by
Paul
Benhaim6
NATURECURE
AND
FASTING
'There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are
lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything,
no music. If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting,
every moment a new song comes out of the fire... If you've lost all
will and control, they come back when you fast... '
from Coleman Barks' translation of the poem 'Fasting' by Rumi.
Fast - the Opposite of Slow
he word fast usually conjures up images of
starvation, deprivation, of doing without. To me it is a
chance to let the body rest from the onslaught of solid and
liquid substances we continually bombard ourselves with.
Short fasts are the best way to prepare the body for a change by
allowing it the energy to fully clean itself. Life becomes more
enjoyable when we realise that we eat to live and not live to eat.
To some a fast is to do without, to others it is to go with - to fast is
the highest form of purification and healing. It is the fast route to a
pure body and the quick way to a healthy mind and spirit. There
are as many ideas of fasting as there methods. We can have a
water fast, possibly the strongest of methods, a juice fast that