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The Unrelenting Boredom Of Fasting

Categories: Fasting
Sources: How And When To Be Your Own Doctor

Then there's the unrelenting boredom of fasting. Most people have

been media junkies since they were kids; the only way they believe

they can survive another day of fasting is by diverting their minds

with TV. This is far from ideal because often the emotions of a

faster are like an open wound and when they resonate with the

emotions portrayed on most TV shows, the faster gets into some very

unpleasant states that inte
fere with healing. And the emotions many

movies prompt people to sympathetically generate are powerful ones,

often highly negative, and contrary to healing. Especially unhelpful

are the adrenaline rushes in action movies. But if TV is the best a

faster can do, it is far better that someone fast with television

programming filling their minds than to not fast at all. I keep a

library of positive VHS tapes for these addicts--comedies, stories of

heroic over-comings, depiction's of humans at their best.



Boredom is probably the most limiting factor to fasting a long time.

That is because boredom is progressive, it gets worse with each

slowly-passing day. But concurrently, the rate of healing is

accelerating with each slowly-passing day. Every day the faster gets

through does them considerably more good than the previous day.

However, fasters rarely are motivated enough to overcome boredom for

more than two weeks or so, unless they started the fast to solve a

very serious or life-threatening condition. For this reason,

basically well people should not expect to be able to fast for more

than a couple of weeks every six months or year, no matter how much

good a longer fast might do.



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