Fasting can help you renew your body and mind and deepen your awareness of the spirit within you. On a physical level, as your body rids itself of toxins and has a chance to renew and recharge, even many seemingly incurable health problems will simply disappear.
Dr. Oda Birchinger, who oversaw more than 70,000 fasts, noted that fasting can cure and help with rheumatism in joints and muscles, circulatory problems, skin diseases, allergies, respiratory problems, eye problems, to name just a few. Some.
Dr. Tanner, who fasted for 53 days when he was 77 years old, discovered, among other things, that his fine gray hair was replaced by new black hair, the same color it had been when he was young.
On a mental level, fasting will help you get rid of worries, fears and anxieties. It will also help you get rid of all kinds of addictions.
On a spiritual level, not only will your awareness of the spirit within you deepen, but as different energy centers open and balance, different powers will begin to arise spontaneously from within you.
There is no other way for certain powers to emerge within you, except through fasting, because fasting removes both physical and mental obstacles, allowing spiritual energy to express itself freely through you.
As a side effect of fasting, you will find that your abundance will also increase.
In short, fasting is the fastest way to bring miracles into your life.
The difference between dieting and spiritual fasting is that while you are participating in spiritual fasting and abstaining from food, you are focusing your thoughts on what is eternal within you. By directing your attention to what is eternal within you, through meditation, chanting, sincere prayer, or repeating spiritual affirmations throughout the day, you will find that you can go a long time without eating and still not feel hungry, because be absorbing the energy directly through the breath and through the energy center at the top of the head.
When you focus your attention on what is eternal within you, you may experience a sensation of electricity coursing through your body, for you will literally be submerged in an ocean of limitless living energy and power.
We live in an ocean of unlimited living energy and power, in an ocean of unlimited life force. Energy flows where attention goes, so when you direct your attention to it, you open up and allow this unlimited living energy and power to flow through you.
You must listen to your body when you fast and you must prepare your mind and body for the fast. If you regularly participate in some type of spiritual practice, you will find it much more enjoyable and effortless to fast.
If you have never fasted before, you can start fasting for just 24 hours. If you want to do longer fasts, you can prepare your body by eating light meals for a while. Then you can try fasting for 5 to 10 days on fluids: fruit or vegetable juices, even clear broth, or you can try fasting on water only and see how long you can do it while feeling reasonably comfortable. You can slowly work up to 40 day fasts or even longer.
If you continue to fast frequently, you will develop the habit of fasting, and you will also find that you can fast longer and longer with greater comfort and enjoyment.
When you complete your fast and eat food again, do so gradually. Start with soups, raw or steamed vegetables or fruit, and light salads. Let your body adjust to digesting food again.
Not only will you fast longer and longer with increasing comfort, but you will be able to enjoy it more and more as you experience the spiritual euphoria and all kinds of benefits that will come spontaneously from fasting.
You may fast for a particular purpose, for healing, abundance, supernatural abilities, for any other specific blessing, or simply because you enjoy the depth of spiritual awareness you experience while fasting.
A side effect of that deeper spiritual awareness is that you will open up to information that was not available to you before. You will begin to clearly hear the voice of the Spirit within you.
As you remove the obstacles that cloud your awareness of the Spirit within you, your Inner Light will begin to shine brighter and brighter and you will begin to notice more and more Light radiating through your eyes.
You will begin to experience a growing sense of deep inner peace, and whatever you wish to manifest in your life will begin to manifest faster and faster simply because you have removed the obstacles within.