But the world’s religious traditions also have a wealth of insights on this practice. Health care workers and others advocate fasting to calm us down, help us think more clearly, sleep better, clean out the body, and give the whole system a rest. He points out that nowadays many people are seeing the value of fasting as a kind of body-ecology, a sane and salutary way of taking care of ourselves. This is the third in a series of paperbacks in the Skylight Paths series “Preparing to Practice” following “The Sacred Art of Bowing” by Andi Young and “The Sacred Art of Chant” by Ana Hernandez.Īuthor Thomas Ryan is a Catholic priest and as a member of the Paulist Fathers coordinates the order’s ecumenical and interreligious relations in the United States and Canada. Thomas Ryan “The Sacred Art of Fasting” (Preparing to Practice)
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