fasting Tag

It’s hard to believe that it’s now over one month since I left ‘my other life’ in a shipping container and boarded Virgin Flight 043 with no real idea what lay ahead for me.  In one way it seems like months and yet another, just a few short days.  Wow!  What a ride it has been!!  Imagine stepping onto the biggest emotional rollercoaster… say no more!  My ego and all of its fear based stories terrorised me for 16 full days and as much as I tried to practice what I preach, no amount of emotional healing would suffice…  I felt like a huge lead weight had been dumped on my shoulders and each time I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I couldn’t help but notice how this stress was taking a toll!  I looked old, I felt old… I never feel old!!…I felt heaviness in the right side of my heart and a weight, as if someone had cut me open in the middle of the night and placed a brick in my gut!  I smiled yet it was just a motion.. I did not feel joy!  I always feel joy!  So much fear rising to the surface, gripping terror that had me lying awake at night wondering “what the heck I was doing and just what the bloody hell I had done!”… yet weirdly enough, in all of this, I had the knowing that somehow, I was right where I was meant to be… 

Me, Myself and I

 
Surrounded by nature, I will soon be embarking on my 8th 10 day water fast, which means nothing but pure fresh spring water, straight from the rocks for 10 whole days and 10 whole nights. 
I am so excited to be doing this 'fast' in beautiful Bali, away from everyone and everything, except a few locals, the trees, the waterfall and the monkeys :)  It's time to grow, time to 'go within' and face the shadows that still lay lurking there.  It's time to take this 'game of life' to the next level and move forward again on my spiritual journey of life. 
Whilst I am facilitating retreats, I give of myself wholeheartedly, 100%, to those that come to me for guidance and healing and so, every now and then, my Soul yearns for that same nurturing and growth.  I honor that... after all, if I do not, I will be no good to anybody.... a lesson that I in the past, along with many of the guests who end up at my retreats have learned the hard way.  
WATER, WATER & WATER- coz there’s bugger all else I’ll be getting for the next 10 days of my water fast! FASTING… There’s not one single animal on the face of the earth that eats when they are sick! In fact, dogs eat grass to make themselves sick- to get out what-ever is in there that is causing their illness.  Digestion takes up to 90% of the electrical force in the body- this means ONLY 10% is left for healing.  Wow, how did we get it so wrong!!!  You don’t have to be a genius to understand that the less food going into the body, the more energy is available for the body to HEAL.  So next time your child is sick and they say they are not hungry, know and TRUST the body wisdom, understand that this is great, the body can now put that energy into healing itself.  Men can fast safely for 40 days…on just water!