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Breatharianism is immensely dangerous if done in the wrong way or approached by persons who are unable to achieve it. That is why for years I chose to not write about it, only to keep it as a personal experience. Today I feel that I can describe what breatharianism is, but also do my best to provide safety guidelines, and by doing so I can address some of the risks already out there, and perhaps add to making it safer to those who are not ready.
Trying out breatharianism when you are not ready can and will kill you. Starvation is a very real physical consequence and there is no way to ignore or deny what is happening. Your kidneys will fail if you do not drink, your brain will go into a coma and suffer brain damage. You will have problems with your blood pressure. Toxins will accumulate in your body because they cannot be flushed out with water through the kidneys. Your body will begin to eat its own proteins because you are not eating proteins from your food. Eventually the body eats up the heart and you die from heart failure, probably a very painful way to die, unless you die from coma first. You will begin losing coordination, stumbling on things, and passing out. You sleep for more and more hours and grow weaker and weaker. You might even begin to hallucinate. You will experience pains in the body. Eventually you are unable to stay asleep and keep waking up, feeling great discomfort in the body. You feel hunger and thirst, your body is telling you of what it needs. You begin to dream about food and drink, perhaps you have a dream where you are drinking a never-ending gallon of water, only to wake up being real thirsty. You might go insane and lose touch with reality. And you will die, eventually, if you do not eat and drink while your body still needs it. Dying out of starvation is probably one of the most uncomfortable ways to die.
Breatharianism and starvation are not the same thing. Starvation is not some holy quest.
I have reached quite far in the breatharian experience, seemingly safely without suffering physical consequences. I would strongly advise the following:
Breatharianism is not an eating disorder. A person with an eating disorder disregards the body's needs for food and drink and ignores or is oblivious to the body developing signs of starvation. Meanwhile breatharianism is a spiritual journey, one in which a person feels the intake of spiritual nourishment, followed by a lack of hunger and thirst, and no signs of starvation or thirst appear on the body, mind, or well-being. But most importantly of all, a breatharian is a person who will eat and drink if the body asks for it, and would feel no aversion towards eating and drinking at that time, anything that the body asks for. A person with eating disorder would not honor the body's asking for food or drink.
Do not ever induce vomiting or purge. If you ate something, you hang on to it. If you regret having eaten it, so what. It will be out of your system soon enough anyway. To have food out of your body even sooner, is not worth the consequences. The body recycles several liters of water in the digestive system. Anybody who vomits or uses a laxative loses a significant amount of body fluids and puts the body out of balance. Don't ever do this, also it is to be thought of as violence toward the body. A breatharian does not hurt nor disrespect their body. But most importantly, if you ate something which you then regret having eaten, you are practicing unconsciousness toward your actions. Only consciousness can activate breatharianism. You have to be aware of what you do and why you do it, so every time you eat there is something in it for you to learn. (I will later write a whole page about this.)
If you are thirsty, drink. If you are hungry, eat. Your body is asking for it. Breatharianism is achieved in the mind, at which hunger and thirst may disappear. Breatharianism is not forced into action by refusing to eat and drink when your body needs it.
If you are having sleeping problems, you must at the very least drink. If you find yourself sleeping all the time, or if you find yourself unable to stay asleep, you are suffering from dehydration and probably also hunger. Sleep disorders are not part of breatharianism, nor are they essential steps toward reaching breatharianism.
What bothers me the most is when persons trying to achieve breatharianism experience various physical symptoms, such as weakness, dizziness, etc, and then they say that these are only detoxification symptoms. No they are not. Many who aspire toward breatharianism act as if all the symptoms of hunger and thirst are nothing but signs that the body is "cleaning itself". No, they are signs that your body is malfunctioning and about to die. Eat and drink. Breatharianism has no detoxification symptoms. You can go straight from eating meat and other denser foods, and hop right onto breatharianism, without any of these so called "detoxification symptoms".
Yesterday I ate a whole lot of foods, I even ate a whole pizza with meat and cheese. Today I am doing breatharianism. No detoxification symptoms. When your light is high enough, it can "incinerate" even the densest of foods.
If you are becoming unable to maintain life successfully, do consider going back toward normal eating, or even lighter but nourishing eating. If you are becoming far too detached from the world and you are unhappy, unable to do your work or pay your bills etc, then there's no joy in breatharianism. Or if you find yourself unhappy and feel as if you have lost many things in life. Breatharianism when done properly should work with a normal way of life, you should be able to remain happy, still have friends, and maintain work.
The body needs fat and fat is a really great thing! I hate it when certain breatharian aspirants talk as if all bodyfat were a bad thing, and the skinnier they get the closer they are to the true breatharian state. Not so! Fat is icing on the cake, it makes the body beautiful and comfortable. If you ever made a cake you know that your cake is not always perfectly smooth or pretty when it comes out of the oven. So you use icing to fill in the holes and make it perfectly smooth and beautiful on the outside. Fat is a filler, fat makes it so that your collarbones don't show and so that your ribs don't show. To regard bodyfat as something bad is nothing but an eating disorder, also not part of breatharianism. If you look like a skeleton, you are obviously starving and need to eat some physical foods, as breatharianism is not working for you. Breatharians do not look like skeletons. Only people who are starving do.
I have twelve years of experience of aspiring toward breatharianism, and have gone through many trials and error and dead ends along the path. I was at one point years ago losing a lot of weight (not that I thought it was a good thing). I didn't like the way I looked, but the worst problem was that I was unable to lie down in a comfortable position to sleep. I felt as if I didn't have a comfortable bed underneath me, but instead was having to sleep on a pile of sharp and hard bones. It was very uncomfortable living in my body, I was uncomfortable all the time. Fat is a beautiful filler that makes the body soft and comfy. Losing a lot of weight is not a good thing. You are not supposed to be really skinny. Even being a bit big or round is better than being too skinny.
And you are beautiful as you are. Breatharianism is a journey of finding your inner true beauty. When you know yourself and love yourself, your body will show that you are beautiful.