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Does suffering while on MC have a use? I used to think there was no use to it, but now I think there is. Suffering can be good medicine. While on a fast we use poison, our difficulties, as medicine. It’s as if there’s a moment of suffering that occurs over and over and over again in every human life. What usually happens in that moment is that it hardens us; it hardens the heart because we don’t want any more pain. But it will help while on MC if you can take that very moment and flip it. The very thing that causes us to harden and our suffering to intensify can soften us and allow us to have a better day.

This takes a lot of courage. Fasting is a program for people who are willing to cultivate their courage. What’s wonderful about it is that MC will give you plenty of material to work with. If you’re waiting for only the high points to work with, you might give up, but there’s an endless succession of suffering while cleansing the body. Dissatisfaction is inherent in being human; it’s not some mistake that you or I have made as individuals. Therefore, if we can learn to catch that moment, to relax with it, dissatisfaction doesn’t need to keep escalating. In fact it can become the seed of self compassion, the seed of loving kindness towards one's process on MC.

The heart literally responds to this practice. You can feel it responding physically. As you breathe in what is difficult to bear, there is initial resistance, which is the fear, the constriction. That’s the time when you really have to be brave. But if you keep going and keep practicing, your heart will relax. This is quite amazing to feel.

When we fast we often have ideals we think we’re supposed to live up to. We feel we’re supposed to be better than we are in some way. But on MC you take yourself completely as you are. Your dissatisfactions of yourself that you bring to the cleanse, and the pain you endure during the process, will heighten your awareness of exactly where you’re stuck in your life, or with your body. Instead of feeling you need some magic makeover so you can suddenly become some great person, there’s much more emotional honesty about where you’re stuck the fast can teach you.

You begin to see as each day passes on the cleanse, that your work is right ahead of you all the time. Then a kind of unstuckness starts to happen. You develop lovingkindness and compassion for this self that is stuck, with your fifty pounds of overweight, or your candida infection that will not go away. You have a sense of all the other people on the forum here who are stuck just like you, and this fast begins to awaken your compassion. We are not connected here on this forum because of our perfection, but because of our flaws. Knowing this is such relief.

All the darkness of human beings is a shared thing from the beginning of time. Let this understanding open up your heart, let it open up your world on your cleanse today. Let this fast help you to think bigger. Rather than letting it depress you, allow it to make you feel part of the whole.

Hello my “fellow sufferers,” I call us that because that’s often how it feels on MC. We aren’t angels, we aren’t saints, we’re all facing this day, doing the best we can. We’re trying to be good people, but we really do face incredible challenges. For some of us the fast becomes the beginning of our spiritual path, we begin looking for the answers. We become willing to work with our negativity.

When you fast you will face moments where you are not able to entertain your self out of the pain. The usual exits, the usual ways of distracting yourself, are not available to us anymore. You can't stuff your feelings with a cheeseburger. There's nothing wrong with negativity per se, that comes up for us while on the fast, there's actually a lot we can learn from it. It is a very strong creative energy. The real problem is negative negativity, which is when you don’t just stay with negativity but spin off into all the endless cycle of things you can say to yourself about it. Like I hate the SWF, I will NEVER do it again. It makes me barf! Or whatever story line you spin off into about the unpleasantness of your cleansing program. What gets us is the spinoff. If you could just sit with the basic feeling then you could free yourself, but it’s almost impossible if you’re caught up in one mental drama after another. This is what we must let go of to have a successful cleanse.

What we call negative energies—such our anger, lust and jealousy- these powerful energies—are all actually wisdoms in disguise. But to experience that you have to not spin off; you have to be able to relax with the energy.

So fasting, can be considered to be more of a mental practice. It is our entry into being able to sit with that kind of energy. Know you are not alone, everyone on a fast today in the entire world is in the same boat you are in. Eventually you will find great joy coming out of this. The joyous thing I always feel from my fasts is that I feel more open, I feel more openness toward people in my world.
I think this is the result of going the distance in your own heart—really being disciplined about opening your heart as much as you can. Your fast is like finding yourself in a closed room, and it's whole purpose is to open the door. Each day you stay on course, you will have to keep opening it The fast will keep you honest. The inspiration that comes from feeling the openness seems so important, but on the other hand, I’m sure it would eventually turn into some kind of spiritual pride or arrogance. So life has this miraculous ability to smack you in the face with a real humdinger just when you’re going over the edge in terms of thinking you’ve accomplished something. That humbles you; it’s some kind of natural balancing that keeps you human. At the same time the sense of joy does get stronger and stronger

Good to see you back shivabliss

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When we fast it helps to breathe in suffering and breathe out relief and healing. Breathing in what is the most difficult, allows us to own it, to get to know it, to feel it out. To bring it into yourself. Think of all the people who don’t think that there is any darkness in them. There are millions of people who think they don’t have any darkness. But it’s something that we all have, and part of the problem is that we’ve been pushing all this stuff away and denying it, so of course it’s the biggest shadow you can imagine. That’s what’s clobbering us when we do MC, it's everything we've been pushing away. Doing MC is like taking off something that’s been covering your eyes and hindering your ability to see. It’s overcoming your fear of what’s painful, although actually your fast opens you to both joy and suffering. If you aim your fast just at joy, then when suffering comes you will think you blew it! We quit because we feel we can't live up to the instructions. That’s very common. People want it all on the joy side or the success side. Then when the mood changes, or the energy changes, you feel that you’ve made some mistake or you’re a failure. So our fast must include all of that.
On MC there is nothing that can happen to you that you can’t use. It takes a while to get the hang of that, but when you start to hear yourself saying “bad dog” or whatever, you stop right there and acknowledge what you’re feeling and the billions of other people feeling the same way. Somehow that shakes up our ways of getting stuck.

Never be ashamed of yourself if you are not able to stay with your fast. We are all just ordinary human beings. What is a little unusual about those of us who experiment with MC is that we are willing to try the fast, even if it's just for a day or two.

It’s also important to accept and even embrace the fact of our imperfection. Our imperfection is probably our one perfection

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My dear Soleil,
Hi Sunshine. So now you see that the fast is about far more than just not eating and drinking lemonade. It is about controlling your ego and focusing your consciousness on your inner spirit. When you do this the inconsistencies embedded in your personality are reflected back to you. You don't even know why you crashed the fast, it was just a knee jerk reaction. In time you will find that the urge to crash, passes in about five minutes. All you need to do is breathe and do anything but... anything but the old behavior that does not serve you. When you do this, your spiritual energy will grow. This is what is known as transcendence. Transcendence will take you from the phony part of you to the depths of what is real in you. Let your fast help you to shed the old self. I think you will find the process invigorating and liberating, but like ointment on a cut, it might sting a bit. Everyone who starts a fast will find bits of themselves that havn't pledged allegiance to the process. It helps if you can be completely honest with yourself. Write down your fasting goals and align your consciousness with the part of you that wants to heal. Fasting is an ayurvedic healing remedy, that requires complete honesty. Only you know what brings you to your cleanse. It is this truth that gets you through tough moments. Truth is vital if you want to progress on your journey. It is not about being moral, it's about getting a grip on your personal power and realizing your full potential. I am sure much of what you believe about yourself is highly inaccurate. If we don't learn to control our shadow sides, they tow us around forever.

Love,
Shivabliss

hi shivis--I love your posts!!! Thank you!!

wow...You are an amazing person. I love how what you write makes perfect sense. I feel like this road I have been on for too long makes me detached from the world in a negative way.

Thank you both Ariel777 and Rapunzel for connecting with me, and letting me know that you are there. I think sometimes that is all any of us ever need, is just a little reassurance.

Don't let the fast irritate you. As you perservere to your fasting goals you will find that the power of our spirits always erode the power of the ego. The healing process is on it's way- you gather momentum.

As individuals we often feel small and insignificant. We begin our fasts and feel as vulnerable as a kitten on a freeway.

The fast will crumble the old you, by stretching you mentally. It will lead you up the scale of consciousness to higher and higher plateaus and your regular attitudes will disappear completely. That frightened little kitty in you, begins to roar like the true LION you were born to be.