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It’s Saturday. I’ve been fasting for over twenty-four hours. My last meal was back on Wednesday evening. However, my statement is truthfully a lie.
The Fast: Body To Spirit & Back
Camron Karsten2007-04-27 22:09:06
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When America’s overachiever, dear Benj, remarked about fasting’s health benefits, he was coming from his Christian origins. He realized the power behind the purge; opening the mind, body and soul to the will of God. While Jesus lived on earth, he spent 40 days and 40 nights fasting, preparing his Self for Satan’s fated temptations. Today, fasting has eased off its pedestal, but it still retains its otherworldly powers with personal discipline to non-violent political activism.
My Kind of Re-education
As a spiritual education, and similar, as the purposes of the fast remain broad, so too are the ideas for the cleanse. To reiterate this signifying factor of the fast, it is important to point out how necessary it is, from time-to-time, to stop and renew. The human body and the brain’s mind benefit when we halt all intake and drop our life’s brush so we may splash a whole new layer of crisp white paint upon our canvas. It’s as though we start anew when we abstain from food and drink. It’s a re-breath of fresh air as we re-teach ourselves a different style
of survival. We’re reminded of the presence of the non-physical and the strength we may find there when only we look and believe. It brings us clarity, one that has faded into the governing eyes of the world.
The rebirths from fasting are ideal during a period of transition. When we’re faced with change, movement, dramatic stops and starts, a fast can come in handy by giving us that option to start anew. With a fast in between our life’s transition, more so then ever are we reborn and allowed the clarity to stop at a new art gallery with a completely original style that defines our own development in life’s artistry. It’s scraping out the old and replacing it with the new. It’s weeding the garden in order to cultivate next season’s growth. You’re the chimneysweeper of your mind and body, and the bristly brush is the practice
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