Fasting Against Over-Possession: How the Craving for More Became a Sickness—and How Emptiness Restores the Soul (Fasting Against Disease)

Fasting Against Over-Possession: How the Craving for More Became a Sickness—and How Emptiness Restores the Soul (Fasting Against Disease)

You were never empty. You were just too full of what wasn’t yours. This book is your permission to let go. In Fasting Against Over-Possession , Laing Z. Matthews delivers a piercing yet compassionate meditation on the modern illness of “too much”—too much stuff, noise, input, ambition, and grasping—and how the ancient path of fasting offers not just physical healing, but psychic and spiritual liberation. This is not a book about food. It is about what we consume unconsciously, endlessly: affirmation, attention, distractions, upgrades, control. It is about the invisible weight of ownership—how what we hold begins to hold us. Matthews reframes fasting as a sacred return, not a deprivation. Through clear, spacious prose and grounded spiritual insight, he guides the reader through: The myth of “just food”—and how real fasting is a way of life - Decision fatigue, dopamine addiction, and the silent cost of overchoice - Why giving is a form of fasting—and the science of generosity's healing effects - How clearing one shelf, one inbox, one hour of noise can restore the nervous system - The spiritual truth behind Daoist simplicity, sacred economics, and the unclutched life Drawing on neuroscience, Daoist wisdom, gift economy thought, and real-life case studies, the book reveals how the practice of releasing—possessions, inputs, digital clutter, self-image—unblocks vitality, restores joy, and reawakens our inherent clarity. Key sections include: The Life That Consumes You – why your exhaustion isn’t from doing too little, but from holding too much - The Treasury of Being – how breath, stillness, and presence are the real wealth we forgot - The Generous Fast – how true giving is not subtraction, but energetic release - The Unclutched Life – how letting go returns you to what matters The book closes with a quiet spiritual crescendo, inviting the reader into a fasted life: a life with space for the soul. A life where enough is not a sacrifice—it is a sanctuary. This book is for you if: You’ve decluttered your closet but still feel heavy - You feel addicted to buying, upgrading, or achieving—but long for peace - You are tired of being owned by what you own - You are ready for a healing that doesn’t come from adding one more thing—but from removing what doesn’t belong Fasting Against Over-Possession is not minimalism with better branding. It is not productivity disguised as spirituality. It is an invitation to stop clinging. To stop proving. To stop accumulating. Because you don’t need more to be whole. You need less between you and the truth.