Non-Food Fasting

The source broadens fasting beyond food to include abstaining from hate, overstimulation, sex, junk food, carbohydrates, and dopamine-triggering inputs. Awareness of negative thought patterns is presented as the first step toward reducing them. Notifications are treated as a modern stressor that interrupts attention and triggers threat scanning. A heart fast is described as a period of refraining from negative thoughts about oneself, others, or things. A dopamine fast is described as abstaining from overstimulating pleasures so ordinary pleasures become more available again. A notification fast is presented as voluntary abstinence from interruption that helps people choose when to engage with devices.