#307 Fasting, Instincts, and Resistance: Exploring the Body's Primal Urges 🍽️🥜💧

1 min Read |  01 Feb 2024 

Maria: I don’t understand how you can avoid eating when food is around; the moment food is present, I am hungry.

However, the ability to stay hungry can sometimes override hunger, and it has become relatively easier for me. But after 24-28 hours, I usually get a sharp headache, slurred speech due to hypoglycemia. Yesterday, for the first time, I woke up at 2 am after fasting for 14 hours and was unable to push it to 24 hours or go back to sleep. Having salt water during the fast helps to avoid dehydration. 

Though staying hungry and fasting isn’t recommended for middle way spiritual practices, it's an indicator of taming one of the body’s primal instincts. Today, I was trying to see how long I could hold a cashew in my mouth and watch the natural power instincts of the body and the resistance required to override a conditioned behavior. Managed to do it for 20 minutes: 10 minutes of getting ready and a 10-minute walk to the office. 

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