A fast of the body is only complete with a fast of the mind. To allow this external lacking to fuel a reflection of such in the mind. Noise is fuelled with over-stimulation, moving into a space with less stimulation allows one to see the signal and garner focus beyond their meditative training. A shortcut for those that require added focus for their many ventures. Fasting brings one into a space that is estranged with most of society, in that society refers to commonfolk in their common habits. The loss of food and hence the time to eat it or the event to eat it with others asks the mind what is there if sustenance is elsewhere? Is there more to existence than those bare necessities? To fast is to come in touch with something less animate, to sit in reality while asking nothing of it other than oxygen and light. A shift in the relationship of the vessel to its external. To meditate while fasted is to hold even clearer notions of the inner-psyche, with the loss of emotive foods and taste escapes, the closer one finds their self sitting right beside them.

Meditate, while fasted.