Man : Body Toxic (Fasting)
Herbert Shelton,
founder of the Natural Hygiene Society, supervised more cases of fasting than
almost any other fasting doctor, and has written extensively on this subject
with many case studies of people who healed near-incurable diseases with fasts
ranging from a couple of weeks up to 90 days.
A. Fasting
- Fasting is abstinence from all food or specific items.
- During the absence of food, the body will systematically cleanse itself of everything except vital tissue. Starvation will occur only when the body is forced to use vital tissue to survive.
I.
Why Fast?
i.
Energise Body
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The body uses energy
to digest food, and when fasting this energy becomes available for other uses.
a) In fasting, the body will scour for dead cells,
damaged tissues, fatty deposits, tumors, abscesses, are burned for fuel or
expelled as waste.
The
elimination of these obstructions restores the immune system functions and
metabolic process.
b) Restores good digestion and elimination is
quickened.
o
Allows a deep,
physiological rest of the digestive organs, and the energy saved goes into
self-healing and self-repairing.
o
By eliminating
obstructions, by cleansing, detoxification, and purifying the intestines, the
blood, and the cells, we can overcome physical ills or handicaps and boost in
energy.
c) Helps the body to heal itself, it is also
rejuvenating and life-extending and benefits mental and emotional health.
ii. Enhances Mental
Acuity
§
Dr. Herbert Shelton
supervised the fasting about 40,000 people over a period of fifty years. The
freer the body is of toxic materials in the blood and lymphatic system, the
clearer is the ability to think.
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Large amounts of blood
and nervous energies are needed to digest a meal. If these energies are not
required there, they may be used by the brain for better thinking.
o Initial days
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Usually happen after
the first few days of a fast, as
o
the body is cleaning
out excess toxins and substances and
o
a period of
depression, with headaches and various pains as this process is underway.
§
Difficulty at the first stage of fasting :
o
body has thrown off
toxins, then
o
the brain is then fed
by a cleaner bloodstream and the mental powers and clarity of thought are
extraordinarily increased and the other senses also become more acute.
o
one’s ability to think
and solve intricate problems is enhanced.
o
more alert, mental and
physical senses are heightened, and will experience emotional stability.
§
The reasons for this
are multifold –
o
the elimination of
emotional dependence on food, exclusion of stimulating foods like caffeine, processed
sugars, recreational drugs, tobacco and trans-fatty acids, all of which can
have a devastating effect on delicate emotions.
II.
Healing
§
During a fast, a
metamorphosis occurs.
o
The body undergoes a
tearing down and rebuilding of damaged materials. For this reason, the ability
to rejuvenate
o Dissolved Disease
cells.
§
It dissolves diseased
cells in a systematic manner, leaving healthy tissue.
o
Cleansing of the tube,
membrane and cellular structures
o
redistribution of
nutrients in the fasting body
o
catabolizing on old
tissue, toxins and inferior materials.
§
Each cell of your body
is a complete living entity with its own metabolism. It
o needs a constant supply of oxygen and sufficient
nourishment
§
Due to
o
nutritional
deficiencies,
o
sluggish metabolism,
o
sedentary life,
o
overeating and
consequent
o
poor digestion and
assimilation of food,
o
lack of fresh air and
sufficient exercise and rest,
- Cells are deprived...
o
they start to
degenerate...
o
the normal process of
cell replacement and
o
rebuilding slows down and
o
body starts to grow
old,
o
resistance to disease
will diminish and you become ‘sick’.
- In sick or injured animals and human, hunger diminished. Allowing nature to take its course, will heightened heal from any problem.
- Since the dawn of recorded time, sanctuaries are provided where people could go to fast. Whereas modern medical practitioners admit that they have no cures, only drugs that mask the symptoms while causing yet other symptoms to appear.
- “Physical healing or weight loss was but a pleasant side effect. What really happened is that the person got in touch with their higher self, their true self, and came to the experience that healing can take place at every level, simply by letting go and allowing Mother Nature to do her work.” – Dr. Rai Casey
iii.
Fasting has been beneficial for these conditions:
- Although fasting is not recommended in every situation, (cancer of the liver is one instance where fasting is contraindicated), in many situations fasting is the only known solution. Fasting has been beneficial for
o arthritis,
o asthma,
o high blood pressure,
o lupus,
o chronic fatigue,
o colitis,
o Crohn's disease
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o diverticulitis,
o spastic colon,
o irritable bowel,
o cases of paralysis,
o neuritis,
o neuralgia, neuroses, and mental illness as well
as many others. Fasting will also
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iv. Fasting decreases
dependency on authorities
- The reality is that doctors don’t have the cures that we need, what is offered by the traditional system of healers is only the possibility to treat our symptoms never being able to cure us or root out the cause.
- When we take these kinds of treatments to suppress our symptoms then that cause, which is the underlying reason we are sick, goes unattended, then in fact our illness continues to grow. We will never be healthy until we take responsibility for our own health.
- The outside influences we can’t control, but by taking responsibility for ourselves and working to change our habits.
v. Benefits of Fasting
i. Mental clarity is improved and brain fog is
lifted.
ii.
Rapid, safe weight
loss is achieved without flabbiness
iii. The nervous system
is balanced
iv.
Energy level and
sensory perception is increased. The longer the fast, the bigger increase in
energy and vitality. You normally need less sleep.
v. Organs are revitalized
vi.
Fasting retrains
your tasting sense back to more healthy food as acute sensitivity is restored
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vii. Cellular
biochemistry is harmonized.
viii. The skin becomes silky, soft, and sensitive
ix. There is greater
ease of movement
x. Breathing becomes fuller, freer and deeper
xi. The digestive system is rejuvenated and
becomes more effective; the peristaltic action of the intestines (the cause
of a natural bowel movement) is stronger after fasting.
xii.
Fasting can increase
confidence in our ability to have control over our lives and our appetite,
and that our body is self-regulating and a self-healing organism capable or
establishing balances when given the possibility to do so.
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- Normal metabolic and cell oxygenation
are restored.
Detoxification - as soon as the body realizes that it's fasting it will begin to eliminate those things that cause disease, such as fat cells, arterial cholesterol plaques, mucus, tumors, stored up worries and emotions.
vi. Preparation for Your Fast
§
Inform yourself about
fasting:
o
investigate, reading
about the fasting process,
o
the various kinds of
fasts
o
expected side effects.
o
pre-existing health
condition contrary indications with fasting and your condition.
§
Determine your cleanse
duration and time period:
o
Arrange fasting in a
time period where you have low activity.
o
Avoiding heavy kinds
of work if at all possible.
§
When detoxification increases,
the liver, kidneys, lungs and immune system work extra hard to handle the load.
o
Don’t compromised and
proceed carefully.
o
go as long as you can
tolerate it, physiologically or emotionally, and then come back to eating
again.
§
Several short fasts
can definitely do wonders if one long fast cannot be undertaken.
o
Long fasts are
preferable because once the body is in the fasting state it cleanses
systematically into the harder to get at body tissues.
§
The first few days of
fasting gets rid of the gross waste products of digestion, but only after this
can the body pull out its tools to get to work on healing.
vii.
Activity
§
Have at least had mild
exercise and movements with short walks to keep the lymphatic fluid moving and
to the keep the vascular system working.
§
Enemas:
o
Enema is advised to
move out the toxic material that is being scoured by your body. An enema can be
taken daily in the beginning days of a fast, then bi-daily for the remainder
using just plain water.
§
Mucus:
o
The nose and throat to
pass sticky mucus, clogging the sinuses. White strands of mucus may be found in
the stool. Drink lemon juice with water to help clear the mucus.
§
Showers/Bathing:
o
Shower or bath daily
aid in cleaning the pores and assist the removal of toxins. The skin is a large
organ and many toxins are removed through the pores causing a gummy deposit on
the surface of the skin.
ix. Reactions from Fasting
§
The 'healing' reactions
are dependent on your existing health and the toxic load present in your body.
o
The first three days
can be the most difficult until one's appetite for food goes away, which it
normally does after the third day.
§
Many people
o
experience headaches,
o
joint pain and
o
other discomforts in
the first few days.
o
Your tongue will
become coated and your breath foul, and you may notice increased body odor.
§
These are all normal
detox reactions as the toxins move out of your body.
§
If cleansing responses
arise (headache, stomach upset, mental fog, lethargy) exercise great patience
and take rest until symptoms pass. It's all part of the process. Always go to
your capacity but never over-do.
III.
Types Of Fasting
o Fasting as a religious observance has long been
practiced for the accomplishment of certain goods.
§ FASTING AS MAGIC
o With fasting as magic we have nothing to do, except
to study the phenomenon. Tribal fasts, as seen among the American Indians, to
avert some threatened calamity, or fasting, as by Ghandi to purify India, are
the use of fasting as magic.
§ DISCIPLINARY FASTS
o Major W. C. Gotschall, M. S., says: "There is
nothing new about fasting. Among the ancients it was recognized as a sovereign
method of attaining and maintaining marked mental and physical efficiency.
§ PERIODIC AND YEARLY FASTS
o Periodic fasting has been practiced by many
different peoples and by many different individuals. It is asserted that the
ancient Egyptians were accustomed to fasting for a brief period, about two
weeks each summer.
§ HUNGER STRIKES
o Hunger strikes have become very frequent during the
past thirty years. Perhaps the most famous of these have been the protest fasts
of Ghandi and the hunger strike of McSwiney and his co-political prisoners in
Cork, Ireland, in 1920
§ EXPERIMENTAL FASTS
o Experimental fasts in which men and women have
taken part are, perhaps, more numerous than we think. Profs. Carlson and Kunde,
of the University of Chicago, made a few experiments of this nature a few years
ago.
§ FASTING WHEN EATING IS IMPOSSIBLE
o There are pathological conditions under which
eating is impossible. Such conditions as cancer of the stomach, destruction of
the stomach by acids, and by other causes, render it no longer possible to take
food.
§ FASTING IN ILLNESS
o It is estimated that fasting for the alleviation of
human suffering has been practiced uninterruptedly for 10,000 years. No doubt
it has been employed from the time man first began to get sick.
§ FASTING UNDER EMOTIONAL STRESS
o Grief, worry, anger, shock and other emotional irritations
are almost as potent in suspending the desire for food and in rendering
digestion practically impossible as are pain, fever and severe inflammation.
Greater Sensitivity - Restored
Senses
An interesting phenomenon occurs after a fast.
The years of conditioning your
body to tolerate
unhealthy foods is reversed.
The body is as clean as a newborn
baby.
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