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    The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation
    The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation
    The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation
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    The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

    Written by Stephen Harrod Buhner

    Narrated by Robin Douglas

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    Fasting practices to reconnect with the sacred, regain a sense of your life’s purpose, and heal physically and emotionally

    • Details what to expect during your fast physically, emotionally, and spiritually

    • Provides step-by-step guidelines on preparing for the fast, how long you should fast, what you can and can’t do during the fast, and how to end your fast

    • Explains how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and insomnia

    For millennia humans have fasted for spiritual, emotional, and physical reasons--as a way to heal their bodies, reconnect to the sacred, regain a sense of life’s purpose, and allow their souls to detoxify. We are evolutionarily designed to fast, and the body knows how to do it very well. Fasting allows the body and all its systems to rest, purify, and heal. During a fast, the body enters the same cleansing and healing cycle it normally enters during sleep. As a fast progresses, the body consumes everything that is not essential to bodily functioning--including bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, waste products in the blood, buildup around the joints, and stored fat--and the mind and heart release their toxic buildup as well. As Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals, in order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself.

    Offering step-by-step guidelines to fully prepare yourself for a deep fast, Buhner explores what to expect during and after spiritual, emotional, and physical fasting and detoxification. He details the necessary dietary and mental preparations leading up to your fast, what you can and can’t do during a fast, and how to end your fast. He also explains how to plan the length of your fast and how to choose between a water fast, a juice fast, or a mono-diet fast. Revealing how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, childhood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fibromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way to truly inhabit the body, to experience its sacredness, and to activate its deep capabilities for self-healing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions Audio
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781644110683
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    Stephen Harrod Buhner

    Stephen Harrod Buhner (1952–2022) was an Earth poet and the award-winning author of many books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, was his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911. Stephen's work has appeared or been profiled in publications throughout North America and Europe including Common Boundary, Apotheosis, Shaman's Drum, The New York Times, CNN, and Good Morning America. www.gaianstudies.org

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    • 5/5
      Excellent and informative! I am ordering a copy to have the recipes on hand.
    • 3/5
      This book dealt quite a lot with the emotional and spiritual effects of long-term fasting. While being of some interest, as I haven't seen these topics discussed much elsewhere, there wasn't a lot of science to go on here. This had the effect of making much of the book seem rather New Agey. Having read another of the author's books (as well as the appendix), I know he does actually do research into the science of things, so it would've been nice to have some here. Also, I quite disagree with the idea of doing a low-fat diet to prepare for a fast. Doing a low-carbohydrate diet would make a lot more sense, as it would tend to jump-start ketogenesis and thus ease the way into the fast. So I was a bit disappointed with parts of this book. Still, the parts on emotional/spiritual ramifications may be of interest to anyone considering a long-term fast. The idea of a vision quest is an interesting one and is something I might consider doing later in life. That's probably my favorite takeaway from the book.