Human beings have been swimming for millennia. According to Wikipedia, Stone Age cave drawings depict individuals swimming and there are written references in the Bible and the Greek poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" dating back 1,500 to 2,000 years. There are even Egyptian clay seals from...
It is suspected that we have a finite supply of enzymes available to the body. So another words if we are not eating pounds of raw fruits and vegetables containing enzymes, periodically fasting or supplementing with essential oils and enzymes, we may not be getting all the enzymes to maintain...
and rites celebrating the ending of fasts or fast periods.Fasting, the opposite of feasting, has often been associated with purification rites or as a preparatorydisciplinefor the celebration of feasts and associated rites. Festivals often include not only feasting but also dramatic dancing and athle...
The rabbis also added two public fast days to the Jewish calendar, which are briefly mentioned in the Hebrew Bible: thefast of Esther(Ta’anit Ester), in commemoration of the Jews’ fasting before Esther went in to see the king (Esther 4:16), and thefast of Gedaliah, whose assassination...
This is similar to the Confucius discipline of “heart-mind fasting”, and it is regarded as “the natural way”. One simply allows all thoughts and sensations arise and fall by themselves, without engaging with or “following” any of them. If this is found to be too hard and “...