I found the dry fasting article by Sasha very interesting.
She said that she dry fasted for 5 days and got well, and so did another man.
Intention is everything, and intention and belief are so powerful.
So what is called dry fasting in our health community, which results in our belief and expectation of healing, is used by people who are at the end of their lives and want to hasten their death.
In that case dry fasting is called Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking. VSED.
It has taken years to win the freedom in states for people to be able to legally end their life by dry fasting, which they perceive as denying themselves nutrition needed to live.
It is the same technique. Yet one brings back health and the other brings on death of the body, based on belief and intention it is used for.
Isn't intention and belief amazing !
We always get the result of what we believe and intend.
I kind of have to laugh at this. The joke was on me.
I did fast in my younger days when I lived in an ashram. I knew it as a health technique. But that was long ago and at this time in my life I came to see it as a means to hasten my death as my body is injured and I am unable to focus on fixing it anymore. I just got tired of it always fixing myself. So I came to perceive this voluntary stopping food and water as a way to allow my body to drop off me.
I was having a hard time due to mu housing circumstances starting a fast. So when I saw this I felt like,,,oh,,, group support,,,I can begin now to focus in on this goal and practice.
Then I read Sasha's article and had to laugh,,,the universe does have a sense of humor. The joke is on me. Yes I do remember fasting decades ago as a regular yoga practice. Back then it was for spiritual discipline and some physical health result as well. I had forgotten I know fasting for this purpose. So now, I suddenly laughed and thought,,,,oh wow, can I actually pass on gently from fasting? Yes if done long enough and with intention, but I realized i do not need the food and water to heal or pass on. I can do that with intention and belief alone and move my prana in the way I believe will relieve me of my physical body. I had a NDE when I was 14 and I knew then that I only need to return to that experience to release myself from this body, but for some reason I play a lot of mind games with myself and make things that should be simple, complicated.
So my intention for this fast has already changed.
I do not need to starve myself into a hastened death.
I can choose that more consciously.
My fast now is a support to a deeper form of prayer, as not processing food makes me so much more
able to connect deeply with the Oneness, place my intention on its altar, and go from there with what happens next.
Belief and intention, and enough faith and devotion, with connection and support of others, can open the doors that need to be opened.