Since fasting is a period of repentance, and since repentance drills are numerous, let me mention the following:

a) Concentration on a point of weakness or a favourite sin: Everyone knows perfectly well which sin he weakens before, which sin he repeatedly slips into, and which sin is repeatedly reffered to in most of his confessions. Let one then take such sins as a field of training on how to discard them while fasting. In this way a fast becomes indeed sacred.

b) One who fasts may train himself to quit a certain habit. An example of htis is a smoker who trains himself while fastinf to quit smoking. Likewise is the one who is addicted to some kind od drink, such as tea or coffee for instance....

c) How easy it is for man to place before his eyes certain verses dealing with sinfulness. If he slips into any of the verbal sins, he puts the following words of the Bible before his eyes: "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement." (Matthew 12:36)

d)Whenever you feel hungry and covet food, rebuke yourself: Say to yourself: When you give up this sin, i shall allow you to eat, for the bible says: If any would not work, neither should he eat." (IIThessalonians 3:10)

e)Take a point of weakness that is in you and make it the topic of your prayers and the target of your efforts during your fast: Fully concentrate on it from the point of view of aspiration, accuracy, and resistance. Collect Bible verses that deal with this sin. Place them before you so that you may read them continuously.