Hi everone

Hi everyone, my name is Michael and much to my surprise I seem to have undertaken a water-fast. You all seem like beautiful souls here.

I only found out about fasting about a week ago but because I am not working I have been able to carry out a lot of research.

As I write this I have gone 43 hours on Evian water and the two previous days were just juice. It all feels quite natural and comfortable so far.

I used to do bicycle racing and have done thousands of miles training through mountains, jungles and deserts etc, so I am quite familiar with having my resources depleted. Some days I would burn 7000 plus calories and only eat one thousand if I was in a country where food was difficult to obtain. But then I was young and never had a fear that I wouldn’t wake up the next morning feeling anything but fine.

I’m building up to a question by the way, though I’m not really expecting an answer.

I came onto a serious spiritual path about ten years ago, which has been amazing. I’ve had all the out-of-body experiences in meditation and walking around bodiless or in my light body. I’ve had a full on kundalini experience which was quite shocking, solved engineering problems in my sleep and had many visions of an age long gone and to come again. I guess I feel so comfortable fasting because I have almost certainly done it in previous births. I haven’t practiced kundalini yoga in this birth so I assume I must have practiced it in a previous birth.

I’ve had to overcome so many difficult things the last ten years; you would all be shocked if I told you. One minor thing was giving up my addiction to sport and those lovely endorphins which I relied upon to keep myself feeling good. Don’t fall into this trap anyone. Learn to be happy and then enjoy your sport. I have to admit I was a bit shocked to read some posts where young women were water fasting and also doing quite strenuous exercise. I would never do that; no need.

Anyway, about 2 months ago I experienced some serious health problems for the first time in my life. Painful joints.

So I thought I would do some exercise to help out. Of course I totally overdid it, I think my third ride was well over a hundred miles. After a short rest and then eight days consecutive training, my body suddenly fell apart. I had a lot of inflammation, painful buzzing toes at night, and I had a sore back and couldn’t bend my fingers and had some strange lumps appearing all over. Blood tests showed up clean, but then my mother has full-blown osteoporosis and her blood tests are clean too.

Doctor said it was an autoimmune problem and prescribed drugs. I kindly refused.

I researched my problem and these lumps on my elbows and knees are almost certainly bone spurs. Calcium dumped to block inflammation probably. They’ve obviously been building up for many years probably due to too much carbohydrate (cycling food) in my diet.

I decided to start on a raw food diet, including supplements like spirulina.

I haven’t eaten any junk for years and years, no meat, chicken, fish or eggs due to my spirituality and my cycling before that. But I was extremely high on the carbohydrates; I could live all day on Chinese green tea and homemade wholemeal bread and jam. I’ve never taken any medication or drugs and no vitamin tablets for years.

Whilst researching raw food and switching over to that, I found out about fasting and thought that it would be good preparation. I know those calcium deposits will take a long time to go away even on a raw food diet.

If anyone is still reading, I apologise for such a long post but it is good to write about how you feel, it has a certain healing effect and I feel this fast has a much deeper spiritual significance for me.

Anyway, here’s my question.

Despite feeling quite comfortable from the start, last night I had two very unpleasant, though brief experiences. Looking back now they were nothing much but at the time when you don’t know if they are going to pass or get worse it was quite scary. I’m not the least concerned about leaving my body but I don’t want to damage it.

I woke up about one o’clock and felt extremely ill with strong flu type symptoms. Thoughts of phoning for an ambulance went through my mind as well as eating something and giving up on the fast. But I live on my own and have no easily digestible foods in the house. However, this only lasted about five or ten minutes and then went away. Years of meditation definitely helped me. It happened again an hour later and passed. I woke up fine, though I’m not looking forward to going to bed tonight. But I feel god now, don’t even feel like drinking much water. Had almost 2 litres yesterday but very little today.

I’ve suffered with flu type symptoms coming and going for years now and have suffered with feeling extremely low. So I was wondering, though it would be too good to be true, if a virus was being finally rid from my body. Anyone else experienced this?

Also, despite having a lot of endurance I don’t think my body is that strong. I am only 10-stone in weight at most and I am generally small boned though I have very strong legs. I am worried about osteoporosis developing as my mother has it. So if I continue with this fast I have no idea how long I should go on for. I can be too determined for my own good. 30 days should be no problem but there is no point unless I am benefiting myself. I don’t need to be a stupid hero.

If anyone has read all this, then I’m amazed but thank you, and I wish you all well on this extraordinary journey of life.

Sweet feelings from Michael.
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