How-to Fasting: General Considerations

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In today's installment of content, we are going to be speaking about fasting!
Instead of a purely technical point of view, we are going to take a holistic and cross-disciplinary vantage point.

First, let us consider the opposing forces of inflow and outflow of water. The tide flows in, and the tide flows out. If there is a major inflow, there will be a major outflow. Think about if you have food poisoning. In our vantage point, the common thought would be, "There is so much outflow". We expel so much, yet we must consider: we inflow so much.

We took in so many food items, and now, those food items are being thrown out. However, now let us consider artificially and naturally letting these forces happen. Let us say you hold a pendulum on the outstretched side; you continue to hold it, and you hold it, and you hold it. Finally, you let it go; the pendulum naturally flows back and forth. Yes?

Well, now consider your body. You eat, and you expel; however, the action of eating is something that can be voluntarily done. It can be voluntarily done just as doing push ups can be voluntarily done, or running can be voluntarily done, or moving your eyes can be voluntarily done; however, there are things that are much less voluntary.

One thing that is much less voluntary is the pump of the internal organs; another is the the digestion, assimilation, and excretion process; yet another is the heart beat and the pumping of blood; yet another is the conversion and transferring of the vital air to your body. In these being much less voluntary than other activities, we must have a much more gentle approach.

We can eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat! But can we digest, assimilate, and excrete nearly as fast? The cycle of food does not stop at eat - or intake- it stops at excretion, for the food will have come in and gone out. It will have done a full cycle; so we must be mindful of our intake, and we must consider our health holistically!

Practical takeaways from this how to include - but are not limited to- the following.
Consider your current state of food: are you congested? Is your intake of food flowing much faster and stronger than your outflow?

Consider the types of food you consume. Is the food producing toxicity in your body from materials such as artificial colors, processing, refined ingredients, and others?

Consider your relationship to food. Do you eat because of varying emotional whims? Or do you eat because you are hungry? And do you eat when your stomach is empty? Or do you eat - not merely on an empty stomach but - because there is an actual need for sustenance?

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