aurélien berthomé:
Hi everyone,
I'm kind of exprimenting different things these days, and I think I stumbled on to something really interesting that might help some dark night yogis that might have trouble to get rid of their dark stuff and because of that are lacking concentration skills, which is obviously something very useful to progress.
I don't claim anything, and I consider myself still at the beginning of the process leading to enlightenment, but I know that I've done a lot of cleaning of emotional blockages, since the beginning of my spiritual practices, which started only a little more than one year ago. And I recently was able to try fasting for the first time, I did it for 2 days, it was a hydric fast, and I've never felt so much energized, the first day was the hardest, especially during the night because, you can clearly feel your body detoxifying all the craps you stored into it during all those years of eating. But as soon as I went beyond that first day, after that, all my senses started to open, like I could smell a lot of smells in nature, and my awareness increased a lot too, and all my meditation sessions were quiet easy, not struggling, not forcing anything, everything was just happening kind of spontaneously. I did another fast of 2 days, one week later, and experienced exactly kind of same things. I've been a vegetarian for one year now, and I think, that the fasting period might be easier depending of the type of diet that you have, if you eat a lot of junk food, and eat meat, it might not be as easy as it seems, but I can't really tell it's only a guess I've never fast when I was a meat eater. So and because of those experiences, I'm getting more and more interested into the breatharianism lifestyle, and I see it as something complementary to my other spiritual practices. So I just wanted to share that, because I know how difficult it is to deal with the dark stuff coming out of our minds. So by fasting you might not get 1st path or 2nd path or whatever, but you might get relieved of some annoying stuff, which might help you to progress further and faster, and with more motivation on the path that you chose. That's it, I wish good luck to everyone, and I congratulate all of you for having the courage to go beyond your limits to find what life is all about.
Metta to All of you
Aurélien
Hello Aurelia, metta to you too. I have only read so far your first post and look forward to reading the whole thread. Last November I threw my 60-year old body into a long hydric fast and quit at the 47th day because my mate was getting overwrought (I was going through some psyche trauma as the toxins left my brain).
I plan to do another long fast this November however I came across an interesting article:
http://www.meditationexpert.com/meditation-techniques/m_Fasting_Cultivation_Practice.htmlAs with yourself, my sense channels opened up. Since then I've noticed that MSG (monosodium glutamate) does not assist my meditation activites and creative visualization drills. I was schooled in fasting techniques as a body de-tox by Dr. Robert Morse, MD. He also sells herbs to accelerate the de-tox process. As with yourself I turned to raw fruits and veggies for 90 percent of my new eating lifestyle. But I still consider myself as a candidate for de-toxing the body and am prepping for this November.