The Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfillment, and Emotional Healing

245 Pages·2017·1.87 MB·English

by  Habib Sadeghi

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Foreword copyright © 2017 by Gwyneth Paltrow
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sadeghi, Habib,
author.
Title: The clarity cleanse : 12 Steps to finding renewed energy, spiritual
fulfillment, and emotional healing / Habib Sadeghi, DO, FACEMIP ; foreword
by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Description: New York : Grand Central Life & Style, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017031272| ISBN 9781455542246 (hardcover) | ISBN
9781478923701 (audio download) | ISBN 9781455542239 (ebook) Subjects:
LCSH: Mental healing. | Emotions. | Spiritual life. | Well-being.
Classification: LCC RZ400 .S195 2017 | DDC 615.8/528—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031272
ISBNs: 978-1-45554224-6 (hardcover), 978-1-45554223-9 (ebook), 978-1-
47892370-1(audiobook, downloadable) E3-20171202-JV-PC
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Foreword by Gwyneth Paltrow
Preface
Introduction: Awakening to Clarity
PART I
Getting Clear on Clarity
Chapter One: What Is Clarity?
Chapter Two: The Need for a Clarity Mindset
PART II
The Process of Creating Clarity
Step One: Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Waste
Step Two: Cleanse the Body
Step Three: Cleanse the Mind
Step Four: Recognize the Mechanisms of Repression
Step Five: Follow the Signs
Step Six: What to Do with Doubt and Fear
Step Seven: Embrace Suffering
Step Eight: Give Meaning to Suffering
Step Nine: Forgive
Step Ten: Restore Your Life Force
Step Eleven: Mind + Body, The Complete Clarity Cleanse
Step Twelve: Clarity for Life
A Final Word: Everything Is Possible, or a Stem Cell Way of Being
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Appendix
Glossary
Ten-Day Intentional Unsaturation Diet Plan
IU Diet Recipes from the Goop Test Kitchen
The “Being” List
Meditation Moments
Praise for The Clarity Cleanse and Dr. Habib Sadeghi
Newsletters
To the memory of my brother, H. Mehrdad Sadeghi, MD,
and innumerable other trailblazers in the field of free
thinking
“Every smallest step in the field of free thinking, and of the personally
formed life, has ever been fought for at the cost of spiritual and physical
tortures… change has required its innumerable martyrs… nothing has
been bought more dearly than that little bit of human reason & sense of
freedom that is now the basis of our pride.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Day of Dawn (1881)
Foreword
by Gwyneth Paltrow
In his very first piece for goop, Dr. Habib Sadeghi wrote about the truth—and
why it’s so difficult to tell it. His wasn’t the standard definition of lying; he was
talking about how we have collectively been raised to prioritize politeness over
personal integrity, that we have been raised to believe that skirting the truth and
covering it up with white lies is a better path forward than speaking straight. He
clarifies that ignoring our feelings is not only dishonest, but that refusing to
honor and give voice to them is the most harmful kind of dishonesty there is.
When I first started seeing Dr. Sadeghi many years ago, it was for some
seemingly unrelated medical issues—but before he got to the medicine, he made
me address the idea of living honestly. He believes that disease takes root when
we are not living authentically, and not taking care of our emotional waste. He
traced what was happening in my ovaries to my thyroid, otherwise known as the
throat chakra—a common source of affliction for many women who do not feel
empowered to speak, who stuff and stifle emotional pain rather than speaking
the truth out of their mouth.
When I first met Dr. Sadeghi, I believed that honesty was a way of acting or a
mindset. I now understand that it is something far deeper. It is giving yourself
the space to actually feel your feelings and be true to them, at all costs. Dr.
Sadeghi has become a mentor in many capacities for me, though most notably
for teaching me how to live in a way that is honest. It has been one of the most
beautiful, painful, and interesting lessons of my life.
As you will discover in these pages, Dr. Sadeghi brings much clarity to every
aspect of living—and with clarity, comes healing.
Love,
GP