This is a very important topic because all of us who aspire to a more pure and spiritual way of life will feel tempted at one time or another to try fasting.
Like Alisima says fasting is a very delicate process and one should be very careful with its procedure because the price is ultimately
your health!
In another
topic, I shared my fasting experience, please read it for extra details but my failed fasting experience was due to a few factors which I'll briefly enumerate:
- 1) enhanced stress from family and colleagues (I was doing it alone, taking chance of my wife's enhanced holiday period, which is basically hiding it from everybody - which shouldn't be done like that);
2) I used the momentum to get rid of all the dental amalgams shortly before beginning the fast and this contributed to further poisoning the body. I spent more than 11 hours, divided in 2 days, on the chair of the dentist. Since the fasting was not successful instead of getting rid of all the poison caused by the mercury and other "medical substances" it accumulated and provoked a major crisis which rapidly generated in a very serious disease which thankfully was cured but at great cost.
The bottomline is, please don't do it if you're under pressure of any kind. You need to relax to enjoy it. Avoid doing anything risky like removing dental amalgams. I know this can go against what Tom mentioned in The Joy of Perfect health, but I'm talking with my experience, not in theory, and I almost paid this with my life.
I advise (if possible) to have medical supervision during your fast, carefully explaining the procedure to the doctor! The doctor needs to be specially open minded for this so select the doctor carefully. An important thing,
don't do it alone, the best would be to have someone who already fasted to guide you and to help you in difficult moments. Share your progress on the forum if you feel like, there might be people who already made a successful fast that can help you
I found out a course on fasting which I did to help me find the reasons why my fasting failed and you can check it here:
http://www.universalclass.com/i/crn/12328.htm You may cross reference it with The Joy of Perfect Health to have a clearer idea of what you're doing.
I'm happy to share my notes with anyone who requests this in order to provide a clearer idea on how to perform a safe and successful fasting.
Lastly, it's paramount to monitor all your vital signs: like weight loss, blood pressure, heart beat rate, etc. Make a diary of your experience as you go through and be specially attentive to any persistent pain or problem you notice through the fasting as this may indicate early symptoms of something that needs to be urgently addressed and may ultimately lead to canceling the fasting.
The main aspect of what I mean to transmit is:
please don't take chances with your health!!!!... and have fun
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