The colon health is something that is completely neglected today. If you do not keep your

colon clean, keeping your mind in a balanced state is very, very difficult.

So in Ayurveda and see the first thing, if you say anything, you are having sleepless

nights, you are having disturbed something, mild, any kind of psychological problems.

The first thing is purging.

Purge the system, clean the colon, suddenly you feel a little balanced. It is not a whole

solution, but it will bring the basic necessary atmosphere in the body to make the corrections

either with medicine or with necessary practices you can bring about correction.

A yogi is always supposed to, you know, have bowel movement twice a day.

Because the colon should be always clean. If you want to do certain sadhana, colon should

be clean and we know this that if the colon is in a certain level of impurity or if the

certain level of waste material in the colon and we do certain yogic practices, the body

will start animating bad smell and it also gets into your head for sure. So it is directly

connected. If you retain the shit, it gets into your head and messes up your life in

so many different ways. So the impurities in the body should go as quickly as possible.

I feel a whole lot of doctors are saying you must eat as often as possible. Don't eat

a big meal, eat every two hours, something like this. See, when the food is in the stomach

bag, not in the intestine, when it is in the stomach bag, when the digestive process

is on, on the cellular level, the purification will not happen. The cells will retain impurities

for long period because digestive process is happening, means everything else is brought

down, including your brain. So in yogic system, there must be a minimum of six to eight hours

gap between one meal and the next. If that is not possible, at least four to five hours,

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