Fasting and Peace

On the next Stay Peaceful, the topic will be Fasting and Peace.

Fasting is an ancient practice, often used today for its health benefits. Health food stores proffer cleanses and other packages of supplements to aid in making your body healthier through a controlled series of fasts.

Fasting has a spiritual aspect as well. Fasting is promoted and practiced in practically every major religion and nonreligious quest today. Historically touted as a way to "draw closer" to a seeker's goal or spiritual desire, fasting could be the most common tradition in a spiritual journey. However, despite this call to fast, many followers of spiritual traditions do not practice this mandatory aspect of their faith.

Fasting has also entered the social landscape as a method of protest, as a way to challenge power and injustice. Often successful, this aspect of fasting is gaining wider and wider popularity with recent social and economic issues worldwide.

The next Stay Peaceful will discuss fasting and its relationship to peace, both personally and globally.

This week's show will be 2 hours, starting at noon and running until 2pm Pacific.

I hope you can tune in,

Stay Peaceful,

Jason

Stay Peaceful airs every Sunday on CFBX, 92.5FM The X, live stream at www.thex.ca/home.php (click on the antennae to stream with iTunes or Winamp)