Think of water fasting as a stripping down time, a period of brokenness, humility and profound inner reflection. Due to a high metabolism, I find fasting on water difficult. Water fasting for me is crawling under the covers in warm flannel pajamas, entering deep into that inner place of prayer with bible beside my bed. The world around becomes obscure and far away. Everything goes in slow motion and the things that yesterday were all too familiar, become strange and unimportant.
Values systems make quantum shifts, what was impossibly urgent becomes frivolous.
It is a deep dreamy state, an altered consciousness. Not everyone finds water fasting so. Those who have slower metabolisms find fasting on water a breeze. They can walk for miles, exercise and generally feel energetic. But for all, water fasting is a profound experience.