I felt to revist this incredibly rich Openhand forum thread on the value of fasting to raise vibration and thrive. I felt to summarise some of the key points raised here below to encourage your inquiry and exploration into the profound benefits. I've been one-meal-a-day fasting for over a year now, which has become a way of life. It's great value is that it gives the body time to recover and rebuild, it reduces internal busyness so the spirit can expand into other aspects of the higher self and it makes you feel more vibrant and alive. You will have to overcome emoitional and mental cravings, but it's not as hard as you might imagine if you take your time and work deep into the feelings with awareness and meditation. If you want to know more about my experiences of one-meal-a-day fasting, do ask.

Here's an overview on Intermittent fasting modalities:

Eating one meal a day and fast the rest of the day.
Eating for 6 or 8 hours and fasting the rest of the time. For example, starting to eat at 11am in the morning and having a last meal at 5pm or starting at 10.00am and having the last meal at 6pm. The eating and fasting windows can be moved according to ones needs and routine.

Some inspiring feedback:

"Personally, I have tried all of the above protocols and currently, I do intermittent fasting most of the time. If there is a day when my eating window becomes longer for whatever reason, then I will come back to the protocol again the next day. I find this way of long term fasting suitable for my needs and for feeling healthy, vibrant and full of energy. It’s also a way to meet cravings as and when they arise and to process corresponding challenging emotions".... Aspasia

"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".... Jen

"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"... Lisa

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 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.... Colin

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... Lisa

Many sources of energy!

Reframing the 'hunger' experience

In society most people don't stop to question the 'hunger' feeling. And if there's tiredness there's often the view that you need to eat more, or eat more of a certain type of food - carbohydrate for example. But often what people eat actually is of no value to the body and makes it have to work harder - it is often very depleting of energy. What a lot of eating often really achieves, is simply to overcome the feeling of emptiness or the need for some kind of emotional/mental 'completion'.

If you get inside the feelings however and don't automatically react to them, then you can explode the myth that they often are. The feeling of emptiness can for example feel like aliveness and energy potential - you're ready to act, to live, to be. The sense of completion can come by putting ones attention out into nature - feeling the interconnectedness with it. Bursting the emotional cravings by directly confronting them comes with a tremendous sense of empowerment and completeness.

What it also means is that when it comes time to eat, you can feel good about it and enjoy it much more. It becomes more of a sacred blessing.

I wish you well in your inquiry with intermittant fasting.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions or wish to share.

Much love

Open