Clean Your Temple Before Fasting

In this guide, we'll talk about the cleaning phase before fasting, it's really important in the process of fasting. We’ll talk about tips and advice to take care of your inner and external world through Feng Shui techniques. The main goal is to create harmony in your room and your inner being.

Transcript

Hello and welcome in this new step of holistic fasting.

Here we arrive to live our very first great day for a big cleaning.

It's the beginning of your journey of your experience of fasting.

So I remind you holistic fasting it's a process which includes the mind,

The body and the soul.

These three parts of you have to be in harmony between the material world and the unmanifested,

The unmaterial,

The spiritual which include your faith,

Your energy,

Your belief system,

The love,

The light,

The physical,

Mental and psychic energy of your world.

We can't quantify them,

Either touch them or see them or even with our five senses.

And however,

We are conscious about that.

That we can feel in our day to day life their importance in our existence,

In our behavior and well-being.

To find the perfect harmony and well-being inside,

We have to take care of our external needs as well,

To perform them in a healthy way.

We all have needs,

But the question is how are you dealing with?

The easiest way is to let them lead your life,

The other way is to control them with what is really efficient in terms of physical,

Mind and soul energy.

Today,

There is so much temptation that the really big deal is to be efficient enough in our choices.

Quality will be always better than quantity.

So we have to clean our body through fasting and we'll talk about that in the next step.

But it's also crucial first to have a place tidy and clean it before you start your fasting,

Because your exterior reflects you inside.

So take care of your temple and your temple will give you the peace that you deserve.

Always clean your shoes before to enter in your temple or the temple of other people.

What does this mean?

Well,

It means that you have to make progress within yourself to be able to show your help,

How they're in your best way of possible.

In that way,

You change your world.

It's so simple in fact,

But it's a progression and we need discipline to achieve that.

Your house is your temple where you live every day.

So you have to organize it and clean up everything you need to have your mind clear and no distribution in your progression.

For this very first day,

Start to clean to get a tidy place.

You still have a great amount of energy,

So use it and think about the process.

Live in the now,

Think about the benefits you will get.

Everything has an energy here and what you clean now will help you in some way.

So clean room by room and ask for help if you live with other people or just clean the place you will use and avoid the other during your fasting time.

But most important,

Focus your attention at 100% in the room you will pass most of your time for reading,

Meditating,

Practicing mantras,

Breathing,

Journaling,

Writing,

Etc.

If time is an issue for you,

Just do one room and it should be this one you will use to apply the method we talked about in the last sessions.

These techniques are inspired and integrated in the Feng Shui life style from Japan.

I try to apply them as much as possible and it really have a big impact on my life without thinking about that.

That's the true magic of it,

You can see it,

You take advantage by doing so as I said at the beginning of this step.

It's not because you can't see something or touch it that it doesn't exist.

I discovered by myself during a holiday visit in Japan the true power of Feng Shui in every place I was in Japan.

The inside of Japanese home,

Their outside,

Their garden,

In the park,

Even in the big streets of Tokyo.

You can feel a very strong feeling of organization for the purpose to live in harmony and to be more efficient afterward.

Especially if you compare with our western lifestyle,

It's almost a mess.

It's a mess of organization,

Almost a mess without no exaggeration.

The Feng Shui is a true science based on the energy of our environment from the place and object present.

And like a science you have to try to do,

To throw away what you don't need to get the result.

Also the objects around us are also composed of energy.

Even if they are not talking,

They communicate.

They are composed of atoms,

If not,

They couldn't even exist.

Feng Shui is also based on the magnetism of earth which have a great influence on earth nature and so has to of course.

But it's also about empty space,

Like fasting,

Because it allows to drop our mental energy accumulation and to upload new information in our spiritual energetic matter.

The void will always find harmony,

Because it's pure.

Void is representation of the now and nothing can avoid that,

Nothing can obstruct that.

When you will start to clean and rearrange your space,

You will feel right away the effect of this positive energy on your own being and for the following days as well.

If one day you can visit Japan,

I really encourage you to do so,

Take this opportunity to sleep in a Japanese ryokan.

Everything is just so simple and perfect.

Harmony can be felt at any moment of the day,

Between the garden,

The interior,

You will pass one of the most quiet moments of your life and one of your best nights that you will ever experiment.

Okay now,

Try let's do it together.

Put all your stuff on one side of your bedroom.

Start by your bed,

Take a compass on your smartphone for example and find the north and the south.

You have to absolutely avoid to sleep with your body and head toward north pole if you live in the north hemisphere and the south and the south pole if you live in the south hemisphere.

Turn the head of your bed to the west or east side.

If you can,

Put the head toward the window to have the benefits of the sunrise or sunset,

It's better.

If you don't have the choice of east and west,

Do the opposite way.

It means north opposite to south and south instead of north.

Do you get it?

Feel free to ask any question in the comments to help you and the other users.

Why are we doing that?

Because otherwise the magnetism influence too much the blood flow toward your head,

Especially when you sleep and because you are lying down and in a recovery state for hours and hours,

Between six and eight hours a day.

Especially the night,

We want to be relaxed as much as we can and to find the best position for that.

Now you should have a side of your room more spacious,

So organize everything that you will see in your vision environment.

Really tidy up everything.

You need the most empty space of possible,

So throw what you don't need anymore and give to someone who needs.

Organize also your clothes and prepare one or two outfits in advance that you will use for your fasting time.

In that way you free your mind more and more.

Fold your paper and everything else who can take your attention out.

Now your cleaning is done.

It's time to clean yourself,

To take care of yourself,

To feel good.

Respect your body.

It's your vehicle that will serve you during your challenge of fasting time,

But also,

Not the least,

Until the end of your life.

We have only one body.

Start to cut your nails,

Your hair if you want to be refreshed.

To go forward for the men you can shave your head.

Yeah,

It's challenging for some and I was in that case.

It's a good sign and I need what you put for yourself just for tiny little part of your lifetime.

It allows a spiritual connection deeper and stronger because you have to be unattached.

It's also easier to clean them and you even don't need to think about brush your hairs first thing in the morning.

Free your mind should be your daily mantra.

Shave your beard.

An epilation for women can be beneficial as well.

Make an algae mask to feel clean.

An oil massage with argan or coconut oil on your whole body,

Especially the belly and chest,

Can help you.

By the way,

You can do that every day during your fasting.

It's very relaxing.

Then now,

Take a great shower,

Warm but not so hot.

You can also take a colder or warm.

It's even better but can be challenging for some people during a fasting.

It's better to have done that before.

To finish after your shower,

Make a herbal tea with chamomile,

Thyme or tea sage which are very medicinal herbs or hibiscus flower,

Rosemary,

Lavender.

It's alright for today.

You have done everything you could to prepare yourself and your environment in the best way possible.

Everything you need to start in the best way for the beginning of the fasting.

I'm seeing forward to have you in the next step and you can also continue right now if you are feeling to do so.

Between,

You can ask me some questions if you have some precise one on the things we talk about in the next step.

I will be very glad to support you on your path.

Thank you so much to have listened.

Hope everything is going right in the best way for you so far.

Love and Light.

Hare Krishna.