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Ten Tips For a
Successful Fast
The following provide some practical principles that will assist you in fasting with the least
number of distractions. They come from a resource of personal experience of those who fast
often and have been forced to learn the hard way to find the smoothest path into the
sometimes difficult personal terrain of fasting. During a fast, focus is critical. You will become
painfully aware of how noisy, chaotic and cluttered your world has become. This is because
fasting will force you to slow down. Vacations allow us to leave our busy life for awhile and
escape to a quieter landscape. Fasting is quite the opposite, instead of an escape, you will
come face to face with your life in a new way. It can be overwhelming, even unmanageable
when all the years of useless pursuits flash before you, demanding focus and attention.
Here are ten principles which will help manage the chaos and find victory and power over
your life again.
1. Tell the least number of people that you are fasting.
Fasting is an exciting event and it is easy to blab off to everyone that you are on a fast,
especially when you begin to experience the incredible benefits. The problem is that you set
yourself up for failure and disappointment when you make your fast public. There are two
reasons for this:
First, most people will think that you are crazy. They will not understand. And if you do not
have any fear of fasting, they will supply all the fear you need. Satan often uses those who
are closest to us to cause the most trouble.
You look like you have aids!
You’re becoming a fanatic!
You’re going to become protein deficient!
Times have changed, people don’t fast any more!
Are you under a doctor’s supervision?
Fear, fear, fear, fear--the last thing you need on your fast is fear. Secondly, do not tell people
that you are fasting as it can cause the fast to become a law to your heart. When you are
tempted to break the fast, the thinking will be that, Aunt Myrtle, Uncle Ed, Dad, Mom, and half
the church know I’m on a fast. If I quit now, I’ll be humiliated in front of all of them.
Your fast is between you and no one else. And when you are being tempted to break, it is
not Aunt Murtil you need to be concerned with.
2. Turn off the TV.
Watching TV while on a fast will become increasingly ridiculous. In every commercial you are
being tempted with food. Most of all, it destroys your focus. It is not going to kill you to turn off
the TV and radio, and stop buying the newspaper. The world will continue happily along
without your presence. Of the many times I have broken a fast, I can usually root it back to
allowing myself some form of earthly distraction.
Even a short fast has many different stages. Fasting speeds up emotional states to the point
where one moment you will have a sense of feeling of well-being and the next moment the
bottom falls out and you feel empty and cold.
Remember, a tug-of-war is going on in the soul between the flesh that is being inflicted, and
the spirit that is being strengthened.
You are the most vulnerable when you’re feeling deprived. That is the time when you must be
aware of the temptation to find an escape.
3. Get alone Yourself and Who You ARE!
Fasting and solitude have always gone hand in hand. It is in loneliness and the quietness of
solitude that we learn more about ourselves. !
4. Feast on YOU!
Just think of all those lost hours of time spent on radio, television and newspapers. Well,
during your fast make a diet adjustment. Saturate yourself in YOU...You might have the nerve
even to think that the only difference between you and the apostle Paul is that he didn’t have
a cordless phone. In your spare time, you may start a new hobby...We are not ignorant of the
power of media to change peoples’ thinking.
5. Meditate.
For the most part, our thinking, especially for the undisciplined, has a mind of its own. We are
victims of our own thoughts. I’m sure that you’ve experienced it time and time again. You
could be driving your car, and without any conscious decision you begin to worry. You
envision yourself in the worst case scenario and before you know it you are embraced by a
mood of melancholy and despair.
Through meditation we wrestle down negative thoughts and emotions that plague us every
day. Meditation is a discipline of the mind where you take charge of your thoughts, directing
them towards your goals and wants.
We are a society of lazy thinkers. Television has become an electronic imagination. It
determines, with vivid stereo and full color imagery, how we feel and think.
Try sitting down, closing your eyes and allow your imagination to be filled with a single
thought. Allow your mind to be filled with the implication of how that single truth affects who
you are, and your importance to this world. This will be difficult because negative thoughts
come easiest to the mind. They are safe.
As you travel throughout your thinking, you will begin to experience obstacles of fear and
unbelief. Those thoughts will oppose themselves against your real goals... You will find that
often your first experience with meditation is like a wrestling match in the mind, instead of an
experience of peace and stillness. As you begin to experience the authority you have over
your own thinking, the floodgates of joy will burst within you, maybe for the first time. There
may be fifty years of hardened residue built up that you will have to come up against as you
meditate to internalize. .
6. Go for walks alone.
Clouds, a breeze in the face, flowers, trees, sun, moon and stars,and as you fast, your five
senses will become sharp and clear, allowing the loveliness of all that is in this world.
Whether winter or summer, go for long walks alone.
7. Take a phone break.
Clear your schedule. Take a break from the phone. No interruptions! Withdraw from people’s
lives for a time of intimacy with you and yourself. Many have found escape by submerging in
themselves. They leave themselves behind by focusing on the needs of others. They draw
people like a magnet with kindness and compassion. However, what seems to be selfless
devotion is just a search for identity and purpose, a desperate attempt to prove value. If only
they knew that in that quietness, they would find the smiling face of themselves.
8. Be quiet.
With pride comes many words. Tame the tongue. Bring it into submission. Be silent. There is
humility in silence. The literal interpretation of the word fast is to cover your mouth. The noise
of words can cover insecurity, drowning the murmurs of a restless soul. What vulnerabilities
do our face show when we are silent? We use words for boundaries, for protection, for
meaningless distraction. Yet it is only in silence that we can quiet the soul to experience the
awe of one's self, an experience of majestic greatness that transcends the emptiness of
words.
9. Do not enter into needless temptation.
The smells and sight of food can be difficult during a fast. As you continue along the path of
fasting, all five senses will increase in sensitivity. When the next door neighbor opens a jar of
fresh peanut butter, you will know it. Every desire to draw closer to your fasting goals will be
obscured in peanuts. All you can imagine is the smooth, delicious flavors of peanut butter
melting on freshly-browned toast.
During a fast, you will be surrounded with the hostile world of food, especially in a country that
has become addicted to eating. Do all you can to separate yourself from temptations--the
neon signs, commercials and the golden arches.
You will learn that you can live quite happily without food. Caffeine, fat and sugar are
crutches that we depend on to keep us moving when we feel emptiness. Take a risk. Get
hungry! Explore the emptiness of your own stomach. Of course, your children need to eat. Do
your best to arrange a schedule where your spouse is able to do the cooking. This also can
be an excellent situation for your children to experience a sense of responsibility in the home.
You can plan meals for the next five, 20 or 30 days or however long you decide to fast. They
may not want too, but once your family sees that your decision is firm and that this is
important to you, they will support you.
10. Sleep.
If you are going to detoxify you ought to do it on a good night’s sleep. The last thing you need
during the difficult part of your fast is to be tired and overworked. It is worth investing time and
energy toward a fast, as if you were investing in a vacation. We look forward to a vacation,
saving money, planning as if it will become a highlight of our year. Fasting is a spiritual
vacation , traveling to foreign parts of your character, learning more about yourself. Breaking
old patterns and developing a brand new culture that will affect the rest of your life.
Most of us live on the edge, rarely getting the sleep that we need to function with clear-
mindedness. During a fast it is essential that you get enough sleep. Come home from work,
take a shower, and allow yourself time to quietly and restfully meditate.
Hope this helps you with your fasting... for more fasting and cleansing tips please be sure to
go to http://www.pro-thinspo.com/cleansinganddetoxindexpage.html
As always if you have any questions I am here for you...
Successful Fast
The following provide some practical principles that will assist you in fasting with the least
number of distractions. They come from a resource of personal experience of those who fast
often and have been forced to learn the hard way to find the smoothest path into the
sometimes difficult personal terrain of fasting. During a fast, focus is critical. You will become
painfully aware of how noisy, chaotic and cluttered your world has become. This is because
fasting will force you to slow down. Vacations allow us to leave our busy life for awhile and
escape to a quieter landscape. Fasting is quite the opposite, instead of an escape, you will
come face to face with your life in a new way. It can be overwhelming, even unmanageable
when all the years of useless pursuits flash before you, demanding focus and attention.
Here are ten principles which will help manage the chaos and find victory and power over
your life again.
1. Tell the least number of people that you are fasting.
Fasting is an exciting event and it is easy to blab off to everyone that you are on a fast,
especially when you begin to experience the incredible benefits. The problem is that you set
yourself up for failure and disappointment when you make your fast public. There are two
reasons for this:
First, most people will think that you are crazy. They will not understand. And if you do not
have any fear of fasting, they will supply all the fear you need. Satan often uses those who
are closest to us to cause the most trouble.
You look like you have aids!
You’re becoming a fanatic!
You’re going to become protein deficient!
Times have changed, people don’t fast any more!
Are you under a doctor’s supervision?
Fear, fear, fear, fear--the last thing you need on your fast is fear. Secondly, do not tell people
that you are fasting as it can cause the fast to become a law to your heart. When you are
tempted to break the fast, the thinking will be that, Aunt Myrtle, Uncle Ed, Dad, Mom, and half
the church know I’m on a fast. If I quit now, I’ll be humiliated in front of all of them.
Your fast is between you and no one else. And when you are being tempted to break, it is
not Aunt Murtil you need to be concerned with.
2. Turn off the TV.
Watching TV while on a fast will become increasingly ridiculous. In every commercial you are
being tempted with food. Most of all, it destroys your focus. It is not going to kill you to turn off
the TV and radio, and stop buying the newspaper. The world will continue happily along
without your presence. Of the many times I have broken a fast, I can usually root it back to
allowing myself some form of earthly distraction.
Even a short fast has many different stages. Fasting speeds up emotional states to the point
where one moment you will have a sense of feeling of well-being and the next moment the
bottom falls out and you feel empty and cold.
Remember, a tug-of-war is going on in the soul between the flesh that is being inflicted, and
the spirit that is being strengthened.
You are the most vulnerable when you’re feeling deprived. That is the time when you must be
aware of the temptation to find an escape.
3. Get alone Yourself and Who You ARE!
Fasting and solitude have always gone hand in hand. It is in loneliness and the quietness of
solitude that we learn more about ourselves. !
4. Feast on YOU!
Just think of all those lost hours of time spent on radio, television and newspapers. Well,
during your fast make a diet adjustment. Saturate yourself in YOU...You might have the nerve
even to think that the only difference between you and the apostle Paul is that he didn’t have
a cordless phone. In your spare time, you may start a new hobby...We are not ignorant of the
power of media to change peoples’ thinking.
5. Meditate.
For the most part, our thinking, especially for the undisciplined, has a mind of its own. We are
victims of our own thoughts. I’m sure that you’ve experienced it time and time again. You
could be driving your car, and without any conscious decision you begin to worry. You
envision yourself in the worst case scenario and before you know it you are embraced by a
mood of melancholy and despair.
Through meditation we wrestle down negative thoughts and emotions that plague us every
day. Meditation is a discipline of the mind where you take charge of your thoughts, directing
them towards your goals and wants.
We are a society of lazy thinkers. Television has become an electronic imagination. It
determines, with vivid stereo and full color imagery, how we feel and think.
Try sitting down, closing your eyes and allow your imagination to be filled with a single
thought. Allow your mind to be filled with the implication of how that single truth affects who
you are, and your importance to this world. This will be difficult because negative thoughts
come easiest to the mind. They are safe.
As you travel throughout your thinking, you will begin to experience obstacles of fear and
unbelief. Those thoughts will oppose themselves against your real goals... You will find that
often your first experience with meditation is like a wrestling match in the mind, instead of an
experience of peace and stillness. As you begin to experience the authority you have over
your own thinking, the floodgates of joy will burst within you, maybe for the first time. There
may be fifty years of hardened residue built up that you will have to come up against as you
meditate to internalize. .
6. Go for walks alone.
Clouds, a breeze in the face, flowers, trees, sun, moon and stars,and as you fast, your five
senses will become sharp and clear, allowing the loveliness of all that is in this world.
Whether winter or summer, go for long walks alone.
7. Take a phone break.
Clear your schedule. Take a break from the phone. No interruptions! Withdraw from people’s
lives for a time of intimacy with you and yourself. Many have found escape by submerging in
themselves. They leave themselves behind by focusing on the needs of others. They draw
people like a magnet with kindness and compassion. However, what seems to be selfless
devotion is just a search for identity and purpose, a desperate attempt to prove value. If only
they knew that in that quietness, they would find the smiling face of themselves.
8. Be quiet.
With pride comes many words. Tame the tongue. Bring it into submission. Be silent. There is
humility in silence. The literal interpretation of the word fast is to cover your mouth. The noise
of words can cover insecurity, drowning the murmurs of a restless soul. What vulnerabilities
do our face show when we are silent? We use words for boundaries, for protection, for
meaningless distraction. Yet it is only in silence that we can quiet the soul to experience the
awe of one's self, an experience of majestic greatness that transcends the emptiness of
words.
9. Do not enter into needless temptation.
The smells and sight of food can be difficult during a fast. As you continue along the path of
fasting, all five senses will increase in sensitivity. When the next door neighbor opens a jar of
fresh peanut butter, you will know it. Every desire to draw closer to your fasting goals will be
obscured in peanuts. All you can imagine is the smooth, delicious flavors of peanut butter
melting on freshly-browned toast.
During a fast, you will be surrounded with the hostile world of food, especially in a country that
has become addicted to eating. Do all you can to separate yourself from temptations--the
neon signs, commercials and the golden arches.
You will learn that you can live quite happily without food. Caffeine, fat and sugar are
crutches that we depend on to keep us moving when we feel emptiness. Take a risk. Get
hungry! Explore the emptiness of your own stomach. Of course, your children need to eat. Do
your best to arrange a schedule where your spouse is able to do the cooking. This also can
be an excellent situation for your children to experience a sense of responsibility in the home.
You can plan meals for the next five, 20 or 30 days or however long you decide to fast. They
may not want too, but once your family sees that your decision is firm and that this is
important to you, they will support you.
10. Sleep.
If you are going to detoxify you ought to do it on a good night’s sleep. The last thing you need
during the difficult part of your fast is to be tired and overworked. It is worth investing time and
energy toward a fast, as if you were investing in a vacation. We look forward to a vacation,
saving money, planning as if it will become a highlight of our year. Fasting is a spiritual
vacation , traveling to foreign parts of your character, learning more about yourself. Breaking
old patterns and developing a brand new culture that will affect the rest of your life.
Most of us live on the edge, rarely getting the sleep that we need to function with clear-
mindedness. During a fast it is essential that you get enough sleep. Come home from work,
take a shower, and allow yourself time to quietly and restfully meditate.
Hope this helps you with your fasting... for more fasting and cleansing tips please be sure to
go to http://www.pro-thinspo.com/cleansinganddetoxindexpage.html
As always if you have any questions I am here for you...
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