How a 5 Day Water Fast Supercharges Body, Mind and Everyday Clarity

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Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul. Rumi

Fasting has been around for thousands of years and legendary for a range of physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual benefits. So it was a hands-down fit for my criteria for my ‘Finding Clarity’ experiement . Each strategy needed to be;

A stillness practice.

A gateway to slow down and be present.

Able to dislodge negative emotional energy.

Able to create ‘space’ for clarity.

It also adds a new criteria that I now understand is critical if you’re wanting increasesd clarity and you live in a body.

Removes biochemical blocks to clarity

In this experiment it has become obvious to me how integral the body is to our experience of life. And how unaware of that we can be. It the partner we cannot live or experience life without. It's how we perceive the physical world. Any practice to increase clarity must focus on the quality of this lens.

Enter Fasting

Fasting cleanses the body; of cellular debris, waste products and toxins that are a result of interaction with the environment and the body’s natural processes. Both create consequences that impede our perceptual experience such as a decrease in energy, negative impacts on brain functioning, interference with digestive and immune functioning and hormone levels to name a few. Cleaning up these physical impediments becomes is a first step in creating clarity.

Fasting is the greatest remedy — the physician within. Paracelsus

Look up ‘fasting’ today, and you get an avalanche of articles, podcasts and several new documentaries based on the explosion of interest and research about whats really happening when we fast. And the anecdotal evidence increases daily as more and more people share how fasting has become for them, a significant tool for transforming illness, weight, overall health and it seems, longevity.

I was looking forward to several benefits; the cleansing and rejuvenating benefit, the mental clarity that could come from the cellular…