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• 21 day water fast: Day 22 (follow up)

  I slept five whole hours last night – and all in a single stretch! This is my big news.  Five hours in a single stretch: literally the first time for more than two weeks.  I know the natural assumption is that it must feel like a relief, but, honestly, it’s not that simple…

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  My 21 day water fast blog

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• 21 day water fast: Day 20

  Today is the last full day of fasting.  By the evening I’ll already be into Day 21.  The feeling, which came to me as I woke up this morning, is that of when you’re about to say goodbye to an old friend whom you know you’re not going to see for a while.  There’s an […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

  My 21 day water fast blog

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• 21 day water fast: Day 18

  Driving into town yesterday provided a reference point about how my consciousness has naturally and gradually opened from a more focussed perspective.  In retrospect, the whole trip itself provided another, deeper reference point, because since then – in breaking the solitude and continuity of being here at the cottage, as well as in buying the […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

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• 21 day water fast: Day 17

  Today I went into town to buy fruit for the end of my fast.  The thought of going to the shops had a certain exotic excitement to it – in contrast to my usual apathy towards shopping.  And yet, mixed into the feeling was also one of slight sadness that the fast is going to […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

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• 21 day water fast: Day 15

  Physically, no changes to speak of.  I slept more last night – a good five or six hours.  Maybe in the end I really have been sleeping too little.  One more thought on that…

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

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• 21 day water fast: Day 9

  In the same way that they say that the perceptive midpoint of an 80-year lifespan is around 30-35 years, I suppose that today should be more or less the perceptive midpoint of this 21-day fast.  I wonder…

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

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• 21 day water fast: Day 7

  So here we are, another milestone in the fast: the end of the first week and, with it, the first third of my planned duration.  I feel good, just physically slow in ev-er-y-thing.  But this new tempo – precisely because of its more leisurely, deliberate speed, as well as because it’s different to what I’m […]

  Tallis Barker, D.Phil.

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