What can a short starvation diet teach?

A hunger strike is a process in which we refrain from eating. In the complete form, it consists in taking only water. Properly carried out fasting has healing properties. The mechanism of its operation consists in converting the body to endogenous nutrition. The body carries them according to a certain hierarchy of importance, eliminating in the first place all kinds of deposits, excesses, old cells, degenerative, diseased cells, ballast cells and old inflammatory foci. The fasting also influences changes in consciousness states, especially those related to eating habits.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. A short 36-hour fast
2. Sensitize to your own feelings
3. The first meal
4. Food preferences
5. How much did we make it happen?
6. A hunger strike helps change eating habits

 

1. A short 36-hour fast

Doing a short complete fast, i.e. refraining from eating, drinking only water, the body undergoes the process of switching to internal nutrition. The impact of changes taking place is reflected in how we feel and what we feel. However, not every fastener and its variants will work in the same way, in the case of a short fast, the most common are positive reactions. You get the impression of body lightness and energy. Using during fasting from moderate physical exertion, eg walking in the cold air, we feel not only a sense of crispness, but also to a greater extent we are aware of every movement, step, every part of the body. The first stage of fasting is usually accompanied by well-being and greater clarity of mind.

2. Sensitize to your own feelings

Sensitivity to one’s own feelings is one of the first positive effects of hunger strike. We focus more on self-observation. It is not only the awareness of our body that grows, but also the movement and coherence of it with the expending of energy. Each person has a different level of awareness of their body, most people use it in a mechanical, learned, and habitual way. Fasting allows you to change the habitual way of looking at the body and its relationship with the outside world. It increases awareness of the body and processes that it is constantly subjected to.

It allows, for example, to notice that a psychophysical well-being does not have to be a result of eating delicacies, it does not have to be an effect of food at all. You can feel great in feeling light and free from the excess of dishes lying in your stomach.

3. The first meal

The first meal ending fasting should be modest and easy to digest. The longer hunger strike, the more carefully it should be done in this regard. The short period of abstaining from food means that together with the return to consumption, dishes taste more delicious. First of all, you feel the taste. Food is a lot more fun. You want to chew the food in your mouth. There is a greater attitude to observe yourself. Playing TV, which may have always accompanied eating, now becomes an element disturbing his celebration. The food is longer chewed, mixed with saliva, and thus more heavily disintegrated and transformed to a suitable state, which is digested in the subsequent organs of the digestive tract. This habit allows you to relieve the most-burdened organs.

Very often, meals are eaten in a mechanical way, without paying attention to the mouthfuls of food. Meals are accompanied by television, radio, Internet, live, even a political conversation. All similar factors distract attention from the meal. They make the majority of food consumed unnoticed. It increases the states of overeating, forming a habit completely different from careful eating.

4. Food preferences

Along with the sharpening of the taste, in the first period after the fasting, new food preferences appear. We note that we simply do not want to make certain dishes and products. Others, however, give us a clear signal that we would like to eat them. Especially in the first days after the hunger strike, while our „internal view” is sensitized, we pay attention to our well-being after eating specific dishes, as well as their quantity. It can be noticed that certain foods raise our stomachs, weigh us in the flow of food, and after others, we still feel slightly and efficiently. Well-being after a meal can be an indication of what foods serve us well, which should eat more for health and which should be avoided. We can instinctively arrange a diet that is particularly suited to our genotype.

5. How much did we make it happen?

Life is full of hints on what to eat and how to eat. The advertisements show the best products that you need to eat, are at a good price and will be the source of happiness.  Co-patrons who want to show protection or other such reasons, encourage them to eat more, cost what they have prepared in the kitchen. Being in guests, you should not refuse to eat.

In one way or another, we are „wound up” to eat too much food, as per our actual needs. After fasting, we notice how old eating habits creep into our behavior. We eat, drink another coffee, reach for sweets, not knowing why we do it. After fasting, we begin to realize that the reason is not our well-being after eating food. It is, at most, the present tense of the consumption of goodies.

A hunger strike may prompt reflection; from what we run away devoting ourselves to eating, from what moments of our life we ​​want to escape through food, the equivalent of what feelings we can not experience is too rich food?

6. A hunger strike helps change eating habits

The paradox of change is that we can not change before we accept ourselves as we are. However, this often escapes our attention. Becoming aware of our dietary habits, why we are dealing with nutrition issues in a different way, can be a key step towards introducing changes that we are able to accept.

Often, we do not want to listen to teachers. In the case of fasting, the teacher is our body. By listening to its voice, we can start to change something, make choices, follow our own observation and instinct.

The hunger strike is indicated to obese people, although they are the ones who bear hunger badly. Obese fat tissue is a huge storehouse of toxins deposited in it, which at the beginning of hunger break down into the blood and poison the system. However, a hunger strike can give them a new image of themselves and motivate them to make lasting changes for the better.

By joining even a short fast, one must bear in mind that there are contraindications to its use, such as tuberculosis, malignant tumors, hyperpotamission, a recent myocardial infarction and other diseases. Therefore, you should consult a doctor before you start starving.