Fasting as Practice
What the body has to do with prayer
This exploration is coming soon. It will cover fasting as a bodily spiritual practice and its specific relationship to hesychast prayer and inner attention.
The exploration will examine how fasting functions in the tradition: not as self-punishment, but as a form of bodily prayer — a way of incorporating the whole person, including the body's desires, into the movement of return toward God. It will address why the tradition insists that the body is not an obstacle to spiritual life but a participant in it, and why hesychast masters from Evagrios onward consistently connected the practice of inner prayer with the discipline of the body through fasting, sleep regulation, and the careful management of physical appetites.