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Fasting

I first tried fasting myself after five years of meditation. Meditation was good, very relaxing and although it did give me the energy boost I desired it didn’t happen often enough. I got bored of trying. I almost gave up completely, however I’m not one that gives up so easily, so I experimented with fasting.

I used to run more often and further than I do now but it was over 18 years ago and I was a lot younger. I fasted for two days, from first thing in the morning on the first day, it was a Monday and up until breakfast on the third day, being Wednesday morning. Both evenings I ran for approximately 5k, not wanting to over do it but to give the experiment a good chance of succeeding. I had no real idea of what I might discover but I knew I had to try something to boost my energy levels. On the night of the second day and as normal, I practiced meditation during the last ten minutes before going to sleep, quite often dropping off to sleep while doing so. I did the normal meditation exercises, breathing in and out, large intakes of breath for the first 10, holding and expanding the blood vessels and then slow and with rhythm to allow the body to relax and for trapped or suppressed energy to flow and be released, giving that calm affect like normal. Everything was fine at first, however during the course of the next 5 to 7 days my energy levels began to rise and rise until my mind could no longer cope, it completely relaxed leaving me in what can only be described as a trance like state, it allowed the energy to pass through.

That was the first time I managed to self induce a trance and being the first time, it was somewhat scary. However, the energy levels did rebalance, albeit 3 to 5 days later. With the experience over, it left me intrigued, it also left me with a headache, which I never normally have but this time it wasn’t the normal headache. There was no question, the muscles in and around the frontal lobe had relaxed, it was the first time ever that I had experienced anything like that but the experience left me without any doubt about what had and was happening at the time. The experience made me feel like I’d opened a doorway to other parts of the mind, parts never used before. Had the huge amount of energy i created and released forced open a doorway to another area of the brain?

I had to find out and I knew now, for meditation and fasting to work properly and to be powerful tools, they had to be used together and that’s exactly what I did for the next 18 years. I induced trance like states, as I did each one became less and less powerful, not because there was less energy circulating but because my mind was opening, I was no longer being overwhelmed by the heightened energy levels. Now I have so much energy, I sometimes don’t know what to do with it. Quite often sleeping for 3 or 4 hours on average. The experiences I’ve had have taught me so much about myself and about the relationship between mind and body, and spirit, things I would never have known or understood in full had someone without the experience.

In my opinion this is the only way to fully understand the knowledge of God and it’s the only way to be enlightened. Each and everyone of us can do the same. Better still and as I intend to do, I will pass on the understandings I now have to the younger generation. For them it will be easier to learn, quicker because they aren’t yet weighed down with life’s burdens but also because they are still listening, absorbing and have a willingness to live in a better world, not the one we have now, where there’s division and conflict all over the world, a world accepted by the older generation.

If you were expecting me to tell you the benefits of fasting, you can read about that on the Internet. I’ll tell you what it’s really good for, how to open your mind and how fasting helped to get me there.

I have much higher energy levels, which is certainly due to being open, allowing improved circulation and for me to be far more active, much happier and healthier. So I no longer feel anxiety because my energy levels are no longer suppressed and are where they should be. I have no fear because I have no anxieties, I am full of energy, which in turn fills me with confidence, sometimes I’m on a natural high. I am no longer of two minds, both my conscious and subconscious have learnt from their experience, that to work together and as one it is easier to let go, that wastes far less energy. The benefit of that way of thinking is that being of one mind means there are no more questions, day after day, not only is my mind free, so am I.

My experiences have left me with no doubt, my energy is all that I am and for my energy to flow, all I must do is let go and breathe. The bible says “I am but a breath” and the more relaxed I am the better I breathe. It’s only now that I understand what it is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Sprit meaning breathe of breath.

Lots more people are fasting these days, whether to heighten their energy levels or just to loose weight, many are using the intermittent fasting method. Muslims have Ramadan and other festivals throughout the year and practice fasting often, unfortunately the Muslims I’ve met rarely use meditation.

If you are encouraged to try fasting, then I would suggest you Fast on a Thursday, being before the weekend and on a Monday following the weekend, most of us indulge more over the weekend, so these for me are the best days to start. If you are on any type of medication, always check with your doctor first. Then when you’ve got used to fasting and it becomes easier, when your discipline has improved try for longer periods of up to 5 days, just be cautious and don’t run before you can walk.

Don’t forget if you learn to meditate it will help you relax and let go, then any additional or surplus energy can circulate. Eventually you will be able to regulate your own metabolism by fasting to speed it up and by eating to slow it down. However, to get to that stage can take many years, your mind must open and develop first.

You too can open your mind, provided you put your heart and soul into it. You will be happier, some times on a high with all that energy and you’ll be healthier, they do say laugher is the best medicine. Your body will recover and heal so much quicker, you’ll be amazed at the difference fasting and meditation can make.