My first fasting experience

Hi guys!

Well last week I had a full day all to myself so I thought I would challenge myself by doing a 24 hour fast. I think the longest i have ever gone without eating is about 8 hours so I was rather looking forward to seeing how I would react. I have read about how people use fasting to encourage visions and so fourth so I planned to spend the final hour of the fast in meditation.
Everything was great and just as normal and infact the hunger did not really hit home until about 18 hours into the fast (I was still drinking water though). I did'nt feel weak at any point, just really floaty and light-headed but really happy! I played my ps2 for a while just to keep my mind focused on something so the hunger kinda stayed at bay. The final hour arrived and I began my meditation. It was actually quite hard to settle down with my body screaming "EAT!" at me but I finally relaxed into the moment and actually went pretty deep into it faster than usual. The fact that I had had nothing but water for almost 24 hours gave me a real sense of purity of my body that I had never really felt before and that made me feel great!
Towards the end of the meditation I had a visit! In my minds eye an angel appeared to me, it was in female form, about 9ft tall with very long brown hair that seemed to be blowing in a wind that was not there. I asked who the angel was and I was told "Uriel". Uriel then smiled down on me and plucked a feather from her wing which she then placed into my heart chakra, the feather blended with my energy there and I felt such elation and euphoria that it took me out of the meditation completly!
I then kinda sat there with a mega grin on my face contemplating what had just happened and gave thanks for the gift I had just received.
I then went downstairs and ate a large tin of vegtable soup, half a loaf of bread, a packet of noodles 4 bits of ryvita with slabs of cheese on a bag of crisps and 2 chocolate biscuits! hahaha fatty me eh!

All in all it was a very positive experience for me. I had faith that I could do it but there was always a niggiling doubt there..not any more! I feel stronger in myself for doing it and I think I may do a 24 hour fast once a month.

~ p e a c e ~