At a deeper level, view fasting as a deliberate decision that really has nothing to do — levels of meaning — with just food. It is the decision to interrupt patterns that have become habitual. So you fast from sound, you fast from negative thinking. You fast from being busy. You fast from going to bed at the same time every day. You fast from arising at the same time every day, for a day, for two days, for a week, for a month, for forty days and forty nights. [...]