It doesn't have much to do with will power as opposed to my having many factors on my side.
- I don't have an addiction to coffee or anything else to help me stay awake. I rarely drink any soda. My main drink is distilled/purified water.
- I don't take any medication, whether it's prescribed or over the counter.
- I don't have any chronic or acute illnesses.
Addiction, medication and having a chronic or acute illness requires supervised fasting. It's recommended that a person break an addiction before fasting especialy if unsupervised. Although prolonged water fasting eliminates addiction, many can't fast long enough for fasting to eliminate the addictive substances from the body. The person will either yield to their emotional addiction to the substance or break the fast due to the discomfort of the stored substance being released in their body.
Even medication taken years ago are still being released from the body while fasting. Can you imagine the amount of medication being released from a person still on or was recently on medication? It's just not pretty.
Here's the reason why the body still has amounts of addictive substances or medication in the body. It's the body's defense against too much poison in the body at any one time. The substances are stored where they can't do much harm like in the form of fat in order to protect the body. When a person fasts, the body is getting cleaned and these substances are finally being released. Many are not able to handle the discomfort.
Those who have a chronic or acute illness will have the most fear of fasting. Fear of fasting itself leads to death in many cases. A supervised fast is recommended so that a professional practioner can not only educate the faster with a chronic or acute illness, but the practitioner can also run tests so that the faster can see the fast is progressing safely. More knowledge about the fast and testing results will alleviate the faster's fears and reassure the fasting individual.
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