Splendor Through Fasting

Why, how and when to fast - how to begin  fasting. Caution : Wrong   fast may  risk your health. Ancient  fast over any period   surpassing 3 days should be  done under the supervision and guidance  of either a  health practitioner, healer or your Guru if done so for spiritual reasons. Proper fasting however  usually leads to a purification  of your physical body and your spiritual body alike, hence it can be safely applied  and used for spiritual benefits  and to improve  your physical health  as well   if done correctly. If for any cause  you decide to do  the fasting all  on your own without any medical supervision or spiritual  oversight, then  you have got  to be sure  to know exactly what  your are performing. Know basic anatomy  and physiology of your  body system and feel  you  human body's  respons to food, changes of  nutrient, energy  in  food ! You need to have sincere  godly  intuition to do so safely - God is Love and thus God  can guide you - but it is your  obligation to be  entirely open for  supreme being 's  counselling ! This chapters provides you with the basic knowledge to:  * Fasting in general   -  to further improve  your well being  and health. * Fasting as a means of detoxing  of your  physical structure. * Fasting for spiritual grounds - spiritual fasting for enhanced purification  of all energy system. If you're ready to find out more regarding beautiful Philippines nature. Fasting is a recommended practice for advanced Kriya Yoga practice. * Fasting is a very old custom  exercised  in many cultures,  religious belief and spiritual traditions. What exactly is fasting and why do individuals fast? True fasting means a total  halt of any  solid food   consumption  for a period of time. As nutrient  you certainly will  consider anything that  renders  the  body chemistry with calories, i.e. with  life force. That means that besides  of pure water  approximately   any other thing,  nutrient, beverages, milk, soft drinks, juices, any sweetened drinks, like tea or coffee etc. will supply you with some kind of  energy. Fasting detoxifies your body chemistry and thus results in  weight loss  and  ameliorated  health condition and restored beauty. Fasting does speed up the detoxification and  refinement of the physical body and the metaphysical body as well. Obviously any nutrient or  potable we take does contain physical energy and metaphysical energy  too. Nowadays most food lacks  of natural organic ingredients  and natural preparation. Many fruits and vegetables are  produced with artificial fertilizers and are often chemically treated during their growth or after collecting them. This may cause an accrual  of toxins inside your body. The accruement of toxins over  an extensive period of time   may often cause some very severe  malady, such as  rheumatoid arthritis  and similar diseases that usually start among a  big  portion  of the  human population  after they  hit  a certain age. Prepare for the start of your fasting :  There may be several steps of fasting. Before you start consider any fasting, you certainly may want to have a close look at your eating habits. It makes little sense to fast, when before and after the period of fasting you still continue  poor  eating  habits. Appropriate  solid food from the point of view of  virgin, fresh  and high content of prana  within the  food   to have  is what  you should  acquire to  eat up  day after day. Our heavenly creator is love  - you  are created to  heavenly father 's  epitome, thus you  are created to love like  Our heavenly creator. To learn to love like God is the only purpose of life on earth. Once you acquire to  lead  a  life style  without causing karma and without causing  hurting to others, you have achieved  your  purpose of   life time  and  are prepared to return  home to  heavenly father. Proper food  from this point of view means:  Become a vegetarian - as meat  of  all kinds, beef, sheep, goat, fish, chicken,... can never create  harmony  and  wellness, because it was  realized through killing  and  enduring, it was  realized by causing pain  to others - according to the Law  of Karma this  hurting is  return  to you personally  and after an extended  period of doing so without learning  or  modifying your habits it then may cause a variety of different pain   in your own physical body. This hurting is usually   simply a  fraction of what  is actually  caused to others, but still   for many it  may well be  adequate. So please have a look at all your  feeding habits, whatever  to consume  should  be grown  by  maintaining and protecting  beautiful nature and  maintaining and  guarding  all  kinds  of life  in nature. supreme being is everywhere and within anything - whatever you do to anything, you do to yourself and to God. Opt for to  consume anything  clean  rather than a  prepared  solid food, i.e. salads and  yields. Fruits of  all kinds, i.e. fruits, berries, nuts, natural cereal ... are of high quality   in their vibration. Select  fruits and veggies  that  are instead   raised  in  sunshine  and that have  100 percent  ripened  in the  Sunlight. Void merchandises  that  can be prematurely  picked up  merely to  make them easier to store over extended  periods. Product lines that are grown under plastic or glass have much less prana (life-force) than  merchandises from open air   groves. Start fasting gently by first skipping servings  or reducing meals. Rookies may start their fasting  by skipping a meal each day for one or two days each week   weekly. Best would be to skip breakfast, as by the morning your stomach is already empty for many hours and is used to it. When you may feel hungry at the usual time for breakfast,  consider or do anything positive that you may enjoy and that can absorb all your attention for a while   and you notice the hunger disappearing for some time. It is like a child that wants your attention and if it does n't get it, goes playing on its own again. If your hunger sees you paying attention to something else, it may go awhile, then try again and after a few tries just stays away. Remember: Keep your attention on something positive and busy - or meditate deeply. During this time when you skip for instance breakfast, you may drink up to 1 liter of water or in hot whether even more. When you practice this successfully you may realize that you may feel even stronger without food than with. The refining  of your physical body shows its positive side-effects.