A soul fast is choosing something other than food to abstain from. If you don’t have much experience fasting food, have health (or other) issues that prevent you from fasting food, or if you wish to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance, this is a great option for you. For example, you might choose to stop using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that element back into your life in healthy doses at the conclusion of the fast.

This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.

The partial food fast is where you do a complete food fast for a partial part of time. For example, you can choose to skip an entire meal each day, maybe you skip lunch and use your lunch hour to pray. Or you can decide not to eat anything all day until a certain time (3 pm, 5 pm, etc.).