Food Habits

These guidelines create a deeply nourishing eating experience. Following these guidelines will correct most digestive imbalances and support the root of strong physical and psychological health.

• Prepare your body and mind to receive food by sitting down and beginning meals with meditation or 3 to 5 slow breaths.
• Create a peaceful eating environment free from arguments, excessive noise, and distraction.
• Half heated, half cooked food should not be consumed.
• Food should not be too cold or too hot. Body has to waste its energy to bring it to normal temperature before digesting it.
• The quantity of the food should be enough to satisfy 75% of the hunger & not 100%. Eat at a moderate pace and avoid overeating. Eat until you are satisfied (about 75% full), not stuffed.
• Drink only a little bit of liquid with meals; more for dry meals and less for moist meals. Warm water or ginger tea with meals aids digestion.
• Only eat when physically hungry (not emotionally), and allow three hours between meals. This is the amount of time needed for the previous meal to digest.
• The food should be eaten with concentration. No other work like watching TV, reading books should be done while eating.
• Avoid cold beverages. They destroy the digestive fire and decrease digestion, whether they are taken with meals or alone.
• Eat lovingly prepared food, for we eat not only the gross food, but the energy put into it as well.
• Chewing your food to an even consistency improves digestion and absorption of the food.
• Over crowded places are not the places to eat. The place should be pleasant & the environment cool.
• The proper time to go to sleep is 2-3 hrs after dinner.
• The sweet thing or heavy foods should be taken at the start of meal.
  Eat lighter meals in the morning and evening. Your digestive strength follows the course of the sun and so the biggest meal should be eaten mid-day.
• You should sit comfortably for 5 minutes after meal & then take a short walk, say of about 100 steps.
• After food person should not read or write or do physical exercise for around 48 minutes.
• Never take food when you haven’t urinated or haven’t passed stools or during lack of appetite.

Tips for food intake:

• Half heated, half cooked food should not be consumed.
• Food items which are not ripe or over ripe or showing unusual character like change in odour,colour etc are to be taken with caution.
• Never take food when you have'nt urinated or have'nt passed stools or during lack of appetite.
• Over crowded places are not the places to eat.
• The previously eaten food must be digested.
• stomach should feel light and burps if come, they should be without any taste or smell before eating food.
• The plates and other vessels should be clean and odourless.
• The place should be pleasant and the environment cool.
• The sweet things or heavy foods should be taken at the start of meal.
• Food should not be too cold or too hot. Body has to waste its energy to bring it to normal temperature before digesting it.
• Heavy foods should be taken in limited quantity.
• The quantity of food should be enough to satisfy 75 % of the hunger and not 100 %
• The proper time to go to sleep is 2 - 3 hours after dinner.
• You should sit comfortably for 5 minutes after meal and then take a short walk, say of about 100 steps.
• After food, person should not read or write or do physical exercise for around 48 minutes.
• The quantity of water taken before or after food should be lesser. The food has to be supplemented by enough water during eating.
• The food should be eaten with concentration. No other work like watching tv, reading books etc should be done while eating.
• The lunch can be finished with buttermilk with ginger