Re: Day six of my water fast. When will I finally feel better?

Hello Julia,
for many people, fasting and working simultaneously are just not compatible; fasting is a physiological rest, where the greatest benefits by far are achieved by conserving, rather than expending energy.
Dr Shelton did use exercise to a limited degree with his patients while fasting, but abandoned the idea after he came to the conclusion (along with the pioneers), that by far the greatest benefit came to those who were not very active, and where he required his patients to receive bed-rest for much of the time.
He only recommended exercise for his fasting-patients who wished to lose weight and similar health problems.

Animals in Nature will not be very active during a period of abstinence (unless it is the mating season, such as the wild salmon & the Alaskan Fur Seal Bull, where they are thoroughly exhausted and emaciated towards the end) because they know instinctively that to do so will prevent their recovery. Fasting in health is a very different concept to fasting in disease and ill-health, but the experience of the Natural Hygiene pioneers taught them that rest (absolute rest) always produced by far the best results.

Fasting though can be a very real ordeal for those people who are extremely toxemic, and especially for the first-time faster (as indeed it was for me) but as your levels of toxemia are lowered with subsequent fasts, and proper living habits in between which prevent further toxemia, the fast becomes progressively easier to the point of real enjoyment: even mental euphoria and discovering a sense of personal spirituality.

Despite the popularity of enemas and colonics, they are not to be recommended while fasting; Shelton and his predecessors found them to be very irritating, debilitating, even painful and enervating. The bowels will take care of themselves during the fasting process and will resume normal activity post fast (with the aid of a good diet) with even greater regularity than before.
Any present-day Hygienist who advocates enemas or colonics during their fast, isn't a true Hygienist, and have allowed themselves to stray from the true path of the more experienced and enlightened pioneers.

Bowel Action During Fasting..............
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch13.htm



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