I have just ended a period of five days of cleansing. I realize a lot of people have a negative opinion about fasts and cleanses. Well, that's their business.
But one might consider that for health & spiritual reasons, fasting has been practiced for thousands of years, throughout different traditions. Can one really state that there could not possibly be any benefit?
More than anything else, this experience had me questioning my relationship to food. It is one thing to try to appreciate food, to try to realize that using food as a comfort and replacement for emotional fulfillment is in some sense an abuse, and to try to stop it. However, to fast is to know these things. So much clarity can be gained through the temporary elimination of food.
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