Fasting from food and, emotions of supposedly unknown origin and labelled original sin is an absurd medium for attaining a new lease of eternal life promise. What is even more insidious is that it is encouraged as a practise in an effort to tame the mind, discipline the ego; self discipline and punish God for creating all that is beneficial to the human species.
What fasting does is alert the mind to prepare for an instinct killer. The body does not know what is coming yet it sure knows that it has to do something so it decides to begin to store fat, save energy, conserve calories, distract the brain by blocking its signal for its supply of glucose and in so doing also ends up cutting the communication chain in all intensive purposes. I mean it is getting ready to go to battle against invasion and if that means holding off on releasing its shit and feeding itself until it is in the clear again, then alleluia, holy shit! It knows that the time is coming when its significance will be respected
Meanwhile the brain is banging the gut to demand an explanation. The brain wants food and it wants it now and of course emotions begin to feed it with whatever is in its dark room. The heart decides to keep peace and holds the fort since the mind is trapped in cells of starvation in a world that encourages to thrive on the concept of plenty, of abundance of plenty; of more, more… more is better- more of what?
Fear, memories, anticipation, dread and anxiety wondering what the heck to do about its condition. It begins to tyrant the body for being the way the body is and begins to bemoan its role as the body’s advisor. The body now feels great empathy for the mind but has no intention to follow the mind and end up in a tomb. After all the body may just be a body or another body still it has common sense. Survival is its main role, not out of fear though; that is the big difference and what creates the gap between fearful requirement and necessity
So what does the body do?
It follows the gut, which is now building a wall of protection using adipose tissue aka fat, because when the war is about destroying self, gut takes the ‘oxygen analogy’ seriously. The body switches to its specialty- survival mode and decides to close shop- in order words nothing is getting done right until this threat dissolved completely. Of course this set emotions in right array like military preparing for inspection
Fasting period is over and phew the mind is off on probation, community service, or it forfeits it parole and chance of parole if ever convicted again. Its first assignment is to command the body to prepare a better contingency plan in the event this situation ever arises again. And body knows that come next fast it may need to take more drastic steps. The body knows now that a hungry mind is fodder for the very behaviour that mind is refrained from encouraging body to perform.
The mind’s next request is why haven’t you fed me for 40 days and 40 nights? Body wants no part of mind’s tameness and so it delivers a hefty meal that almost chokes its exhaust system. Mind eats and eats and completely forgets the parole terms and conditions. Another fast is in order
More fat, more brain storming, longer close shop period. The plot of fasting thickens and the gut goes oh, no!
Adrenaline and cortisol says oh, yes! It is time to preserve the lighthouse from burnout
The body knows that something is up when gut is sealing its doors with more fat so as to save itself from an apparently friendly visit called fasting. The body does the same thing without even checking on the advisor. Advisor is still busy feeding its appetite or having its appetite fed- it does not matter because at this point it makes no difference to the mind. In other words it becomes indifferent and without the optimal built-in immune system the body becomes very susceptible to the dangers of fasting whether the fast last as long as the memory of the fight lives or as long as Remembrance Day
The choice of trying to tangle the mind and expecting the body to play along with the business of living without its mates- mind, might and mentor soul holding and staying power spirit, confusion of fasting brews more tamed spirit than tamed mind and so body thinks its okay to rebel to preserve human dignity and personal power. As long as fasting is casting its clever spell to deny emotions of hunger, love and intimacy desire, love and intimacy can be as primordial as success of insight and hindsight mix together
And who can rightfully point a finger at it for saving its instinct to fulfil it’s lifelong assignment!
As all these emotional scars continue to dissolve in timeless mode. I understand- much better understand the language of soulbody as managed by mindspirit and how all the choices I made, and assisted in making have affect the womb of creation; and how life has its way of keeping the cosmic computer from hackers.