For the practice of Yoga, it is essential to give attention to the diet.

Food affects the mind.

The right type of food, eaten in moderation:

• Leads to a healthy body

• Increases clarity of mind

• Deepens one’s spiritual experiences

• Makes the body feel light and energetic

The yogic diet is vegetarian and wholesome.

A Yoga practitioners’ diet is balanced, healthy, and includes all the nutrients in the right proportions.

Indulging in unhealthy food, makes the body lazy, and the mind dull. Many illnesses occur due to the intake of the wrong food, at the wrong time.

Note:

*Prana is the universal life force. It’s an essential aspect of Yoga. It’s the vital energy needed by your physical and subtle layers of your being.

Food is a basic need, for supply of energy to the body and mind, for maintenance and growth. However, there is a tendency among us, humans, to neglect our health, and to overindulge our taste buds!

For proper digestion, the advice from The Upanishads is - to leave ¼ of the belly unfilled.

The human body is biologically designed towards a balanced vegetarian diet.

Meat takes 36-72 hours to digest, whereas vegetarian food takes 3-6 hours.

Among people on a meat diet, there is evidence to support a higher incidence of disease states - such as heart disease, colon cancer, appendicitis, diabetes, joint and muscular problem.

For sincere spiritual seekers, it is essential to be vegetarian.

Food is a key to good health, and the practice of Yoga influences the choice of food.

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