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What is a Healthy Diet

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Sadhguru reminds us that food is about the body, and the best way to choose what to eat is to decide on our food consciously through our intelligence.

BodyConsciousnessHabitsIntelligenceFood ExperimentationBody SuitabilityFoodsTraditions

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So my question is,

Should we believe in that,

That like the qualities of vegetarianism,

Non-alcoholism,

Celibacy,

Practice them so that we make our body fit,

So that that the kriya of eleven minutes will be more effective?

See,

This is what I've been saying right through,

Why even eating is a moral value?

Food is about the body.

We must eat what is suitable for this body.

But right now you're talking about making food into a habit.

I want to tell you,

There is no such thing as good habit and bad habit.

Habit means you are functioning unconsciously.

If you're functioning unconsciously,

That's a bad thing because the whole thing about being human is we are capable of doing things consciously.

That is the beauty of being human,

That we can do everything consciously.

What an animal does unconsciously,

We can do the same thing consciously.

We can eat unconsciously or we can eat consciously.

We can breathe unconsciously or we can breathe consciously.

Everything that we can do,

We can do it consciously.

The moment we do something consciously,

Suddenly that human being looks very refined and wonderful.

Just because somebody walks and speaks consciously,

Doesn't he become a beautiful human being?

Yes or no?

That's all.

So why is it that we're trying to develop habits as if this is a good thing?

Habit means fixed realities where you don't have to think.

You get up in the morning and it'll happen to you.

No,

Don't try to automize your life.

That is not efficiency,

That is the efficiency of the machine.

This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciously.

Nobody is expecting it to function like a machine.

So about food and stuff,

Food must be suitable for the body that we eat,

For.

It is for the body.

This is a building material for this body,

The food that you're eating.

What is the appropriate food?

Unfortunately,

It's all messed up right now.

Traditionally we ate very sensibly in this country,

But these thousand years of invasions have brought other kinds of food cultures and today the national diet is pizza or pasta.

What is it?

Which is one?

I don't know.

Both were competing.

So we are losing our sense about food.

It's definitely time to look at what is the most suitable thing.

If I go into that food,

It's a very long process,

But you must experiment with food,

Not just by the tongue,

But by the body.

If you eat something today and see… just learn to observe how agile and how active your body feels after eating this food.

If it feels like it wants to go to the grave,

That's not good food.

If it feels like it wants to be alive after eating this,

Accept coffee,

Because that's a stimulant.

If you eat food and your body feels very agile and alive,

That means it's good food,

Body is liking it.

If you eat something,

It feels dull,

That means it's not liking it,

It's having difficulty with it,

That's why it feels dull.

So just on this basis,

There's a much… I mean this is a very simplistic way of putting it.

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Recent Reviews

Wendy

January 25, 2025

Always interesting.

Jeff

June 12, 2019

Eating mindfully is always a great message to hear

Ahimsa

May 14, 2019

Common sense verses dogma = yippee! In gratitude, ahimsa 🙏🏽

Marie

April 13, 2019

I love this! I have felt constricted by trying to develop and stick to “good habits” and in doing so felt the need to ignore my body. I feel liberated at the thought that all I need to do is pay attention and experiment and see what happens. I have done this before and it has been very effective in managing my energy and weight and health, but I had forgotten. Thank you!

Andrea

May 24, 2018

Thank you. I loved the concept of training ourselves to think consciously regarding food rather than unconsciously eating out of habit.

Philippine

January 3, 2018

Sur l’importance de la pleine conscience et comment les habitudes sont à l’opposé.

Swetasrini

December 14, 2017

Great wisdom! I especially love how he stated habits represented doing something unconsciously!

Marc-Alain

December 7, 2017

Paradigm shift!!! What a new way to look at habits! Thank you!

bhavika

August 18, 2017

It's really simple and effective

Gaurav

July 24, 2017

Extremely helpful

Ariel

March 26, 2017

Unique and helpful perspective!

Cynthia

January 19, 2017

Can't be clearer than that‼ THANKS. Now to practice....

Mark

January 8, 2017

I love you Sadhguru

William

January 3, 2017

Simple but great, thanks

Kayla

December 14, 2016

Will listen to this again, so good!

Dr.

October 19, 2016

Spot on spectacular!!

olga

October 19, 2016

Shirt ,to the point. Thank you.

Eveyln

October 18, 2016

Love your talks , they make so much sense thank me 🙏

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