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21 day water fast: Day 3
I eat, therefore I am… I know it sounds amusing, but it’s true. Like yesterday, I find myself continually returning to the existential questions of life – and eating does offer a kind of blithe Cartesian certainty to the world…
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21 day water fast: Day 2
Today has been one of extremes. The morning was again spent in a frenetic whirlwind of doing: tidying up and rearranging the house to make it liveable. I finished mid-afternoon and went outside to sit. Just sit and be. In that moment, it hit me again like a wave: the conflict inside me…
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21 day water fast: Day 1
And so the journey begins. In a way, it began last night with the end of dinner, the end of eating. A strange feeling: the idea of three weeks without food. It seems like such a long time that I can’t really grasp what it means, how it feels, and how I’ll feel…
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21 day water fast: Day 0 (the day before)
Why? Why 21 days? For everyday detox, cleansing and health a week-long fast would be perfectly sufficient. Well, I’ve done numerous 7-10 day water fasts over previous years, and I was thinking that a longer fast would be able to dig deeper into my body…
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Journal for the spring retreat, 7-day water fast: Introduction
Tomorrow we set off for the forest and hills around Hungary’s Lake Balaton to begin this year’s spring retreat, which consists of a 7-day water fast. This year, in addition to the participants from here in Hungary, we have people coming from the U.S. and England. Everyone has now arrived in Budapest, the staging point…