According to Jeremy Saffron, we live in a world that is becoming increasingly toxic-from the air we breath to the food we eat to the negative thoughts we carry inside our minds. Over time, physical and mental toxicity contributes to depleted energy, spiritual apathy, and eventually poor health. In The Fasting Handbook, raw food pioneer […]
Buddha’s Fasting Experience
Buddha spoke highly of fasting and said that during his fasts, “My soul becomes brighter, my spirit, more alive in wisdom and truth.” Buddha’s fasting experience played a central role in formation of Buddhism. Around 500 B.C.E., Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) left his affluent family in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha believed that desire was the root […]
Fasting: An Exceptional Human Experience
In honor of the release of my new book, Fasting: An Exceptional Human Experience, I will be posting blogs that are excerpts from the book. As a psychotherapist, I often talk with people who have sacrificed self-care in lieu of other activities, usually work related. Many of them have either abandoned a spiritual practice or […]
Wisdom from the Monastery
Much of this book discusses fasting and its importance. The book also discusses healthy living; diet, sleeping patterns, herbs, and the importance of silence. You get the perspective of living in a monastery, It is a very calming book and will take you from wherever you are into a kinder, gentler, more reflective place in […]