Think back to the last time you came down
with an illness. What was your first instinct? Odds
are, you didn’t want to eat or drink anything. In
fact, you most likely just laid there with your eyes
closed and concentrated on healing (even if
subconsciously). The reason for this is simple. Our
bodies spend way too much energy on digestion,
whether or not there is any food in our stomachs.
Our digestive system almost never shuts down.
When you starve yourself through hunger, that
energy is redirected towards the body and the
healing process begins. It is unclear as to how
much energy is spent on the digestive processes,
but I heard it is anywhere from sixty to eighty
percent of total body energy. Our wise Ancestors
even had a saying about eating correctly. It was
said that the healthiest way to eat, is to walk away
from the dinner table slightly hungry.
Today, when we speak of the healing hunger,
we mean fasting. There are many different ways to
fast, with or without food. Here, I will speak of
three main ways to starve yourself. I will speak of
the juice fast, the water fast and the dry fast.
Now let us take a look at each one a little bit closer
in the order from the easiest, to the hardest.
Many people, all over the world, have
successfully completed a juice fast. Such a fast
consists of drinking nothing but freshly made juices
for a month. While the number of juices that can
be made are nearly infinite, and the kind of juices
you drink is only up to you, I will speak of several
juices here and their healing properties. Cherry
juice, according to our wise Ancestors, has the
ability to purify blood. As with all other juices,
drink it in moderation. More, does not mean better.
Another juice I’d like to mention, is the pomegranate
juice. According to our wise Ancestors, pomegranate
juice washes out the toxins out of our body. The
third juice, is beet juice. Many of you may think:
“Beet juice … ewww!" You’d be wrong, it’s actually
very sweet. However, fresh beet juice has very
intense detoxifying properties. People, who are
drinking fresh beet juice for the first time, are said
to try and add no more than a tablespoon or two of
fresh beet juice to another juice. The reason for
this; beet juice “provokes" you body to “dump" toxins
into your blood stream, in order to rid of them from
your body. If too much beet juice is consumed at
one time, it is possible to overdose on it and no
telling what consequences may come of it. I can
tell you with my experience with beet juice and of
how dangerous it really is. At one point in my life, I
was on Raw Fruit and Vegetable diet, as a way of
detoxifying myself. After I believed that most
toxins have left my body, I chose to drink beet
juice, to rid of the remaining toxins. Instead of
drinking a few tablespoons, or a fraction of a glass
at most; I made a full glass of beet juice and drank
it. Tick, tuck, tick, tuck… I felt great for about
ten minutes, then I felt as if I was dying. An
ignorant person may say: “Oh, it was just a sugar
rush." While it is true, beet juice will have a
massive dose of vegetable sugar in it; sugar rush is
not what I felt. I know perfectly well what a sugar
rush feels like, for I drank many other juices, in
larger doses, which had much more sugar in them.
The feeling I experienced was a massive amounts of
toxins being dumped into my blood stream. It really
is an indescribably feeling. So be careful when
drinking beet juice. Really, when trying a juice fast,
there are only two warnings that I know of: first,
be aware of your allergies (if you have any); and
second, if you stay on juice fast for a prolonged
period of time, and consume nothing but liquid
foods, you may forget how to chew. For those
interested in trying out a juice fast, I’d highly
recommend to watch a really good documentary on
the subject “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" by Joe Cross.
Also remember, our wise Ancestors recommended to
go at least one day a week (and Slavic week is nine
days) on nothing by juices, compots and teas.
The next fast I'd like to talk about, is the
water fast. Again, as with everything else, it's a
very individual thing. An average water fast lasts
about a month. However, I've read of water fasts
lasting two and even as long as three months. I,
personally, think, that a water fast over forty days
should be considered extreme. And the three
months water fast I read about was used as the
last resort, as a way of saving the life of an
extremely overweight individual. If you think that
a juice fast is difficult, a water fast will really test
your will power. Imagine not eating anything for a
month .. all you can do, is drink as much water as
you want. It is very difficult. The purpose of water
in such a fast is obvious; water aids in removal of
toxins from the body. There is also a number of
documentaries, which can be watched on this
subject.
The last fast I'd like to talk about, is the dry
fast. It is the hardest fast of all. There is a soft
dry fast and a hard dry fast; I will tell you the
difference. However, first let me tell you what a
dry fast is. A dry fast is basically hunger, or
starvation, with nothing .. not even water entering
the body. A dry fast can last any amount of time,
it is strictly an individual preference, but usually a
dry fast will last 24 hours, three days, seven days
and eleven days (eleven days is considered a
complete dry fast), with the record being twenty
one days. The logic and science behind the dry fast
(and also the water fast, although water fast takes
much longer) is that when your body is deprived of
nutrients and does not receive any more nutrients;
it begins to consume everything within itself, that is
not essential to evolution. It is believed that
virtually any decease can be cured with a dry fast,
including cancer. The difference between a soft dry
fast and a hard dry fast, is that water procedures
are allowed during a soft dry fast (e.g. showers,
washing hands). During a hard dry fast, no water
procedure of any kind is allowed. There are many
different healers who practice dry fasting and guide
others through a dry fast. All of them say the
same thing: a dry fast is never recommended to a
beginner, who is fasting for the first time, and
should always be supervised.
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