Diaries of a Beautiful Woman №14 — Fasting
#Body & Wellness
I could hardly fall asleep today morning, all excited about writing and sharing my sensations on Ramadan fast. Now I know that when you feel that way — it’s efficient to fall in the excitement and write with that emotion, cause I would have had more interesting and flowing text. But, nevertheless, there’s always space to learn. So, next time, hopefully, I’ll follow the impulse.
Now, overall observation of what it feels to dry fast from early morning to the late evening right in accord with the sun rhythm.
First of all, there is so much time vacated in your day, as if the time doubles or triples for you. To pass it you engage in things that most probably were waiting for a long time to be looked at. Therefore, from time efficiency perspective, fasting is great, cause it gives you extra, by the sensation, ten hours, to do your stuff.
Secondly, the feeling of fast. When we actually experience hunger, it feels good. By the time it gets closer to the iftar, hence, the evening time, you almost feel like something is going on cellular level in your body. You almost feel the waste management process inside of you. Some incineration furnace functioning in your body that burns all the ill and malfunctioning cells. It’s a good feeling, undescribeable. Excess stuff and fat being burned.
Third, is the skin. Although I got minor breakouts on my forehead and my chin as this is the area my liver or other organs send the waste to through the bloodstream, with time the skin calms down. And you feel it getting more elastic and smooth. Yes, definitely more elastic. They, scientists and doctors, say that fasting turns on longevity genes plus encourages the production of stem cells. That expensive celebrity treatment ordinary people have no access to. But here’s a free access to the natural rejuvenation mechanism, most likely the best there is on the market.
Fourth, the cravings. One of the most profound things that come with fasting is that you learn to hear your body. You learn to recognize what it truly likes. How it responds to the treatment you give it. Fasting is a way to talk to your body, to give it a rest, to minimize and optimize your food intake. It’s like meditation or prayer for mental health — you take a moment, pause, distance yourself from the outside noise, have a look in, and you calm down, arrange your thoughts, harmonize yourself. Fasting is like that, it pauses your bodily processes, gives you a look inside, distances you from all the luring desires and social influences out there. You feel immune to that. You feel on your own wave, and you no longer need any advices from anybody else. You’re tuned in to the highest source.
Now I think, why was I so afraid of Ramadan fasting? Why the thought of not drinking any beverage made me scared? I’m glad I came to it now, at thirty-seven, to the conscious apprehension of the process. That’s it’s more than just your body or shape or even morality. It’s a healer. A healing instrument, just like prayer and meditation, just like walking and moving, just like water, fresh air, plants and all. We are born with it. But all that information mess that’s been circulating is trying to convince us of the opposite. This is the number one thing that repairs and restores, rejuvenates and refreshes. No material stuff can do that, material object, I mean. But living organisms can. And that’s a miracle.
I also learned that sugar and anything that raises insulin is aging, hence, breaking down the body, and teeth certainly. And I ate so much of sugar and sweets in my life! It’s the sensations to observe and look at. So, whenever I eat something sweet or pastry, a donut, a bun, chocolate, you name it, I have an urge to brush my teeth. And as I brush my teeth frequently, they become sensitive. But during this fast, for example, I’ve been eating dates. And yes, they are sweet and savory, but that’s a natural sugar in them, so my teeth feel ok and they don’t ask cleaning as much as they do if I’d eat something artificially sugary. Which brings me to:
Fifth, your teeth. You feel and know they are having the best vacation ever. Really, even if you don’t brush your teeth, they are doing good — looking, feeling fresh and white as ever. Even one minor cavity I got to fix, it stopped bothering at all. Something happens to the teeth during the fast, that they start feeling and looking their best. Some magic.
Though, it’s only been a couple of days, but you feel these things. You feel your body responding and reacting in a grateful, positive way. For all the hard work our cells and body organs have been doing so long, how can we not reward and cherish them?!
Overall, fasting feels good. It does. And it’s probably the most transformative and healing instrument there is to upgrade your health, your body, and your appearance.
Luvs! Will keep observing. All for you, guys, all for you. I want each and everyone of you, of us, to feel more than just worthy, to feel divine, apt and capable of miraculous living, of divine apprehension of ourselves, of living our dreams and living the best versions of ourselves in the moment. Remember, you’re worth it, you’re beautiful by nature and God’s plan, you’re divine, unique and forever beautiful. Forever young, fresh and cool!
