The Most Underrated Benefit Of Fasting

Now I'm going to talk about the most underrated benefit, in my opinion, from fasting. And that comes from my experience of fasting, doesn't come from any books or anything. It really— it's not even about health, okay? This benefit is simply you're not stimulated, okay? But what does that mean? That means like when you're not stimulated, that brings a lot of points. And I don't even care about the health benefits of fasting, like autophagy, you know, cortisol going down, serotonin going up. No, I'm not going to talk about this. I'm talking about not stimulated. Now, being stimulated is something like most people are 24/7. And what is stimulation? Is things like being on TV— I mean, not being on TV, but watching TV, watching YouTube, you know, all those man-made things like You know, pretty much anything that kind of like excites you, but it's kind of man-made. Because you know, you can play sports, but it's not like a stimulation like technology, which is addicting, okay? And food is addicting for a lot of people, even for me. Like, even if I eat healthy and everything, I still find so much sort of like pleasure in eating food. Now, am I like addicted to food? What, like, maybe you can say, um, yeah, I depend on food. I mean, yeah, I need to depend on food to survive, but yet, do I eat sometimes more than what I should eat? And, you know, whatever. Yes, but what you gotta understand is once you sort of like cut off like the stimulation from food, you gotta start by cutting off like junk food first of all, not only for health benefits but also for the mind because You're always gonna depend on this junk food, and you're always gonna think about this junk food. And what happens is you just, you're not living, you're just thinking about like being stimulated by other things. You know, people that do drugs, they think about drugs. People that in the society that don't do drugs, most of them like just try to get like some junk food, some cheap food so they can feel good in like one second. And we don't want that. We don't want that instant gratification. We don't even deserve getting food so easy. That's what I think. We are too stimulated. We can go to the grocery store right now and just buy like a candy bar. We can literally do that and that stimulates us so much. It's not only about like the sugar which makes you addicted and everything, it's about like you're not in a state of like, you're always in a state of like reward. You're never in a state of like not reward. So you're getting used to being in a state of reward, which is instant gratification. So you cannot even live like properly, you cannot even live, you can't even live without like instant gratification. So you always depend on instant gratification. So you're always thinking about this, and that's, that blocks us from so much things. And I think that's one of the reasons why people got anxiety, depression, stress, and everything, because you're all, you're never gonna have time to reflect or do anything with yourself because you're always stimulated and always wondering about it. Oh, let me— I want to go watch a movie on Netflix. I want to eat a candy bar. Like, you're always stimulated by those things, and it's so available to us. Like, 100 years ago, like, it didn't happen. And that's why, for me, that's the number one benefit from fasting. There's other things like NoFap or what else, like, I don't Like anything that you abstain from, like a sort of like instant pleasure, you always get like a great benefit in the long run. Like just look at one of the popular studies, it's called like the marshmallows, marshmallow test or something. And people that were able to delay gratification, which means people that didn't just indulge in— because the test was like people, there was kids and they had to eat. There was marshmallows, and they said, if you don't eat the marshmallow right now, we're gonna give you 2. And the kids, like, the, the kids who did not eat the marshmallow and got 2 marshmallows instead after, because they waited, they actually were doing better in life in the long run when, when they were met, uh, like many years, many years after the test. And people that literally just ate the candy like this, like the marshmallow like this, because they couldn't, they couldn't like resist even though they were kids. They literally were not doing as good as the other people in life, literally, bro. And you know, also like one of the reasons why they're like this is because they see their parents, you know, always indulging in these instant gratification activities. But what you gotta understand is these instant gratification activities are modern convenience that make you lazy, that makes you That makes you pretty much like, man, that just makes you lose all your energy because we think, oh, we're not gonna spend energy on all those modern convenience stuff like cleaning the house. You know, I'm not saying you should clean the house or something. I'm saying, you're like, oh, I'm not gonna lose energies by cleaning the house and everything, but that's what's gonna give you energy because it's gonna keep you fit, it's gonna keep you healthy because you're gonna be moving your body. But most people don't move their body. But let's get into the benefit, okay? I've mentioned a lot. You're not stimulated. Bro, just think about the monks. Are the monks overstimulated? No. And they say they're one of the happiest people on Earth. Because, bro, they're just not stimulated. We think so much, we think so much we need those instant gratifications. We have those beliefs that we got told, then we just want to believe, like, oh yeah, you deserve a candy every day, like, you deserve ice cream, you deserve this. But what you gotta understand is you don't even need those things. Yes, you might need to depend on it if you're addicted or something right now, but you don't need those things to be happy. You don't need those things. You're just going to be happy for like 5 seconds, bro, and then it's gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're going to be happy for sure, for a short period of time. You're not gonna be happy in the long run. It's not even about like being, about having regrets of eating the ice cream. It's about you depending on things like this to be happy. When, to be honest, when you're not stimulated, you really see what is gonna make you happy. What happens is you're in the present moment. When you're in the present moment, You're less stressed, you're less anxious, and you have more reflecting time. Now, being in the present moment and, you know, really reflecting time— when I've made my video, 72-hour fast— reflecting time, bro, probably one of the most underrated and one of the most— one of the things that many people don't really not do because of stimulation. Because of being overstimulated. I'm not saying you should just stop like watching Netflix, eating, you know, whatever food or anything, but what I think you should do is called the 80/20, but that's another video. 80/20, so you're gonna keep— well, I'm not even supposed to talk about this, so I'm gonna make a video on this, okay? But when you are in the present moment, you're basically Well, it's beautiful because what I like— I remember seeing something like, um, they said like people that have happy thoughts are not as happy as people who are in the present moment. Literally, bro, when you're in the present moment, you don't even have negative thoughts. You have less stress, less anxiety. It feels like when I was doing my 72-hour fast, or when I was doing like Ramadan, when I was doing just like Fasting in general, like, it feels like because you have also less energy and everything— you don't have less energy, just like you don't want to spend your energy, okay? So what happens is you don't do things like trash-talking because you don't want to spend your energy on that. So what you do is like all the energy goes to like thinking and to yourself, basically. Every time I fasted when I was in school, but Like for example, when I was in school, if I was stressed or something, like because, you know, back when I was not self-improvement, like, you know, like you go to school and you're stressed because of what other people think and everything. But when I was fasting, I wasn't even thinking about this because also I was just like thinking about like eating. But it just calms you down. I don't know if it's cortisol, I don't know if it's anything, but it calms you down. But being not stimulated, I saw something on Instagram that said like, Next time you're hungry, don't like— don't go just for like a snack or something. Don't go like— your first step should be to eliminate like the junk food, like those junk cheap snacks that you eat like on the regular, like cookies. You eliminate that and then you replace that with, let's say, a fruit, an apple. And then when you're used to, you know, getting the apple and everything, you're gonna cut off the apple and you're not gonna eat. Because when you face against hunger, bro, you become stronger. I can't tell you, bro. You become way stronger. And like some people are maybe look strong physically, mentally, or anything, cut them off food. You're gonna see it's another sort of aspect that you can master in your life. That's how I see it. Because if I'm getting comfortable not eating, then I can't go longer. The thing is, when you're just faced against like yourself, because think about it, okay? If I was gonna— let's say I'm hungry right now because I actually am. If there's an apple, like let's say there's a cookie, I'm not gonna eat the cookie, okay? Instead, I might eat the apple, but I'm like, no, I'm not gonna eat the apple. And then I say, okay, let me just embrace hunger. That's when you face sort of like what people call the demons. You face your shadow self, you face yourself that is always trying to be stimulated by things. That's how you sort of find your higher self because you're not stimulated by things. That's literally powerful, so powerful. Like, you're not stimulated, so you gotta confront your sort of like stimulated self or your instant gratification side. Of you, okay? And that's so powerful. That's the number one benefit. There's also so many benefits, but I'm not going to talk about this. But being not stimulated in this day and age is going to get you— like, I'm not trying to compare you to anyone, but you're going to— I can't say that, but you're going to be like sort of like up. Like, you're going to be not better, but you know, you're going to be different than people because Most are stimulated where whatever they— even if they eat healthy, even if they work out, even if they do this and that, most of the time are being spent on like technology and just eating. People eat 6 times a day, but bro, that consumes so much time. You're always stimulated by food. You're never like— we gotta be able to embrace hunger. That's one of the uncomfortable things that is— it's beautiful. Like, yes, it's not, it's not comfortable and and it shouldn't be, but you're gonna gain so many benefits, like mentally, that you should just do it, bro.