The Transformational Power of Fasting

The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

By: Stephen Harrod Buhner

Narrated by: Robin Douglas

Fasting practices to reconnect with the sacred, regain a sense of your life’s purpose, and heal physically and emotionally

• Details what to expect during your fast physically, emotionally, and spiritually

• Provides step-by-step guidelines on preparing for the fast, how long you should fast, what you can and can’t do during the fast, and how to end your fast

• Explains how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and insomnia

For millennia humans have fasted for spiritual, emotional, and physical reasons--as a way to heal their bodies, reconnect to the sacred, regain a sense of life’s purpose, and allow their souls to detoxify. We are evolutionarily designed to fast, and the body knows how to do it very well. Fasting allows the body and all its systems to rest, purify, and heal. During a fast, the body enters the same cleansing and healing cycle it normally enters during sleep. As a fast progresses, the body consumes everything that is not essential to bodily functioning--including bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, waste products in the blood, buildup around the joints, and stored fat--and the mind and heart release their toxic buildup as well. As Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals, in order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself.

Offering step-by-step guidelines to fully prepare yourself for a deep fast, Buhner explores what to expect during and after spiritual, emotional, and physical fasting and detoxification. He details the necessary dietary and mental preparations leading up to your fast, what you can and can’t do during a fast, and how to end your fast. He also explains how to plan the length of your fast and how to choose between a water fast, a juice fast, or a mono-diet fast. Revealing how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, childhood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fibromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way to truly inhabit the body, to experience its sacredness, and to activate its deep capabilities for self-healing.

Great knowledge

Well written, easy to understand. Gives information for before during and after a fast and for all types of fasts.

Too much "quote, unquote".

I loved the information. However, in almost every other sentence, hearing the reader say, "quote, unquote" every time something is in parentheses, which is a lot in this book, is maddening. I can understand the desire for reading accuracy, however this is completely maddening and distracting for me, to the point that I'm not listening anymore and I am just buying the paper copy.

Great Book— Listen. Hits the power of fasting from

Great listen. Beautiful and spiritual referenced and science based information about fasting. Will definitely recommend.

Not narrated by SHB

I love this book. I also love listening to SHB speak. The description claims that the book is narrated by him but it is absolutely not him.