Understanding Healing Symptoms

Symptoms can immediately “disappear” only when you are treating them with crutches. They do not immediately disappear when you are healing your bowel and body and getting to the cause of them. In the long run, they will disappear and stay gone effortlessly. (This is a far cry from the results you get when you simply treat them with crutches, which is inevitable failure, the development of new illnesses, and a shortened lifespan.)

When you successfully heal your bowel and body, you will experience a gradual reduction in the frequency and severity of your symptoms. (On the other hand, you are given instructions for using crutches in Chapter 10 of "This Works Crutches Don't," and these will immediately reduce your symptoms and improve your bowel movements, but do not confuse this with healing, and do not interpret this to mean that you have quickly healed your bowel and body.)

During the healing process, your body will release stored-up acidity from your cells and dump it into your organs of elimination. This is very positive and you will experience an improvement in your health and weight as a result. When you unplug the bottom of your pipe (organs of elimination), the acidity that was stuck in the middle and top will be released into the space that was just cleared away at the bottom. This is a wonderful thing that helps save your life, as trash at the top of your pipe is very harmful and undesirable. If your body can release it into your bowel because it is healthier, it will do so.
During this process, however, you may find that a symptom that was better returns again (albeit, temporarily). This can, understandably, be confusing, upsetting, and frustrating—if you do not understand the healing process, and the actual “benefit” of this response!

To understand what is happening, imagine that you have holes all over the roof of your house.; holes over the bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen, tec. And imagine that there is a man on the roof fixing these holes. Let’s also say that there are many more holes over your bathroom than your kitchen, and even fewer over your bedroom. If this man fixes eight holes/day—over all of these rooms-- the bedroom will get fixed first (as it has the fewest holes over it.) Prior to fixing these holes, if it rained, your entire house got wet. Now, when it rains, your bedroom will not get wet (because the holes over it have been fixed), but now your living room and kitchen may become wetter, as a result of the rain not dripping into your bedroom. Now, as you keep this man on the roof, eventually the holes over the kitchen and living room will get fixed too, and when it rains, these rooms won’t get wet either.

But for a period of time, they do get wetter when it rains.

To relate this to this process, you may have a lot of stored acids in your kidneys, less in your pancreas, and even fewer in your arteries. As you eliminate acids from your body with this process, your arteries will heal first, then your liver, and your kidneys will heal last, as your body heals from the “top” down (review Chapter 3 for an understanding of this).

So if it “rains,” i.e. you eat more sugar, alcohol, or a more cleansing diet of more carbohydrates and/or less protein, at some point the un-eliminated acids will no longer affect your arteries and liver, but more of them will be handled by your kidneys. This can mean that all of a sudden, your blood pressure goes up, or you retain more water (weight) than you were.
This is not a negative experience. On the contrary, during these reactions, you are becoming healthier. This can be interpreted as negative when someone experiences the initial signs of improvement, and is mentally disappointed when the improvement does not continue uninterrupted.

It is only after all of the old accumulated acidity has been eliminated from an organ that a symptom may be gone forever. It is only once all of the holes in your roof have been fixed that your house will not get wet when it rains.

You are used to crutches, and this experience can cause you to wrongly interpret these reactions and fail to heal your body. When you take a drug to lower your blood pressure, for example, and it does just that, you would rightly be concerned if at some point your blood pressure became elevated again while taking it. The medication is treating the symptom of high blood pressure and the return of that symptom means the drug may not be working anymore and may need to be increased. Your crutch is failing you.

During this process, the re-appearance of a symptom does not mean that the process is not working. Keep taking Bowel Strength or acidophilus and bentonite, and you will “move past this” onto even better health, and fewer symptoms.
Or, if you do not like your kitchen getter wetter, make sure you have a large tarp over your roof. If you do not like these reactions, make sure your stools are well-formed, that you are taking your bentonite correctly, and that you are not eating too little protein, too much fruit, or too many carbohydrates, just yet.

This is a very difficult concept to explain; yet it is a very important one to understand. Hence, I strongly urge you to watch my video, “Understanding Healing Symptoms,” available at www.YouTube.com (found by typing my name, Donna Pessin, into the search field).

Top 10 Tips for YOUR Success!

1. Do not start this program without reading my ENTIRE book, "This Works, Crutches Don't," first (or consulting with me directly). And throughout this process, re-read Chapters 6-10 many times. If you don't have the time or the desire to read, contact me for an appointment if you get lost. It is very easy to get lost, as healing your body is perhaps the most complex--and yet definitely the most rewarding and valuable!--thing you will ever do.

2. Watch my videos. Videos that visually explain the main concepts of this program are available and can be accessed through www.YouTube.com, by typing my name, Donna Pessin, into the search field.

3. Join my mailing list for more support, specials on Bowel Strength, probiotics, bentonite, and other supplements, and notifications of new videos. You can sign up through my website or by emailing me at donna@ThisWorksCrutchesDont.com and putting “Sign me up” in the subject heading.

4. Invest in your health and happiness. The time and money you spend on this program is limited and will be significantly less than the time and money you will spend, and have already spent, on crutches.

5. Expect to get lost/frustrated/confused and/or scared. This program does not simply heall your bowel and body and eliminate your symptoms, illness, addictions, and weight struggles. Bowel Strength or probiotics, and bentonite can only do this if they are used correctly. Take the time to review the information and instructions in my book so that they are.
This is a complex process, but it is more than worth it. What you do when you are faced with fears, misunderstandings, and frustrations will determine your success. Do you run away, or resolve to fight? Only the fighters will succeed.

6. Be patient. I am never concerned about the physical condition a client is in as far as my ability to help them reverse this and heal their body; this is not limiting, except in the most imminent, life-threatening cases. The limitations in healing your bowel and body are almost entirely due to your emotional state of mind. Healing requires patience, faith, forgiveness, hard work, support, and gratitude. Finding the purpose in your current situation is also very helpful.We are very lucky to have found this road.If you do not give this program at least one measly little year to show you that it works, (nothing, compared to the decades that most of you have had unhealthy bowels and bodies!, and nothing compared to the decades you will spend with short term success but inevitable failure if you follow the crutch approaches), you will never succeed in attaining a symptom-free, addiction-free, disease-free body, free of weight struggles and obsessions. Of this I am certain. In fact, I would not blame calories, stress, genetics, laziness, carbs, or even an unhealthy bowel and body as the number one cause of obesity and death in this country—I would definitely say it is due to impatience,

7. Use crutches, because while they do not heal your body, they will help give you the patience needed to heal!
Taking an aggressive amount of Bowel Strength (or probiotics, like acidophilus), and using bentonite, is a necessity for achieving a healthy, symptom-free, addiction-free, long-living and thin body. But your bowel is home to 100 trillion bacteria, and recreating this beyond-enormous environment takes time. And eliminating billions of stored acids form you body takes a long time as well. Hence, very few of you will succeed in accomplishing this feat if you do not use crutches along the way.
Those of you who do or have used the crutches I recommend in Chapter 10 of “This Works, Crutches Don’t” have found a significant and immediate reduction in headaches, aches and pains, sugar cravings, bad Pap smears, and PMS. You have seen your skin look better right away, your energy increase, your stools dramatically improve, and your weight go down. You have begun sleeping through the night. You have gotten pregnant immediately, felt great during your pregnancy, and given birth to healthy babies. You have seen your blood tests improve, reduced fatigue and depression, and seen your cravings for alcohol, drugs, and sugar go down.

8. Don’t blame Bowel Strength, probitoics, or bentonite for your problems. In 99% of the clients I work with, the Bowel Strength or probiotics and bentonite are not too strong, and therefore do not cause any symptoms, for at least the first year of use. If you have been taking Bowel Strength or probiotics and bentonite for longer than one year and you are feeling bad and want to blame these products, call or email me so we can schedule a visit so I can help you determine if you are blaming the right thing. The difference between success and failure with this program surely lies in one’s blaming the right thing when one has problems

9. Forgive yourself. You have fallen for the quick and easy answer many times (we ALL have!). Some of you may be very angry and bitter that you were led down the wrong road, but ultimately, you made the decision to follow this road. Now, you must forgive yourself for doing so. You must decide how you are going to move forward: will you get stuck in your anger and bitterness (in which case you will never find your true health and weight potential)), or will you forgive yourself, and others, and be grateful that you have a chance to make a better decision for yourself this time, and create a better future for yourself as well?

10. If you are not getting the results that you should, this program is not failing you. You are simply lost. If this is you, contact me at www.ThisWorksCrutchesDont.com to schedule an appointment so I can help you attain the success that is possible with this program, and that you deserve.

Making Bentonite Work For YOU

Bentonite is unique in that it is both a crutch, as well as a healing agent. It both helps you quickly look and feel better by absorbing and eliminating acids from you bowel and blood, but it also helps to heal your body. It is both a mop to soak up the rain getting through the holes in your roof, as well as something that helps to repair those holes in the first place.

As such, there is great benefit to finding the “right amount” of bentonite to use now, as well as great value in taking it daily and benefitting from the cumulative, healing affect of this product.

Like Bowel Strength or acidophilus, you will see greater improvements in your health, weight, symptoms, addictions, and disease as you continue with this product over time.

So, if the amount of rain that hits your roof fluctuates a lot; if your diet, and the amount of stress in your life, varies, do not get discouraged by this, and your inability to perfectly offset this on a daily basis. Bentonite is the “mop” that soaks up the rain getting into your house, but since you will be, for the most part, using the “same size mop,” or the same amount of bentonite, on a daily basis for a while, there will be days when the amount you take does not soak up all the rain, and you house gets wet. There will be days that there are more acids in your blood and bowel than the day before, and the amount of bentonite you take is not enough to eliminate all of them. And that is ok.

As you continue taking bentonite, visualize the holes in your roof getting stronger; visualize the large pile of accumulated acids in your body becoming smaller. In both cases, as time goes by, this house, with fewer holes in the roof, will get wet less often. Your body, with fewer stored acids, will less likely become overwhelmed with acids (because many of the acids in your bowel and blood in the first place came from this big pile of stored acids; as the pile gets smaller, so does your vulnerability to symptoms, weight, addictions, and disease.)

This program is much easier once your body is healthier, and your daily use of bentonite is making your body healthier.

That is the essence of this program, that one day “keeping your house dry” will be effortless. That one day, it will be effortless to look and feel great, avoid disease, and conquer your addictions. And using bentonite on a daily basis—regardless of the immediate benefits to your bowel, weight, or symptoms—will help get you to this beyond amazing place, one day.

To better understand these concepts, watch my newest video, titled “Making Bentonite Work For YOU” at www.Youtube.com (found by typing my name, Donna Pessin, into the search field. Look for all of my videos here, too!)

Avoid Cleansing Diets!

Avoid Cleansing Diets (for now): An Explanation of What I Mean When I Use the Term "Cleanse"

In my practice, cleansing refers to the release of stored acids from your organs into your blood and bowel. This creates symptoms, weight gain, and bad blood tests when your bowel is too unhealthy to completely eliminate these acids.

The consumption of a larger amount of cleansing food in your diet is, by far, the number one cause of discomfort on this program—or failure to see quick improvements in your symptoms or weight. Failure is rarely due to the Bowel Strength or bentonite.

Foods that are cleansing yield glucose or other sugars when they are digested. This glucose stimulates the movement of acids from your organs into your blood. This is only good, and valuable, if these acids can be eliminated from your body once they become released. It will take some time before you are healthy enough to eliminate a lot of acids.

If you have started his program and are not looking or feeling better, check the list of cleansing foods below and make sure you have not added more into your diet (compared to the quantity you ate before you started this program.)

Eating a more cleansing diet is by far the number one cause of discomfort, poor stools , bad blood tests, and a lack of change in your weight or symptoms while you are healing your bowel and body!

Most/Very highly cleansing foods: fruit and fruit juices, sugar and sugar-containing foods like desserts and sodas

Highly cleansing foods: carbohydrates like bread, pasta, bagels, cereal, rice and other grains

Moderately cleansing foods: dairy products (as they yield milk sugar when digested), like yogurt (fruit-flavored are much more cleansing than plain yogurt), milk, cottage cheese, cheese, and beans, including soy/tofu

Non-cleansing foods: animal protein like chicken, beef, turkey and fish; green leafy vegetables (while the “dreaded” evil veggies like carrots and potatoes are slightly cleansing); fats like nuts, butter, and avocadoes

Note: alcohol, coffee, and cigarettes are not cleansing. They are highly acidic and damaging to your body and bowel, but in the short-term they often make you feel good, not bad (hence our addictions!). Likewise, over the long run they will make it much harder for you to eliminate acids and to look and feel good. Notice that many of the diets that ultra-thin celebrities consume contain animal protein, vegetables, alcohol and coffee (they are photographed with “Starbuck” cups all the time), because they have learned how to eat in a way to stop the movement of acids into their blood, helping them become thin (at a steep price later on, of course. And note how many of these celebrities “balloon up and gain large quantities of weight in a short period of time (think Janet Jackson), when they stop this horrible diet…)

Many cleansing foods are healthy for you, but until you are healthy, eating them will make you look and feel worse!

To better understand this concept, go to www.YouTube.com, type my name, Donna Pessin, into the search field and watch the video titled “Avoid Cleansing Diets!”

Constipation Remedies That Will Make You Look and Feel Worse!

When you are constipated, there is great temptation to increase the frequency of your elimination—with complete disregard of the form of your stools. Remember, when you have infrequent or hard stools, you are eliminating more fat-causing, disease-causing, symptom-causing, addiction-causing, and bad-blood-test causing acids from your body than when your elimination is frequent but your stools are too skinny, mushy, or loose.

As you will recall from the explanation in Chapter Six of “This Works, Crutches Don’t:,” frequent but poorly formed stools are caused by an excess of unformed acids in your bowel (which also means a lot of re-absorbed acids in your body!) And remember, when you are constipated, there are fewer unformed acids in your bowel, and fewer reabsorbed into your body (i.e. you look and feel better.)

When you eat prunes, prune juice, fruit juice, or any other food or beverage that stimulates more frequent elimination, this is occurring because these foods/beverages are cleansing—they cause more acids to move into your bowel, thereby increasing the irritation to it (it increases the number of unformed acids in your bowel—this is NOT your goal!!!). This increases the frequency of your elimination, but it also increases your weight, symptoms, addictions, etc.

When you overreact to constipation, it usually backfires on you. You usually think you will look and feel better when you react to this state, but when you use a cleansing food like fruit juice or prunes to accomplish this, you will look and feel worse.

On the other hand, laxatives like senna, cascara sagrada, and aloe simply cause your bowel to contract more intensely, and your elimination becomes more frequent as well—but because this is increased frequency is not caused by an increase in acids in your bowel, these remedies do not cause the symptoms, weight gain, etc that the ones described above do. At the same time, these remedies also do absolutely nothing to increase the elimination of weight-causing, symptom-causing, disease-causing, etc acids from your body. Finally, it is common for ones stools to become loose during the use of these products and one’s stomach to feel crampy, contributing to their lack of appeal (and by the way, if you do use one of these products and your stools become loose, this is not directly caused by the laxative, rather, it is confirmation that not enough acids were formed in your bowel, and that more bentonite—not less, as many of you are tempted to conclude! —will help eliminate your constipation problems).

If you are constipated, the best solution—the one that will help you look and feel better—is to change the amount of bentonite you are taking. Unlike the fruit which will make you look and feel worse, and unlike the laxatives like senna that will not make you look or feel worse, but do not help you eliminate more acids and so cannot make you look or feel better (aside from the relief of constipation)—bentonite increases the absorption of acids in your bowel, which improves the frequency of your elimination, while also helping you look and feel better at the same time!

Re-read pages 232-234 of my book, “This Works, Crutches Don’t,” for instructions on using bentonite correctly. When done so, you will seldom experience constipation and you will accelerate the elimination of acids from your body and the healing of it—leading to a permanently thin, symptom-free, addiction-free, long-living body and ideal blood test results!