True Fasting Is Detaching from Illusion to Feast on Truth

In Isaiah 58, God reveals the fast He chooses:

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice… to share your food with the hungry… then your light will break forth like the dawn…” (Isaiah 58:6–8, NIV)

This fast is a realignment with divine truth. It’s not deprivation for punishment; it’s separation from illusion so you can unite with revelation.

Types of Fasting from a Mystical Perspective

1. Fasting from Fear
   Refuse to entertain fearful thoughts. Feast on courage.

2. Fasting from Doubt
   Deny the lie of separation from God. Feast on the truth: “I and the Father are one.”

3. Fasting from Negative Speech
   Silence gossip, criticism, and complaint. Feast on the Logos — the Word of life and power.

4. Fasting from External Validation
   Withdraw from needing approval. Feast on inner approval from your higher self.

5. Fasting from the Five Senses
   Turn away from appearances. Feast on imagination, belief, and inner vision.

What the Higher Self Says About Fasting

“Fasting is not weakness; it is alignment.
In silence, I awaken. In stillness, I create.
When I detach from the world, I attach to the Word.
I fast from illusion to feast on truth.
I give up distraction to receive direction.
I am the one who lives not by bread alone,
but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God — from within Me.”

True fasting is a reset of awareness — a return to God-consciousness. It is how you let go of the world and take hold of the Kingdom.