Tips to Eat Right & Sleep Less For Students - Sadhguru

If we eat

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and do certain things with your body, you can reduce your

sleep

quota. I'm getting lazy and now

sleep

an average of about four and a half hours. Text on Screen: Tips to Eat Well and Sleep Less for Students - Sadhguru Interviewer: What kind of food should we eat to make our life reach its full potential for a college or school student? Sadhguru: So what kind of food? We must understand that this food is not a religion, food is not a culture, food is just the fuel for this machine. Yeah? There may be cultural aspects to tastes.

There may even be a religious tinge to food over a period of time, but essentially food is fuel for this body. So what type of food will work with a minimum of struggle within itself and maximum impact? So, let's say you buy a gasoline car and put diesel in it, it may still run, but not in its optimal state. Likewise, you can eat multiple foods and they still somehow work. But in those communities that have eaten carefully you can clearly see a clear difference in the way they function, intelligence levels and whatever. Therefore, in India we prescribe food to different people in different ways.

If you do menial jobs, you eat one way because you need physical muscle. If you do other types of commerce and other types of activities, you eat differently. If you're a fighting class, you eat differently. And now, if you are interested in education, the spiritual process and the subtler aspects of life, then you eat differently. If you are in education, one of the biggest challenges is staying focused on something. The damn textbook… sorry (Laughs). The wonderful textbook that is written, it is written for average intelligence, it is a common recipe. It is not written for the brilliant student.

It is written in such a way that it is a common recipe. Everyone understands it. But that textbook, how much effort it is costing many people! How they have to read it ten times to understand it. But you lie in your bed and read a love story, you remember every word (Laughs). Yes or no? As? So that you don't lack memory, don't lack concentration. It's just that textbook and you, chemistry doesn't work (Laughs). So what you need is a higher level of concentration, a higher level of participation and another big enemy for a student is that this textbook is a tranquilizer the moment you open it (Gestures) (Laughter).

Go to the movies until 2:00 a.m., you're already awake. Open the textbook, at 9:00 a.m. (Little Laughter) (Gestures). You crash it

right

there (laughs). So sleep is another great enemy. So what kind of food do you eat so that there is no inertia in the body? In the yogic way of looking at things, we observe tamas, rajas and sattva. Tamas means inertia, rajas means activity but without balance, sattva means absolutely balanced type of energy. When you're in education, you need a very balanced type of energy because you have to focus on something that you're not naturally interested in.

It's not something your chemistry is gelling with. If your chemistry is solidifying, you're always focused on that, aren't you? There is no chemistry here, but you have to focus on that. For this you need balance and a firm mind. To do this you need to eat in a certain way. Simply put, food passes through the body through the alimentary canal. From your mouth to your anal outlet, there is a pipe. It runs through this, passing through various stages of the digestive process. Many of you are biology people, right? Passes through the alimentary canal. Now start with the lip.

Here, if you look at this, all the herbivores and carnivores, if you look at the animal kingdom, there are herbivores and carnivores, they are two main segments of animals in the world. One eats plant matter, another eats meat. If we look at the alimentary canal, at the way it is constructed, there is a clear difference between herbivores and carnivores. Everything about humans suggests that you are a herbivore by nature but for the sake of survival we become carnivores. If you look at the movement, the movement of the jaw, all carnivorous animals only have a cutting action, herbivores have a cutting and crushing action.

There are molars, but carnivores do not have them very widespread. They have only incisors, canines, everything looks like cutting teeth. So they do just this. All herbivores grind. What do you have? Both. Then you are supposed to chew your food. The reason you're supposed to chew your food is because you have enzymes in your saliva, where if you take some raw rice and put it in your mouth for just a minute, you'll see that it becomes sweet right here because right here it's They find carbohydrates. Being turned into sugar, right here. So if you eat properly, then we say that thirty to fifty percent of your digestion should happen in your mouth.

So this part of the digestive system expects half-digested food or partially digested food, but right now the way we eat is mainly that we not only put in undigested food but also partially destroyed food. Therefore, the amount of food needed to obtain the same amount of energy has increased. You are eating much more food than you should be eating to generate that much energy. That's why there is inertia in the body because it has to process much more food than it should, there is inertia. Once there is inertia, your sleep quota increases. How many hours do you sleep?

Hello? Eight hours? Are you following the recipe? (Laughs) Hmm? Look, this isn't that you should deny yourself sleep, that's not the point. But if you eat well and do certain things with your body that you see effort

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ly in three or four weeks, you can reduce your sleep quota by two to three hours. It is very easy to lose between an hour and a half and three hours if you eat consciously and learn to sit correctly. Know? Just the posture. The geometry of your body and what goes into the system, if you just manage these two things, you will see that the sleep quota will decrease like that.

Just to tell you, for over twenty-five years, I have managed on an average of two and a half hours of sleep. Now I'm getting lazy and I sleep an average of about four and a half hours, but seven days a week, okay? Three hundred and sixty-five days non-stop, almost every day. My daughter didn't call me for a month. I asked him, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why don't you call?" She said: “Every six hours you are in a new city. What the hell am I supposed to do (Laughs)?” I said, "Okay"... which is true.

In one day we sometimes go to three cities. So it is a continuous activity and today many people around me have learned to do this. More than a hundred and fifty people around me are doing this type of activity: with an average of four hours of sleep and seven days a week, they are on, on, on all the time. And they are not irritated, they are not frustrated: they are happy and they are wonderful. The reason for this is that there are many aspects to this, but one important aspect is the food: how it is eaten.

Not only what you eat, but how you eat is also very important, because food is a living thing. One simple thing that all girls can do is just look at various health problems and inertia problems, focus problems, just bring forty to fifty percent of the food in its raw form. That means it is alive, it must be a living cell; It can be a vegetable, it can be a fruit, it can be a nut, it can be a sprouted gram. At least forty to fifty percent, the food you eat should be alive. You eat dead food and want to live;

This is a bit of a difficult thing to do (laughs) because you have to raise the dead now (laughs). But if you eat live food, one thing you will see is that the state of your mind, your concentration and your sleep quotas and above all staying awake is not enough, you have to stay alert, right? How alert you are, how concentrated you are, only to that extent does everything in this world give way to you, doesn't it? What is the level of concentration that will determine whether the world yields to you or not, right? And one more aspect of life, one more aspect of food is that when you consume something, it must be a simple genetic code, in the sense, it must be a very simple software.

Vegetables, fruits, nuts, sprouts - they are very simple. More complicated means that animal feeding becomes more and more complicated. Suppose you eat an animal, which has a certain amount of emotion and life of its own. Now, the code in that... We were talking about this, your body is just an accumulation of memory, which means certain software, right? This is the most complex software, human software is the most complex software on the planet of all creatures. So if you eat an animal, particularly a mammal, if you eat, it has a similar type of complexity, maybe not as complex as this similar level of complexity because it has thought and emotion of its own.

Now, if you crack that code and integrate it into your system, you won't be completely successful. Then it will leave traces of certain qualities within you. You can't break that code and make it part of yours because it is a different and complex code. If you eat a leaf, a vegetable, a fruit, a nut or a sprout, this is much easier. If you must eat non-vegetarian food, you should eat the food that is furthest from you. Fish and aquatic life are usually further away from you. So if you must eat non-vegetarian food, the best thing to eat is... you are on the coast (laughs).

Fish is the best to eat that way.