The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal - Hardcover

Buhner, Stephen Harrod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583331700 ISBN 13: 9781583331705

Publisher: Avery, 2003

Synopsis

Identifying a link between the traditional practice of fasting and spiritual awareness, a guide to fasting safely provides step-by-step instructions while counseling readers on how to realize its physical, emotional, and spiritual healing benefits.

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From the Back Cover:

HEALTH / WELLNESS

For millennia humans have fasted for spiritual, emotional, and physical reasons--as a way to heal their bodies, reconnect to the sacred, regain a sense of life’s purpose, and allow their souls to detoxify. We are evolutionarily designed to fast, and the body knows how to do it very well. Fasting allows the body and all its systems to rest, purify, and heal. During a fast, the body enters the same cleansing and healing cycle it normally enters during sleep. As a fast progresses, the body consumes everything that is not essential to bodily functioning--including bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, waste products in the blood, buildup around the joints, and stored fat--and the mind and heart release their toxic buildup as well. As Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals, in order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself.

Offering step-by-step guidelines to fully prepare yourself for a deep fast, Buhner explores what to expect during and after spiritual, emotional, and physical fasting and detoxification. He details the necessary dietary and mental preparations leading up to your fast, what you can and can’t do during a fast, and how to end your fast. He also explains how to plan the length of your fast and how to choose between a water fast, a juice fast, or a mono-diet fast. Revealing how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, childhood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fibromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way to truly inhabit the body, to experience its sacredness, and to activate its deep capabilities for self-healing.

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER lectures throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, and the intelligence of nature. His other books include Ensouling Language, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.

About the Author:

Stephen Harrod Buhner is a master herbalist, psychotherapist, and an expert on indigenous and contemplative spiritual traditions. Much of his work and writing focuses on herbal and alternative healing, deep ecology, and sacred plant medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avery
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1583331700
• ISBN 13: 9781583331705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224