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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

How Not to Fall Asleep During Meditation | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Religion, Spirituality, Hinduism, Mental Health, How To, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement

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πŸ—“οΈ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru gives a simple and effective tip – eating 24 morsels of food and chewing each morsel 24 times – to stay alert throughout the day, create the right condition in the body to become meditative and to keep the doctor away for life.Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.orgSadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__appOfficial Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.orgSadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusiveYogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If sleep is invading your life just any time of the day, you eat only 24 morsels of food.

0:12.0

You will see in the morning you wake up at 3.30, to every mouthful you choose 24 times.

0:21.0

You will see food will not cause dullness, probably you will never fall sick if you eat like that.

0:30.0

So if every time you sit for meditation, if it so happens that you are tending to fall asleep,

0:55.0

I want you to understand what it is, first of all.

1:01.0

Most people, not most people, lot of people in the world cannot sleep even when they want to sleep.

1:09.0

Yes, lot of people go to bed and desperately try to sleep and they cannot sleep.

1:16.0

They have to pop a pill to sleep.

1:19.0

This is the condition of millions and millions of people on the planet.

1:24.0

So if sleep is invading your life just any time of the day,

1:39.0

one thing is fundamental thing is to check up your basic health,

1:43.0

just checking if there is something wrong with your system, physically wrong,

1:48.0

that you are going through a certain, you have noticed you are not well.

1:53.0

When you are not well, you sleep much more than normal, isn't it?

1:58.0

Because something is happening in the body which does not allow enough energy to do other things,

2:03.0

it wants to rest.

2:05.0

The first thing is that, the second thing is the food that you eat.

2:13.0

So if you must do, you know, generally for people who are in the yogit path, you know what they say?

2:22.0

You should eat only 24 muscles, I am not saying this to everybody.

2:27.0

If you are noticing that you are turning to fall asleep through the day,

2:31.0

you eat only 24 muscles, that is 24 mouthfuls.

2:38.0

Why 24? I will not go into that number business now but there is a science behind it.

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