Tuesday 9 August 2011

A Balanced Diet


The recommended diet for a student of yoga is a simple vegetarian and healthy, natural foods that are easily digestible. It keeps the body vital and healthy and calm the mind and free thought, without pause. Processed and canned foods should be avoided whenever possible.


In yoga philosophy, diet affects more than our physical well-being. Our vital energy, mental and emotional health is not affected by food intake. The practice of meditation exercises, postures and breathing for the body and mind in harmony. Eating the right foods is an important element in achieving this goal. Foods that are good for us, said sattvic or pure. Unclean food can be identified, the balance of our physical, emotional or mental, as members of categories. Tamas (stale or rotten) and rajas (stimulant). You should avoid these foods.


Avoid foods tamasic
Drawings made of green cheese, Tamás, ripe or rotten. What are the toxins in the body, dull sap our energy and intelligence. Tamasic foods are meat and fish, mushrooms and other foods, frozen, canned, heated. Foods that are fermented, such as vinegar, are Tamasic, like all drugs and alcohol. Overeating is also known as Tamas.


Avoid foods rajasic
Onions and garlic, snuff, eggs, coffee, tea, pepper and other spices and foods that are sliced ​​sour, bitter or sour. Chocolate, food, white sugar, white flour, and smarter and more comfortable than less rajasic. These substances stimulate the passions and most of them to stimulate the mind, making it difficult to control. Eating too fast and too much is to eat food combinations rajasic.


Choose products sattvic
Sattvic ideal diet foods are nutritious and easily digestible. Create a new energy and a clear head, calm, so we can all our mental, physical and intellectual abilities. Sattvic products are cereals, fruits and vegetables, juice, water, milk, butter, beans, honey and pure.


Stop smoking
The philosophy of yoga are two kinds of unclean food, rajas (more difficult) and Tamas (old or lazy). Snuff is to leave the body of toxins and helps to build a peaceful mind and body.


Avoid caffeine
Cracks of caffeine, a powerful stimulant. A sense of energy and more active in the body artificially. Relax on the influence of the natural sleep cycle in their abilities. If you cut out the tea and coffee from your diet, you'll find that meditation offers.

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