well, Im starting a 2 day fast tomorrow and I started preparing today by cutting out sugar and caffeine as mush as I can. I bought some fruit and vegetable juices for the next 2 days and I bought a great book called the other bible. It contains the hermetic kabbalah, the gnostic gospels, the psuedep...... something or other (the COMPLETE apocrypha) as well as the roman apocrypha and the dead sea scrolls. It should be a great source of enlightenment for my fast. I'm pretty excited about it and I cant wait to start. I just hope the hunger isnt too unbearable. I'll post periodically to let you all know how Im doing.
I hope it goes well for you TXFO. Fasting is a wonderful thing. Work yourself up to longer and longer fasts if you can. At first its a discipline thing, "can I do this" and then finding that you can push through and get it done whether it be for a day, two days or more. Then after that you find that the discipline part is easy you get into the longer fasts and things start to change because you are not as focused on other things anymore.
Fasts are wonderful and very beneficial. Fast also dont have to be no food at all fasts either. There are other ways to fast as well. At any rate, good luck to ya, let us know how it goes for ya.
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thanks y'all! Im not doing an absolute fast (no food no water) or an islamic fast (no food or water from sunrise to sunset) Just a juice fast. (nothing but water and juice) I talked to a friend at work who is a spiritulist and he gave me some tips like cutting out sugar and caffeine so the hunger pains arent so bad. He also said the first day sucks but the second is not so bad. Its a cool idea to go without food and concentrate solely on your spirit. I have high expectations for it and I hope it turns out good. Im sure it will be different than I expect. I hope I can learn something about myself and the world and come away a better person.
Its 3:45 and Im discovering the power of the mind and the huge amount of it that is dedicated to the upkeep of the body. I dont feel hungry at all but everything looks SO DAMN TASTY!!!! Its wierd that even though I dont feel the need to eat, my mind is enhancing my desire for food in some kind of unconcious self preservation mode. With this much of my mind devoted to body upkeep, how can I possibly think clearly? It seems neccesary to train the mind to not worry so much about the body. I will not die by fasting for a few days but somewhere in my mind, I am in spastic emergency. I am excited to see where my mind will take me when it finally gives up trying to make me eat.
Ahh, you indeed are learning. If you really want to see where you can go, extend your fast a couple of days, maybe even to a week, though not much past that being its your first fast. Your mind will eventually accept that this is just a short period of time and when you start eating again it will just pick up where you left off. You wont have really developed a habit at that point though you will have somewhat increased your discipline in your control. Fasting is one sure way to focus the mind. One thing that you can do on a daily basis to train the mind away from so much devotion to consuming food is to either
1.) not eat until your body says its time to eat instead of letting your mind dictate that time. Your body will tell you when you need food. Remember hunger pangs?
or
2.) eat every couple of hours. Small, nutrient packed, healthy meals.
If you go with number one, you are definately going to have to give heavy consideration to the nutrients you will be taking in. That means eating nutritionally packed foods and considerably less processed foods, junk foods, etc. If you choose #2 then you will have that consideration even more so due to the fact of the frequency you will be eating. This is because if you eat nutritionally poor food, junk food and so on that frequently, the weight is going to pile on in a hurry.
The second method is actually better since you stabilize your blood sugar levels and if you eat smart you loose weight but gain strenth and so on becaue you eat better quality food, if you do it right. But for a fast, the first method is goind to be best if you dont go for the full fast, which I wouldnt recommend anyone do their first time out.
At any rate, its good to hear its going well for you. Keep us posted on how it is going.
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1030 and Ive been thru some amazing food cravings. I feel like I did when I was 18 and living in a small efficiency apartment with two other guys from work. We were super poor and we went fishing for our food more than we went to the store. What money we had, spent on rent, gas, and pot. I remembergetting stoned and seeing all the comercials for food and just wanting every one of them so damn bad. Now that I have money, when I get stoned I dont feel the same cravings because I know I can go get them.
It sucked watching my wife eat dinner because it looked so damn good. And then to go to the fridge and get my glass of juice just sucked more than anything in recent memory. But now Ive moved past it and the cravings are mostly gone. Ive been trying to read my book but its been hard to concentrate enough to understand what its saying. Now I see why most practicioners just meditate. Much easier than trying to comprehend written word.
I find myself feeling lost. Without taking in food, I have lost a reference. I never realized how much food was a part of my life! I think its that way for most people. Instead of food being a part of our life, its the center of it. Without my anchoring point, Im not sure how to proceed. I feel like I am wasting my days off because I am not eating. But I ahve to remember that nothing is preventing me from doing what I want. I only imagine the block. I guess I'm going to bed now. we will see what tomorrow brings.
Let me assure you you are not wasting your days off. Keep driving forward. I for one will say I wish you were spending your time reading the bible as your reading material, but obviously thats a personal choice.
Also remember to not go overboard when you come off the fast. Your instinct may be to eat everything in sight and that can be a bad thing.
I for one am glad to hear you are pressing through this. Hats off to you for sure. Fasting of any type is not an easy thing. We get so used to being so spontaneous to what our minds suggest that finally taking a stand as you have can be a challenge even for the most determined. You seem to have done well so far, hang in there and keep going.
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Ive been reading a book called the otehr bible. It contains the gnostic gospels, the dead sea scrolls, the visionary wisdom texts, the christian apocrypha, the Jewish Pseudepigrapha, and the Kabbalah.
Ive been X-referencing it with the bible but for the most part, the only part of the bible thats worth reading is the new testament. The old testament was so bastardized by Constantine and the Roman empire thats its a waste of time to look at it. So many texts were left out due to the politics of the day. All the writings during the exile of the jews were left out, the gnostics were physically wiped out by the catholics because they had more followers and then in the compiling of the bible, the gnostic texts were left out. Even the apocrypha which at first was left out is incomplete. The Pseudepigrapha is the remaining books of the apocrypha.
In any case, Ive been studying spiritual matters and its going well except that I feel a diminished capacity to understand some of the harder texts like the Gnostic gospels. Being that the Gnostics had one very very important difference in their beliefs, I want to fully grasp it but its been elusive with the fasting.
Its day two and I dont feel any cravings for food at all. I am not hungry and food no longer looks so delicious. Heading off to Barnes and nobles for more books.
