The Time In Between

This coming weekend is what I consider to be time 'in-between' - it is not fasting time or a cleanse, it's officially part of a holiday and therefore usually connected to a feast of some kind. Of course this weekend is the August Harvest festival or the tail end of Lughnasadh and an important part of the journey.

Fasting is not the be all, end all, however, it is the single most powerful tool in our belts when it comes to rapid detox, clean shifts of energy and huge personal change. Thus it serves a mighty purpose in our lives and can be done often to keep us sharp mentally and spiritually. 

Physically, I cannot stress this enough - when you want to heal anything, infection, excess weight, inflammation and dysfunctions - fasting using clean water is the only way forward. Each of these conditions (and the high blood pressure, sugar imbalance, high cholesterol that goes along with it) can  be related back to deeply embedded toxins, once gone, the situation reverses. Simple.

This then takes us back to the time in-between, I have met many people who would like to think that they can fast and then afterwards eat normally and they don't necessarily need the feast times. But, I beg to differ, we do actually require them on all of these same levels - energetic, spiritual, physical and emotional and for all the same reasons.

Why? Perhaps one of the most important reasons is to adequately replenish the spirit with clean, wholesome foods, especially those which are homemade with love and care. Fasting is meant to be an intense time of work that you do on yourself, stripping down and removing layers of built up toxins. A natural follow on to this would be a short time of nurturing the body with plenty of wonderful foods.

Secondly, feasting or honouring the feast time is entirely about celebration, ritual and ceremony, which  is important for the human spirit. The inner connections to these days and dates of the calendar run as deep as the ley lines of the earth, most of these have been largely forgotten and discarded as we have allowed others to conduct sacred rituals on our behalf.

Coming back to ceremony and sacredness is part of the rites of passage into the world of spirit - the only spirit you want to connect with in this place is your own. These rituals are far more important than we may realize at the beginning, taking time to ground ourselves within a new reality.

A significant factor in all of this is the fact that energetic connections between people and their food have largely been eroded and replaced by poisons from processing, alcoholic drink and the presence of chemicals, forcing those of us who are choosing to follow a higher path to make these drastic changes to diet and lifestyle written about in my blogs. 

Finally, feasting is also a social activity, the intensity of the fasting or cleanse has passed, now is a time to party, dress up and dance, do things together as a family or even on our own. This phase is all about connecting with the energy of your food and through this food, the land and water flowing within it. 

Feasting brings us back to simpler times, clean energy and strength of spirit - a vital part of the spiritual journey. Have a lovely weekend, 

Happy Feasting!

April

Lughnasadh Ceremony by candle light