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things both of them said one could practice on earth was fasting.

When you look into nature when animals are sick or hurt if you

notice they don’t eat. They will drink liquids, but they don’t eat.

That’s how most people know when their animal is sick because

they stop eating. Animals are smart; they know that when they

are sick or hurt, they should fast because it speeds up the healing

process when you fast. As humans, when we get sick and don’t

have an appetite, we force ourselves to eat. I remember my mom

saying, “Baby, you have to eat,” when I was sick as a child, but

I knew mentally and physically I was not hungry. We, humans,

think it’s bad to not eat when sick, but it’s not bad. It’s just the

body is using its energy to heal and repair your body at a faster

rate. But we force ourselves to eat out of fear of starvation and

just saying, “I haven’t eaten all day, so I need to eat.” Which is

far from the truth. Did you know that when you eat, it takes

60%-80% of your body’s energy just to digest that food? So that

delays your healing process because your body can’t digest food

and properly heal itself all at one time. So when you get sick, stop

forcing yourself to eat and listen to your body. When one starts

to make fasting a lifestyle, it puts us in tune with what our body

wants and needs. Then, we start to work in harmony with our

body instead of against it.

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