Regeneration Through Fasting
“A man is as old as his arteries” has been well said; and hardening of the arteries is the result of congestion of the blood vessels with deposits of dead food cells in the arterial walls. Through fasting all this deposit is carried away, and through understanding, it is not allowed to form.
The one who takes his body along with him from the beginning will have no reconstruction process to follow, but his life cells will keep constantly up to their original plan. “Nature is a great restorer”.
Mental Exclusion
The mental fast to cast out of the mind, while fasting, any thought that links us with anything that we do not want. We learn never to let a thought escape that does not link us with joy, peace, rest, happiness, harmony and success. There is a whole world of joy thoughts and joy words. We learn to think the perfect thought, to speak the perfect language; we are destroying our old cell consciousness now, and building a new food body. The intelligence of this new body will become our benefactor as the years go on, so we refrain from thinking or speaking a thought that would give the food cells the intelligence of weakness.
We want health, wealth, happiness, freedom, love and usefulness, and, since this is so, it is folly to stamp upon the mind of the new body anything less than our heart’s best desires.
While we fast we set the mental task for our-
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