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FASTING ED.D. LEARNS FROM REPEAT FAST!

[FCI NOTE: One of the most common questions among prospective fasting clients accessing Fasting Center International's Virtual Office each day of every year--from 220 nations on seven continents--is: "Do people maintain their gains, after doing your Scientific Fasting Program?" We respond that although most do, each individual must muster the courage and discipline to do so. For some, old habits are harder to break, so when Life's stressors again appear, they revert to their previous self-sabotaging behaviors and deleterious addictions, knowing full well where those lead, but rationalizing away the concerns their intuitive wisdom voices. There are also spiritual issues involved with all addictions--from alcohol and eating disorders, to junk food and sugar Jonesing.

      In "Natural Health, Natural Medicine," Harvard-trained M.D. and botanist Andrew Weil writes:

"Addiction is not a psychological or pharmacological problem, and cannot be solved by the methods of psychology or pharmacology. It is, at root, a spiritual concern, because it represents a misdirected attempt to achieve wholeness, to experience inner completeness and satisfaction."

      FCI's 35-year experience with supervising the World's Largest Fasting Clientele, suffering all manner of addictions--from eating disorders, crack and smack, to alcohol, caffeine and nicotine--concurs with Doctor Weil's diagnosis, which is why the second half of FCI's "Recommended Reading" list we make available to our global clientele is wealthy with books teaching clients how to finally address this existential anxiety or spiritual angst, as well as many on how to finally transform one's mind and control this rogue-elephant aspect all addicts must.

      As everyone can see, especially by just looking in any direction here in America--the fattest nation on Earth--eating disorders are often quite difficult to resolve, since they involve finally addressing this deep-seated spiritual angst the eating-disordered are incorrectly trying to fill with food. Thus, quite a few such clients actually return to do second and sometimes third long Scientific Fasting Programs with FCI, in order to finally resolve their particular eating disorder.

      As just one, representative example of how that's achieved over time--three years, in this case--you may wish to read the post-fast testimonial of a client who's done three long fasts at FCI, and is now a young physician.

      Below is another example--an equally well-educated client returning seven years after completing our Total Detox. Fasting Program (having failed to incorporate what he'd learned). Again, since no one can control your mind but you, it's a personal decision for every FCI client, post-fast, whether they like the way they then feel in their inner equivalent of a Ferrari California or Tesla Roadster. . .or whether those old, deleterious habits still have the power to lure them back into severely compromised health, happiness and healing power again.

      Most prefer the former, enough to adopt the more intelligent dietary and lifestyle practices which FCI teaches all clients, combined with our recommendation of fasting at least two-to-three weeks each year--kind of like a Spring cleaning--to maintain their gains, especially those among our global clientele living in progressively more toxic urban environments.

      Michael Masters, now retired to Colorado, followed this path for several years after his first FCI Scientific Fasting Program, but then took on a new job which added considerably more stress to his life, so he found himself backsliding into the bad habits which his intuitive wisdom had originally led him to FCI to resolve. . ."to establish a foundation of health on which to build the remainder of my life."

      Here, he's speaking seven years after completing his first ScientificFasting Program with FCI, only now as a retiree, 56, admitting: "I am having fun approaching this Total Detox. Fasting Program in a whole different way than I did last time. Obviously, the experience of having completed the Fasting Program seven years ago has changed my perspective. I remember having all kinds of anxiety when I read certain of the introductory emails last time: eg., those relating to enemas, juicers, etc. Now, I realize all that stuff is easily doable, and falls into the category of tools. I want to concentrate much more fully on the bigger picture this time, and really get into all phases of the self-improvement." Ten days later, he would write:

By Michael Masters, Ed.D., FCI client
"TODAY IS my Transitioning-In Day #1, on my second Total Detoxifying supervised fast. I spent quite a bit of time last night reading over the "New Client Letters" and associated 'windows' in on fellow fasters also just beginning their Programs, which FCI emailed me. I smiled as I read my own T1 'contribution' from the last fast I did with you. It was apparent that I had a lot of anxiety and apprehension about the safety of the Program, etc. Now, however, I have no such anxiety as I embark on this one.

      " I do want to do this fast better. I want to be much more in tune with my spirit, as I go, and with how this can be a long-lasting health benefit to me. It will be nice to be focused on the bigger picture--more important things--rather than how to administer an enema, how to juice, etc.

      "I will be 56 years old next week; I am 5-foot 9-inch and my weight has crept back up to 254 lbs. I am not sleeping well. I have a second Sleep Study scheduled for the second week of next month, at which time I will probably be fitted with a CPAP mask, etc. [CPAP--continuous positive airway pressure--is a method of respiratory ventilation used primarily in the treatment of sleep apnea, for which it was first developed.]

      "Also, I have lots of muscular aches and pains, nearly all the time. My thinking is often foggy, and my memory is a shadow of its former self. I awaken with feelings of obsession about my poor state of health, especially my weight, and I go to bed with those same feelings. At least now that I have embarked on this process again, I know I am doing something about it. I also know that in a matter of weeks, I won't be obsessing about those things.

      "When I completed my last long fast, I felt great about myself, the process, the future, etc. But, I made some big mistakes. I went on a vacation almost immediately after the transitioning out, and did not practice what I had learned from my first fast with FCI. It was almost as if I had a false sense of invulnerability, due to my success on the fast. I did a couple of shorter fasts over the next several years, and managed my weight pretty well, but after a couple of years, I accepted a position as superintendent of a school district, after which it seems I allowed myself to fall completely back into my old self-destructive behavior.

      "The job was, of course, incredibly stressful, and I turned once again to food as my source of comfort. I stopped exercising and told myself I simply didn't have time. Gradually, over the years, I lost the benefits of what I had learned and gained from FCI's Scientific Fasting Program. Once in a while, I would think of the fast I had undergone, and my cowardliness would allow me to rationalize that the Fasting Program was no more effective than any other program I had ever tried, because, after all, wasn't I right back where I'd started?

      "Now, I have retired and have been thinking, for the first time in a very long time, about myself as a being in the Universe, rather than an employee of a school district. One of my friends gave me a book entitled "Younger Next Year" that strongly advocates a vigorous six days a week of exercise, including two days of lifting weights. Reading the book caused me to reflect on my FCI fasting experience, as the authors seems to project the same kind of joy of life that you project, Dennis.

      "I am now framing my thinking in a whole different way. I want to use the FCI Scientific Fasting Program as a long-term tool to stay alive and healthy as long as I possibly can. As such, I am not focused on the final day of this fast as some sort of magical day; I know, now, that it won't be. The only 'magic' will be what I create, myself, from using the knowledge I have acquired about how to take proper care of myself.

      "I love the phrase you introduced me to: 'Don't push the river.' It means so much more to me today than it did when I began the Fasting Program seven years ago. I think I finally get it. So, I am not going to be focused on day-to-day routines of the fast: I am going to be focused on what I can learn about my body, mind and soul, as I go through this.

Learning From Fasts--Goals Statement:

      "I want to lose the unnecessary fat that I have on my body. I want to regain a sense of energy and joy about exercising, and apply that to my new life as a retiree. I want to increase my flexibility and strength, as I begin to feel better.

      "I want to rid my body of the toxins I have placed in it, and of those I have absorbed from the environment.

      "I want to experience that clarity that I discovered on my last long fast, and take the correct steps to maintain that clarity beyond this fast."

      "I want to have a re-awakening of my spirituality, and come to terms with what is really important to me.

      "I want a second chance at doing this the right way. In short, I want to be 'younger next year.'

      "Thanks, Dennis. I am ready to go, and have launched my Program with T1 being today.--Michael Masters"

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