16 Feb 2020 HYN Himalayan Yoga Academy
Fasting means generally not eating. But fasting is the state of reducing the excess things and increasing the essential things for natural life. It is both a science and an art. Fasting is a part of dynamic health and the process of spiritual perfection. For one day, a week, or a month. Fasting will prove a great health boon. Total abstinence from all food for a definite period to give rest to the stomach and intestines, but it is not starvation.
Wild creatures keep fast when they are ill and become healthy. Fasting is the best way to cure diseases, promote health, and transform the entire energy into spiritual awareness.
Water fast , juice fast, fruit fast, liquid fast, mano diet fast, no breakfast fast there are many types of fasts. Fast is included in religious activities called vrata. Mainly there are four types of fast religious, political, therapeutic and spiritual but we have to consider the second one to be happy and healthy. Let everyone enjoy the fruit of health with fasting.
Benefits of Fasting
- Gives rest to vital organs like the heart, liver, kidney, etc.
- Stop the intake of foods that decompose in the intestine and poison the body.
- Empties the digestive tract and disposes of putrefactive bacteria.
- Allows organs of elimination to function efficiently.
- Re-establishes normal physiological chemistry and normal secretions.
- Promotes the breaking down and absorption of diseased tissues, deposits, and abnormal growths.
- Restores youthful conditions of the cells and tissues and rejuvenates the body.
- Increase the power of digestion and assimilation.
- Permits the conservation and re-channelization of energy.
- Skin texture and function is improved.
- Enhances the process of healing open sores, the repair of wounds, and broken bones.
- Blood volume diminishes in proportion to the decrease in size of the body. Red cells of healthy fasters are reported to show a decrease in white cells.
- The soft tissues of the body lose weight during a fast, as they waste away through the body’s resources. Biologically important organs are sustained at the expense of the less important ones.
- Prepare the foundation to have fasts. Relax your body and mind, eliminate laughter at fasting symptoms, and break the fast cautiously.
By Dr Subodh Simkhada