My first day of dry fasting is coming to an end.
Every thing is fine; I haven’t even thought about it much since I have been very busy between work and family, as always. A couple of times, in coincidence of lunch and dinner times, my mind reminded me that I had not eaten …. indeed I had to remember to prepare the dinner for my husband.
Where did my hunger stimulus go? And the call of food? And the aqualine in my mouth? And the hunger pangs? And the difficulty of resisting the appeal of food products in plain sight everywhere?
Nothing! completely absent! Yet another proof that the need to eat is in our mind. Be warned: I’m not anorexic; indeed, I prepare and eat my daily meals normally and with great pleasure. Therefore, certainly my serene reaction to the lack of food intake is not due to any kind of disorder …. Right! Because we are also used to believe that “lack of appetite” is a symptom of diseases. In my case it is simply a matter of being free from mental dependence on food, an addiction that is inculcated in us from all sides to support the current industrial and commercial systems …. let’s overlook the health one!
By the way, we are in a moment of great threat to health, a threat that once again reminds us that our biggest and devious enemies are the smallest and even invisible ones. Well, even in this case we are talking about numbers, we are talking about what name to attribute to it, we are talking about how to prevent it from entering our body. In all these days I have not yet heard about the importance of keeping our immune system in good health, once again we are not reminded that our most powerful weapon is the ability of our own body to destroy these harmful microorganisms. Still, what we should do is upgrade what strengthens our immune system – healthy nutrition, breathing control, moderate exercise and meditation, for example – and avoid everything that weakens it, including the fear itself, which now circulates on all mass media!
Dry Fasting Tales 