at heart.
Nonetheless, these first seven days had proved to be
a mixture of pain and challenge in each of his body’s
fields, with some temporary respite into joy.
On the morning of the eighth sunrise, he took his first
sip and swallow of water, mixed with the juice of a few
crushed wild berries for flavour.
It felt and tasted like heaven!
He was estatic at the pure joy of tasting and ingesting
the flavoured water and burst into song and dance,
leaping and punching the air, while giving thanks to
The Great Spirit.
For seven days and nights he had radically
surrendered and had been fed only on Life Force
Energy, the same energy that lies at the heart of all
living, sentient beings. Some call it Prana and some
refer to it as Chi, but it is all the same life-giving
substance.
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