Late-Eating / inSelf Yoga™

For the purposes of inSelf Yoga™ I recommend no late eating. All night and late afternoon eating should be curtailed. This does not have to be a sudden development but can be self-introduced over a period of time to allow the system to adjust to such a drastic measure.

Late eating contravenes the breath infusion process and has other dire effects on the kundalini life force which feels compelled to process whatever reaches the stomach.

In this diagram below, certain zones are labeled. Usually a human being has a distended abdomen. It may be slightly or exaggeratedly distended. Ideally there should not be a distention of the abdomen. If however one began yoga after eating late for many years, then it is to be expected that there would be some distention of the abdomen.

The student should begin where he is, with whatever defect the body has. See this diagram. Note the white arrow which represents the pressure which causes distention of the abdomen.

In the diagram below notice that the pressure was eased. This is what happens when late eating is terminated for some time. Then the infused breath-energy will begin to penetrate down the front of the body through a clear passage. This will in time cause shrinkage of the various zones which are related to digestion. This gives the yogi access to the pubic zone which is a very troublesome area which does not yield easily to the ascetic.