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Fasting and Inner Resonance-Making the Connection |
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Over and above the many health benefits which are attributed to fasting, I would like to add yet another one to the list. Inner resonance. I would like to put forward the idea that regular or a lengthy water fasts and even a lengthy juice diet/fast, can bring about a sufficient degree of homeostasis*( equilibrium ) that one can attribute to it a heightened sense of well-being and centredness. I will ask the reader to hold their focus on this inner sense of well-being and balance (and if necessary travel back to a point in time when this state was experienced) while I link it and make the connection to a more in depth explanation of what is resonance.
What is Resonance? By Paul Vick
Resonance comes from the Latin verb resonare, meaning to "return to sound". It means to sound and resound, as in an echo.
An example of Resonance would be that when a bell or tuning fork are struck they continue to ring or resonate.
There is also sympathetic resonance. If we strike a tuning fork, then another tuning fork of the same pitch will begin to vibrate in harmonious unity.
Resonance is not however limited to musical instruments or objects, it can also be understood as a meeting place or place of concord. In this meeting place an exchange of feeling happens that resounds with mutuality. This often occurs when you connect to something in such a way, that for a while you feel complete. You might meet somebody special or do something just right, and you experience resonance. The longer lasting and deeper the experience the more complete we feel. It makes us feel whole and has a tremendous effect on our sense of well-being.
Resonance always carries the moment, and whether its a feeling of joy, or elation, or perhaps a sense of peace and relaxation, it is experienced as a sense of connectedness.
Phrases such as 'being in tune', 'feeling connected', and 'being on the same wavelength', describe the way energy moves back and forth between two or more bodies. There is an open communication and understanding between all parties. They are experiences of Resonance.
Inner Resonance By Paul Vick
Making the Connection
Imagine that everything we know and have a relationship to, including things such as Art, clothes, possessions, homes, gardens, trees and fields, mountains, lakes, oceans, continents, our friends and loved ones, are instances where Resonance can and does occur.
Now consider that everything we do and think is an attempt to seek out and to return to the experience of Resonance. A return to the feeling of Belonging and feeling that things feel right.
Even though we may not identify the motivation for making and forming certain relationships, the real attraction and value of any relationship is whether it is fulfilling and makes us feel good. We are searching for the feeling of Resonance.
The profound nature of these kinds of experience are dependent on the nature and quality of the relationship we can have to something of an external nature, but we also have the potential to experience Resonance within our own body and our inner being, and this I would call a "state of Inner Resonance."
Inner Resonance then, is a state of receptive presence or conscious empathy between two or more people. (Or in the context of fasting, one's 'inner' world and one’s 'outer' world.)
Although these two excerpts by Paul Vick, are not specifically geared towards the fasting practitioner, it is nonetheless relevant to a state of being which I believe can be achieved when a fast is carried out correctly in an appropriate environment and correct conditions.
David Feuerstein
*Homeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable, constant condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments, controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms. The term was coined in 1932 by Walter Bradford Cannon from the Greek homoios (same, like, resembling) and stasis (to stand, posture).
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