I've felt this particular fast coming on for quite some time. I've worked hard on my diet and incrementally improved it step by step as I've steadily mastered past addictions; meat, milk, eggs butter, caffeine, wheat bread, and processed sugar - addictions fueled by the subliminal marketing messages of over paid, unscrupulous corporations. Doubt my words? Look carefully at the ingredients on the food you buy and notice how much contains sugar. In the beginning I didn't pay enough attention. I thought that if I cut out the obvious 'foods' like cakes, biscuits, processed chocolate and ice cream, then I would have solved the problem - how naive I was! The craving continued unabated.

Then I started looking more closely at the ingredients of other foods like bread for example - much of it contains sugar. As I took more interest, I noticed that many processed foods contain this hopelessly addictive white cocaine. But why is it so bad for us? Basically it is so highly processed that it passes straight through the stomach wall and into the blood stream giving the body a massive jolt of blood sugar. Such sugar surges are bad for the body and so alarm bells are sounded in the pancreas which releases insulin into the bloodstream to consume the sugar. The waste is deposited as fat around the body - the cause of much obesity. In some, it deposits itself in the soft tissue around the anus - the reason so many people suffer from piles. However this is not the only uncomfortable impact of the story. Sugar causes excess insulin to be deposited in the blood - insulin makes us feel hungry and so we crave the sugary foods more - it's a vicious circle. We develop an addiction to foods that contain sugar, great for supermarket share prices - a 'fat cat' investors delight - but for us, bad news indeed. Over time the pancreas is so bombarded that is begins to fail which is why diabetes is seeing an exponential increase. Obesity is just the thin end of the wedge.

Having mastered all of these addictions, I felt it time to cleanse my body, relieving it of the toxic waste it had gathered over forty years of mainstream food. So as I arose this morning and felt the urge to begin, although some trepidation, I could feel the density of the vibration in my body, and so at the same time great joy, as I knew I would be getting rid of some unwanted baggage. At the outset, I was reminded from previous occasions that a fast is not just a bodily cleansing process. In fact fasting is a spiritual art and should be approached as such if we are to gain maximum benefit.

So I began with a short meditation ceremony, lit some candles and stilled my consciousness further for clear guidance on the way forward. It began with a half litre of warm water containing two table spoon fulls of atlantic sea salt. Have you ever drank salt water? It's not pleasant at all, but it does have the effect of rapidly clearing away recent food waste. The next two hours were spent in close proximity to the loo! As the body empties itself, you begin to sense you are clearing negative energy as well and indeed you are. Consequently this can be very draining and I felt myself quickly becoming quite spacey - a kind of floating and expanded sensation. I felt a strong pull to lie down and meditate which I did to some soft music for the next couple of hours interspersed by occasional dashes to the loo!

Following that initial period, it felt like it was time to confront the unfriendly parasitic inhabitants which frequent my stomach lining. I've suspected their presence for quite some time - healthy whole food products have tended not to be fully sustaining as if the nutrients have been drained off, my faeces has been very soft and unformed and quite smelly considering I already had a healthy diet. There are other indications but I'll leave you to discover those on the web - there's plenty of info out there if you do a google search. I decided the best way to remove these unwelcome parasites with worm wood, black walnut green hulls and cloves, which together will kill over a hundred different types of parasite. An hour after consuming the 'antidote', I definitely felt deep rumblings in my gut - something was acutely unhappy. I shall now watch the change over the following few hours and stick to my favourite nettle tea to make the taste and experience slightly more palatable.

In fact I don't really feel hungry at all and had a wonderful two hour meditation in the early afternoon - it was deeply transcending and reducing me at times to tears. At some point in the not too distant future, I sense it will be time to move onto apple juice, bentonite clay and psyllium husks. This is likely to begin either this evening or tomorrow morning. Its purpose is to begin dislodging the mucoid plaque which is certain to be occupying considerable parts of my intestines. Oh what fun!

To be continued....

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