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It is important to address the importance of what you do in between eating what you are eating — this is just as important as the actual eating. For the vast majority of our lives, after all, we are not putting something into our mouths, chewing or swallowing.
Much has been made of the ‘grazing’ technique, whereby you will constantly be going from one meal to the next, eating several meals throughout the day of smaller portion sizes. If you’re already healed and just having fun and enjoying life, by all means, eat as frequently as you want.
If you are more interested in achieving a transformative effect for your body and overall health and wellness, consider what happens when your body goes a significant amount of time without eating. I want to address the self-healing nature of what your body will do in the absence of food consumption. Digesting takes work from the body, which directs your energy into this basic, somewhat menial task. When your body is not digesting, life-force energy is directed onto other ventures, such as healing and regeneration — these are the more aspirational potentials that your body can achieve if unhindered by excessive digestion.
This is not per se an exploration into what happens when you go a very long extended time without food (covered more extensively in the segment ‘Water Fasting’), although the same principal applies. In fact, you can get tremendous health benefits when you don’t eat food for a long time. However, it is likely not practical to be fasting within your normal routine of activities, whether that be your work or personal obligations. Extended fasting from all food for a whole day or multiple days can be very disruptive to normal functioning — people tend to avoid it for that reason and I can understand that.
What you can do is practice sporadic ‘fasting’ integrated within your overall daily schedule, on a more informal basis, with an extra amount of time devoted to this abstinence from food. This can give your body the benefit of achieving balance and healing when not eating in between meals.
When you do practice this, you’ll likely feel increased body sensation and ultimately a greater feeling of hunger before your next meal. Your body will likely become more toned and your metabolism will get a boost, and you can potentially turn over old fat stores into energy. From a detoxification standpoint, the more emptied out your body is, the more potent the transformative chemistry and revolutions of your body turning over itself will be. You should feel also an increased bodily sensation of detoxification and purification. There are numerous other individuals aside from myself who are much better versed at describing the benefits of intermittent fasting, and you can look up extremely educated people documenting the science of it and the benefits to systems including fitness, immune function, brain and psychological well-being, and more.
To the extent that you can embrace this feeling of hunger and roll with it, you’ll accelerate your healing process and the natural mechanism of the body to mock itself up into a new version of yourself and heal and regenerate the parts of the body that need to turn over. Embracing the obstacle is the way forward, as it has been said — so just give it a try, and just embrace this uncomfortable sensation for as long as you can bear. If you can’t make it 1 hour with intense hunger pangs, then do it for 30 minutes, or 15 minutes, and just keep working on it. Your ancestors did it for countless generations wandering through the wilderness, after all.
You can do it too!
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