Saturday, 1st May, 2010

Well, another first down – I had my first Colonic Hydrotherapy.  Boy there’s been a heap of  firsts lately!  I was a wee bit apprehensive to start with (tension in the ol’ butt cheeks), but all was okay.  The macho part of me says “bring it on”.  The mouse part of me says “Hmmm, you sure about this?  Isn’t there another way that doesn’t involve …… well this?”

At 8am this morning I had my first Colonic Hydrotherapy at the Perth Colon Health and Wellness Centre (www.perthcolonhealth.com).  Georgia Sheehan was my therapist and you have to applaud how the Universe works.  I felt comfortable with her instantly (even with my apprehension of the unknown ahead of me), and we discovered common interests and things we’re doing on our life paths (eg.  we’ve both done Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection training, both currently working with the work of Abraham /Esther and Jerry Hicks etc).

Georgia was great at explaining everything in a way that made me feel more at ease.  It was really pretty straightforward and done in a way that was very respectful of privacy.

Colonic Hydrotherapy (Libbe System) – The Nitty Gritty of the Session

In a nutshell, the system I used was called the LIBBE System and is an open, gravity fed colonic system.  What that means is that the water is fed by gravity (not pumped) into your colon via a small tube (about the size of a pencil) inserted a little way into your rectum (only about 2cm / 3/4 inch I guess).

In privacy, I got undressed from the waist down and put on a disposable glove and opened the single use packet of lubrication.  You do the inserting yourself, having lubricated the area and the head of the tube (which is an attachment that is disposable and is only used once) – it’s pretty easy to do.  Unlike the ‘old’ way of doing it (a closed system), where a therapist does all the tube inserting, there is no second tube inserted to take away the waste.  In the LIBBE system, the water / waste flushes out of your body like normal and is taken away via see-through pipes under the bed that you can look at with the aid of a mirror (you can see it on the right hand side of the picture).

You are laying down with your legs resting up on the top of the unit (the raised end on the right hand side of the photo).  I had a privacy sheet and blanket on top of me and once I was comfortable, I pressed a button and Georgia came back in.  Georgia gave me a hot pack to help with the initial cramping type feeling (kind of like when you have diarrhea).  That was really helpful.  She also explained about using the hand held massage unit to help shift / move things along my colon, if needed.

Then, once everything had been explained (specifically what to do to control the water temperature as it cycles between warm and cold – I just had to turn a lever from left to right and back again when the water temperature hit a certain level), I was left to my own devices.  There is a button to push if I wanted Georgia to come in and there is a sign on the control panel that easily reminded me of what to do.

Got to say it was a peculiar feeling initially – you could feel your bowel filling and then had to overcome the mental hurdle of voiding while laying down on the plastic bed (it was cushioned in the upper body region).  Once you’d done it a couple of times …. easy peasy!

The water that comes into you is filtered and then UV treated before being gravity fed into the tube.  The water temperature cycled between warm (to help break things up) and cold (to flush).  Got to admit, I preferred the warm water (big sook that I am!).  By the way, there are fail-safes built into the system to stop the water over-heating – it just shuts down if you aren’t looking and the temperature rises too high.

Stones Come Out!

The bed unit you sit on had an outlet built into the middle of it to take “it” all away and exhaust fans, so there are no smells at all.  You can see the what is coming out of you through clear waste tubes which is strangely a bit compelling to watch!  Bit like a 2 year old on the potty!

Given that I’d recently done the Liver Cleanse with all the Epsom Salts (and this process was the final part of that clearing), my body was pretty well …. flushed.  However, and this is a BIG however, the major thing the colonic cleared out was one tan coloured stone (about the size of a large marble – what we used to call tombola) and about 6 tan coloured stones about the size of a pea.

Bloody unbelievable!  No pain at all in passing them through my body.  I had only been aware of a pressure / mild discomfort in the last day and I described the feeling of what was probably the big stone passing as being like when you eat a lychee (where you squeeze the lychee out through the top of the skin) – well that sort of pressure if that makes sense.  I guess it felt like the stone was being squeezed out, but again, there was no pain at all.

What Are the Different Coloured Stones?

Apparently, the pea green stones that I released yesterday were green coloured gallstones, with the green colour being due to the bile from the liver.  The darker green stones were the oldest and were quite distinct.  The tan coloured stones that I saw today (through the viewing tube) were apparently calcified gallstones released from the gallbladder, containing heavier toxic substances with only a small amount of cholesterol.¹

I can’t say that this first time doing a colonic was as relaxing and stress-releasing as I’d read, simply because it was all so new to me.  Also, I was busy learning what to do with the water temperature controls (not that it’s hard, but because you don’t want to get it wrong and have too long on the cold!).

However, I will do it again after the next Liver Cleanse, not only because Andreas Moritz stresses that it needs to be done to remove stones that may need help to be cleared, but because I saw with my own eyes the tan coloured stones come out!

1.  Moritz, Andreas  2007  The Miracle Liver and Gallbladder Cleanse (page 120)  Ulysses Press:  Berkeley