October 21st 2017

 Learned Lessons

It has been four days since I’ve broken my nine-day dry-fast. Here’s a list of things I’ve learned from this dry-fasting experience:

• There is a considerable difference between a seven and a nine-day dry-fast. (In terms of results, and the depth of healing/cleansing)
• One thing I definitely learned during this fast is to allow days of rest after the fast is over to recuperate. I already had a progressive approach to food intake after a fast, but I totally overlooked the fact that I could not function at 100% the day my fast was over. Since I am usually pretty active during the periods when I fast, I would have not thought that after breaking my fast I’d actually feel weaker than when I was fasting. I’ve read from several sources that it is best to allow the same number of days of fasting to recover from the fast. Which makes it extremely difficult to book such a fast into a modern day urban schedule. This would meant that for a nine day dry-fast like the one I did, one should take 18 days off. Which is unthinkable for me in my current situation. A good hack would be to take 100% off on the sensitive periods, which I think are the last couple days of the fast, and the first couple of days after the fast is over.
• On my next longer dry-fast, I won’t be increasing the number of days, but rather repeat the nine day dry-fast. (A fast that long in a big city, staying active is quite of a challenge for the body. Although I did not realize it until the last day of the dry-fasting period. Before increasing the number of days, I would like to complete a nine-day dry-fast where I’ll feel stronger physically on the last day of the fast, and be able to show more adaptability to an urban environment during the days that follow the actual dry-fast)
• Now that I had time to recuperate, I feel better than ever. (Mentally and physically, I feel like my performance and motivation have increased. My posture and flexibility have considerably improved.)
• On a philosophical and almost political level this fast made me realize that our urban environment, and life-styles look kind of absurd when viewed from the perspective of someone who stops consuming food and liquid for several days.  It appeared to me while fasting that the current economic system and urban setup promote more death than life.  I think that the urban environment is not designed with the interest of humans in mind, but rather is a thereat for our overall well-being. (When I was walking throughout the city, I could observe that most of the food businesses around are selling garbage for our health. The abundance sugary, macro-nutritive, processed, and cooked food are omnipresent. Too much noise, too many cars. A lot of tension and moments of hysteria in traffic, for no real valid reasons. Some people  embrace bad habits such as smoking or the excessive use of smart-phones to escape from  what it seems to me the urban madness we live in. I started to question if I really want to live in a city. If I end-up leaving the city this will be a huge change for me. I’ve more or less only lived in cities for the past 42 years. When I was younger, I used to get bored outside of urban areas. Maybe I changed. Maybe the urban environments I have been in have changed. Maybe it’s a mix of both. I am probably stating the obvious for many, but it’s only by dry-fasting over a week that I was able to perceive and feel what is bad for me. Dry-fasting allowed  me to experience the annoyances of the city in my flesh in a way. I was actually able to go beyond intellectualizing these observations, and I believe this when I can truly trigger a  real change for myself.)
  

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