Re: Question about fasting until completion? re: true hunger

"True hunger is felt in the throat, and is an all-body feeling and is not usually felt in the abdominal regions. If you have ever felt the demand for sleep, you will know exactly what I mean."

I have felt the demand for sleep, (most notably when I was almost falling into dreaming in what was like seconds-only intervals, after a long labour when my son was born) but I can't really see how that equates to true hunger of the sort that might come days into a water fast. but I'm guessing you just have to experience it--by *first* having hunger actually go away, which is the part of Water Fasting that i'm having a hard time picturing. Sounds like something to look forward to!

The thing that sounds sort of too bad is, with all the good feelings and effects that are enumerated i can see where someone would want to carry on fasting, unless of course there was a hunger that you simply couldn't ignore :-)


How was your first long fast, Chrisb1? That was the healing one, correct? Did you experience all these good signs of completion you've listed above?

And did you have some of the periods of feeling concerned about symptoms, (as some people have been from day to day) or were you really sick enough that you were determined to see the thing through to these signs of completion?I wonder if the fasting is in a way easier, the sicker a person is...

we read of the person who thinks they are going to die, and stops eating in order to 'get it over with', and then gets well!

just a few thoughts/questions

Chiron

* this Water Fasting has turned around many of my previously held ideas1 It's a radical shift. I always thought true hunger *was* experienced in the stomach and sort of up through the chest. I've felt that kind of gripping hunger after two days without food, but this was not an intentional fast.