Why fasting? What is fasting?

Fasting is a method of natural therapy which belongs to most secure and least harmful methods, provided it is performed properly.

Fasting requires strong will and decision as it is a ‘fight’ between the mind and the body.

Therapeutic fasting is a complete abstinence from food (but not from water). The aim of fasting is to strengthen our body and renew our health.

Fasting is the best purifier, as only in the purified organism all the body systems can properly function.

Fasting - a powerful, natural method, which (among specialists) is called a 'supreme card’ among natural healing methods. What fasting does not cure, nothing else will.

During fasting different organs lose different percentage of their mass:

Fat tissue ……. Up to 97%

Spleen ……….. Up to 60%

Liver …………….Up to 54%

Kidneys …………..Up to 26%

Skin ………………..Up to 21%

Heart …………….Up to 3%

Muscles…….. up to 30 %

Nervous system……. 0 %

Fasting is not only a process of eliminating poisons and harmful materials from the body but it is also a process where the mind stabilises itself and the person can reflect on what they did wrong re their habits, way of life, attitude, feelings etc so as to purify that too and correct wrong, harmful attitudes, thoughts, etc.

In fact, if after a successful fasting has produced a significant improvement in our body health, we go back to the same habits and life style as before and keep unresolved mental / emotional issues troubling us, very soon we’ll be back to square one - i.e. bad health. That is why fasting must go hand in hand with a transformation of

one’s soul too.

Meditation, Raja yoga and other yoga systems can help as well as

conscious desire to change habits, attitudes, thinking, values, philosophy.

Changing diet is a paramount, after successful fasting. Processed food - full of additives, milk, meat, white flour based food, sweet and

sugary stuff, alcohol, cigarettes, overcooked food - and above all too much food and at wrong time of the day, all of it is harmful to our health.

It is important to understand that different ages, constitutional types of people and their conditions all require somewhat different approach to fasting.

Some categories of people are even advised not to fast at all, as it would be harmful to them (pregnant women, children, bed-ridden people etc) although even in these categories some benefits from fasting are possible too.

Going back to food after fasting must be gradual, with small (liquid food, juices, fruit) quantities at first. Starting with a big meal, with meat or grease in it and a lot of carbohydrates may cause huge damage even death.

It is well known that all religious systems practise fasting as a method for spiritual growth and connection with God. In the days when doctors were not known as we know them today (hundreds of years ago) fasting was practised as the most natural method towards getting better.

Even in the animal world, when animals feel sick they stop eating till they get better - and in some of our human conditions, like flu, we feel that we don’t want to eat, until the flu is gone. It is a natural reaction of the body towards healing itself, first by stopping eating, i.e. by not burdening itself with food.

Author: Brian

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