Fasting to Raise Vibration, Expand Consciousness AND THRIVE!

Hi Aspasia,

 You are welcome. I look forward to hearing how you get on with a 24 hour dry fast. What I also like about this is that your time is not taken up with planning or making any juices, teas or food . It feels as if you have so much more time to spend contemplating, meditating, walking , doing yoga or anything you are drawn to.

  On a daily basis  ( not on the 24 hour dry fast)  I also take Triphala powder in a bit of warm water and add extra Harikati which helps to open the pineal gland. I try to start my day doing kudalini yoga and always break my fast with a freshly squeezed juice. Then one or two hours later I have fruit until about 2pm. :)  xx

Hi Aspasia, 

I started this diet life style mainly to get rid of eczema.  I had eczema on one palm for 10 years on and off and on my arms . I started with a 3 day juice detox ( including using lemon water enemas). The food is 80 % plant unprocessed in any way 20 % quinoa, nuts, millet , seaweed and chickpeas.  And 80% is raw and 20 % cooked. Intermittent dry fasting 12 to 16 hours daily.  And once a week 24 hour dry fast . Drinking hardly any water as you get it from the large quantities of fruit and this can hydrate you more than water.

Within a month the eczema had disappeared and I was glowing and friends were commenting on how well I looked . I felt more grounded and expansive . I also felt calmer.

It's quite easy to dry fast for 24 hours , especially if you start around 2.30pm .

There is more to this and I am hoping for a lot more unravelling and revelations .

Lots of love, Lisa  x

Great to hear from you Colin. I do know that fasting can greatly constrain and retard the growth of cancer. The way you're approaching the challenege is nothing short of phenomenal. A real inspiration!

Sending bucket loads of light

Open

Open, you introduced me to three day fasting a couple of years ago.  After a bit of  research, I realized the benefit of Intermediate Fasting as well,  so I have combined both into my current lifestyle.  Most days, I will wake and drink clear water and also a squeezed lemon and water with a porridge breakfast, usually between 10 and 11 am.  On a monthly basis, I will water fast for three days drinking lots of clean water and green teas.  I recently tried to go for a full five day fast but my body said enough was enough!  Maybe I need to work on my will power! 

I have found that I am now used to the feeling of hunger and can cope better with it.  I think an important part of this process to me at any rate, is to firmly believe that it will benefit me.  I know for example that I am regenerating my white blood cells and Immune System (that’s quite helpful to me at the moment!) and the immediate evidence to me is an increase in depth of sleep, energy outage  and  depth of awareness.  (It’s also great to stop the top of the legs sparking when I walk…!).

It is my experience that many medical professionals seem to encourage this routine but medical non professionals often seem to ridicule it,  Hmm interesting!  I will continue with it.  Thank you, Open, for kick starting yet another awesome element of my journey!

I try to do intermittent dry fast most days ( no eating or drinking) for 12 to 16 hours.  And this year when I became aware of the benefits, I have done four 24 hour dry fasts. Not even drinking water.  The more I do it , the easier it gets.  I am still waiting for an amazing insight but I am impressed with my willpower as I love food sooo  much ! ?

Thank you Aspasia for your comprehensive article and Open for your comments.

I am going to try intermittent fasting as it seems more integrated.  Interestingly, that my son (at 14) somehow decided to do intermittent fasting on his own after doing some research about it.

Anatoly

Thanks Aspasia for this informative article! The benefits of fasting and intermittent fasting are becoming more common, among health conscious populations especially. It was truly exciting to find out that intermittent fasting allows a deep cleanse, integration and rejuventation on so many levels. I find intermittent fasting to be the best of both worlds - eating and cleansing at once...living and unwinding old patterns are integrated. It can take some shifting from long held ideas around the need for food to provide energy. For example, there can be the idea that you will need calories before you go exercise or get going for the day. I have found that I feel much more energetic at the gym or through the morning when I don't take in any food. Typically I love to come home and have a juice or a smoothie after I go walk or go to the gym. Open also mentioned the idea of grazing...another commonly held idea of eating little meals throughout the day - which essentially never let's the body get a break to clean house.  

I do find that I enjoy the sense of emptiness and lightness and when I do eat I tend to take in far less quantity than I use to when eating all throughout the day. There is a quicker sense of satisfaction from less and I really enjoy the sense of feeling satisfied but not stuffed. I remember back in my office working days we would all go to lunch and eat these massive meals - you'd then need to have a giant coffee to keep the energy up in the afternoon as all that intake would lead to a big drop in energy. 

Thanks for the fabulous info! I also really appreciate your sharing about veganism - I absolutely see it as another frontier of inequality. Love the way you put it. 

Hi Open and Aspasia ,

The information is invaluable. I had explored water fasting and juice fasting and the later is bit more easy. I have had beautiful expansion while fasting especially listening to music or meditating. The last time i did a water fast though it was filled with frustration,hunger and emptiness. So it has been a months i did one for the same reason. And i tend to consume fast foods after that to make up for the intensity. I had this need to fast coming for several weeks for now since my mind feels a bit clogged nowadays. The intermittent fasting sounds right for me. I will be exploring it in the coming days. Thankyou. 

Vimal 

Hi Everyone - I felt to expand on the understanding of intermittent fasting and its immeasurable value for expansion of consciousness. And also, how it best easily blends into a day-to-day busy life in society.

Various experimentations with fasting on the expansion of consciousness

I've experimented quite deeply with fasting over the years. This has included periods of water fasting, juice cleansing and detox (including the Mucuoid Plaque one mentioned above, which was easily the most intense!); I've gone down to completely raw fruitarian, eating only one meal a day, and also, touched on breatharianism.

Essentially fasting and inner cleansing slow the physical metabolism down and bring it into greater vibrational harmony, thus the soul can flow more easily through and expand into higher dimensions. It means you're more interconnected and at-one with the divine flow. Hence fasting's immeasurable value.

The challenge of purely water fasting, I find, is the intensity of it. The body goes into detox quite rapidly, which is fantastic, because it leads to greater inner purity, and so I'd strongly recommend periods of water fasting. In my experience, for it to be effective and truly manageable, it should best be combined with plenty of meditation and quietness - you have to progressively work through the inner processes that activate. Otherwise, you'd simply override them which, in itself, can build conditioning - what we're really working to avoid.

What this meant for me, because I lead a busy life too, with plenty of time spent on technology, is that I could only spend quality time water fasting every now and then - a few times per year. This seemed insufficient, when considering the tremendous value in terms of expansion of consciousness. And so for some considerable time, I water fasted for 1 day per week (24 hours) usually on a Monday. So I'd water fast from Sunday evening after dinner, until Monday evening dinner. For a couple of years this seemed to work pretty well. Although I wasn't able to do anything too intense on the fasting day.

What intermittent fasting is, and why it works so well

But there was a problem with weekly water fasting. It created an imbalance between fasting experiences and regular ones. It created 'spikes' where my body then had to readjust to regular living. And there would be over compensation on eating, with correspondent contraction in consciousness. So I needed to do something different. That's where Intermittent fasting came in, which I naturally inclined towards before it was even being generally spoke of.

So now I intermittent fast for at least16 hours every day and sometimes 18 hours. I have an eating window between 10am (or 12 noon some days) and 6pm. I find it essential NOT to eat after 6pm in the evening, because it gives your body time to digest the last meal before bed time. It means I generally need much less sleep, so I tend to rise around 4am-5am. This gives plenty of early morning time to meditate, and do creative work, before the body gets into ingesting food once more. And so consciousness stays expanded and interconnected. I find it perfect for the divinely creative process. It means you have plenty of energy and the days become tremendously productive. 

WHAT you eat is essential for consciousness expansion too

The type of food you then eat during the day is also essential - if we're working toward maximum expansion of consciousness. For me, I find that a fruit smoothie breakfast is a great way to begin the eating period of the day. It's light, digests quickly, and provides blood sugars rapidly (early in the day the body is still internally rebuilding, and so best not to overload with heavy digestion processes). Lunch time usually consists of a raw salad including essential fats - such as avocados and nuts. It's when I also start to consume slightly denser proteins - chickpeas and lentils for example. And then for the evening meal, it's usually steamed vegetables and a grain - my favourite being millet and quinoa, because they are easier to digest than rice, more nutritious and alkalising. 

Changing our attitude to 'hunger'

I should also add, that even though the eating window is reduced to a maximum of 8 hours, I generally don't eat in between meals. Because the body still needs time to digest and integrate. If you eat constantly during the eating window (grazing), the body is constantly producing insulin, which pulls in consciousness and deposits excess body fat.

I would say to anyone experimenting with fasting, and/or moving into intermittent fasting as a way of life, you will need to work to transform your inner feelings/reactions to 'hunger'. You will at times feel much more empty. But rather than feeling the need to reach for food, or when you break your fast to overload on food, work deep into the feeling of hunger. Because the sense of emptiness also brings with it a sense of lightness, and from that, the sense of expansion and interconnectedness. It meant for me, I actually prefer those feelings rather than the satiated "belly full" ones!

What's your experience of fasting? I'd love to hear...

Open 

Thanks for your informative article Aspasia, and for raising it in the Openhandweb awareness. Personally I've gained enormously over the years from periods of various types of cleansing and fasting. I find it of tremendous benefit to the integration and growth of the soul - and of course, cleansing and detoxing the body for physical rejuvenation. I too conduct intermittent fasting most of the time. I feel to add to that shortly.

In appreciation

Open