Benefits of Fasting: A Guide on fasting and Remedies for Common Illnesses

By Ram Das

Fasting has become increasingly popular over the years, especially among the health community. Whilst most health practitioners are afraid to recommend eating less due to the stigma involved, it still doesn't alleviate the incredible benefits of fasting when used sensibly.Fasting improves insulin sensitivity, improves metabolism, promotes longevity, improves hunger and many more.
That alone is the right medicine which can remove disease: he alone is the true physician who can restore health

• Language: English
• Publisher: Winchester Publications
• Release date: Sep 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386849988

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Benefits of Fasting: A Guide on fasting and Remedies for Common Illnesses

Ram Das

Published by Winchester Publications, 2018.

Benefits of Fasting: A Guide on fasting and Remedies for Common Illnesses

By Ram Das

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Winchester Publications

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Contents

Fasting:

Who is free from disease?

Ritual fasting on certain days:

The Meaning of Fasting:

Fasting-a natural way of living:

Detoxication:

Simple methods of fasting:

Advantages of consuming limited food:

Nature Cure:

Procedure to be observed while fasting:

Signs of Good Health:

Reasons for ill-health:

Indigestion:

Lung problems:

Skin diseases:

Impaired function of kidneys:

Cancer:

How can we be free from illness?

Panacea for all ills:

Protein Rich Food:

CONCLUSION

Fasting:

The Sun is a giant star around whom nine planets namely Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move. The planet which is farthest from the Sun is Pluto. The others which can be seen with the naked eye are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The moon is a satellite moving around the earth. The seven days in a week are named after seven of these celestial bodies with which man is familiar Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), Tuesday (Mars), Wednesday (Mercury), Thursday (Jupiter), Friday (Venus) and Saturday (Saturn). However, there seems to be no relation between these celestial bodies and week days. The week is just a measure of time devised by man for calculation of time. There are fifty two weeks in a year.

There is no natural law which dictates that particular Gods and Goddesses have to be propitiated on particular days of the week, as for example: obeisanceto the Sun on Sundays, worship of Shiva on Mondays, Parvathi on Tuesdays, Krishna on Wednesdays, Saint Raghavendra on Thursdays, Lakshmi on Fridays and Lakshminarasimha on Saturdays. But these rituals appear to have been devised and prescribed by our elders with the lofty purpose of instilling the ideas of physical, mental and spiritual life healthy in body and mind by observing certain penances by way of worship.

Man is a child of Nature like plants, trees, animals, birds, insects and other innumerable living beings. None of them can afford to transgress the Laws of Nature; nor can they live in isolation from Nature. Any imbalance in Nature sounds a death-knell to the living beings, as for example, plants wither when the Sun is too

Reviews for Benefits of Fasting

[Simon Says · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Helpful overview of reasons to fast, good to read if even remotely interested. Very responsible in warning folks to fast with intention. I find information is best read a week or two before a fast. Give yourself time to observe your relationship to food, affirm that relationship, and then build the resolve to undertake the fast. Start small and reflect on each fast. Give yourself a week or three in between perhaps. Ram Dass' words in his brief anecdote, "Getting Ahead of Ourselves", are incredibly helpful here. Wishing you a lovely time on the path, may you and all beings be free. Amen.