Day 9 – The moment of "fracture"

Preface: I lifted my above Title words from Dr. L. A. Shchennikov, the Russian physician who patented his dry fasting methods. As per August Dunning’s book, The Phoenix Protocol, Shchennikov conducted many 7 to 10 day dry fasts and even experimented with a 21 day dry fast, along with his research on thousands of patients.

Gotta love those Russians – whatever they do they get after it both in depth and breadth.

I find Shchennikov and Filonov’s work and characterizations of long fasts to be spot on, dead-center spot on, as regards what to expect and what to do.

If any of you wish to go native and dry fast at home alone, it would be very smart to research the Russians’ work thoroughly and spend a good deal of time following their sage advice about how to dry fast – and most importantly, how not to dry fast.

Today is Day 9 of my dry fast, and it really is a day of fracture:

• my vision has deteriorated to the point that distant objects are fuzzy.
• I’ve an arousal of muscle pains and aches, in the usual suspect places.
• My temper is short, sharp and intolerant of any instigation or even superficial adversity (I’m gentle and kind and not a problem until you poke the bear – and then I’m all claw and fang).
• My mouth is sticky and I endeavor to keep it closed at all times; rarely do I swallow or speak.
• I am staying harder dry and not dousing with ice water (though I miss it dearly) and instead walk around shirtless and barefoot outside and in the house. The internal heat is not intolerable and in fact is quite pleasant. My head does not burn. My sensations of internal heat are much lower than at this time on my dry fast last September.
• I also feel more liminal. I mean I’m softer and more indistinct inside in all regards: physical, emotional, psychological. It’s a little disorienting. There’s also weakness behind the superficial hardness – I could not win a fight with a four year old. These sensations increased throughout the day.

If this is the 2nd acidotic crisis (which is the 9th day, and I believe it is my acidotic shift) then sign me up for an annual subscription.

I’ve learned that not all healing events are dramatic affairs, so I’ll take this dialed back version and shift to the harder work of cultivating refined awareness and discerning subtleties.

Weight results continue on trend with a daily loss of 2 lbs as my evening weight tonight was 145.2 lbs and yesterday evening was 147.2 lbs at 5:45 pm.

For those of you wondering how I’m spending my end of days time distortion period (very small dilation this time) and remaining convalescence in this fast I can share two things:

1. I’ve shifted my mentality from impatience in getting to a numbered Day and ending the fast to one of curiosity and desire for exploring how much deeper my body can go in resolving my issues. This is a powerful shift and has helped focus more on internal shifts as they pick up speed towards significant gains in healing and wellness.
2. And this https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/ is just damn cool and an amazing mind sorbet. It gives me a chauffeured ride around the many beautiful places I love and still miss. It even plays local radio!

Note to #1 above: every later day spent in a fast towards the third phase of “completion” is exponentially more powerful than the previous day in terms of effects accomplished. So I’m seeing every moment spent in my fast at this point forward as compounding interest. Why would I want to rush an exit?

PS I don’t need warnings about fasting for too long, as I well know the indications for stopping as well as how to break a dry fast correctly, so thanks in advance for your concerns. There was a little claw in there… lol!

PPS Mastery tip: get yourself some surgical tape, breathable tape or these (see pic below) and zip up those lips – OH MY GOD, I’ve not slept better in a lifetime and avoided the dreaded coffin mouth upon waking in a dry fast having been snoring or gape jawed all night. TRULY WORTH IT, whatever your cost or workaround might be.

https://preview.redd.it/amy1tywxuq961.jpg?width=2208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3191975e1cec0e4350fe19db54016897a7cf14d

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