Fasting is not only about food. It’s being without what you want for some time. You release addiction to the external and strengthen inner reality.
Inner reality is the source of outer reality so “paradoxically” you strengthen your ability to manifest what you want by doing without what you want.
You could fast from food for a day or four, but you could also fast from using your phone for a few days, from entertainment, from work, from sex, from certain people or anything you really want.
Many are addicted to work, not knowing what to do without it. In it’s absence, attention is directed within, to the wellspring of much better work.
The reason for your addictions to external things: they energize you.
You get used to gaining energy from “out there” instead of from it’s eternal source.
You eat, you’re energized. You work, you’re energized. You do sports, you’re energized. Doing without these things for a while will humble and temporarily de-energize you. You might think “No, this sucks!” but give it a few days and the temporary lull turns into a higher energy than before. You have re-learned to get energy from within! After 3 days of food-fasting it feels easy, you feel high. After 3-days of phone-fasting it feels easy and you lost interest in the device.
Some people initially have a hard time with all the silence. Their mind wanders. They’re conditioned to constantly be doing, looking, reading, scrolling, speaking. Did you know you can fast from speaking? It’s great. Sometimes I announce that I will go one week without speaking. It puts the Ego in its place and opens up higher levels of consciousness. You can fast from seeing, by using a blindfold.
If you struggle with all the silence, give your mind something to do during your fast. You could have a handwritten journal. You could do a dream journal. You could meditate. Contemplate. Pray. Do intention-manifestation exercises. Take walks. Paint. Knit. Build something. Learn to play the guitar. You can learned so many skills instead of wasting your life away on infinite scroll. 💡
Fasting is doing without what you most want. Because external “stuff” is not really what you most want. What you most want is an internal state of Bliss.
