the most powerful shadow work I have EVER done yet.

Zero water, zero food. It's been 48 hours and I've had zero of those things. I've had zero, zero water. Well, no, I've had zero water and I've had zero food. And this is something I'm doing with intention. I'm doing what's called a dry fast right now, which means I'm not drinking any water. I'm not drinking or eating any food. And it's been about 40 hours. I'm going to go another 24 hours of this. And you might be asking, why are you doing that? Sounds painful. Or it sounds like not necessary. And the reason I'm doing this thing called a dry fast is because when you do it, it becomes a very spiritual experience. Now let me first off say this. I'm not a doctor. I'm somebody that you're watching on YouTube right now. And I just want to remind you of that because all because I'm doing it doesn't mean you want to necessarily go into it. Consult your doctor. Okay. Your doctor who loves probably giving, you know, unless it's a holistic doctor, will probably love to tell you not to do it, if anything, because The pharmaceutical industry, they make way more money with that. If they tell you to just dry fast, they don't make money on water, they don't make money on pharmaceutical drugs. Just an interesting thing. I actually, I have a friend, this is gonna sound kind of interesting. I don't know if I should share this, but I'm gonna share it, okay? I know somebody that knows somebody, it's gonna sound kind of abstract, but I don't wanna give this person away, that knows somebody in the pharmaceutical industry. And it's like a well-known thing in the pharmaceutical industries that many diseases and ailments can go away with fasting. I don't know if it's specifically dry fasting, but just fasting in general. And, um, it's like, it's something that's very much suppressed. And this person is actually in the pharma— it's not a friend of mine. It's— I mean, not if it was a friend, like, I— but like, this person's in the pharmaceutical industry making lots of money on pharmaceuticals, and they said themselves they know that if somebody were to fast for a period of time, pretty much any disease or anything can be somewhat cured from that or cured from that. I just don't know. I don't know what is the language that I can use. Can I say— I don't know. I'm not a doctor. Remember, I'm just a— I'm a guy on YouTube. You're watching on YouTube right now. But that's what I've heard. And that's honestly what I believe. I believe that fasting is an extraordinarily powerful way because of this thing called autophagy. Autophagy. Autophagy. Autophagy is when you're in and you're not giving your body any water or any food, what happens is you need to develop some type of moisture, moisture. So what it does, it starts breaking down fat first off, which is like a benefit. Like you burn a lot of fat while you're on it, which is partially why I'm doing it, why I'm doing it. But the other side of it is the little, the little cells get eaten by the big badass macho cells. So then you're left with a really strong immune system, really strong metabolism and stuff like that. So that's one of the reasons I'm doing it too. I did this a long time ago. My immune system went up. I felt really sharp and on point. And after you get out of the hump, let's— let me share and catch you up to what's happened so far. Okay, so far I was with— I just decided to do this 2 days ago because I was coming back from Sedona to Vegas and I'm like, oh, I'll just fast, not eat the whole day. And I did. I was going to originally just do it for 1 day, but I'm deciding to do it for 3 days. And when I made that choice, the first day I didn't eat, by 11 or 12 o'clock, it didn't feel comfortable at all. I felt like really hungry. And then even about 5 o'clock when I normally eat my second meal, I felt even more hungry. I felt very low and lethargic. But then today I have way more energy. I haven't eaten, had water or food in 2 days, and this is my energy. And, and I remember from the first time I did it, by the third day I had even more energy. So it's really weird how that works. Also, you become, it's almost like you tap into your intuitive, you become a little more sensitive empathically. So it might be a good thing not to go out in public as much or something like that. I mean, maybe that's a limiting belief, but I've been mainly doing shadow work. So what is shadow work? I've been actually doing something very specific called ancestral healing. Ancestral healing, basically, I mean, it's like a whole video in and of itself. I talk about ancestral healing. I'll eventually talk about ancestral healing more so. Ancestral healing is basically where I am tapping into the energy of my family line. So my dad's mom, my dad's dad, and my mom's dad and my mom's mom. And I'm tapping into it and I'm setting the intention to connect to the energies and heal them because there's some patterns that I've noticed from my mom's side of the family and my dad's side of the family that has been a pattern in my life because I've been unconsciously and not aware of it. So I've been, last night what I did is I did a kind of a ceremonial exercise where I tapped into different energies of my different family lines and I focus on sending energy and healing those energies within myself. Think about it. The energy inside of you is also, you were once inside of your mom and then your mom was inside of her mom. We carry an energetic imprint and sometimes patterns we may not be aware of why they're there. I've had some patterns come up that I was like, why do I feel this way? I don't even, can't remember it in my own life. Like why would I feel this way? And to find out that through this process of ancestral healing, asking my mom and dad questions, and even if your mom and dad are around, you can, that there's energy and information inside your own field because you were once in their field. And you can ask questions, you get these answers, and then you start to realize why certain things were the way they were. For example, my dad being a very nice guy and getting walked on by people. Why does that happen? To find out that his dad was the same way. I never met my grandpa, but my dad's dad was the same exact way. My grandma told me, like, he couldn't say no. I'm like, oh, interesting. So he never had a strong masculine role model growing up, and then he didn't know how to model that energy for me, so I've had to learn how to become more assertive in this life and to like overcome that. Like these last 2, 3 years, I'd say I've very much let go of any people pleaser mentality or nice guy-ness, 'cause nice guy is like a shadow thing. Nice guy means like you're not, you think that you have to be a certain way in order to gain validation and approval when you can just be yourself, be authentic, be raw. And that's kind of what I've learned to do this year. But a lot of the shadow work happened from looking at the family lineage to realize a lot of this stuff's not even my own. Then it's easier to heal. And on my mom's side, it was other stuff as well. That's a whole video of itself. I'll share a whole video on it. It's pretty, pretty dark stuff. But anyways, I feel more free than ever. And what I'm doing is I'm combining that of the dry fast to that of the shadow work. And it's almost like there's more intuition, there's more self-inquiry. You know, you can do shadow work by becoming aware of different stories you have about love, about money, about relationship, and then become aware of where those stories originated. Did they come from your childhood? Did it— was there a point in the past when you decided, oh, this is the way reality works, this is how I have to be? And as you become aware of these things, you realize and you start to become more free. So I'm combining these two spiritual practices together. So anyways, I want to be sharing with you my process of going through this dry fast, how I feel before, how I feel after. I'll share with you my, my, how much weight I've lost from doing it, how much water weight I've lost from doing it, and all that stuff. So I'll be checking in with you as we go. All right. I actually, I want to show you this real quick. This is, um, I watched the movie Braveheart last night, and the reason I watched the movie Braveheart is one, I have a lot of, I have a lot of Scottish heritage and English heritage and German, like I got a mix of this heritage stuff. And this is what my mom told me when I was asking about this whole heritage thing, ancestral lines, right? So apparently the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson, I'll show a little, little thing right there. You see that movie right there? Of Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Originally, my mom told me that the last name of my mom's mom's side of the family is the same last name as the family that this movie was based on. Now, I thought she meant that that meant I was related to like Mel Gibson's character, like the guy that was like the guy that like united a whole bunch of people together to fight the English like tyranny. I was like, dude, that's so cool, right? I'm related to them. That's what I thought. That's not the case. I'm actually related to the bad guys, to the guys that did a whole bunch of horrible stuff, like the English. I don't remember what it was, but the last name is connected to that lineage of— it's like horrible, it's like murder, it's like horrible dark stuff. And so here I was thinking it was like this really cool thing to find out. I mean, that movie was back in the— like, it's set back in the 1300s when that kind of stuff was happening. That's how far back the line, the line goes. But there's a lot of trauma in that, which is interesting because on my mom's side of the family, there's a ton of trauma. My mom ran away when she was like 12 years old because of abuse that she was going through. And then I've had a pattern of abuse in my own life with my ex-stepmom. It was almost like that's an energetic imprint that was within each of us that had like life of like intense trauma in a way. So anyways, part of what I was doing, just to give you kind of like a basis. I got this, um, this thing right here where I asked my mom like 30 different questions. I asked my dad like 30 different questions and I found out a lot of stuff. Like for example, I didn't realize that my dad had— my dad's dad, who I've never met, also had another son before he met my grandma. So my dad has a half-brother that he's never even met. That was interesting. Um, and then also the family of that half-brother, so the, the woman that he had that kid with, didn't want— the family didn't want him to have that connection with the kids. So he never really had a, that's why my dad doesn't know his half brother. So my dad has a half brother floating around somewhere, doesn't even know about it. That was interesting to know. A side effect of doing the ancestral work too is when you ask certain questions like, did anyone die in the family that I'm not aware of? Did anybody go through intense trauma in the first like 5 years of my life and stuff like that? And finding out this stuff has been so eye-opening. So I asked my dad, about even like my dad's divorce with my mom. You know, I didn't realize that it was so like, it was such a detrimental thing to my dad. When my dad went through that divorce, it really emotionally wearied on him. And that energy of when I was 4 or 5 years old, that could have had an impact on my own energy field. And then on top of that, my mom's dad passed away, even though there was a lot of abuse there when I was like 1 or 2. And my mom said she lost 25 pounds from that. And And the interesting thing about this is it's making me aware of this kind of like these energies I was around when I was young and I don't even remember it and how that could have affected my sense of survival, my sense of safety and things like that. So a lot of it has been asking a lot of questions within ancestral healing. And when you do ask questions like this and you do find out more, it does help with the healing. You don't have to find out every little detail, even if you don't know your parents You know, there's an energetic field in meditation that you can connect to that is extraordinarily powerful. And, um, this has been life-changing for me. I've been, I've gone, I'm going through an ancestral healing course right now by my friend Bridget, and, um, she is an expert at this stuff and it has been so profound. I've been doing these exercises where I connect to certain family members energetically and I'm able to heal and transmute that energy. And afterwards I feel so free. And I realized that I was literally, I had like this feminine wound because my mom had a feminine wound from her mom. And there's a whole story behind that, but it's pretty crazy. My mom's mom was like very neglectful in many ways. And one of my mom's siblings actually passed away because of that neglect. And then that caused all the kids in the family to not trust the mom. And then that is something that I noticed in my life 'cause I was having issues trusting the feminine in my life, trusting, like, even being vulnerable around the woman I'm dating and stuff like that. So it's very interesting. But as I healed that, guess what? New openness and the opportunities. It's just incredible how powerful this kind of work is. So for those of you, I asked my friend Bridget to open up her process. You guys can go through the same process I'm going through right now. You'll see it below. You can also go to aarondoughty.com/family. So it's aarondoughty.com/family, F-A-M-I-L-Y. A-L-Y. And that's the course that I'm going through right now. It has been extraordinarily powerful, and she's giving you guys a special, like, bonuses and stuff for going through it right now too. I asked her if she'd do that, she said she would. So anyways, I will— yeah, I just wanted to share that with you, and I'll let you guys know more about the dry fast coming up soon. But that's the ancestral healing that I've been going through. All right, so normally when I'm not doing some type of dry fast, I'd go to the gym. But since I don't want to work myself too much and my energy is not the high— I have like a lot of mental energy, but physical energy not so much. So So what I'm going to do is go for a walk. I think I'm going to walk to Trader Joe's. I'm going to get some, I don't know, I think I need coconut oil, a couple other things, even though I'm not eating right now, but I'll need it for after I break my fast and all that. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going too hard or anything like that. I'm taking it really easy. And then when I come back, I'll probably do some inner work and then I'll probably like watch something, which is kind of, I don't know, it's not an escape. I mean, the idea is when you're not putting energy into your body, It's no stimulation, and then you like, you become aware of all you're stimulated by, like, I mean, online and Instagram, stuff like that. But I will probably watch something, maybe like a documentary or something like that. But anyways, just thought I would share. Alright, so I'm gonna be honest. I went on that walk and I've been dry fasting for 2 days, and I didn't realize that Trader Joe's was like 2 miles away from my house. So I ended up going on a 4-mile walk, dry fasted, no water, no food for 2 days, and And the last quarter or the last half of the walk, like walking back, I was so tired and I was sweating and I realized that I'm losing a lot of water. And, um, what I did is I came back here and I jumped in the pool for a minute to cool down my body a little bit. But like I said, this is not something for everybody to do. I'm just kind of doing it as an experiment and thought I would record it in a video and show how that also correlates with the shadow work and all that stuff. So The more as time goes on, the more I crave water. It's not even the food, it's the water. Like, I hear to break the fast, use like lemons. So what I did is I went and got a bunch of lemons, and that's what I'm gonna be doing, lemon water to break it. And then, yeah, something really light tomorrow. But like, I'm really looking forward to that. So anyways, I just wanted to share that with you, that that's what happened on the walk. Good morning everyone. I'm super excited because today I get to, I'm breaking both the water and the food fast. So I'm gonna eat here in probably like 4 or 5 hours. I got up, now I'm gonna be completely honest with you. So last night at about 1 in the morning, I felt like my body was so dehydrated and it was. And I think that because I went on that like 6-mile— not 6-mile, like 5-mile walk yesterday, I burnt like 600, 700 calories and I was sweating a lot and there was no water in my system. I think that doing that made it to where I just, I had to drink a glass of water last night. So I did break the dry fast last night at about 1 in the morning and I felt like health-wise I kind of had to. That's why I'm saying like this dry stuff, this dry fasting stuff isn't for everybody. Consult your doctor and all that good stuff. Um, but it was really profound in many ways. And another way I feel like I was really able to tap into my own intuition in a completely new way. My dreams were very vivid. Um, and once I did get to sleep, I did sleep really good. I woke up a little bit later than normal, just got done doing my cold plunge. And, um, to finish it off, what I'm going to do is two things. One, It's called an enema. It's where— it's this bucket that's full of water, and what I do is it goes up your butt and it puts a whole bunch of water in there. And then what it does is it gets you so that you can like release all— there's, there's like stuff in our system from a long time ago that's still there. And there's also, because I, I didn't eat any food or drink water for like 2 days and now haven't eaten food in 3 days, there's a whole bunch of parasites that are dying off. And what that enema is going to do is going to bring out the parasites. I know it sounds disgusting, um, because it goes up the butthole, the bum hole. And, uh, yeah, it's gonna, it's gonna release a lot of toxins and stuff like that. The other thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to do— I got the sauna heating up right now. I'm going to do a sauna for about 5, uh, for about 20, 20, 30 minutes. And I'm still not going to drink any more water until after that. So I did drink a glass of water last night, actually drank like glass and a half of water last night. And I'm going to do that for 20 minutes. I'm pretty sure that glass of water has probably gone through me by now, or I've absorbed it, but I'll be a little bit dehydrated in there. But then after that, I break in my water fast, or, you know, drinking water with lemon water is what I'm going to do. And then I'm going to eat like a smoothie, like a couple hours later, and then I'll be back into food again. But I'll be doing it very slowly. It's very important to do it very slow coming out of a dry fast or even a water fast. You do not want to eat the wrong foods. Normally people eat watermelon because it's so high water rich. But in general, this, this fast has been a profound experience of me tapping back into my own intuition. Also, I'll show you a before and after of 2 days of fasting, of how that made my physique look, because I am in the process of losing some weight right now. When you say lose weight though, that also implies that you're gonna gain it back. So I'm releasing what is not me, releasing what I don't prefer to have, and Yeah, I'll show you before and after right here, and it's pretty profound. I was surprised. A lot of it's water weight, though. I'm gonna be honest with you guys. It's not like you do this and you lose, you know, I've probably lost about 6 pounds from when I started, but most of that's water weight. Most of it is water weight. But because I was in a 2,000-something calorie deficit 2 days in a row, that's almost a pound of fat that I was burning. Maybe a little bit of muscle as well, but mainly I would say fat because I do have a lot of fat in my gut area that I'm releasing right now, not losing. So, and by the way, just to clarify, I've been, I've been reading and watching so many videos on YouTube about losing weight or releasing weight, and it's like there's low carb, there's like people do keto, people do fasting or OMAD, one meal a day, like all these different things. The only thing that really matters when releasing weight is being in a caloric deficit, which means that you eat a little bit less than you are expending, and then you lose weight. It's that simple. So doing a fast does that because you go 1 or 2 days without eating. You're cutting out the calories, meaning you're in a big major deficit. And then when you replenish yourself, it's important to be very mindful because there's like this, oh, I'm gonna eat a whole bunch of food. No, then you, you mess up the whole thing, you know. I'm still gonna eat more food, like I'm gonna eat, you know, like I normally would, but I'm not going to go crazy and binge or anything like that. And then a lot of that weight I will gain back as water weight. That's just the way— it's just the way it goes. But I do look quite different. But also it's given me an image in my mind of getting closer to that goal, even though I know it's going to fill me up a little bit more with water. But anyways, it's been powerful for changing my self-image, powerful for doing the shadow work. The ancestry healing has been huge. And like I said, if you want to do what I'm doing right now, You could do a water fast, I would recommend, for a day, 2 days, whatever resonates with you, and then do that ancestral healing work. I promise you it will change your life and it'll help you let go of patterns that no longer serve, patterns that may not even be yours. And all you gotta do for that is go to aarondoughty.com/family, F-A-M-I-L-Y. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about. But this has been some of the most powerful shadow work that I've ever done this last week, and it's some of the most transformative because I can already see how it's released patterns in my life emotion in my life. And it's interesting that as I was clearing out my shadow and my auric field, I was also cleaning out my internal organs and letting go of things that no longer serve me. So with that being said, I'll share, I'll share with you as I break my fast too. I'm gonna do that in a little bit, and I'll talk to you guys later. Okay, I'm excited about this. So I did have a jar and a half to 2 jars last night at 1 in the morning. But I feel like this is gonna be different because today I did that enema and I also did that sauna thing. And yeah, it's like I need to break my fast. I'm gonna eat here in like the next half an hour as well. I'm gonna eat something really light like a smoothie. But basically what I'm doing is I've heard doing some type of like lemon, and also because it helps to like move the acid in the body and stuff like that, it's also alkalines it more. So what I'm gonna do now is put a little love into it. Imagine this beautiful water going into my body and just filling up my cells and all that cool stuff. So let me see. Oh, it's so nice. Mm. They say that after a fast you should chew your water and drink your food. Think about that for a minute. Chew your water, which is not what I just did, but like, like chewing it, and which means going very slow. And then drinking your food means you chew it up so much that it's like easy to digest. So it's kind of what I'm going to be doing. Um, anyways, the shadow work mixed in with the stuff that I was talking about with the fasting has been one of the most profound things I've experienced. And I'm going to do this probably every month. I'm going to do one day where I skip and I do like either a dry fast or a water fast, and I'm going to see how that goes. But nonetheless, I want to thank you guys for being here and let you guys know I love you. If you like vlog style videos like this as well, let me know. I mean, it's kind of a vlog, but let me know. Comment below and I'll talk to you guys later. Peace, much love, and namaste.