thanks---- Article on Fasting

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Hi Tim

thanks 4 the article---i need to relax and allow my body to rest

perhaps i sittoo long---my eye are very tired without food

how much water do u drink?

if i have inflammation of teeth ,etc -----should i fast till the pain is all gone?

any more info is welcome

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Shari Viger <shavig wrote: WHEN WE EXCESSIVELY ABUSE OUR BODIES, OUR INHERENT INTELLIGENCE, OUR GOD WITHIN, DOES THE RIGHT THING WHEN IT CAUSES US TO WATER FAST, I.E., TO PHYSIOLOGICALLY RESTWhy do we involuntarily go into sleep, comas, faint, become unconscious, develop pains, tremors, paralyses, convulsions, fevers, symptoms, loss of hunger, physiological dysfunctions, delusions, hallucinations, pathologies and diseases? Our bodies are overwhelmed with excessive stress, excessive enervation and excessive toxemia, with which our inherent intelligence, our God within, is unable presently to cope and to adapt. Therefore our inherent intelligence, our God within, forces us to physiologically rest, i.e., to waterfast, so as to homeostatically survive, despite our self-destructive incorrect physicality, mentality, emotionality

and spirituality. Our bodies always do the right thing. We are passengers on the train of life, not the conductors. Since life began on earth, our inherent intelligence, our God within, within each cell of our bodies, has learned to make the optimum adaptation and resolution, to any problem to which our bodies are subjected. Whatever stresses our bodies presently have, every cell of our bodies has successfully learned how to cope with such, previously. It is already built into our genes, our chromosomes and our DNA. Our inherent intelligence, our God within, if it chooses to cause us to physiologically rest, i.e., to water fast, it does so to protect us. This physiological rest, i.e., this water fast, helps us survive, despite our self-destructive lifestyle, thinking, emotionality and spirituality. Our physiological rest, i.e., our water fast, is for our protective benefit. Our need to physiologically rest, i.e., to water

fast, will spontaneously disappear, and genuine hunger will return, when the cause and need for our inherent intelligence, our God within, to cause us to physiologically rest, i.e., to water fast, no longer exists. HOW TO FASTFast only when you are symptomatic, i.e., when you have symptoms.Eat only when you are genuinely hungry, i.e., when you are salivating for food.During your fast, drink only as much water as your thirst demands, not more water and not less water, no juices, no vitamins, no supplements and no drugs, i.e., learn to listen to and obey only your inherent intelligence, your God within, which is always talking to you.FASTING IS NOT STARVATION. WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY, EAT. FAST ONLYWHEN YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY & SYMPTOMATIC. FASTING IS PHYSIOLOGICAL REST.STARVATION IS NOT EATING, WHEN YOU ARE

HUNGRYFasting is physiological rest. Starvation is pathological. When you are not hungry, fasting is temporary abstinence from your ingestion of all food but drinking as much water as your thirst demands. When you are hungry, starvation is abstinence from your ingestion of food and water. Fasting exists until your body's surplus or stored fats are consumed and harmful accumulations are eliminated. Fasting is remedial, restorative and healthful. Starvation is denying your body essential food for its maintenance and is injurious to your body.When you fast, drink only water, lie down and close your eyes. Keep your eyes closed every moment of the 24 hours, every day that you water fast. During a water fast, you must have total physiological rest. You can only accomplish total physiological rest, by keeping your eyes closed. Feel, meditate, think on and concentrate on whatever are your symptoms until you are

asymptomatic. Eat when you are asymptomatic, i.e., when you no longer have any symptoms or when you are genuinely hungry, i.e., when you are salivating for food. THERE ARE NO "CURES"Many mistakenly believe that certain therapies or treatments can perform specific actions upon the body to effect a "cure". The idea is that some extra-vital agent or influence can, of its own power, restore health to a sick living being. Whether they be in the form of herbs, foods, juices, juice fasts, wheatgrass juice, rejuvelac, macrobiotics, urine therapy, vitamins, minerals, supplements and/orenzymes, there are no "cures". There are no "cures". Disease is not something that should be "cured" or that can be "cured". Disease is a disturbance of life. Disease is, not at ease. If "cure" means to get well or to recover health, then disease is the

process of "cure". Disease is always constructive and is always a remedy. Diseases are instituted by the inherent intelligence, the God within, and are conducted for the purpose ofcleansing, repair and restoration of body balance or homeostasis (the uniform balance the body maintains). Disease is always an inherent bodily created crisis due to an enervation (fatigue from loss of nerve energy and vitality) caused toxemia (toxic accumulation).Disease is inherently and defensively built into the genes, chromosomes and DNA of every cell of the living being. You "cure" ham, not living beings. Instead the homeostatic inherent intelligence, the God within, heals itself. Health care is self care. Therapies or treatments, have no power to act upon the living body-the body acts upon the therapy or treatment. The body is active and therapies and treatments are passive. Therapies and treatments are inert. Therapies and

treatments effect the living body only because the body is forced to react totherapies and treatments to which it is exposed. Nothing outside the living body can heal. All healing comes from the God within.I DISCOVERED & TEACH THAT EVERY PATHOLOGY PRODUCES A CONCOMITANT SYMPTOMATOLOGY, AS A SELF-HEALING MECHANISMI discovered and teach that every pathology and physiological dysfunction produces a concomitant symptomatology in all human beings, as an inherent self-healing mechanism.This means, that your inherent intelligence, your God within, is always talking to you. If you listen to it and obey it, you will always have good health. So whenever you are ill, your inherent intelligence produces symptoms upon which you should concentrate, meditate on, pay attention to and feel, until you are asymptomatic, i.e., until your symptoms completely and permanently disappear. Ifand when you will do this,

your illness and the cause of your illness, will always help heal completely and permanently.SICK? CLOSE YOUR EYES TO HELP HEAL YOURSELFCLOSE YOUR EYES & KEEP THEM CLOSED, 24/7, EVERY MOMENT YOU CANIf you are sick, to get well, close your eyes and keep them closed, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, i.e., every moment you can!CLOSING YOUR EYES AUTOMATICALLY RESTS YOUR BRAIN & MINDClosing the eyes, rests the brain and mind. An electric rhythm starts as soon as the eyes are closed and ceases immediately when they are opened. This rhythm serves-to clear "negative charges" from the brain. Activity of the eyes prevents recuperation from occurring.CLOSING YOUR EYES CAUSES YOUR BODILY ENERGIES TO REJUVENATEWhen your eyes are closed and you are at complete rest, bodily energies rejuvenate, cells replenish, tissues repair and organs refresh themselves and are made ready for renewed activity.CLOSING YOUR EYES RESTS EVERY

PART OF YOUR BODYWhen you are sick, you are greatly devitalized and enervated from over activity, excesses, stimulation and emotional excitement. Close your eyes and keep them closed, for completely resting every part of your body.ANIMALS & BABIES INSTINCTIVELY KNOW THEY MUST CLOSE THEIR EYES TO FEEL BETTERAnimals and babies instinctively know they must close their eyes to feel better.IF YOU ARE SICK OR TIRED, YOU HAVE A SLEEP DEFICIENCYThe most common, difficult to manage diseases, are often related to a sleep deficiency. If you are sick or tired, you have a sleep deficiency. Healing takes place, when you are asleep or your eyes are closed. If you are sick, you have a deficiency of healing, therefore a deficiency of sleep.YOU HELP HEAL FASTER WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYESThe body makes the healing of a bone a priority, as opposed to doing other things that are not quite as important. With additional sleep,

and/or closing your eyes, the healing process will be better and faster. If you are unwell because of an injury, the more sleep and/or closing your eyes, the quicker you will heal. It does not matter what is or what causes your health problem, whether it is because of lifestyle abuse or external trauma.CLOSING YOUR EYES IS MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO TO BE WELLYou need more sleep and/or closing your eyes. That is the most important thing you can do to make you well.VITAL ENERGY IS PRODUCED BY CLOSING YOUR EYESVital energy is produced by the blessed elixir of sleep and/or closing your eyes. Sleep and/or closing your eyes are nature's great restorative healing processes. Vital energy is used up by all the activities of life. Vital energy is used up by physical activity, by talking, digestion, emotions, thinking, seeing, hearing, smelling and by sex.AFTER ACTIVITY, YOUR BRAIN GROWS WEARY & DEMAND FOR CLOSING

YOUR EYES IS GREATAfter activity, the brain grows weary and the physical demand for sleep and/or closing the eyes is great. Nerve cell fatigue or exhaustion is deep seated and much time is required to recover. It is the lowering of vital energy in the nerve cells which leads to physical and mental trouble. Carried to an extreme, it leads toa "nervous breakdown".CLOSE YOUR EYES & YOUR NERVES WILL GET BETTER & FEEL BETTERClose your eyes to replenish your nerve cells and your nerves will get better and feel better.CLOSE YOUR EYES & DO NOTHING INTELLIGENTLY TO HELP HEAL YOURSELFThe actual storing up of the energy reserves or the energy sources of the body, takes place during rest. Activity expends and rest restores the bodily resources. The more the body is stimulated, the sooner it completely collapses. The weaker the body, the less it is able to withstand the action of stimulants. The weaker the

body, the greater the necessity of "doing nothing" intelligently, just closing youreyes.CLOSING YOUR EYES REFRESHES YOU EVEN IF YOU DON'T SLEEPWhen you close your eyes and pain, discomfort or depression prevents you from sleeping, keep your eyes closed, until the pain, discomfort or depression leaves. Concentrate, meditate, feel, think on the pain, discomfort or depression as intensely as you can. As long as you continue to do this, you will awaken just as refreshed as if you slept for that same period of time as when your eyes were closed.CLOSE YOUR EYES TO HELP HEAL YOURSELF OF DISEASETo heal yourself of disease, you should rest your brain and body, by keeping your eyes closed. Every activity of your eyes, depletes your vitality and inhibits restoration of your health. In every moment of your 24 hours, keep your eyes closed, just like dogs, cats and other pets do, and open your eyes only to satisfy your needs,

whether your needs be biological, physical, mental, social, economic or spiritual. When you are sick, lie down, keep your body inactive, keep your eyes closed and concentrate, meditate, think on, keep your mind on your pain and discomfort, till your pain and distress completely disappear.SLEEP IS #1 REQUISITE OF HEALTHBenjamin Franklin called sleep "Nature's Sweet Nurse". Apparently we only grow new cells during deep sleep & that's why puppies & babies sleep so much. Ron Cridland, MD, International sleep expert & Natural Hygienist since birth, feels that sleep is the #1 Requisite of Health.RESTING A FIELD GIVES A BOUNTIFUL CROPTake rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -Ovid, poet (43 BCE - CE 17)CLOSE YOUR EYES TO COPE WITH THE STRESS OF YOUR BOSS, YOUR KIDS & YOUR HECTIC AGENDA"Take a nap. OK, maybe not right now at your desk. But take a nap, even

for just 15 minutes this afternoon. Even a short nap can be very refreshing, and suddenly everything looks better. A nap is like instant rose-colored glasses. The boss, the kids, the hectic agenda - they all seem like molehills compared to the mountains they were before your nap." --David LeonhardtWHEN YOU FAST, CLOSE YOUR EYES TO PHYSIOLOGICALLY REST SO AS TO GET WELL & STAY WELLWhen you water fast, keep your eyes closed every moment of the 24 hours, every day that you water fast. During a water fast, you must have total rest. You can only accomplish total rest, by keeping your eyes closed. Lie down and close your eyes, ever time you can. It is the most important thing you can do to get well and stay well!HOW TO MEDITATE PROPERLY TO HELP HEAL YOURSELFYou should lie down, keep your body inactive, keep your eyes closed and concentrate, meditate, think on, keep your mind on your

symptoms and discomforts, until your symptoms and distresses completely disappear. This is "feeling meditation".FEELING MEDITATION WILL HELP YOU HEAL YOURSELF Meditation is listening to the God within, the inherent intelligence. The God within is always talking to you, not with words, but with communicating with you via "feelings" throughout your body. Prayer is becoming silent, going within, aligning with and acknowledging God as All-in-All. Meditation and prayer are 2 steps with the same ultimate goal, communion with the God within. You are an expression of the image and likeness of the God within. You are whole and perfect. As you are already perfect, all you need do is to commune with the God within, become aware of that perfection and become healed.I AM PERFECT & HEALTHY. I CAN SUCCESSFULLY HEAL MYSELF DOING A WATER FAST. I AM HEALED. THIS IS TRUE PRAYEROur God within our bodies is constantly telling us what our bodies need. All disease, pain and suffering are caused by our negative thought patterns. The beliefs we were taught, that have convinced

us that we are separate from God, perfection and health, are false ideas that have no power. The only power these beliefs have is the power we give to them. These false beliefs can be dissolved instantly, understanding that I am perfect and healthy. I can successfully healmyself doing a water fast. I am healed. This is true prayer.

THE BIBLE SAYS, FASTING WITH FEELING MEDITATION, HELPS HEAL YOUThe Bible says, "Not by prayer alone but by fasting too." Water fasting (physiological rest) with "feeling meditation", immediately helps heal you, while mental calm produced by your prayer, is a great aid to restoration of your poise."Fasting is better than prayer." St. Clement: Second Epistle to the Corinthians"The best of all medicines are resting and fasting." Benjamin Franklin

FASTING WILL HELP YOU HEAL YOUR SPIRITUAL PROBLEMSFast from anger and hatred. Give your family an extra dose of love each day.Fast from judging others. Before making judgments, recall how the God within, overlooks our faults.Fast from discouragement. Hold on to the God within's promise that the God within, has a perfect plan for your life.

Fast from complaining. When you find yourself about to complain, close your eyes and recall some of the little moments of joy the God within, has given you.Fast from resentment or bitterness. Work on forgiving those who may have hurt you.Fast from spending too much money.WHEN YOU ARE ILL, WATER FAST, WITH FEELING MEDITATION, TO HELP HEAL YOURSELF, IMMEDIATELY & PERMANENTLYEveryone who is ill, should water fast (physiological rest) with "feeling meditation", as the surest and most rapid means of helping to heal. A water fast with feeling meditation, is necessary to help you heal your illness. Water fasting, with feeling meditation, usually leads to cessation and healing of your pathologyand symptomatology, immediately and permanently.A WATER FAST IS A PHYSIOLOGICAL RESTA water fast is a physiological rest and therefore to conserve vital energy and optimumly help heal yourself, you should

always do a water fast lying down, with your eyes constantly closed, no talking, and only sleeping and/or concentrating, meditating on, paying attention to and feel your symptoms until you are asymptomatic, i.e., until you no longer have any symptoms.PURPOSE OF A FAST IS TO PHYSIOLOGICALLY RESTThe purpose of a fast is conserve and replenish vital energy and to completely rest the body, not to just eliminate toxins nor to just rest the digestive tract. Every moment you fast and that you simultaneously open your eyes, you are preventing yourself from getting healed as rapidly and as well as possible. You are wastingvital energy when you open your eyes. Every bit of vital energy is needed by sick persons to recover their health.During a fast, you must have total rest. You can only accomplish total rest by keeping your eyes closed.Dr. Herbert Shelton wrote that the person who fasts should "rest-mentally,

sensorially and physically, while he is resting physiologically.""Nature prostrates the patient."..."She preserves energy by limiting its dissipation. The energy thus saved is available for use in the temporarily more important work of healing. If we are wise we will take our cue from nature and conserve our energies, while fasting, by curbing their expenditures. I favor the plan of putting the patient to bed. I am sure that better and quicker results are thus obtained. Nature puts her hibernating animal to bed and sleep.""Observations made during the fasts of Succi and others show that the body wastes less rapidly when the patient is kept warm and at rest.Rest conserves the body's energies and substances and hastens the healing. I agree with Purinton, who says in his "Philosophy of Fasting', 'Not an ounce of energy shall be dissipated during the extreme fast. This means loafing, resting, lazying along and

not caring.' The best place for the faster is in bed. Talking, laughing, listening to the radio and viewing and listening to television prevent genuine rest."..."A newspaper or a novel may be disturbing, exciting or depressing.It is quite obvious that, given the same amount of nutritive reserve, the active individual will consume his internal food stores sooner than the resting individual. For this reason, if no other, the fasting patient who rests while fasting will emerge from the fast in better condition than the faster who is active during this period. Atthe same time, if a prolonged fast is essential, rest will enable the patient to conserve his reserves to the utmost and thus lengthen the period over which he can safely fast."..."The less physically active organism expends less of its reserves, not alone due to reduced physical work, but also, due to decreased physiological activity.""The more rest

the sick organism receives, the more rapidly is good health restored. Rest (physical, mental and physiological) is equally important and beneficial during a fast.Even reading, writing, talking, listening to the radio and similar forms of activity should be avoided as much as possible.""A period of rest enables an overworked body to perform work that activity prevents it from doing."..."Talking, gum chewing, reading and writing constitute drains upon the enervated and fasting organisms and should be avoided. Minimum amounts of talking, reading and writing should be indulged."Dr. T.L. Nichols, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, wrote, "for every disease of every organ of the body, the first condition is rest-rest for stomach, rest for brain."Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey Natural Hygiene Practitioner, wrote of fasting as the "rest cure", and emphasized the urgent necessity of rest in all acute and chronic

diseases.Some of the foremost Natural Hygiene teachers, advocates, writers and practitioners of fasting and the raw food lifestyle, suffered needlessly and died prematurely from illnesses that they did not know how to help heal. They did not know how to properly fast nor how to physiologically rest.Some of these famous Natural Hygiene fasting practitioners, raw food advocates, writers and teachers who suffered needlessly and died prematurely, not knowing how to help heal themselves nor how to properly fast nor physiologically rest, were Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, who died of Parkinson's Disease, T.C. Fry, who died of Cardio-Vascular-Pulmonary Dysfunction, Chronic Gastritis, ChronicGastroenteritis, Pernicious Anemia and Protein Malnutrition, Dr. Christopher Gian-Cursio, who died of Congestive Heart Failure, Dr. Robert Gross, who died of Pancreatic and Brain Cancer, Dr. Gerald Benesh. who died of Alzheimer's

Disease, Dr. William Esser, who died shortly after choosing to enter a hospital because he felt acutely ill, etc.When these aforesaid Natural Hygiene practitioners, advocates, teachers and writers had fasted, they should have physiologically rested, as described above, herein. They would have helped heal themselves, completely and permanently, if they had physiologically rested, when they fasted.These aforesaid Natural Hygiene practitioners, advocates, teachers and writers did not know how to fast correctly their own bodies butnevertheless they taught others how to fast.Uta Hagen, USA actress and acting teacher, disagreed with British writer George Bernard Shaw's pronouncement "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Uta Hagen said, "Only he who can, should teach."IF YOU GET BORED DURING YOUR FAST, YOU CAN LISTEN TO A RADIOIf you get bored during your water fast, you can listen to a television, radio,

tape recorder, cassette recorder, phonograph records, etc., but you must always be lying down and keeping your eyes constantly closed. NEVER TAKE ENEMAS NOR COLONICSNever take enemas and colonics. You eat only with your mouth with which your taste buds and enzymes can help you optimumly and self-defensively properly metabolize your food. There are no taste buds and enzymes in your rectum or any other orifice or on your skin. HOW TO BREAK YOUR WATER FASTAlways break your water fast only when you are asymptomatic, i.e., when you no longer have any symptoms or when you are genuinely hungry, i.e., when you are salivating for food. Break your water fast on only natural foods, that you would eat in the wild. Break your water fast on only fresh, unprocessed raw foods that are palatable

to you and that agree with you, with all the essential minerals andessential nutrients. No human being and animal in the wild, inherently break their water fasts on juices, fractionated and/or processed foods. Of course, this is contrary to the way "civilized" humans incorrectly break their fasts on juices, fractionated and/or processed foods.Every bit of agricultural exploitativecommercialization and soil depletion, bioengineering, experimental breeding, processing, cooking, hybridizing, mutation and pollution, destroys vitamins, enzymes, minerals, nucleic acids, chlorophyl, damages fats and makes the fatty matter a local irritant. This agricultural exploitative commercialization and soil depletion, bioengineering, experimental breeding, processing, cooking, hybridizing, mutation and pollution, excessively stresses every cell of our bodies, results in our impaired nutrition and results in our impaired

health. WHAT IS NUTRITION?What is nutrition? Nutrition means all the processes and functions that are necessary for the assimilation of our foods we eat.Nutrition is the physiological process our inherent intelligence conducts, as our inherent intelligence transforms foods we eat, into material for our bodies own growth and maintenance. Nutritional deficiencies create imbalances in our bodies chemistry. WHAT IS DETOXIFICATION?Detoxification is the final expulsion of waste materials through the various excretory organs. Detoxification takes place in the human body continually from birth throughout life. Detoxification stops at time of death of the human body.DR BERNARR drbernarr 310-396-2914God Healing, Inc. Natural Hygiene Society, Inc.http://www.healself.org

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