How Fasting Made Me Stop Judging Food

Some love it, some hate it, some do not even care — but we all need it. How is your relationship with food? I want to share this fasting experience with you and how it made me question my idea of hunger.

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It’s all about the Start

We lit candles, put on soothing music, filled the air with the scent of Palo Santo (wood from a sacred tree of South America), cooked sacred cacao and sat in meditation. The first question you should ask yourself is:

Why am I doing this — what is my intention?

You can set intentions like:

• Detox of the body and mind
• Give myself time to digest all that I wasn’t able to let go (feelings, learnings, experiences)
• Learn to surrender to whatever comes up
• Looking behind the feeling of hunger: Am I really hungry? What hole do I want to fill with food?
• Learn to listen to my body again, re-establish that connection, that intuition
• Learn to honour and value food again

For me, this wasn’t just going to be fast, it would be a ceremony.

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