Still alive after 5 days without water

‘Practice doing nothing, and everything falls into place.‘

That's a quote from the incomparable Tao Te Ching. I've spent twenty years or so trying to untangle it. Sometimes, a quote comes careening into my consciousness to save me from a moment of despair.

Fasting is one example. Did you know, fasting can cure 'damn near anything'? And it's been rigorously tested over the last 100 years.

I wrote Edenbound about healing with fruit. It's become somewhat known in fruitarian circles.

However, eating just fruit for years can be a challenge in most circumstances. I live in a suburb now. I need to bring healing to suburbs. That’s not saying it’s not worth it, I’m just constantly on the prowl for the most practical remedies that support the human organism in a holistic, sustainable way.

Another option is fasting. However, I'm going to shuffle a few paradigms here.

Dry fasting is what I'm talking about. No water or food intake.

Water fasting is more perilous, because you lose MORE vital body mass... it takes longer to reach entrenched conditions. Though it can be valuable in certain circumstances, it's not what I recommend generally.

Dry fasting is a lot more intensive, less sufferable, and shorter in duration. An 11 day dry fast is the longest you'll need to do to heal. (Check out the intriguing book Starving in Siberia. The author cured her late stage lyme disease by visiting a fasting master). She's not had a recurring symptom since 2017.

I learned of dry fasting via Robert Morse's channel on Youtube. Here’s the telegram. Someone wrote in and said they were paralyzed after a neck accident, and they did a 8 day dry fast, and they were able to move again.

This is because the body, when deprived of water, breaks down senescent cells and damaged tissue, and replaces it with fresh tissue. You get new organs, essentially. And a cleansing of 'spiritual' and 'chakra' blockages to boot. Parasites and bacteria die without water... what doesn't? The human organism.

I have a complex formulation of how different energetics/attachments interface with bacteria and parasites. That’ll be delivered somewhere else.

So if you've ever tried to 'starve' yeast or something out with various cleanses, it's immensely difficult. Dry fasting is easier.

The Phoenix Protocol, by August Dunning, goes deep into the science, in a brief little book that is quite practical. He recommends a 7 day dry fast once per year, but he says that the first one gets out all of sludge from the body from the previous lifetime. The next ones are sort of for maintenance.

What I Notice on Day 5

What I notice, I'm on day 5 now, is a dry mouth, a burning stomach, some lingering nerve pain that I first noticed during a bout of covid a few years ago. I'm going for the 7 days.

If you have something more life threatening, an 11 day fast might be in order.

Remember, that being underweight puts you at risk for many accidents and diseases that affect longevity. However, the dry fast, though you will lose weight, it is mostly water and fat. You need to eat in a specific way afterwards if your goal is not to pack the fat back on, as outlined in the protocol.

Now, it takes a week or two to come off of a 7 day fast. This is the most important piece, they say. Stem cells are flowing through your body for months, and one study showed that stem cells turned into fat cells in the presence of sugar. You want your stem cells, the virtual panacea of healing and youth, to go toward tissue regeneration instead.

It takes time to build up to a 7 day dry fast, by the way. (I've done many liquid fasts, and a few dry fasts, though I had only made it to day 3.5 prior). It isn't easy. I'm just mentioning that it is easier than many protocols. It's a mystical experience, really.

If you can isolate, and cold or cool baths and brisk walks in the snow help, it will be even simpler because you'll be away from your delicious burritos. I have that challenge as well, in the sense that I cook for my daughters every morning, and need to smell the oh so sweet aroma of simmering butter or blended watermelon. I'm ok though! I swoon and move on.

There is a hard dry and a soft dry fast. Earlier in my dry fasting journey I was attempting the hard, which means you don't come into contact with water at all, even on your skin. And then I read Dry Fasting by Sergey Filonov (the master that the woman visited in Siberia) and he said it is more helpful to bathe and take cold baths or showers, because it creates a reverse lymphatic flow which cleanses more deeply. Which is good to hear, because it is much easier.

I've been on long chats with clients, so I've dried out my mouth somewhat. Ideally you keep the mouth mostly closed. However, the cells begin to replace the hard, dead water in your body (consider it radioactive) with living water. Endogenous water. You'll see urine continue to proliferate even though you're not drinking. There have been measurements to show that it doesn't all come from the tissues.

This idea of replacing the dead water in the system with living water is fascinating. Water is a conduit for information. So when it's taken in, the body needs to assimilate the information. This takes energy. Some of the pollutants in the water nourish pathogens, in known and unknown-ways. (By the way, the Medical Medium is against dry fasting, so take that as you will).

What am I going for?

There's a lump on my rear right shoulder, which formed after a shoulder injury.

I've had head congestion for ever, and I still feel it lingering on the right side.

My eyes get tight and blurry when I eat certain things, which often signifies nerve inflammation.

I still get skin rashes occasionally on large intestine and stomach points, and flaking skin. (unless eating only fruit).

I feel a little tired and non-refreshed in the morning lately, since covid.

When I resolve those, I will be quite thrilled.

What do you need to resolve?

Love and flow,

Steven Budden Jr.

Chapel Hill, NC

Every Posture Tells a Story; Finding your most Empowered Self through Standing Work

Your destiny may or may not be written in the stars, but your history is written in your posture. Broken hearts, dashed dreams, lost innocence. Cues to every one of those relics of the human experience are bound up in your posture somewhere. We can see them. 

A client was carrying her lost father in her left shoulder. Her father used to take her by the arm to cross the street, and the muscle was still holding on, years after his death. It manifested as an asymmetrical gait and shoulder pain. It was the physical manifestation of an inability to commit to a man. As we released it, through a gentle tug, her life transformed. She was married soon after, and her shoulder pain vanished. We wouldn't have known it was there, without this gentle tug that changed her life. 

Hearts that are broken either armor up and puff out, or lean back and shrink, to avoid further pain. I sometimes touch a heart and feel an ocean of sadness. The way to clear that is to pass through the ocean, not to try to bypass it. It doesn’t have to burst through all at once… it can trickle out. But most of these postural cues have to do with unresolved or incomplete past experiences. 

When the heart falls back, the body compensates. Usually, the pelvis falls forward. If you think of what it may mean to lead life from the pelvic center… what comes to mind? One pattern that I notice is that when people lead with the pelvis, their relationships tend to begin on a sexual note, and accessing vulnerability is sometimes a challenge. Lasting relationships are a challenge. A simple correction of the posture often has dramatic impact on these types of patterns. Sometimes after a few adjustments, a client will come back and tell me that they’ve met someone way outside of their usual pattern. 

The feet turn out and the arches collapse when stability is lost in early childhood. Perhaps the connection to the original homeland was lost, or the world reared it’s head and turned out to be an unsafe place. People associate this with a genetic predisposition to a certain structure. (eg. I have my mother’s feet). We’ll get into why that is disempowering in another post. It is not genetic, though it can accompany a learned worldview. (I see the world as my mother saw it, and my body reacts accordingly). Lifting arches is a simple practice, and as the body relearns to stand, the bones shift and adjust. 

Knees turned in slightly often refer to a sexual trauma; the body is unconsciously guarding the core. From this position, it is difficult to be fully open to new love (though possible to be open to disconnected sexual encounters). Sometimes the sexual trauma did not involve touch, but just something as subtle as a word, a gesture, or a look from someone. 

When any of these pieces of the equation move, the entire constellation moves. Meaning, adjust the feet, and the pelvis, head, and heart will need adjustment. For convenience, I refer to the 3 body centers, head, heart, and gut. They are physical and energetic. 

The head often falls forward during walking, and the gaze falls to the ground. This can symbolize the disconnection from the body, and encourage an ego-based way of viewing the world. It is the absent-minded professor, roaming the halls, living life theoretically rather than experientially. Tuck the chin in slightly. Let the eyes look into the distance… the future, while walking, and the patterns shift. Living beings come into view again. The heart engages. 

Sometimes, we don’t know what message our posture is sending until someone tells us, but it is sending out a message that people are picking up on. If you’re standing in a collapsed way, chances are you’re negating your own actions and your own message. Leadership suffers. Intimacy suffers.  

Correction of the posture often reveals the history. It brings what was unconscious to consciousness. A little caveat: what most people consider ‘correct’ posture is anatomically inaccurate and unsustainable. 

So what is an empowered posture? It is a way of standing so that the life force can flow freely, and directed as desired, toward effective, meaningful action. 

A few tips: 

The feet are parallel. The knees are soft and unlocked. The toes are spread out on the earth. The knees are centered along the leg. The spine maintains its natural curve. The pelvis, heart, and head, imagined as 3 spheres, align when viewed from the side. There is general symmetry, right to left. The head floats over the heart. The muscles are relaxed. There is no effort required to stand in the way we were designed to stand. We are fluid beings, not a precarious stack of solid bones. 

Discover your empowered posture; dramatically enhance the quality of your life. 

Be courageous enough to meet the moment with your whole body. Find the places you have been hiding or ‘leaning out’, and reveal yourself and lean in.

Evolutionary leap, delivered. 

Steven Budden

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Nourishment for Enhanced Performance

It makes no sense to say 'I eat well compared to those around me.' We need to eat well enough so that vitality becomes first a possibility, and then a reality. Sometimes this means pristine eating for a number of months or years. What is 'pristine eating'? Fruit and herbs. 

We need to support our body intelligence in clearing out the system, resetting, and eventually rebuilding the body. During this process, you are dismantling the old, and building up a better, more functional YOU. If you are riddled with emotional or physical symptoms, the diet needs to shift. 

Shifting to a fruit based diet is the most direct path to greater vitality and enhanced quality of life. In driving toward your peak, nourishment becomes critical. Otherwise, you are perpetually grinding against your own design. 

How nourished are you? 

In truth, 

Steven Budden

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