others: they can pray. In dealing with the weighty, sometimes crushing problems of counseling, I have found, as a complement to prayer, that fasting is helpful. I don’t assign it to counselees, but I fast for my own sake, when I need an emotional and spiritual bath. I also use it as a prayer discipline when dealing with a battery of problems that begin to affect my life, when counseling, for example, a host of people in marital crises and I’m starting to feel pressure in my own marriage. I use fasting