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If bodily pain has not struck, we can very easily ignore taking good care of our physical selves. We can indulge in eating a variety of foods that we justify as rewards or as habitual choices, even if a part of us knows that they are not healthy for the body.  Maybe you keep a close watch on what you eat, but then go from office desk to home couch as you justify sitting with a computer, TV, or an iPhone rather than being outside and taking a walk. Your exercise regime can wait until tomorrow.

Balance, harmony, and happiness are goals most of us aim to achieve. While following whatever path we decide to take, often our bodies are the last things we consider. People will develop plans and march along, working long hours and stressing themselves in order to achieve whatever success they have outlined for their lives. In this flurry, they rarely make time to eat properly or exercise.

Don’t let this happen to you. Read what Sadhguru says about the importance of taking care of your body.

Sadhguru: Now people have come to the conclusion that body means pain. Body is not pain. Body can be very beautiful. You can make your body in such a way that you need not have to carry it around; you can let it just float with you. With just food, practices, and a little change in attitude, you will see that this body becomes a miracle.

If you look at this body as a mechanism, definitely it is the most sophisticated one on earth right now. Supercomputers do not match this one. They say that a single molecule of DNA can perform 100 times more functions than all the computers in the world put together. A single molecule of DNA contains that many functions. This is definitely the best machine.

You don’t have to become a great athlete, but you can keep the body healthy, comfortable, and happy. Otherwise, it will pull you down. The physical body itself can be happy, in a sense. After a bout of rain, if you go out and see, all the plants seem to be happy. Have you seen that they are almost laughing? Not just washed and clean. If you are sensitive, you can see they are exuding happiness. Have you felt this?

The body can be happy if it is kept properly. If you eat certain foods, the body will become dull and lethargic. You will feel sleepy. See, if we are sleeping for eight hours a day, if we live for sixty years, we have slept for twenty years. Twenty years of our lives we have slept; that is one-third of our lives we have spent sleeping. Now, if we are sleeping for twelve hours, fifty percent of our lives we spend sleeping; the remaining thirty to forty percent goes into eating and ablutions. So what is left in life? There is really no time left.

Nobody can enjoy his sleep. In sleep you don’t exist. The only thing that you can enjoy is restfulness. The body is well rested, that you enjoy. Tiresomeness doesn’t come to the body because of work for most people. People who are working more, they are more active, isn’t it?

Food is one important aspect. Attitudes are also there, but food plays an important role. If you eat the wrong kind of food, you have to drag your body and go. If you eat the right type of food, it goes ahead of you, and that is how it should be kept.





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