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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