws of health -- those are the ultimate tools! WHAT A RIDE TO HAVE TAKEN WITH VICTORIA! WHAT AN ADVENTURE AWAITS US AS WE GO HOME TO LIVE AND LEARN WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND TO KEEP LEARNING MORE!!! So many blessings to come!

    One of Victoria's Favorite Combinations for Departing Guests:
    With God -- All Things Are Possible!
    Faith without Works Is Dead!

     
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    Enjoy 2 picture tours & a 23-minute movie!
  • See The HighJoy Horse Dancing Up to the Camera!
  • See the beautiful, big Bellaire Bus in Burlington!
  • See Shots on the Fire Station Mural of The Concrete Area!

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