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Take your time and read these articles.
Print them out and keep them for your reference.
I am certain you will find lots of good information that will help you understand this wonderful discipline, and give you a solid foundation from which you can launch your water fasting efforts.
For Beginners
If you are a beginner, I suggest that you start initially with a partial fast.
In other words, skip one meal a day - say lunch - and drink a healthy amount of water instead.
You can start water fasting for short periods of time. Please do not think that to attain any benefits you HAVE to fast for days and days and days. That is simply not true.
Yes, fasting for longer periods of time will foster deeper detoxification and more weight loss, but ANY effort you can begin to make for yourself RIGHT NOW is more than enough to get you on your way!
Little by little you can work your way to longer and longer fasts. Do not hurry and please take it easy.
Healthy & Proper Fasting
Water Fasting is not a fix-all pill and it is not our intention to advocate that you turn fasting into a brand new obsession.
It is, however, a very positive discipline when practiced sanely, with support and in full knowledge of your doctor and family members.
Our aim in this website is to encourage you to begin juice or water fasting as a lifestyle, one combined with a PERMANENT change in eating and exercise habits. To be sure, water fasting can be very challenging, but it can certainly slim you down in a hurry when done properly, not to mention the deep and drastic intestinal and overall body detoxification that it fosters.
Many persons have been known to find healing of various diseases through water fasting, including cancer and diabetes - two of the worst killers in the western world.
Now I am not going to sit here and "promise" you healing if you are ill.
But I can tell you that water fasting can only help you by allowing the body to shift its focus from digestion to that of consumption of accumulated fatty acids and other toxins.
The body knowns what does not belong in it, and when fasting many viruses and parasites are devoured.
Stay Connected
Do not be a lone ranger - wanting to be a spiritual giant to the exclusion of people close to you.
Water fasting is a physical powerhouse that can nuke debris from your system and give you an outlook on life you never thought possible.
It is, in some ways, supernatural. Yet its dynamics are easy to grasp. You clean the trash, things get better.
Water fasting is really the toughest of all types of fasting because you receive no taste or substance in your body for the alloted time except for the water itself.
Water is really the purest and most life-giving substance on earth, although totally taste and odorless.
My longest water fast was one of 40 days I did several years ago.
Without a doubt I can tell you that fasting for 40 days laid the foundation for a huge surge in vitality, insight and health.
Overcoming Limitations
The mystical side of fasting we will discuss later, but let it be said for now that if you are reading this, it is because in your soul you realize that there has to be more to life than what you have been experiencing.
There is perhaps an instinct inside of you that wants to overcome limitations and experience a better life quality.
Don't stop reading my friend. This can be the beginning of the rest of your life. And, amazingly, all you need to effect the change is --- water and guts. A Water Diet is immensely powerful and it shakes up your system almost immediately.
A water diet basically is the recommendation that you drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of chilled water a day to keep your body hydrated and assist your digestive system.
There are many who confuse the water diet with water fasting - so I wanted to make that clarification.
Water fasting is abstaining from food for a season and drinking just water. A water diet is part of the lifestyle we encourage you to adopt once the fast is over and you have resumed food intake.
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Y! MyWebHow much water?
One of the questions I am always asked when somebody is starting with fasting is: How much water should I drink?
My suggestion is - drink as much water as necessary to keep you going.
It is not unusual for me to drink two or three gallons of water a day when I am fasting.
Now: some people argue against the intake of large amounts of water, indicating that to do so is to risk becoming "water poisoned."
There have been cases of Poisoning, but these are the extreme examples. There is no reason to become alarmed if you preserve nature and listen to what your body is telling you.
Just drink enough water to give you feeling of fullness. Use common sense.
You also can use seltzer water with a little lime in the evening to settle your stomach and appease the hunger pains. That has worked wonders for me at the toughest moments of the fast.
Try not to drink water that is too cold. The closer to room temperature it is, the better. Chilled is slightly cold. Not freezing or full of ice.
Again, that is just a recommendation based on what has worked for me. Take your time and try different temperatures of water until you find the one that grants you the most comfort from the hunger pains.
Toilet Sprints
More than likely when first attempting this type of fast, you will have to dash for the toilet with frequency.
The body is not used to such large shots of liquid in one sitting, and the water pushes on the colon right away and starts inducing the elimination of fecal residue stored within its walls.
This is similar to a colonic cleansing when you are attached to a machine that injects water into your colon to loosen debris.
At this point, between the first and third day of water fasting, the waste coming out of your body is from food recently consumed mostly.
Getting to the dregs attached to the colon will take a little longer. That is where the true miracle lies.
The best way to accelerate this process is to massage your stomach, pressing in with both hands open.
First emphasizing the top of the colon, then the bottom... then the liver. Repeat this several times a day when water fasting.
In one occasion, I massaged a spot that had a bulk of feces and it came lose very quickly.
To say the least, I probably set a record racing to the toilet.
The point is to drink large amounts of water, and then to massage your abdomen to maximize the amount of dried and toxic feces eliminated from your body.
A lot of that accumulated feces goes on to cause disease later in life. Let's work to get it out of our bodies!
The Powdered Juice Dilemma
Many people I talk to at this point tell me that they simply do not like to drink plain water in large quantities.
That they would much prefer to sprinkle it with some type of sugarless powdered juice so it can go down more smoothly. This, in my opinion, is baloney.
My answer, for the most part, is that many bodies have become so accustomed to trash that they insist on continuing to sniff it - even after stepping out of the manure pit.
This may sound harsh, but the message I am attempting to drive home is that water fasting should be just that.
It should not be Kool-Aid fasting. Tough it out and get your body used to drinking pure water without additives.
Remember, easy does it. Slow wins the race.
Preparing to Fast
Once you have done the partial fast for several weeks, eat ONE of your regular meals and diminish the second one to one of only a salad, fruits and/or vegetables.
The third "meal" will continue to be water only.
I suggest that you do the light meal for lunch and practice the water fast in substitution of dinner. This brings you very close to a complete 24-hour cycle.
At this point the hunger will definitely start to attack you. This is the stomach basically whining like a child.
Drink a big glass of water when hunger hits. Drink another one if that does not work.
But I'm not Thirsty!
Every time you feel hunger, bombard your body with another glass of water.
I actually carry around gallon jugs wherever I go and make it a goal to drink at the very least one of those a day when I am not fasting, and two a day when I am fasting.
Some people, however, insist that they do not have to drink water if their bodies are not thirsty.
I venture to disagree adamantly with this position, and have found in much of my research that many literally dehydrate themselves daily and never feel thirst.
They drink soda, juice, milk and anything else that can be classified as a liquid - except water.
Some Recommendations
One of the biggest questions I am asked about water fasting is whether or not one should use filtered water. My answer is always the same: If you can afford it, get a water filter or ionizer.
I was an environmental reporter for many years and was horrified about the poor quality tap water can often have - EVEN IF IT TASTES JUST FINE.
Now, in many places the quality of tap water is just fine - but it is my contention that when water fasting one should attempt to use the highest quality of water possible.
Why go through the sacrifice of water fasting yet be unsure about the quality of water I am drinking? Don't you think?
At any rate, to get to the point - we have tested and tried dozens of different water purifiers and ionizers and highly, highly recommend The Aquasana Water Purifier Combo Pack with Free Shipping -- The Portable Miox Water Purifier. The Miox is amazing because you can take it with you on an outing and purify all water you drink, even salt water.
If you are interested in the ultimate purification, visit our Water Ionizer page when you have a chance to learn more about the KYK Harmony Water Ionizer.
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Himalayan Crystal Salt
Another resource that has helped immensely was to add Himalayan Crystal Salt to the water I was drinking several times a week while I was fasting - a practice I have continued even when not in a water fast.
The salt is known to contain energy and healing properties that assist in bringing the body's regulatory system (homeostasis) into balance.
This fosters improved blood pH, digestive system functions, brain activity, respiration, and it also helps remove heavy metals from your body. Highly recommended supplement!
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