Health Guru Suggests Tips On How To Keep Your Fasting Pure, Devotional And Spiritually Uplifting

Tips for Fasting: People fast for many reasons, such as to achieve a fit body or maintain a healthy lifestyle. But did you know that this practice is also associated with most religious beliefs, where devotees fast to seek blessing from their God?

However, as we see this practice across faith, Dr. Mickey Mehta, the Global Holistic Health Guru and Spiritual Life Coach share five interesting tips on how to fast while keeping it pure, devotional, and spiritually uplifting.

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Check out these five expert tips

• Avoid sweet, salty, and tangy: Try to avoid the tastes which draw you out from your focus of alignment towards divinity. So, such tastes could be sweet, salty, and tangy. If you avoid these three tastes, your purity of fast will remain in place. By avoiding them, you maintain the clarity and simplicity required to maintain your connection to God during the fast.
• Avoid oily food: Avoid any heavy fried foods because heaviness in the stomach can also take you away from your devotion. Generally, people when they break fast, they have so many fried items. You must avoid milk and milk products coming out of buffaloes because buffalo milk products give you tamas quality (that is it brings in heaviness, lethargy, and confusion in you). Dr Mehta highlights that kind of heaviness can also distract you from your alignment towards spiritual focus.

• Avoid feasting after fasting: Food should be consumed just enough to have little fuel in the stomach and not to fill your stomach just because you fasted. It's crucial to eat just enough to provide light sustenance after a fast without packing the stomach full. After fasting, the benefits of fasting are disrupted because the focus is shifted from self-discipline to enjoyment. Moderate consumption promotes attention and clarity, preserves equilibrium, and honours the body's healing process.
• Drink only enough water: Whenever you break your fast with water, it should be not more than 100-150 ml to begin with. Anything more than that becomes a burden because your stomach is tender. Also, select foods that are simple, and pure, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Without making you feel heavy or diverting your attention from your greater goal, these feed your body and soul.
• Pray before eating: Lastly, remember whenever you're fasting, your prayers should be before you eat and then also you should eat so light that you should be able to get into a prayer or meditative mode post that. This helps refocus your energy on your spiritual side and divert it from your physical cravings.