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Re: At some point do I lose interest in food?... long post: probably more information than you need.
 
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Re: At some point do I lose interest in food?... long post: probably more information than you need.


well, since you asked, and it sounds as though you might not have done much preparation (as in, reading the fasting manuals)...



Classic body-panic, when its comforts are taken away. And, there's a certain physiological shift in the whole alimentary tract, from top to bottom, and that can just feel very new. Odd. Facts though: it takes the body three days to physically 'get over' any habit, (from heroin to food) and twenty-one days to establish the new at some deeper level of the psyche, and the cells.


By day four things reach a different level. Day three is typically the 'hump' to make it over. Sometimes people have to make it through three days, before going further on their next fast. Depends what sort of toxic load you bring. Three days can be a good accomplishment too. But it's a highly personal thing, the water fast--and one of the really important elements of it is listening to yourself--not the noisy self with the inner talk much like a radio whose dial is constantly being turned, which often comes out in dreams such as yours, but the quiet, still self, whose voice you can begin to hear more clearly, once you remove the padding and *sound barrier* of food.


Some people can do short fasts of three-four days(after longer ones)though, and find the whole thing quite liberating. Depends on where the body (and the mind) is at,in terms of its state of health. Day three is the turning point, and if you know that your thoughts might be in tantrum mode on day 3, you can watch it all, with a certain detached interest from some calmer place in the mind. The worst thing is to try to do battle with your thoughts. That only makes them act up. One of the best things I learned on the fast was to not resist whatever was happening. But to also see it all as temporary. "This too shall pass." Old suppressed symptoms (where some drug or other interference shortened the cleansing process) can return, to be properly allowed to take their natural course. This can be experienced as various shifting pains, etc. etc. It's all part of the normal course of the body healing and resorting itself.

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About your dream: "and found more" is the clue that it's really some part of the thought-system that fears annihilation. The season can also trigger a dream like that--if you live where it's now harvest time...

The flesh and blood body-mind is not in touch most of the time with the "higher" mind(for lack of a better word),which is usually completely hidden from view by a thick fog of ideas about what this smaller self "needs" to survive. Marketing and mainstream medical thinking reinforces all these ideas...so, you can expect your whole thinking process to go under a shift as well. And the body-mind usually balks at changing.

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on my 29 day fast I had a big interest in food for many days--not in any craving sense, but more in the way of looking up various ethnic recipes to add to my collection. (I was a chef some years ago). I was a master of food research! Everything I'd always intended to find out about, came easily to me, on the fast
:-)

After the fast--I have hardly any interest in these recipes!!! which all seem like so much of nothing, and instead now crave more and more simple food.
mmm for the genuine satisfying appeal of a sprouted sunflower seed and pine nut pate, on one leaf of spinach. Or juice. I'll stop now.

I used to love salt too--not junk food salt, and not to excess, but good Sea Salt , yeah. I've been out of salt since the fast ended on the ninth of Sept. Haven't felt the need to restock. Instead, I crave Celery juice, or lemon. But don't be surprised too when some old habit kicks up the dust for a day. I'm talking about *after the fast*, sorry.


It's a funny place to be, halfway between the old and what everyone would say was appealing, and not yet to the point of living on Light. Or at least, living light.
You'd be amazed at how much of what we;'ve been eating is nothing but a burden, and steals our energy--and how little a person really needs to thrive. It's all about turning toward what is "real, human food". Not something fabricated to generate addicts and dollars.


This water fasting- and moving into being in balance with Nature, it's a good path--Enjoy the 'scales falling away'.

Chiron

 

 
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