How Not to Fall Asleep During Meditation | Sadhguru
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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ποΈ 27 October 2022
β±οΈ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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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