Dry Foods / Yoga

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before May 15, 2018

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Dry food is counterproductive to yoga practice, because the human intestinal track does not add liquid to what is put into it. There are liquid deposits into the intestines in the form of enzymes but these are not designed for wetting dried foods.

Item like chips, and also foods which are cooked until there is no liquid left in the pot, won’t be watered in the stomach and intestines. The system will have to deal with these ingredients in their dry condition. This means that to extract nutrients the system will have to knead the dry stuffs over and over, mostly failing to take out nutrients which will in turn cause the system to ask for more food intake, in other words overeating will be the result.

Drinking water or tea during a dry meal will not help either, because the water will pass through the walls of the stomach and will not passage with the dried food through the intestines and colon.

The main handicap however is constipation. Dried foods will move through the intestines getting dryer and dryer. By the time it reaches the rectum, it will be a hard mass since the intestines would have made every effort to extract whatever liquid was in the mass. This will cause problems for the base chakra and result in its gradually shut down.

Foods cooked with some liquid remaining, soups, may not be as attractive to the eyes and may not give the tongue enough intrigue of texture, but will be more conducive to yoga practice and will sponsor prompt evacuation.

Alfredo 5 years ago

Thanks for the reminder.

About a year ago I did a major overhaul of my diet, and it had much to do with guidelines found in some of your older, and unpublished, books.

Thus my diet is mainly "liquidy", with the moist and liquid built into it.

Moreover, little eating after noon time. This is also key, for, as stated before, later eating becomes "poison". If it is important what you eat, as important is when you do it.

Finally, no processed food of any kind, everything must come from its natural, or refined, form, but no food process involved. Exceptions are home-made bread (from Einkorn and/or Emmer).