Re: Water Fasting Frustration--Any Tips?

Interesting that your avatar is flames. Are you perhaps a "pitta", or 'fire' type, in consitution? For these folks,
water fasting might simply inflame them, which sounds like what you experience. I've come to see that Water Fasting is NOT for everyone--and it's not a question of weakness, or some special ability on the part of those who do Water Fast for more than a few days. I'm someone who can do it.

And yet, once or twice I've done shorter fasts of 6 days or therabouts and it's not much fun, and I feel mainly a grinding emptiness. (which might be what you are feeling)

Almost everyone, however, has to overcome the sensations that occur during the first three days; and some of that IS mind over matter. This is where reading a lot of fasting literature written by those who've seen many longer fasts really helps. You have to somehow change the dial in the brain, and understand it has truly been programmed to respond to any stimulus, as well as to much falsehood.

But all that being so, still, if you find it unbearable, and feel that it is almost 'stoking a fire' in your system, then it actually might be--this is part of the ayurvedic philosophy/system of health, which is thousands of years old.

I would encourage you to look up "the emanation body"--it's a small book you can read online, and it discusses a method of intermittent fasting that I think might be much more suited to you. (I am going to give it a try soon, myself, as it's harder to Water Fast in winter, I find.) It may well be that a lot of 'air' or 'water' types are drawn to water fasting--for them it simply might come easier, and be more 'suited'.


edit:
here's the book.
http://www.archive.org/details/emanationbody00setorich


2 cents.

C