Learn How To Eat Right Sleep Less Sadhguru

if you eat right and do a certain things

with your body

you see very effortlessly within three

to four weeks you can drop your sleep

quota

anywhere between two to three hours

food is not a religion food is not a

culture

food is just a fuel for this machine

yes there may be cultural aspects to the

taste

there may be even religious tinge to the

food

over a period of time but essentially

food is fuel for this body

so with what kind of food will it

function

with minimum struggle within itself and

maximum impact

so suppose you buy a petrol car and pump

diesel into it

it may still roll around but not at its

optimum

similarly various foods you can eat

and still somehow it functions

but those communities which have eaten

with care

you can clearly see a distinct

difference in the way they function the

levels of intelligence and whatever

so in india we prescribed food differ

different people in different way if

you’re doing menial jobs you eat one way

because you need physical muscle if you

are doing

other kinds of trading and other kinds

of activities you eat another way

if you are a fighting class you eat

differently

and now if you are into education

spiritual process and subtler aspects of

life then you eat differently if you are

in education

one of the greatest challenges is

to stay focused on something

the goddamn textbook is written for an

average intelligence

it’s a common prescription it’s not

written for the brilliant student

it is written in a way that it’s a

common prescription everybody gets it

but that textbook how much effort

it is taking for a whole lot of people

how they have to read it 10 times to get

it

but you lie down in your bed and read a

love story

you remember every word

so you don’t lack memory you don’t lack

focus

it is just that textbook and you

chemistry is not

working

so what you need is a higher level of

focus

a higher level of involvement and

another great enemy for a student is

because this textbook is such a

tranquilizer the moment you open it

go to cinema till 2 am you’re up open

the textbook at 9 o’clock

right there you smash into it

so sleep is another big enemy so what

kind of food do you eat

so there is no inertia in the body

in yogic way of seeing things we are

looking at

thomas rajas and sattva thomas means

inertia rajas means activity

but no balance sattva means absolutely

balanced kind of energy

when you’re in education you need a very

balanced kind of energy

because you have to focus on something

which doesn’t naturally interest you

it’s not something that with which your

chemistry is gelling

if your chemistry is gelling you are

always focused on that one

isn’t it here there’s no chemistry but

you have to focus

on that for this you need a balance and

a steady mind

for this you need to eat in a certain

way to put it very simply

food goes through your body through the

elementary canal

from your mouth to your anal outlet

there is a pipe

through this it runs going through

various stages of digestive

process many of your biology people

right

so it goes through the elementary canal

now it begins with the

the lip here if you look at this

all the herbivores and carnivores if you

look at the animal kingdom there are

herbivores and carnivores are two main

segments

of animals in the world one is vegetable

matter another eats

meat if you look at the elementary canal

the way it is built

between herbivores and carnivores is a

distinct difference

everything in the human being suggests

that you are naturally a herbivore

but for the sake of survival we became

carnivores

if you look at the moment jaw moment all

the carnivorous animals have only

cutting action

herbivores have cutting and grinding

action there are molars

but carnivores don’t have widespread

molars they have just incisors

canines everything looks like cutting

teeth so they do only this

all the herbivores do grinding what do

you have

both so you are supposed to chew your

food

why you are supposed to chew your food

is that you have enzymes in your saliva

where if you take a little bit of raw

rice and put it in your mouth just for a

minute you will see turn sweet right

here

because right here carbohydrate is being

converted into sugar

right here so if you eat properly

then we say about 30 to 50 percent of

your digestion should happen in your

mouth

so this part of the digestive system is

expecting

half digested food or partially digested

food

but right now the way we’re eating is

mostly we’re putting not only undigested

food

but partially destroyed food so the

amount of food that you need to get the

same amount of energy has increased

you’re eating much more food than what

you should eat

to generate that much of energy because

of that there is inertia

in the body because it has to process so

much more food than what it should

there is inertia once there is inertia

your sleep quota increases

but if you eat right and do a certain

things with your body

you see very effortlessly within three

to four weeks you can drop your sleep

quota

anywhere between two to three hours one

and a half to three hours very easily

you can drop

if you just eat consciously and

just learn to sit properly you know

just the posture your geometry of the

body

and what goes into the system if you

just manage these two things you will

see sleep quarter will just come down

like that

just to tell you for over 25 years

i have largely managed with an average

of two and a half hours of sleep

now i’m getting lazy and i’m sleeping

averaging somewhere around four and a

half hours

now but seven days of the week

okay 365 days non-stop on on

almost every day so

it’s a non-stop activity and today many

people around me have learned to do this

over 150 people around me are doing this

kind of activity averaging

four hours sleep and seven days of the

week they’re on on on

all the time and they are not irritated

they are not

frustrated they are joyful and they’re

wonderful why this is these there are

many aspects to this

but one important aspect is food how you

eat

not only what you eat how you eat is

also

very important because food is a live

thing

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just bring 40 to 50 percent of the food

in its raw form that means it’s alive it

must be a live cell it can be a

vegetable it can be a fruit it can be a

nut it can be sprouted gram

at least 40 to 50 percent the food that

you eat must be alive

you eat dead food and you want to live

this is a little difficult thing

to do because you have to raise the dead

now

but if you eat live food one thing you

will see

is the state of your mind your focus and

your sleep quotas

and above all staying awake is not good

enough you have to stay alert

isn’t it how alert you are how focused

you are

only to that extent everything yields to

you in this world

isn’t it so what is the level of focus

will determine

whether the world yields to you or not

isn’t it

and one more aspect of life one more

aspect of food

is when you consume something

it must be of a simple

genetic code in the sense it must be a

very simple software

vegetables fruits nuts sprouts they’re

very simple

more complicated means animal food

becomes more and more complicated

suppose you eat an animal which has some

amount of

emotion and the life of its own now the

code

in that we were talking about this your

body is just an accumulation of memory

which means a certain software isn’t it

this is the most complex software

human software is the most complex

software on the planet

of all the creatures so if you eat an

animal

particularly a mammal if you eat it has

a similar kind of complexity maybe not

as complex as this

similar level of complexity because it

has thought and emotion of its own

now for you to break that code and

integrate it into your system

you are not fully successful so it will

leave traces of certain qualities within

you

you cannot break that code and make it a

part of yours because it’s a different

and complex code

if you eat a leaf a vegetable a fruit

a nut or a sprout this is much simpler

if you must eat non-vegetarian food

you must eat that which is furthest away

from you

so generally fish and water life is

furthest away from you

so if you must eat non-vegetarian food

the best thing to eat

is uh you have a you’re on the coast

fish is the best thing to eat

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