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Intermittent Dry Fasting

A practice characterized by periods of complete abstinence from both food and any liquids, including water, alternating with periods of normal eating and drinking.

Exercise or the gym – this is, of course, wonderful. Physical exercise allows you to burn excess fat. Sport activates a vigorous metabolism and balances the vitamin levels in the body. That is, it is often the case that the body feels bad precisely because there are too many of some vitamins in the body, while there is a catastrophic lack of others. And sport corrects this imbalance.

Sport burns excess substances in the body and thus brings the body back to a normal state. That is, sport compensates for overeating. A person eats something tasty; as usual, one always wants to eat more of something tasty. And then one has to go to the gym or for a walk, and everything that was eaten in excess of what is necessary has to be burned off. Otherwise, there will be complications, there will be illness, or you will feel very bad. However, one might think: what’s the problem? You eat – you overeat – you do some sport – you solve the problem. And that’s it. That’s it? Yes, not quite. The problem is that with such a turnover of substances, a person wears out their body faster. And most of all, with such a scheme, a person wears out their heart. Because during sports, it is the heart that bears the highest, most wearing loads.

It must be said that not only sport, but also fasting can balance the imbalance of substances in the body. Dry fasting, in fact, is the most ideal way to balance vitamins in the body. That is, for example, if a person practices some kind of diet (not fasting, but precisely a diet), then they will have to add multivitamins to their diet in order to compensate for the inevitable vitamin imbalance that occurs with any diet. With pure fasting, however, it is the opposite. During fasting, the body itself turns into a generator (so to speak) of nutrients and vitamins. That is, the body itself decides which vitamin it needs to produce and assimilate for itself at the moment.

In Buddhist sutras, one can find the following exhortation:

Beings of hell eat five times a day. Animals eat four times a day. Pretas eat three times a day. Humans eat twice a day. Asuras eat once a day. Devas eat every other day. Saints eat every two days on the third. Eating food and drinking water every two days on the third is the most suitable eating regimen for the human body. This kind of nutrition is the most correct and beneficial. Eating food and drinking water more often is incorrect and harmful.

Fasting is a very powerful cleansing agent. It brings the metabolism into order. However, in spiritual practice, it is not the fasting itself or the cleansing of the body that is important. In spiritual practice, one of the main tasks is the awakening of kundalini energy and the raising of kundalini energy to the upper chakras. And this is precisely what intermittent dry fasting does.

On the eating day, you can eat whatever you want and in any quantity. After two days of complete abstinence from food and any liquids – including water – you will be allowed to eat whatever you desire throughout one day, anything you please. Although, of course, it is better not to overindulge.

Dry fasting is a practice that should be performed during any retreat. Switching to intermittent dry fasting is a real path, a real method to find a means of further spiritual growth when unfavourable conditions for this arise, and despite these unfavourable conditions. The practice of intermittent dry fasting allows one: to awaken kundalini, for those in whom it has not yet been awakened; to activate it more steadily, for those in whom it has somehow “fallen asleep”; or, for those in whom kundalini is steadily awakened, this practice will allow one to come close to achieving the level of raja‑yogi.

The practice of intermittent dry fasting exists in both Buddhism and yoga.

During dry fasting, the duration of sleep is significantly reduced.

Intermittent dry fasting significantly increases life expectancy.

Dry fasting cures practically all diseases. Dry fasting is a direct path to samadhi.

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Intermittent dry fasting can be started right away, starting tomorrow, without any build‑up or special preparation – just like any other yogic cleansing technique. You need to fast for two days (it’s not terrible if at first you only manage one day). There will also be no particular problems when breaking such a fast. In principle, if you have doubts about your body, you should break the fast as follows: eat an orange, then an apple, then take a break of at least forty minutes, then eat any regular food. By the second cycle of fasting, the body will already be sufficiently prepared to break the fast without preludes.

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