Lately, I’ve been reconnecting to the land as I explore the insights from cleansing my body. I’m on a 2.5 week liquid fast that involves a few different phases that starts out with a simple water fast for a week. I’m on my last day of the water fast, and boy, has it given me a different way of thinking about how I spend time - an epiphany of how much food has ruled my schedule: grocery shopping, finding restaurants, cooking, and eating.
When you simplify life with only water to nourish your physical body, all the external activities come to clear focus on their impact on each day without you consciously being aware. It also reminded me of clearing my water - the essence that reflects its surroundings and amplifies it in your body - so that the distance it traveled to land in my glass and all it witnessed doesn’t affect my body and then my mind.
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