Spirituality and Health
A Glimpse to the Spiritual Aspect of Intermittent Fasting in My Perspectives.
Experiencing genuine compassion, empathy, and serenity through sustained fasting practice
Intermittent fasting has been one of the most important success factors for improving my physical health, emotional balance, and spiritual goals. However, in this article, I want to touch on the spiritual aspect of fasting based on my personal experience.
When I started fasting, I approached it scientifically. My aim was to highlight the theories that I learned from the body of knowledge in physiology, medicine, nutrition, neuroscience, and psychology.
Before starting fasting, I read hundreds of scientific articles, research reports, and personal testimonials on fasting. I collected compelling evidence.
Several of my mentors helped me create the foundations before starting the fasting process. For example, I had comprehensive blood, urine, and saliva tests. By recording these results, I created a baseline. I knew this data would be critical.
I also prepared myself to be fat-adapted using a ketogenic diet, which created transformational benefits for my physic and emotions.
Another scientific approach was recording my thoughts, feelings, sensations, moods, and emotions.
My fasting journal provided me with useful insights to recognise the spiritual benefits of fasting in my life.
In addition, I interviewed several friends fasting for religious and spiritual purposes. I collected their views and wanted to experience the wonderful things identified through those conversations.
I defined my own spirituality. I do not follow any established spiritual methods. However, I architected my spirituality by integrating useful components from diverse sets of practices. It is a bespoke spirituality that adds true meaning to my life.
My practice of spirituality is finding innovative ways to go beyond my identity.
I briefly described it in the 6th item of my article titled A Powerful Perspective to Life.
Fasting helped me recognize and strengthen my spirituality in multiple ways.
Through fasting, I experienced the true meaning of going beyond my identity.
By means of physiological changes in my body, I also sensed tremendous emotional changes, such as vulnerability leading to spiritual awakenings. They were the times I tapped into the inventive side of my mind.
In this article, I shared my spiritual dreams with Madam Curie and Nikola Tesla. They wiped the tears from my fearful and sad eyes during my intense vulnerability.
Fasting helped me to re-experience my childhood sensations.
These emotional changes were positive, joyful, uplifting, optimistic, and motivational.
Moving from glucose dependence and providing alternative energy of ketones to my brain, all my depressive, pessimistic, and moody feelings were replaced by positive emotions.
Even though fasting caused some minor physical stress, due to comfort from the empty digestive system and remaining in deep ketosis, I experienced alertness and pleasant sensations.
Fasting-induced ketosis helped me remain mindful at all times. Mindfulness can bring many by-products leading toward spirituality.
I want to share a few highlights recorded in my fasting journal during those mindful times.
When analyzing my self conversations, compassion was a frequently repeated word in my journal.
For example, I came across statements like, “Today I feel great compassion for humanity; my hunger reminds me of many starving people in developing countries. What can I do for them?”
My empathy for people suffering from sickness increased.
For example, one of the statements in my journal was related to visiting a friend in a hospital who couldn’t eat any food and was fed by liquid nutrition for many months.
There were many statements related to empathy in my journal. Fasting flourished deep empathy in my psyche.
Only after practicing intermittent fasting, in the form of one meal a day, I taste genuine serenity in my life.
Fasting helped me to be calm, composed, and peaceful at all times.
I felt less troubled at the physical level. For example, small things stopped irritating me. My patience and tolerance levels remarkably increased.
These are only a few highlights, representing the tip of the iceberg of my experience of fasting to improve my spirituality.
Fasting has been the most powerful tool to help me to go beyond my identity and practice my personally defined spirituality.
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