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Tips on Managing the Fast |
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A great page which needs great minds and expert fasting instructors to add content. So please e-mail your powerful ideas! These tips need to be geared towards helping people with strong addictions to food to control their mind and stomachs during the first few days of the fast. The idea is to avoid abortive attempts, which can be potentially harmful and frustrating. Or at least mitigating the effects of abortive attempts to fast. - One way to avoid getting caught up in a 'fast' knot is to avoid mentioning the words " I am going to" As so many of us seem to be experiencing abortive attempts at fasting, I would like to suggest replacing "I am going to fast for x days" with " I have fasted for x days" So maintain control of the situation by letting people know when you have completed a fast or at least the number of days you have fasted instead of what your pre-fast intentions are. By adopting this approach you will also avoid embarrassment and losing face.
DavidF
- Here are a few of Dr Andre Kruger's tricks to managing a fast.
- 1.
Keep reminding yourself that you can eat only a certain volume of food
in your life. It's as if there's an "allowance" predetermined by your
genes etc. Each morsel you put in your mouth comes off your allowance.
You age as fast as you "eat through" this allowance. Consider saving
some for later.
- 2. Repeated cycles of detoxification dulls the
hunger perception. To recap: Exercise-> Massage -> Heat ->
Cold -> Rest.
- 3. Sips of carbonated water (preferably
mineral or distilled water with pure CO2 added) "stretches" your
stomach as the CO2 evaporates. This gives a sensation of satiety.
- 4. Do consider hypnosis if you can find a good and ethical practitioner, preferably someone also qualified in psychology.
- 5. Put the foods you would have eaten aside, reminding yourself that it's OK to have them after the fast.
- 6. Consider going for a few days' hike in a nature area where there's no advertisements or other "traps".
- 7. Believe in yourself.
- 8. Know that it's OK to fail a few times. We all do.
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