Hello, so the fast has begun and the relaxative has begun as well. As Tony mentioned his motivations for the fast, I will mention mine as well.

Something which initially motivated me rotates around my eternal quest for purity. I still find it strange that it took such a long time for me to realize one of my namesakes is "Demian", a wonderful book by Herman Hesse. However, when I found this lost bit of information out from my mom, I decided it would be a good idea to read the book. Flash forward a few months, and all of a sudden I had just experienced one of the books with the rare ability to transform your life; the books that come along and you live them for awhile (other such books in my life: "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Milman, "Illusions" by Richard Bach and "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut). My life became "Demian"; it became a conscious struggle of my holy parts verses my deviant parts, a no-holds barred battle to catapault me to a new understanding of myself. It worked though, and the side with love on it won again, as it seems to always do.

Additionally, I am going to take this opportunity to connect to my internal desire to pursue meditation and relaxation in a greater context. The one main thing I learned from previous brief fasts is the most difficult thing to encounter is personal stress, your body becomes weak, but your mind has the ability to become far weaker. Therefore, this time I was hoping to limit any complications by setting up my life to flow a bit slower, and ideally smoother (sometimes literally).

Now, as it is a new year and as it seems Resolutions are back in this year, it seemed like as good of a time as any other to attempt to sweep my body clean. Something that always has resonated with me of the little I know about the Chinese New Year is one procedure involves the full relocation of everything in your house: a couch on a different wall, a bookshelf scooted over 10 feet, a shifting of the energy. What this allows is not only a new perspective, but an ability to clean and renew the areas which were previously stagnant. I guess I am hoping the fast can serve a similar function.

Additionally it seems my coworkers, Justine Hewitt and Roberta Wahl, both individually made a resolution to not drink any alcohol for the month of January. As I am the only other one in the office it seemed only fitting that I follow suit and as I didn't start until the 9th of January and am going to be on a fast until the 28th it didn't even seem that hard. Add to all of this my self-imposed fast on masturbation and you can almost refer to me as Brother Daimian, the newest monk on the block!

Furthermore, it seems now there is all this talk about the MasterCleanse as solely a resource for dieters to lose weight fast which seems to bringing more and more people to it as well as ostracizing everyone who may have a higher pursuit within the cleanse. It actually is rather funny that as me and Tony were looking at one of the main Master Cleanse informational sites (www.therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse) that we saw a link to Beyonce. We both were like what is a Beyonce, do we add that to the mix? Nope, it is just Beyonce Knowles, former lead singer of Destiny's Child, who is now getting all this press for dropping her weight for her new role in "Dreamgirls" via the MasterCleanse. Life sure is silly sometimes.

Well, I send my intention out into the world and I hope I have the clarity to appreciate the quest as it occurs.

Poop on!

--daimian

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