and doctor, then they will know what is right for your particular case.)
The ordinary individual, fasting for a short cut to health, freedom, liberty, success, love and truth, can be just as happy and normal in his one meal as he knows how to be.
Common sense demands that he eat slowly, Fletcherizing his food. It will give him a sense of uncomfortable distension of the stomach and sometimes bloating and gas if he does not. When one feels worse after eating than before, it is because he has eaten too fast and not taken time to masticate his food.
During these ten days of abstinence from food, the body tissues will fall away; the muscles will become flabby and soft and it is here that physical exercise, breathing, massage, walking, dancing, electricity and all attention to the flesh should be given. One must break up all his old flesh tracts and lay the foundation for a new body. If he does not like his face he can change it; if he does not like his form he can give himself a new one just as easily as he can order a new suit of clothes.
All old age is in the food body. The life body is young, fresh, unwrinkled; not fat or flabby nor skinny, but just whole. When one gets his misfit food body out of the way by fasting, breathing and exercise, he gives the life cells a chance to make him a new flesh suit, and this flesh suit can be of any type that he himself decides. Our life cells are creators and they create just what we determine they shall create;
