SSP122: Revelations from a 3-Day Fast: Spiritual Disciplines, Fasting Insights, Body Awareness, and Sensitivity

Hey, what's going on, my friend? It's Jordan Kanlish here. Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. Really looking forward to sharing today's episode with you. Today I'm going to be sharing a solo episode. Now, these solo episodes will consist of either an Instagram Live that I've created or a separate video that I pulled from somewhere else that I really wanted to share on the podcast so you could have the audio experience. Now, whenever I do these solo episodes, particularly the Instagram Lives, they're really just a stream of consciousness. I try not to plan them too much. I just allow whatever needs to come through me in that moment to come through. And usually the content is just what is needed for the person on the other side. And I trust that if you're here about to receive this, there's something here for you. So I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you. My one request is if you did get some value from this solo episode, please ensure that you subscribe if you haven't already so that I can keep you posted when more of these come out and share it with a friend as well if you got something useful from this information. So again, I appreciate you so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you for taking in this knowledge. It says so much about you to be on this journey and I really hope you get something from today's episode. So enjoy. Hola, hermanos and Hermanes. How are you? Happy Friday. Thought I'd jump on and do a quick live. I'm on the last day of my juice fast. Three days of no eating, just juice. It's been phenomenal and I thought I'd just come on here and share and see what comes through. Got no real plan, no agenda for the live today, but given that the channels are nice and clear and feeling nice and light. But I'd come on and just share some insights with you. Thanks for being here. Hope you're having a great Friday. So I will tell you a little bit why I decided to do a juice fast. And I've done a few juice fasts before, but I feel like intuitively if you start to tune into your body, that there's seasons happening externally and then the seasons happening internally. And it's really nice to give yourself a body, the body to clean up in house during a transitional period in a season. And what I mean by that is you'll sense when your body's going through a transition period. Maybe you've just come out a period of rapid expansion and and then you're going through a contraction. And during those times it's nice to signify that with an internal cleansing and detoxing. And for me the best way to do that is through fasting. Fasting is, you know, physiologically and biologically there's a lot of great benefits to it. But spiritually there's some profound states you can get access to when you take a fast from eating. And I feel for me personally, cause I'm an earth sign because food is a place I go for pleasure and sometimes distraction that it's sometimes for me the hardest thing for me to fast from. I'm good at fasting from a lot of other things, but food is really difficult and challenging. Hence why I get so much from fasting. So Greg, I'm not working out on this fast because it's a very light one. There's not a lot of calories coming in through the juices. So I'm keeping it super light. Not a lot of movement, just light walks and maybe some yoga during the day. But if you're like me, if you're an Earth sign and fruit is something that you turn to for like your distraction, then fasting will be particularly beneficial for you purely because what happens is when you, when you take food out of the equation, you're left with all of the thoughts that sometimes come up that want to pull you away and want to distract you from, from eating. But the invitation is, can you become aware of all of the ways that you're distracting yourself from just being and experiencing life. So what's happening for me in this, in this fast is I'm making more time for meditation, making more time for yoga. And what that's allowing is me to just be more fully present with my internal experience. Any emotions that I may have been missing or avoiding and now coming to the surface. And what happened to me last night in a yoga class I want to share with you because it's so profound was I was in a 90 minute yoga class. It was a slow moving class because my body was so light, my mind became really still. And what I tried to practice when I'm meditating on doing yoga is connecting with the breath, finding that stillness, but then seeing how long you can stay there, how long can you stay in the gaps. And last night I'm in this class and I started to find the gap between my thoughts for extended periods, 30 seconds, 40 seconds, 60 seconds. And what happens when you're in those states? This is what I call altered state of consciousness. And what a lot of people Refer to as altered states of consciousness. Consciousness, when you start to experience a reality outside of just your five senses, profound level of energy starts to move through your body. You start to tune into, you could say God or higher power or spirit starts to move through you. And I was reminded that you can access these states. A lot of people would now rely on plant medicine. And I've been down the plant medicine route, taken all the psychoactive chemicals to access these states. And it's the fast track, it's the cheat code to get there. But I was reminded last night that sometimes doing it the hard way and the long way through fasting and meditating and prayer. And prayer and yoga is sometimes the more powerful and potent way because you've earned it, right? You've built the body and the nervous system to handle that level of frequency and clarity to come through. So I was reminded of that last night, which is, I prefer personally to walk the path of going more of a monastic route, which is a traditional form of spirituality, which is through these practices that I just mentioned. Now, plant medicines, they're a tool. They come into play at certain times, and they may be useful at certain periods of your growth. But I wouldn't rely on them. I wouldn't, you know, rely on them to reach these states. Go deep in a fast and start meditating and go into a yoga practice, and I promise you, you'll unlock some really profound levels of clarity, peace, joy, and purpose. It starts to come through. So the other thing that I've really noticed. Yeah, Mr. Mr. Boston, I see your question. Self help gurus talking, taking over Instagram. Does it feel disingenuous? Not sure, bro. I'm not really sure what self help gurus you're referring to. For me, the physiological benefits of a fast are starting to come through because I'm checking the Oura ring and I've become aware or noticed that the body sometimes is holding onto things that we don't actually realize. And what happens then is it weighs us down energetically. And you can track this stuff, right? Your ring, when you sleep, your body is resting. Heart rate is going down. Your nervous system, your heart rate variability is a great indicator of how free and light is your body. And physically, you can work on these things by eating the right foods and hydrating and all the things. But emotionally, if you're still holding onto residue from the past, it will literally impact your body's ability to recalibrate, to rest and to recharge. So what I've noticed through fasting, through doing my Inner work is that the body is becoming so light and so receptive that I'm now noticing numbers that I haven't seen in many years on my aura ring. So I just wanted to share that with you because sometimes we can be working really hard on an external level. But if there's something that you're holding onto emotionally that you haven't expressed, that you, you haven't discharged from your body, then your nervous system gets dysregulated and it holds onto that. It affects your level of coherence, your, your clarity. So working on all three levels, mental, emotional and physical, is really what opens the gateway for the spiritual to start to move through you. And you know, I really love doing creative work. When I'm in, I'm in this state when I'm, when I'm fasted. I feel like what naturally comes through is unimpeded. And that's what, how creativity should feel for me. It, it should feel flow instead of force. And if you ever trying to do creative work and as you're coming up against resistance or blocks, there's something internally that's blocking your flow, it's blocking your connection. So when you go through some kind of fast from anything, you become aware of where all these blockages might be. A lot of the times I've, I've found as I've tuned into some of the self awareness of the predominant thought patterns that get in the way of me just kind of being an ease and joy in what I'm doing is it's fear based thinking. So if you can start to turn the dial up on noticing any fear based thinking that comes into your mind, any fearful thoughts, especially around money, especially around your relationship, especially like around just your environment. And it just catch them, catch them soon as they come up and you can say a little prayer to yourself that I've been saying recently which is God, please help me heal these fear based thoughts around money. As soon as they come up, just let it go. And if you have a deep level of trust and faith in a higher power like I do, then you'll realize there's no reason to be afraid because God has always got you, a higher powers always got you and you're always going to be taken care of. So it's all these, these seeds of fear that we want to get, get good at cutting them down because they're getting in the way of our clarity, our purpose, our mission here on earth. Yeah. And guys, I'll answer some questions in a moment of. I've just come On Live Today with no real plan or agenda, I'm just expressing whatever's coming through. So if any questions arise through what I'm sharing, feel free to. Feel free to share them in the chat and I'll get to you. Greg has asked, do you have any takeaways from the numbers you've been noticing? Yeah, Greg, the main takeaway for me was food has such a big impact on how your body rests and recharge. The other thing is the nervous system. I didn't realize the amount of stimulation that sometimes comes from the food that you eat. The food is like firing off dopamine. It's impacting your nervous system. It's impacting a lot of things. So giving the body this, this chance to just reset is proven to me that the body is constantly trying to recalibrate itself. It's trying to come back into center. But we're. If we're eating things that aren't meant for us and it's subtle, right? You could be eating a vegetable that's not meant for you, and it's fucking up your nervous system's ability to recalibrate, right? It's tuning into, what does it feel like to be at full potency, to be like, nervous system is fully recharged, your body's resting fully. What does that state of being feel like? Because then you have a reference point. I think for most of us, we've never actually experienced, like, what is full potency? Like, how does that. What happens to my body and my mind? And what do I get access to when I'm in those states? So my suggestion is try this. If you haven't fasted before, try it. If you haven't, you know, cleaned up your diet and eaten really healthy, try it. If you haven't meditated for an hour, try it. Have you ever been to a yoga class for 90 minutes or done qigong for an hour? Try all these things. Experience what it's like to unlock these states so that you can access it. Mr. Boston, two and a half days in, bro. This is my. This is my third and final, third and final day. So at the end of, end of today, I'll be three days into the fast, and I'm feeling really good. The only downside to it is you just don't have a lot of physical energy to want to go out and work out. So I've taken a step back on the, on the training at the moment. So just again, this is that sensitivity, right? In the past, when I was younger, I would go out, start Fucking working out in the gym while I'm fasting. And it just was too much. So you've got to have that level of sensitivity to your body and your nervous system to know what it is that it needs. I think the wisdom that you acquire when you start to experiment more with these practices is you start to know yourself more deeply. That's the key, especially for us men. The deeper you can know yourself and know what it is that you need, you can then start to show up in life with, with more precision, more confidence in what it is that you can express and communicate, especially to the people that we love. That's the, the biggest drawback in relationships that I see is these people just don't know themselves. So then how can they expect to know their partner if they don't know themselves? Right on the, on this deep level. Mr. Boston, which day felt worst? A J D Is it just water you having? The juice that I'm having is like, it's pretty. It's pretty. It's not even fruit. It's just like celery, kale and greens and lemon and ginger. So it's like I'm getting fuck all dopamine from it. But it's been quite smooth, to be honest with you, bro. I think because once you've done a fast before, then you start to get accustomed to I can do this. It's almost like a mental resiliency. And that's what I feel is so important because once you've stretched yourself outside of your comfort zone, meaning you step into the realm of the unknown and no longer becomes that scary. So now I'm thinking, okay, maybe I want to go a bit longer. Maybe I'll go for seven days. Just keep this going. Let's stretch it a little bit. The same thing with everything, right? Every business is the same thing. Like you step into somewhere that something you haven't done before. Like for example, next month in July, I'm hosting a retreat out in Ontario and I haven't hosted a retreat. It's my first retreat that I've hosted. I've facilitated it a bunch. This is the first one I've hosted in my mind. I can feel some fear coming up in my mind because it's uncharted territory. And the same thing goes to what I said earlier, which is that the more you can be aware of any fear based thinking that's arising in your mind, you can just cut it down with a prayer. God, please heal my fear based thoughts and just come back to faith and trust in something. Higher, you'll realize that you can go after anything. You can tackle your greatest fears with. With the knowing that you have faith and trust that God is going to take care of you. It unlocks profound states of courage. And I've got many examples in my life where I've. When I've discovered that courage and gone in pursuit of something that I was afraid of. So, yeah, man. The expanding beyond your comfort zone is the key. Fasting is no food. No food. It's often overlooked as a spiritual practice, but it is the most powerful spiritual practice. Combined fasting with prayer and meditation. I promise you, that is where it's at. Yeah. Fuck, yeah. Hello, Raya. Just drinking for hydration alone. That's commitment. And then what? Often I find at the end, on the other side of fast, you've got a different relationship with the thing that you were fasting from. So say you fasted from social media. You know, you spend a few weeks off social media, and you come back and you realize. Or you get access to just this level of clarity that was being taken away by the addiction to the device. And now you come back with a new relationship going, you know what? I don't want to be using that as much anymore. It's the same thing with food. You fast from food, you then come back with a different relationship going, you know what? I probably don't need to be eating that late at night, or I probably don't need to be having that much sugar. I probably don't need to be eating as much in general. So your relationship changes with everything as soon as you fast from it. Right. And you can apply this in context of whatever thing that you struggle with in terms of your addiction tendencies. Okay, Think about that for a moment. What is the thing that you tend to get addicted to or the thing you turn to when. When you want to distract or numb or escape? That's most likely the thing that you want to fast from, or at least try to fast from it, because that's where all the growth is, right? That's where all the growth is available behind the thing you're most attached to. Okay, yeah, that's a juice fast, Mr. Boston juice fast. So there's a water fast. There's a juice fast. There is. You can do, like, a fast from certain kinds of foods. You can do a raw food, like, fast, like whatever it is that you're trying to fast from. There's different kinds of. The one that I'm doing is just a juice fast, but no fruit. So it's just A very like low calorie juice fast. And I would say, JP the man, good to have you here, brother. I would say if you can tee up or align these juice fast, like I said at the start of this call, seasonally, right? Just, just notice when your body's going through a seasonal shift, match it with a fast from food ideally. And then you find that you transition or recalibrate much more efficiently. Much more efficiently. And this is what I've noticed. Today being the last day of the fast, I just feel reset, recharged, and ready to go into a new chapter. So guys, I'm going to answer some questions. If you have any questions, I'll hang around for the next five or ten minutes, shoot some questions, shoot some questions through and I'll, I'll answer them. Cool. Linda. Yes. Give it a crack. Fasting, prayer, meditation. Promise you. Promise you it will unlock so much of, so much of a level of abundance in your life in terms of your spiritual connection. You know, I refer to this as just the spiritual disciplines. Think about what they are for you. What are your spiritual disciplines? What are the things you do daily to nurture your connection with God or a higher power? What is it? Right. You have to think about that because people overlook fasting, people overlook prayer and meditation as a spiritual practice. But that's what they are. They're a spiritual discipline we do every day not to be more productive or to make more money. No, no, no. These are practices to connect with God. And if that is your intention and your primary focus when you go into these practices, then you get something very different from them. Right. I think still I can see this in the personal development space or the, the business space, people are doing meditation as a to do list item because they want to be more focused, more productive and make more money. Well, sure, that's maybe a byproduct, but ideally you should be wanting to meditate to connect with your spirit, your, your guides, your higher power, whatever your belief system is. That's should be the number one relationship that we are prioritizing in our lives. Yeah. And if you, if you have that built in, then fuck, you'll know what I'm talking about. Changes everything. Caffeine, Greg, is something that I've reduced a lot. I used to be, I would say that was one of my primary addictions, to be honest with you, bro. I used to drink coffee, you know, every day, and now I've pulled it right back because I've realized it's just too much stimulation for me. I don't need to be that jacked up again when you fast from it. You then come back with a different relationship and you realize when you're that jacked up nervous system wise becomes very hard to connect, to feel nature to be receptive, receptive to certain feelings and things you want to get access to. Because all of the receptivity and the subtleness to life is happening on a parasympathetic level. It's happening when you're relaxed. What happens when you take caffeine and you jack yourself up? You're not relaxed, you're stimulated. So it's harder to feel. So depending on your nature and your natural proclivity will determine how you relate with caffeine and whether it's good for you or not. Alright guys, any more questions? Shoot some questions through before I wrap it. So limited amount of energy that's flowing through now with this calorie deficit that I'm in. But I will say it definitely makes you appreciate food a lot more when you fasted for three days from it. Oh yeah. Quick update guys. I'm gonna be hosting a workshop soon in the next few weeks on relationships. It's the first male and female workshop that I'm gonna be doing in a long time. So I'll be sharing more information about that very soon. But if you're looking to level up your relationships and dial things in from the masculine, feminine polarity, attraction, intimacy, I'm going to be putting all of my wisdom together and throw it in a workshop. So stay tuned for that. Yeah, Linda, hit me up. Sure. Guys, thanks so much for being on here. Appreciate it. And I'll be sharing more insights and lessons as they come through. And have an amazing Friday. Have a great weekend. Appreciate you all. Ciao for now. There we have it, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. One last thing before you take off, I want to tell you a little bit about the path, which is a four month men's program that I facilitate. Enrollments are currently open. And if you're a man listening to this, or you know, a man that may feel the call to step into a men's program and men's group, then this is the opportunity for him. And if you're tuning into my content, if you're here, you're listening to this, there's some sort of resonance through what I'm putting out. There's something that's calling you to step into this work. 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