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Vitamins for Your Soul, Part VIII

If you've been practicing our vitamins for your soul tips, you've probably seen some major changes occurring in your life. Most of the change may be non-trading related, but overall, I believe they'll help you immensely as a trader because they'll help you lighten up.

Our last six vitamins have included:

1. Focus on the Moment;
2. Make Yourself Laugh;
3. If Something Bothers You, Give It To God;
4. Give Thanks Every Day for your Blessings;
5. Follow Your Bliss;
6. Commit to Love; and
7. Meditate and Listen

This week my I'm adding a difficult, but very beneficial one called fasting.
Fasting

I once did a 57 day fast. It started with three meals a day of just fresh fruit and vegetables. In between the meals, I took shakes with lots of fiber and barium to coat my system. In addition, I was taking special nutritional supplements.

When my system felt like it could tolerate it, I reduced by one meal and just substituted a shake. I continued this process until I was only doing the shakes, plus lots of water. The total experience was 57 days and the last 10 days involved no meals. I lost 33 lbs (which I gained back quickly) but by the end of the fast I had an amazing amount of energy. I felt clean and better than I've felt in a long time. However, I'm not recommended anything that strenuous.

Fasting is actually your body's way of cleansing itself. When you think about humans living with nature, they had to deal with the seasons. During the growing season there was plenty of food, but in the winter months there was nothing. People could only eat what they had managed to preserve and save from the growing season. So naturally there was probably a lot of fasting.

When you were fasting, the body would feed off of itself and it would eat those portions of the body that were the least useful - things that are actually harmful to the body. Today, of course, there is no need to ever fast. We have refrigeration and lots of preservatives, so there is always food - even in the depths of winter. However, much of that food is not very good for us. It contains food elements that have been refined out of much of the nutritional value (i.e., wheat) or preservatives which are designed to keep other things from eating your food (and thus are not good for you either) or chemicals. For example, the most nutritious food in nature was either sweet or salty. Those tastes basically meant that the food was full of essential minerals and vitamins. We crave those foods. However, modern man has figured out how to artificially produce those flavors (i.e. sugar and sugar substitutes) and has created massive addictions as a result. Sugar is not that different chemically from alcohol.

If you decided to try this vitamin for your soul, it probably will not be that pleasant. Within a day, you'll probably get either withdrawal reactions or side effects from some of the poisons that are already in your system. However, I'm not suggesting anything drastic. Just spend one day drinking lots of fresh water and fruit juice with no food. Notice your experience when you do that. Or, instead, spend three days on a fresh fruit and vegetable fast. Notice your experience then. This one is another exercise in self-discovery.

Dr. Van K Tharp
TradingEducation.com