| Fasting can help you to renew your body and your | | | | attention to it you open yourself up and allow this |
| mind and to deepen your awareness of the spirit | | | | boundless living energy and power to flow through |
| within you. On a physical level, as your body gets rid | | | | you. |
| of toxins and has the opportunity to renew and | | | | You should listen to your body when you fast and |
| recharge itself, many even seemingly incurable health | | | | you should prepare your mind and body for the fast. |
| problems will simply dissolve. | | | | If you regularly engage in some kind of spiritual |
| Dr. Oda Birchinger who supervised over 70,000 fasts, | | | | practice, you will find it much more enjoyable and |
| pointed out that fasting can heal and help rheumatism | | | | effortless to fast. |
| in the joints and muscles, circulatory problems, skin | | | | If you have never fasted before, you may begin |
| diseases, allergies, respiratory problems, eye | | | | fasting just for 24 hours. If you want to go on |
| problems, to name just a few. | | | | longer fasts, you may prepare your body by eating |
| Dr. Tanner who fasted for 53 days when he was 77 | | | | light food for a while. You may then try fasting for 5 |
| years old discovered among other things that his thin, | | | | or 10 days on liquids - fruit or vegetable juices, even |
| grey hair was replaced with new black hair, the same | | | | clear broth, or you may try fasting on water alone |
| color he had as a young man. | | | | and see how long you can do that while feeling |
| On a mental level, fasting will help you to get rid of | | | | reasonably comfortable. Slowly you can work your |
| worries, fears and anxieties. It will also help you to | | | | way up to 40 day fasts or even longer. |
| get rid of all sorts of addictions. | | | | If you keep on fasting frequently, you will develop a |
| On a spiritual level, not only will your awareness of | | | | habit of fasting and you will also discover that you |
| the spirit within you deepen, but as different energy | | | | can fast longer and longer with greater and greater |
| centers open and balance, different powers will begin | | | | comfort and enjoyment. |
| to emerge spontaneously from within you. | | | | When you complete your fast and return to eating |
| There is no other way for certain powers to emerge | | | | food, do so gradually. Begin with soups, raw or |
| from within you, except through fasting, because | | | | steamed vegetables or fruits and light salads. Let |
| fasting removes both physical and mental obstacles, | | | | your body adjust to digesting food again. |
| allowing the spiritual energy to express freely through | | | | Not only will you fast longer and longer with greater |
| you. | | | | and greater comfort, but you may enjoy it more and |
| As a side-effect of fasting, you will discover that | | | | more as you experience the spiritual high and all kinds |
| your abundance will increase also. | | | | of benefits that will emerge spontaneously from |
| In short, fasting is the fastest way of bringing | | | | fasting. |
| miracles into your life. | | | | You can fast for a particular purpose, for healing, |
| The difference between dieting and spiritual fasting is | | | | abundance, supernatural abilities, for any other |
| that while you are engaged in spiritual fasting, and are | | | | specific blessing, or simply because you enjoy the |
| abstaining from food, you are focusing your thoughts | | | | depth of spiritual awareness you experience while |
| on that which is eternal within you. By directing your | | | | you are fasting. |
| attention to that which is eternal within you, through | | | | One side effect of that deepened spiritual awareness |
| meditation, chanting, heartfelt prayer or by repeating | | | | is that you will open yourself to information that was |
| spiritual affirmations throughout the day, you will | | | | not available to you before. You will begin to clearly |
| discover that you can go for a long time without | | | | hear the voice of the Spirit within you. |
| food and still not feel hungry, because you will be | | | | As you remove the obstacles that are clouding your |
| absorbing the energy directly through breathing and | | | | awareness of the Spirit within you, your Inner Light |
| through the energy center on top of your head. | | | | will begin to shine brighter and brighter and you will |
| When you focus your attention on that which is | | | | begin to notice more and more Light radiating |
| eternal within you, you may experience a sensation | | | | through your eyes. |
| of electricity running through your body, because you | | | | You will begin to experience greater and greater |
| will literally plug yourself into an ocean of boundless | | | | sense of profound inner peace and whatever you |
| living energy and power. | | | | may want to manifest in your life will begin to |
| We live in an ocean of boundless, living energy and | | | | manifest faster and faster simply because you have |
| power - in an ocean of boundless life-force. Energy | | | | removed the obstacles from within you. |
| flows where attention goes, so as you direct your | | | | |