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Sun meals and Arabian nights: Eat dark, Fast days.
by Karen Kellock Ph.D.
Update 2012. Arabian nights and sunlit days! Eat your fauna [animal protein] in the morning before dawn. Then enjoy your hunger-free day and have some fruit at night. You'll find this reversal between lowcarb and fruitarianism will totally turn on your light. With the vegan crowd who yells so loud this will end the fight. But make sure your meats are cruelty-free, grass-fed and certified organic, all right?
The Ramadan Fast is eating before dawn and after dusk—fasting during daylight hours. We Scotch love our big breakfasts as the most important meal of the day. I was always told it wouldn’t matter if I ate again—I’ll say it matters if you do! Being such an early-riser my fasting life is usually from breakfast-to-breakfast. I love Ramadan Fasting of eating before dawn and at night nothing or just a few nuts. Most Muslims eat far more for the nightly feast but I recommend keeping the nightly meal very slight for the sake of human growth hormone which perfects the engine at night if fasting. I love dividing the day into bipolar opposites day and night. The fast is for days to look your best, trigger your inspiration, illuminate your work and power in public. Eat only in dark--become a secret society as the king is never seen eating but maintains highest energy all day.
Fasting is mentioned in the Bible as often as prayer yet few Christians use it consistently as a rewarded routine. Not so in days of old when fasting was taken so seriously as a means of overcoming enemies, receiving God’s guidance, clearing out physical ailments, eliminating demons, healing the sick and doing God’s work under the anointing---His tangible spirit making burdensome work a breeze. Fasting works and it’s rewarded by God every time so it should be done consistently and with great deliberation. It should be our trump card, our ace-in-the-hole when all else fails. It should be looked forward to with great expectancy and glee as a wonderful gift from God to enjoy and use as a fail-free device to receive His Power. For the faster all problems dissolve.
Fasting should be taught to our children more than anything else as the way to control appetites and improve character--as it has been passed on to one billion Muslims across the world. Ramadan is the month-long Sacred Fast of Islam. Fasting is one of the major pillars of Islam--not just another incidental bit of ignored law. To get to God’s infinite power we must fast and without it we simply won’t experience His bountiful blessings and promises. Learning of Ramadan was the beginning of my consistent fasting life every day after breakfast. Only by stepping out of my usual matrix and investigating another lifestyle could I really see the sacred fast for all the beauty and bounty it brings. As you fast think only of God--let Him pour his wisdom into you. Afflict (deny) self to get to His mighty power. Fast today and miracles will flow your way.
Ramadan is no eating during daylight hours--we “eat the sun”. During the day we fast and at night we eat--night and day are as different as black and white. Arabian (desert) nights, how you shine in blue and purple so different from bright days of yellow and gold! I have always enjoyed fasting this way long before I knew anything about Ramadan for I live in a hot desert like Arabia where day and night are like two different worlds. There are two different sets of wildlife: those who arise at day and those coming out at night. Everything is in these same two sets--dark and light. When not given denser food during daylight hours the fasting body automatically re-adapts to grasping all nutrition from higher sources--the sun and air is our “light lunch”. How easy—you start the fast full, then enjoy the day with maximum energy as digestive energy is transmuted into creative action without lull! Devoid of food the days are more fun and miraculous than the nights for we rise to far higher pleasures. Since food is usually the biggest distraction its deletion from our thought life brings an explosion of new openings and vistas of thought during daylight hours and then at night the festivities begin, a salute to the achievement of the day. The days are totally creative as the glorious light shines on our work and brings it to completion. The desert is such a special place to prove this out.
I have always enjoyed a predawn meal (the Arabian name is “suhoor”) followed by a fasting day feeling so exuberant living off this highest invisible nutrition then taking a siesta or just meditating in the afternoon fasting state. Then when dusk falls it is an entirely different night adventure and the post-dusk meal called “iftar” which for me is a few raisins, nuts or nothing. This type of Ramadan day always ends in cozy deep sleep and waking up so refreshed. Learning about Ramadan taught me how to appreciate more of God in this day-process thinking of Him constantly. It cast a much more serious—edifying--light on the fast, for beyond better health you’ll also be rid of various appetites bringing your downfall. Self-control over the instincts and other troublesome traits builds great character. Your talents can really take you places but only your fast-built character will keep you there.
Ramadan fasting is difficult if eating an insulin-elevating breakfast. Starch, sugar or fruit will catalyze your appetite to start the day in hunger. This is shooting yourself in the foot before you even run the race! Elevate glucagons through fat and you’ll start the fast in ketosis in top speed and exhilaration. You’ll get a head start if you eat to ketosis then fast to championship--don’t ever forget that sugar and starch (and for a few of you even fruit) is your enemy. As far as sugar is concerned you may never retrieve normalcy but fortunately I did, for I love fruit. Now I enjoy melted cheese with garlic and cashews with pineapple on the side. This is so satisfying there is no hunger for 24 hours or more. During my year of fat-fasting I had an early cheese omelet and knew I wouldn’t be hungry again and could just enjoy the day--knowing I looked and operated at my best. Having eaten fat I was a ready rocket but with sugar and starch I was a dead log and the fast was miserable.
I’ve gotten so into the fasting part of the day that the suhoor meal is increasingly just a mainstay--a way to sustain the fast. Just watch what happens as the food obsession is replaced by higher creative thoughts. Knowing you won’t be eating during the day, a torrent of creative action is released. You’ll see that despite your age you’re a dynamo, like creativity and problem-solving never ceased! You will love how you feel, how things look, how music sounds, how vital you are. The compulsion to eat in order to deal with deep gutsy issues will now be dissolved as you face them instead to be replaced by a new joy of living. You’ll see why a book on psychology should contain so much on fasting—the over-comer’s device of victory and healthy-mindedness.
Fasting is the fastest way to build great character and it’s taught to very Muslim child as a major pillar of life. I have a saying about success: whatever the burdensome work postpone it until tomorrow and just fast today. When you wake up the irksome activity will be a snap! We should fast for our success which occurs via revelation, separation and reconnection: Since all disease is obstruction our recovery occurs by elimination. Once having cleared the way it comes in by attraction alone.
Whenever I’m feeling timid, uncertain, confused or creatively dry I hang my burdens needs and hopes on the fast to fix it. If there is fear, the fast removes it. If there is doubt the fast solves it. If there is dejection the hole inside is filled by the Creator himself while on the fast. With each day you’ll be more sure of life itself. As we age do our powers wane? Not ever on the fast as we have all the power of our maker at our disposal. The fail-safe fast is free so let it be your front. Just be silent as all the power of God swoops down to fill the gaps--it ends energy saps and spiritual lapse.
I love day fasting: getting up while it’s still dark, feeling so good because of the previous day’s fast, preparing the predawn meal and thanking God for both this and the new day. This predawn meal is blessed and we should gratefully eat it in silence and feel renewed as we prepare for the day that lies ahead. What a wonderful way to start the blessed day--so different from the night. In a fasting state this day brings numerous blessings and lessons so we should ready ourselves in great anticipation.
What I love about the Ramadan fast is how it leaves you in a continuous state of readiness for anything during the day. No one should ever see you eating! With the rest of the world energetically down in the gut during business hours and you in the head fasting with angels--who will win? You will. With the day free of this absorbing compulsive activity miracles are now attracted in. It’s amazing what happens when you “leave a space.” Depending on how voluminous an energy-user your eating life was, this now-empty space will instantly transform your life--the more doors closed the more doors opened. Fast, wait on God and be ready for miracles. There’s a champion aura to a faster so during business hours you win. Do it every single day of your life: stay fit, trim and alert--be ageless and achieve your goals. You’re achieving via the most ancient method given to man by God, so congratulations--you’re now way ahead of your fellow man in a very competitive world. It’s a paradox--the way you get to total power is to humble yourself like this for the ego wants to eat. To deny that grasping tiger is to humbly get the power of the almighty instead.
God divided the day from the night--and this light will be your lunch. To God one day is like a thousand years and that measures your great reward. Great anticipation fills your soul--another day is a millennium of fasting miracles! This becomes more evident each and every time you do it so the early meal of “figs or fat” sets the stage. Pray before the meal and thank God for the victory which lies ahead. Increasingly I appreciate day vs. night from the duality of my own desert experience. When one is depressed during the day instant relief is gained by saying “ah but soon night will fall and all will change.” Depressed at night? Just say “Ah but soon it’s another day and all will be different.” That is how I view fasting vs. eating as the reversals bring continuous appreciations of something new.
Fasting eliminates impurities while cleansing the entire digestive track. You cannot imagine how perfectly digestion/assimilation/elimination works after a period of fasting—just one or two meals skipped. When people hear the word “fast” they panic as it congers up a long period. But Ramadan fasting is just seven lunches missed a week, while worlds of healing are accomplished in just one day. What great and mighty benefits: not only healing but exhilarating energy and inspiration—you should view this as your greatest accomplishment separating you from the world of taste-trippers at the mercy of food lusts! You’ll so fall in love with mini-fasting you’ll begin to do it consistently just because of how you feel the next day. It’s like the housewife who cleans house simply because of how she feels afterwards, not because she “should.”
Waiting to eat until night makes that final reward—iftar--a real celebration of victory, a well-deserved festivity of laughter and happiness. For a day in fasting is a great investment in the storage house of blessings for health, wealth and favor with man. When your children successfully fast one day be sure to reward them with great admiration at night--get it etched in their brain and they will always return to it with trouble, ill-health or the need for answers.
As a Daily Fastarian one loses all fear of time passing by so fast (i.e. getting older) for with each day and hour he is getting better with more beauty. God says “fast and pray daily” and this is the way to do it--each and every special unique day. It’s an upside-down kingdom in which one starts the fast with a feast. God is good--he’s not a legalist who says “that’s no way to fast--you must suffer.” Oh you may suffer as hunger seeps in a little later but the more you afflict self the more you get to God’s power. Self-affliction through fasting or the dissolving of ego is the main way to crush your feeble ego to get to the power of it all.
This generation is Dionysian, into pleasure-seeking. Many Christians agree with the necessity of prayer but balk at “fasting” though it is mentioned so many times in the Bible. The result of fasting is humility which always precedes success. Pride (self-indulgence) precedes defeat while humility through fasting precedes triumph. The Bible says “There are some sins that only go out through prayer and fasting.” Perhaps only when used as a last resort will you truly learn its great power.
The decision to fast daily brought tremendous order into my life. The mere setting up of the new matrix--involving food, a major part of life--kicked my whole day into new productive routine. With all daily food thoughts gone a tidal wave of creative energy was released. A fast? No sweat--for I can eat tonight. Had I told myself “I can eat in thirty days” I might not be so happy. If someone wants to fast that way let them do it. But daily fasting as a permanent plan can accomplish just as much while maximizing the daylight hours into productive activity and glorifying the night as a wonderful reward. This is optimal satisfaction and joy for the whole 24 hour cycle. Arabian nights and a day of miracles occurs as man’s major addiction and obstruction—food--is dissolved. This creates an empty space and a vacuum of attraction called pneumaticity in which the new life is “sucked in.”
The two-speed matrix reviving life is feast vs. fast. Even if you eat the best food on earth you still need both. The feast celebrates the bounty brought on from the fast. The fast brings on the prosperity needed to cash-out the feast. It makes each and every DAY so special. As you fast with me you can know we are on the same spiritual wavelength--a world community of day-fasters. Think of the global telepathy that goes on between believing fasters! Fasting, like one good book can change things suddenly.
FASTING CREATES THE FUTURE
Stop Procrastination
The brain can’t handle two disparate thoughts simultaneously: negative and positive. Food can be so negative as a severe procrastination to fail--a way to block anxiety while going nowhere or getting worse! But the fast is a way to create the future as co-creators with God: having afflicted Self we instantly step into His power. The Self erased, the infinite power of God swoops down to take us off to the Great Destiny He has planned--our Highest Calling. Fasting gets the vessel into perfect shape to be ready for the camera, to show God to the masses! Your face carved on a coin, you become the eternal self God designed, the blueprint destiny: God’s child, His peculiar delight and brilliant shining witness, not a blurred indistinct representative of the mass. Become unique through the fast. Through Ramadan you’ll look superb and show the world fasting is where it’s at. Let us share this day, every shimmering moment a divine witness to God. I’ll be thinking of you in all our found time in this day, the only day.