Read Mindful Eating I: What you eat will determine how you move and how you get up the next day and Mindful Eating II: How cooking food sattvically and how your mood affects the quality of your food

The other aspect is ‘eating with awareness.’ Just this can so profoundly change not just your food intake but how you digest and assimilate life itself.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda beautifully talks about awareness as the key to many of life’s problems. So the first question is how to define awareness. It is simply bringing our complete attention to whatever is at hand. It is like shining a flashlight on an object so just that object is illuminated. Or if a butterfly were to land on your arm, your awareness would be brought to that area of the arm. Like this, the first thing we can do to transform our eating, whether or not we are eating wholesome food or fast food, is to bring our complete awareness and attention to the food that we are taking into our bodies.

Meditation for Beginners: WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO GET STARTED WITH MEDITATION?

First of all, approach it with sincerity.

I am not asking you to believe or disbelieve in meditation. I don’t ask you to have faith. I ask you to have trust. Faith is a ready-made belief in something. Trust is simply the openness to experiment. So give meditation a chance. Keep an open mind. Be enthusiastic; be prepared for something mind-blowing to happen!

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Secondly, approach with optimism.

The state of bliss is not something reserved for yogis and sannyasis.  Bliss is a perfectly realizable goal for you - even if you are completely unfamiliar with meditation. I tell you, there is no such thing as being qualified for meditation.

The state of bliss is not something reserved for yogis and sannyasis. Bliss is a perfectly realizable goal for you - even if you are completely unfamiliar with meditation.

A small story:

Once a man approached the great spiritual master Ramana Maharishi and asked him, "Bhagavan, am I qualified for the spiritual life?" Ramana answered him with a question, "Are you alive?" The man was startled. He said, "Yes, of course!" "That is enough,"  Ramana replied. "You already have the necessary qualification for spirituality."  

Ayurveda can provide the answer to eating that will cover all aspects of eating: weight maintenance, nutrition, food preparation and presentation, proper digestion, elimination and emotional connection to the food.

How does Ayurveda address this?

An important aspect of this is cooking the sattvic way.

The qualities of rajas, tamas and sattva is not only in the very nature of the food, but the way you cook your food also will decide whether the food will be transformed into sattva, rajas or tamas. (check Part I for further information: Mindful Eating - What you eat will determine how you move and how you get up the next day)

The kind of food you eat will decide how your body will move.

Ayurveda - the science of life, Part I of III

That is why in yoga, we have a sister science of yoga which is called Ayurveda. Ayurveda comes from Ayus Vedaha the science of life. Ayurveda and yoga always go together. Ayurveda is a huge science. Ayurveda talks about living - how to live with this body beautifully. Yoga comes in and says, ‘With this body I will take you deeper and make you experience enlightened consciousness, make you find out who you truly are.’ They are always called sister sciences. In Ayurveda, a lot of weightage is given to the kind of food you eat and the kind of person you are.