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There are many ways to work through food cravings and everyone has to find their best way intuitively. In my book, Liberator of Temptational Bonds, I describe some options, but there are many more.
This is the method that works best for me, and it comes from the understanding that I don’t want to keep using willpower to stay on a healthy eating path. Even if only 5% of my body cells don’t yet know that food will never truly satisfy my longing for oneness with All That Is, I’m going to keep teaching them until they all do.
Periods of Fasting Are Essential
From time to time our bodies need a clean break and a period of detoxification. In the past I was never able to do a single day of fasting until I was intuitively guided to do my first Breatharian initiation during a 9-day retreat experience.
If someone is not used to fasting on a regular basis, it is usually best not to stop eating abruptly, but to ease into it, reducing the amount of food we eat to one raw meal a day and perhaps having only liquid food on the last day before the fast.
If the bones and muscles are carrying some deep-rooted toxins from who knows when, the fasting is not always an easy process and is best done in the company of someone. There may be some pain involved, similar to what we experience during a severe influenza. Hugging meditations help a lot with this and can even take away the pain completely for several hours. Detoxifying teas can also help the process.
Observing Our Desires
During the six to nine days of fasting, we can observe all the cravings that arise. On the second day we may still be craving sugar in all its forms as the body realises it is not getting enough and looks for ways to produce it. We may feel weaker than usual during this time.
Then the body goes into keto mode, which means it starts to make the sugars it needs to live from our fat stores. The taste in the mouth may feel strange. Sugar often loses its appeal and our cravings are likely to focus more on fatty foods of all kinds, even those we haven’t eaten in a long time. For vegetarians or vegans, this could even include inner images of meat.
I find it helpful to observe if these cravings go away after a few days or if some of them persist. Those are the ones I want to work on more.
Diving Into Our Cravings
This is the part that some people find difficult, and for some it simply does not work very well. When I break my fast, I allow myself to eat whatever I want – but very slowly, so as not to overload the stomach and especially the blood sugar balance. I would not advise starting with orange juice or other concentrated sources of sugar. But why not have half a pizza and a veggie burger if those are the strongest cravings?
Then I follow with a new rhythm, perhaps eating one healthy raw food meal a day or maybe also with some more fasting days. Again, I observe my cravings. Anything left? Then I reserve a day or two when I will fully indulge into them.
To allow this, even if it is very unhealthy industrial food, is to let go of it. I observe what this food does to my energetic frequencies, my moods, my emotions. And then I freely choose more healthy food or more fasting time. This happens naturally for me because all my body cells are longing to feel that beautiful inner astral tingling, to feel the inner energy flows, to feel light and free again.
When more cravings come, I repeat the process. Slowly I go from plateau to plateau, taking only small dips to teach all my body cells what they really want to experience and that it will never come from physical food.