Category: Dry Fasting

Blood & Urine Analysis During Dry Fasting

Blood & Urine Analysis during Dry Fasting

Here are the effects of short dry fasting, which lasted four and a half days. Due to simplicity reasons, excel sheet presents only crucial changes. During dry fasting, blood analysis was done twice, and urine analysis was done every day. To see the real results, blood and urine analysis was done one more time four days after dry fasting. There is an excel sheet which presents only crucial changes. It is evident that there were substantial changes during the acidic state, but afterward, the body stabilizes itself, and all blood and urine elements get into the optimal state. Empty cells in the excel sheet mean that the state is normal or that there were no readings. Of course, this is all individual and depends on current body intoxication, psychological readiness, entire body state, a way of life, diet, etc.

DamirButković

Absolute Hunger – Third Long Dry Fasting

Absolute Hunger – Third Long Dry Fasting

I did my third dry fasting of six days in March 2016. All experiences that I had had previously were only an overture which led me to the state I aspired for and so far only read about. That is an absolute hunger, a state in which a person has to start eating because the body no longer has internal energy sources. Some people live without food and water, however, for this to happen absolute purity of the body is necessary, and to that state, I have not yet arrived. When the body is absolutely clear, and when all the physical mechanisms are activated, then one feels that the body use its energy sources efficiently.

My experiences from this fasting were similar to previous ones. The only difference is my state of consciousness. I more easily go through the stages that occur during fasting and with a lot more attention. The shift I achieved with this fasting is an experience of absolute hunger. I came to the end of the process that the body should do. I have learned what it means real hunger. Also, I realized that true hunger does not mean freedom from all diseases because my process is not over yet. The absolute hunger is just a sign that the body no longer has the energy to expel everything that is not useful.

With every new decision to fast, one easier goes through spleens which follow procedure. One is responsible for its future, and thanks to my way of life, I have not yet cleaned up the body’s karma that I have accumulated over a lifetime. But I know that I got rid of a considerable part of it and that I am very near the end. Conditions of which I was released on my way are:

– Regular energy loss – catching disease, sore throat, sinus
– Candida
– Disrupted microflora and fauna
– Low energy levels
– Body inelasticity
– Wrinkled and older skin
– Tooth inflammation
– Overweight
– Joints Inflammation
– Obstacles of breathing through the nose
– Problems with a throat – very long I had a rough feeling in the throat
– Gluttony – at a certain period I ate two to three lunches per day
– Toxic and congested body

Damir Butković

Observation – Seond Long Dry Fasting

Observation – Second Long Dry Fasting

Day 1
I started my second dry fasting of nine days on 13.08.2014. Between the first and second fasting, I did two shorter dry fastings for 3 days. Two days before the fasting, I drank a liter of lemonade throughout the day with five lemons. One day before I ate a big salad in the evening, I went to a movie theater and then eat some peanuts. On Wednesday I did not eat and drink anything at all during a day and only around noon I decided that I will continue to fast. During the day, I felt weak. At 15:00, I came home from work and went for a walk along the river Sava. I walked for 3.5 hours. While I was walking, I felt a stronger hunger which disappeared during a walk. After a walk, I returned home and took a short nap, and afterward, I cleaned my apartment and went back to sleep. That day I was exhausted without energy and with a feeling of hunger in the belly. I have not weighed myself, but it was apparent that I lost weight.

Before going to bed, I was nervous. I started to watch the movie “Awakening” with Robin Williams. The anxiety was related to the fact that I crack my fingers and had an image that my hands will paralyze because of it. I started to meditate and found out the cause and meaning of the problem.

Day 2
When I woke up the second day, I took a piss. The urine was yellow. I no longer felt hungry, but during the first half of the day, I felt fragile. I woke up at 10:00 and continued to clean the apartment, but could not do it for a long time. I was so weak that I spent a whole day in the bad. Around 14:00, I gathered some strength and went to the market to buy some vegetables and yogurt. During the walk, I began to feel better. Afterward, I went to a shopping mall to purchase juice blender, and after that, I walk along the river. I walked for about an hour, and I came home around 18:00. On my way back home, I felt stronger. I came home and once again started to clean my apartment, took out the trash. At the end of the day, I felt good, no hunger, I felt that I have a lot more energy. I did reiki to myself and was meditating. I used meditation to understand my own problems. During the day, I belched several times, and I felt that something was happening in the gut. I felt a slight rumbling of intestines. The body is obviously working on something.

I went to the store, and at one point, my vision sharpened considerably. My vision was so bright that I had no problem to see letters on product declaration.

I noticed that dizziness occurs every time I get up out of bed, and before getting up, I needed to sit down for a moment. My lips started to peel. My mouth was dry but did not feel the loss of saliva or some kind of thirst. I did not have any other symptoms.

Through meditation, I spoke with bacteria and realized that they have spread because of my own fear. I transformed this state of fear and told them to return to their typical environment. During the transformation of fear, a strange creature emerged, a creature that does not belong to my body. I explained to him that it does not belong to this body, and that had to come out. I explained to him that death does not exist and will be reincarnated in an environment that suits him best.

During sleep, I realized that I need to release a form of energy that interferes with my stomach microflora. I released it with active meditation. Before going to sleep, I went through meditation for reprogramming of the elements of the Earth. The earth element is related to the feeling of guilt that I was feeling at the location of my removed appendix. The removal caused the imbalance of my flora and fauna. I transformed the guilt emotion which I had since my young age. I was “sticking a knife in my stomach,” and therefore, I had my appendix surgery.

Day 3
I woke up at 7:00 am, full of energy. I did not feel any weakness. As usual, as soon as I got up, I went to the bathroom to piss. The urine was yellow. I took a picture of my tongue, microflora is improving, although at the same time feeling of doubt was present. I doubted all my previous actions. The lesson I should learn is that I should have confidence in my body. The body works in the best possible way. During the entire period of fasting, I was venting, and I guess it was because of the peanuts. I did not do an enema because I decided to go through dry fasting, which means there is no contact with water.

I had a feeling that I did not lose much weight as I did during the first day. Today I no longer felt nervous as I felt yesterday before bedtime. On the contrary, I feel much stronger and more stable. Guilt is practically gone. When I thought about guilt only extremely slight feeling in the lower abdomen emerged, but that was just remaining energy that yet had to be transformed.

On several occasions, I felt prickles at the top of my tongue, but I also felt that I begin to swallow dumplings and had a soar throat. The urine is still yellow. I reprogrammed the elements of Fire, Air, Earth, and Water in my body. I felt that day that the body works intensively on intestines, around the stomach area, and today, the pus started to go out from my teeth. The body opted to heal intestines and mouth.

In the evening, I went to walk through the woods where I made a breathing technique – drawing energy from the Earth. I repeated this technique 100 times, which filled me with energy.

Day 4
I could not sleep half the night, probably because I was sleeping a lot during the third day and because at the end of the previous day I made the technique of deep breathing of drawing the Earth’s energy and took a barefoot walking. I even took a piss around 1:00 am. During the night, before I took a piss, I felt stomach pain and the slight contraction of the intestines, but after taking a piss, it disappeared. In the morning, I woke up around 8:00 am, and I felt good. I had energy, but my mouth was drier. Deposits on the tongue increased. Blisters emerged on the tip of the tongue as a sign that the disease was coming out, which is why I felt slightly nervous. The mucus from the upper right teeth disappeared, and at that moment, the body was healing the tongue. I felt a slight burning sensation on the tip of my tongue. My lips peeled and mouth was drier than the previous days. At 9:22, I felt a slightly queasy stomach. In the morning I felt great, I was on the mountain till 16:30, and before that, I was in the city and in the marketplace. On the way home, at about 18:00, I felt slight nausea in the stomach, although I did not feel hunger nor thirst. I spoke with a friend and told him about fasting, but later on, I found out that it was better not to tell anybody because of the concern for a friend I could disrupt the process of fasting. I did not fell under the influence of a friend’s care. I was listening to my body.

While I was on the mountain, at the chapel of St. James, I had direct experience with another spiritual being who pointed to me the meaning of love toward others. It was an excellent experience. I was attracted to the energy and was receiving images. The lesson was that one should provide love to its beloved ones and to all people. Besides nausea, mild pain in the lower left abdomen occurred. During a moment of writing this article, I felt nausea. This is the end of the acidotic crisis, or at least should be. I felt that I need to conserve energy. I still felted prickles on my tongue. I pissed at 18:15 and urine was still yellow.

In the evening, I felt a little stronger pain in the lower abdomen, and I felt that I had feces in the intestines. During the afternoon, I felt my mouth is dry more than usual. Before going to bed, I rubbed my feet with urine.

Day 5
I woke up in the morning, and I felt great. Morning urine was still yellow. I took a piss in the same volume as in previous days. There was no longer a pain in the belly, although I felt that something is going on in the stomach, that feeling was happening after swallowing saliva. There is no much Candida on the tongue surface.

My mouth is drier than the previous day, there was no hunger, and I had energy. Before going into the woods, I rubbed my feet with urine. I was in the woods until 16:00 and took a piss there around 15:30. I did some walking and basked in the sun. Solar energy was enjoyable. As I enjoyed, I was connected with the Earth, and I felt pleasure and happiness. Again, I had the experience with the angel who showed me a heart of love, love for all. I came home around 16:20, after which I washed the bathroom and went to sleep until 18:30 when my brother came. The brother I walked to the lake and back, and afterward, I felt the increased loss of energy. I lay around 22:30, and before bed, I rubbed my feet with urine. My mouth was dry, and it was difficult to swallow. Before sleep time, I felt fear, will I succeed, how much longer I have to fast. I had the impression that it was parasite’s fear, which was in me.

The tongue was covered more with waste, although in the morning it looked like there was less waste. When the brother arrived, I felt his fear for my state, which was not good for me, because in these times I needed peace and support. Before going to sleep, I felt that the stomach was active, and it seemed like something burnt me. I did not feel anymore that I have more feces in it. When I vented, I felt I was getting better. There is no hunger, but I felt that my body processes something all the time, and I feel that everything that did not support me dies. Sometimes I came across a thought that I lost too much weight, but it was vital that I felt good, and it meant that my body did something as long as I did not feel hunger. I still have some source of energy in the body.

I felt the culmination that all collect on the tongue because, in such a way, bacteria tried to survive. I have to hold on for some time. At the moment I am most concerned with saliva, or lack of saliva – dry mouth and the rest is all right. My skin was dirty and flaky, and my urine was still yellow.

Before bedtime I felt better, the abdominal pain disappeared, but my mouth is terribly dry, and I felt like something had been created in the bottom of the throat, so I tried to throw it out.

Day 6
Morning urine is still yellow, but the color is slightly changed. I felt good, there is no hunger nor thirst. I felt that the body maximized the production of water. There is no more fear in my stomach, but I feel that my stomach is still active. Last night I had the impression that something had left out of my body, or as if something died in my body and had no more influence on me.

As fasting progresses I have more power and all I need is peace. In the morning, I woke up with even more energy than usual. I vented every day, which is good because it was a sign that something was happening in the body. I felt that what was being processed was more difficult to digest because I have a slight tension and pain in the stomach. Yesterday I pissed twice on the mountain, and before going to sleep, I pissed on my feet. My mouth was still dry, but bacteria withdrawn from the tongue. I had the impression that the Candida died and that its body now needs to be expelled. I slept in the woods, and that exhausted me, but I needed fresh air because it helped to create clean water in the body. I realized that freshwater is necessary for my own cells. The sun was enjoyable, but spending too much time in the sun is exhausting for me. Therefore it suited me to spend some time in the shade.

I prayed for all the angels, the universal spirit and all the positive energy to help me and give strength to my body, but actually, I did not need help because I had the power to finish the whole process. I went back to the mountain. Dog-tired, because I did not sleep well in the woods. I thought that the weather would be excellent, however the wind was blowing and I could not sleep in a sleeping bag, so I moved to the car, but I did not immediately installed the bad in my trunk, but I slept in the back seat as ultimately was not the right decision, because the car was small .

Day 7
I woke up at 7:00, did breathing exercises, and took a piss. Urine was still yellow. There were fewer deposits on the tongue. The tongue was extremely dry, and I rarely swallowed, but when I decided to swallow, it was a thick mass of bacteria with a little water and then digested by the body. It was my fault for swallowing it. All that I needed was to spit out from the body.

I felt okay, although I felt slightly nauseous in the morning. Generally, I’m okay, I did not feel hunger nor thirst even though my mouth was extremely dry. I went home to get some sleep. Everything takes its course, I just needed to be patient and hold out a little longer.

I’m dizzy and had thoughts in my mind to go to Silba on rehabilitation, drinking fruit and vegetable juices and enjoy the sea. I did not take a bath for seven days, my hair is all weird, the skin was dirty, and I could not wait to take a shower and take off the dirt from the body. I’m a lot stronger this time than I was during my last fasting for eight days. As I returned home from the mountain, I went to sleep, was very exhausted, I felt a slight headache and nausea, so I concluded that I entered into the second acidosis crisis. I rubbed my feet with urine and went back to the mountain to take sunbathe because it was a good feeling to be in the hills. I pissed twice on the mountain. The urine was darker than in previous days, a sign that deep cleaning of the body began. I spent all day on the mountain, sometimes on the bench in the woods, some times near the stream. My mouth was dry all day. Sometimes I had nausea, I massaged my stomach, and it passed. At one point, my mouth was so dry that I was scared and did not know what to do now, but I went through and realized that I was in the final phase. I realized that I need to spit because it was toxins released by the body, but until that moment I was swallowing it because I thought this way I feed the body and give him more power and water. But actually, I additionally burden the body, because I was afraid of dry mouth. The body can produce water, and all I had to do was spit it out. Since I began to spit tongue became clean. I spit a lot of Candida. I slept next to the stream from 18 to 22, after which I went home to sleep. That night I began to spit dark saliva, it was significant and meant that the body started to clean itself deeper. During the night, I felt that the body is healing my throat.

Day 8
In the morning I woke up at 7:00 and went to the toilet. The urine was still dark and darker than the previous days of fasting. My mouth still dry, but I was in a good mood. Saliva is no longer dark, now it became yellow. At times I experience short nausea. In the morning, I realized that a lot of things manifest in the mouth because food gets into the body through the mouth must get out through the mouth. I had no more fears, I just felt my body and listened to its messages. I felt the exact moment of nausea, moments in which the body throws garbage, etc. I got a lot of help from breathing techniques and techniques of the transformation of karmic patterns.

I spent almost all day on the mountain. I came home at around 18:00, but I immediately proceeded to the river to walk a bit (since I did not spend much time on walking, but rather on sleeping), because this alleviated the body to expel what it was not necessary. After I came back, a friend came to my house and brought me fruit and then I felt a strong urge to eat all of this fruit. I felt tremendous anxiety and did not know where to go. Questions started to spin in my head, until when, how long does it have to last, and at one point, I asked God to help me, to tell me the way. The moment I asked God a message came to me from a friend, that I do not need to torture my body and that sea is the good cleaner. She gave me a prayer, “Jesus, surrender my sufferings to God,” after which I started to cry. Layer on she told me another prayer, “your faith healed you,” then I cried again. In moments of prayer, I understood the meaning of a conversation with God. Conversation with God is in reality conversation between Ego and myself. I thought that “I ego” is a God, but actually my words are merely a reflection of myself. I actually gave a meaning of God to the ego, not to God. That was why there were conversations with God through which one get the answer, because the ego is a ignorant. Truth is that I am God, but God is not EGO. The words can only be pronounced by myself, and Ego can only be their agent. It was a huge lesson that I realized through this fasting. By realizing the lesson of God, I realized that two days ago I got understanding that fasting is done, that the body did its work. I began to spit Instinctively, but actually, I should have started drinking water and lemon juice, because it helps the body to expel all toxins. Realizing all this, at 23:00, I drank lemonade and mucus on the tongue and throat began to melt. I spit an hour or two, and then I went to sleep.

Day 9
In the morning, I woke up and again drank lemonade and water and was spitting for an hour, after which I eat yogurt that helps the development of intestinal microflora and dumping the trash from the body. Immediately when I drank the yogurt, I went to the toilet to dump accumulated waste in the intestines.

During the morning, I was sleeping, drinking lemonade and water, spitting. This is what the body needed, it needed fluids to throw out all that is digested in the body, and I was an obstacle by thinking that the body has to do it all by itself. The body had done everything but afterward needed help to make the process of ejection completed in a shorter period. The message of fasting is that I need to listen to the body. I realized that fasting may be one of the ways of self-recognition.

During this fasting period, I realized that the statement that the body starves during fasting is not correct. There is no exhaustion. It is about what I was going through an unpleasant experience that I have prepared for myself with my previous way of life. It is liberating for the body, as well as for the spirit. The purpose of fasting is to purify the body and free the spirit. Those who say that fasting exhausts the body only show that they are not aware of themselves. They show that there is still some form of identification with the body. The body and its organs need rest, and hunger is one way of resting the body, but with specific purpose and meaning. The fact that the body uses energy to discharge garbage and later has no more energy for everyday human activities has nothing to do with the body, but the spleens that one goes through which influenced the one who eventually brought its body into the mentioned state. The body has an energy balance. Fasting strengthens immunity and body reject all the burden that was not useful, weakens the immune system or takes energy away. Fasting frees the body, does not destroy it. Fasting frees the senses, one has more energy, becoming more concentrated, delete old information written in the old water, the perception is better.

Damir Butković

Initiation – First Long Dry Fasting

Initiation – First Long Dry Fasting

Everything began with my own stubbornness. I resisted making a change in my life that was necessary for personal healing. I was intellectually aware that my lifestyle at the time was not right; however, I did not pay enough attention to my lived experiences and instead kept my eyes continuously closed. I neglected the physical and mental states that were warning me that I needed to change something. It was necessary for me to go through the experience of a serious illness that pushed me to realize the truth—an experience that jolted me awake from sleep, an experience that led me to make the necessary change in my life. It was a turning point in my life, the moment when I decided to change how I treated my own body. Deep inside, I knew that there was no external remedy, but that the remedy lies within each of us. This truth was the fundamental driving force that kept me on the path of discovering dry fasting. The truth that there is no external remedy arose from my own inner core.

The path I went through up to the moment of change was certainly not useless. The experiences I lived accumulated within me until a critical mass was formed that led me to change. My current level of understanding of my surroundings stems from all those experiences. Mistakes are normal, because without mistakes it is impossible to know what is right. Human nature is exploratory. Without experience, a person cannot know.

The turning point after which I decided to embark on the path of discovering dry fasting was a visit to the dentist. I received three or four anesthetic injections due to pain so that my tooth could be “repaired.” After that dental visit, my immune system was disrupted. For three days I could not get out of bed. My flora and fauna were disturbed, and my tongue turned white. I did not know what was happening to me, but I was absolutely certain that I would no longer go to a doctor, because I knew that no doctor could help me. I knew that the doctor was within me and that only through my own strength could I return to an optimal state. I was in an extremely difficult condition. I knew that recovery from that state would be long and arduous, because it was a matter of accumulated karma. My flora and fauna were disrupted, and correcting this was not possible with any short-term method or medication.

Before the turning point, I regularly entered states of energy loss, throat inflammation, sinus issues, high fever, and similar conditions. I was in a state of excessive food intake. For lunch, I would sometimes eat several portions of appetizers, soup, a main course, and dessert. An average person needs one portion, but I was stuffing myself with enormous amounts of food and convincing myself that it was good. In general, I was in poor physical and mental condition. As a child, I had appendicitis and meningitis. The turning point simply had to happen, because my laziness and blindness were strong. In order to see clearly, an equally strong moment was needed to knock me out of my orbit.

On several occasions I had merely heard about fasting, and deep inside I felt that it was the technique I needed to apply for my own healing. I began my first short-term fast of three days without knowing anything about it—that is, without any external information—relying solely on my intuition. I also began my first long dry fast without the help of another person, gathering information from various sources and from my own experience during the dry fasting process itself. Altogether, I have so far gone through three long dry fasts and about ten short dry fasts lasting three to four days. My first long fast was marked by various states that I went through. Here is what my first long dry fast of eight days looked like, which I began on October 29, 2013.

Day 1
It is Tuesday, a working day. I woke up at 7:00 a.m., ate a spoonful of aloe with honey, and after that I did not take anything else into my body for the next eight days. These were the final spasms of my own belief that quick healing is possible without working on the root cause of the problem. Short-term and quick methods can help a person feel better temporarily; however, complete healing is not possible as long as the body is full of toxins and impurities.

During that morning, I felt fear of all the diseases that I might potentially have, because I had various symptoms that pointed to different illnesses. Despite the fear, I felt determined. In the early evening, I took a shower, but I did not drink water. Although dry fasting implies no contact with water whatsoever, this was my first experience, and at that time I did not yet know what awaited me or what dry fasting truly meant. After showering, I felt stronger physical hunger. This was the first hunger I felt, and I knew I had to go through it, although at that time I did not know what lay on the other side once hunger passed. At 9:20 p.m., I went for a long walk of several kilometers around Jarun. During the walk, I meditated, and the hunger disappeared. I went to sleep around 11:00 p.m.

Day 2
I woke up at 7:00 a.m. I do not feel hunger or thirst. An hour later, I felt light, flexible, and healthy. During the day, I felt relatively well physically, but mentally exhausted from work. In the early evening, I went to the sauna to accelerate the process of cleansing the body. Before going to sleep, I felt hunger.

Day 3
I spent the entire day at work. After work, I went for a walk around Jarun so that my body could get oxygen. After the walk, I went to sleep.

Day 4
I began urinating yellow urine and releasing gases. I spent the entire day at Jarun sunbathing. I felt phenomenal and did not feel hunger, but I felt strong thirst. My mouth began to dry out, and my lips started peeling. On this day, I began rubbing my tongue with a toothbrush, but dry. In the evening, I walked around Jarun, after which I felt stronger fatigue than I had felt until then.

Day 5
On the fifth day, my mouth became very dry. My lips continued to peel. In the morning, I felt hunger, but it soon disappeared. Instead of walking around Jarun, I walked to the market to buy fruit and vegetables so I would have them ready in case I decided to eat. When I returned, I felt stronger fatigue. In the late morning, I felt digestive activity. I began burping, releasing gases, and urinating intensely yellow urine. In the afternoon, I felt good—not hungry, only my intestines were active.

I feel light. In the first few days, I lost weight rapidly; however, now I am losing weight at a slower rate, because the body has begun to manage its reserves more economically. At the end of the day, I went for another walk. My stomach is working more intensely, and my mouth has become even drier. I felt that the body had begun expelling something, because my mouth was full of pus. Before going to sleep, I poured urine over my legs.

Day 6
I woke up with much drier mouth. There is no hunger. After waking up, I urinated again a fairly yellow urine, which I poured over my feet. My stomach is still processing something. In the morning, I scraped the white tongue. The white coating on the tongue is no longer present as it was at the beginning. I went to get spring water to have it ready for the end of the fast. During the day, my mouth became even drier. Noon passed, and the body is still breaking something down.

I realized that dryness of the mouth has nothing to do with the body’s thirst. The mouth dries because of the air, and the body itself will say when it is thirsty.

I stopped losing weight intensively. Today, wearing a jacket and sweatpants, I weigh 77.8 kg, and I started the fast at 87 kg. Toward the end of the day, I felt fear and heart palpitations in my abdomen. In the evening, I urinated again.

Day 7
In the morning, I woke up and urinated as on previous days—about 2–3 dl. The fear from the previous day disappeared, and I feel good. My tongue is still white, and I have the feeling that various microorganisms are fleeing even more and accumulating on the tongue where they have contact with oxygen from the outside. The stomach and intestines are still active. I am releasing gases slightly more strongly than in previous days. My mouth is less dry than on previous days. I keep my mouth closed to reduce access to oxygen, and in this way I also maintain moisture in my mouth.

In the morning, I felt hunger, but it passed. Later, a headache appeared. I lost a bit more weight and now weigh 75.2 kg. As yesterday, so today I have light burping. In the evening, I urinated once more.

Day 8
During the previous night, I felt unwell. In the morning, I felt hunger that did not stop. After morning urination, I felt better and began to eat. I cleaned my mouth with diluted lemon juice, disinfected my mouth with bread and white garlic (clove). I drank lemonade. I took a shower to feel better, and after the shower, a brief pain passed through my back. I think it was some kind of release. After drinking the lemonade, mucus began to accumulate at the bottom of my throat, so I spat it out. I brushed my teeth with toothpaste and cleaned my tongue, after which I began spitting blood.

During my first experience, I did not have time to write detailed impressions, since I began fasting without information about it. During the fast, I was focused on my body and mental states, as well as on researching various literature that was available on the Internet. At the end of my first long fast, I felt excellent, although I knew it was not the end. The entire process was extremely intense and full of various experiences that I encountered for the first time. At that time, I still did not know what dry fasting actually was, what processes take place in the body during the procedure, nor did I know how I would recognize that the dry fasting process was finished. I only knew that I needed to feel “wolf hunger,” but again, due to everyday laziness, I had lost the concept of hunger. People in the environment in which I live eat continuously—three times a day and more—so the experience of hunger and what hunger actually is has disappeared. There are, of course, countries where hunger is pronounced; however, those people do not consciously direct attention to hunger itself—it is about survival and manipulation. Here, it is about dry fasting and the conscious directing of attention to hunger and its consequences.

Damir Butković

Dry Fasting – Surgery Without a Knife

Dry fasting is often spoken of as a surgery without a knife—a quiet operation performed not by steel, but by the body’s own ancient intelligence. In the stillness where water would normally flow, the system turns inward, scavenging, sorting, dismantling what no longer serves. It is a kind of internal housekeeping, a sharpening of instincts, a deep pause where the body studies itself.