One important aspect is people are eating
much more than what they should eat. Between one meal and the next meal
there must be an eight-hour space. Whatever you have health problems,
minimum 50% will go in six weeks time. Speaker: Namaskaram Sadhguru. Fasting on auspicious days has
existed in India since time immemorial. But many Indians believe that
it's unscientific and illogical, until the work on autophagy induced during
fasting has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Even I started doing intermittent
fasting this year. (Laughter) So, why are such beneficial ancient
practices being labeled orthodox, and then immediately implemented
once there is a Western approval? Sadhguru: That's because you don't have the
right color of the skin. (Laughter/Applause) In... I've been talking about this for forty years. All right! And I have seen hundreds and thousands of
people who just become healthy and well, simply because they're not fueling up
all the time when the tank is spilling. In the yoga center everybody eats at ten o'clock
in the morning and at seven o'clock in the evening. Our lives are very physically active. There are no automobiles inside the ashram it's
a large place, everybody either walks or cycles. Even if you have to go to the dining hall it's a kilometer. If you want to go to your workplace it's
half a kilometer, one kilometer like this. All the time people are physically active. So everybody is very hungry by the time it's 3:30,
4 o'clock in the evening. They are extremely hungry. But we learn to live with that because hunger... Empty stomach and hunger are two different things. Hunger means your energy levels start
dropping, but empty stomach is a good thing. In the yogic sciences - today modern
science also is coming in line with this... But what we know by our experience, you
will spend a billion dollars to come there. Because research is all about how
many million dollars, that's how it is. - your body and your brain works at its
best only when your stomach is empty. So we always make sure, we eat in
such a way how much ever we eat, our stomach must be always empty within
two to two-and-a-half hours time maximum. So we go to bed hungry always. People think they cannot sleep, they can sleep. On an average, for 25 years, on an average
I slept only two and a half to three hours. These days I'm getting little lazy and sleeping anywhere
between three and a half to four and a half hours, in spite of the level of travel that I have. When I say level of travel, if I say my level of travel
in the next few days, you will fall off your chair. Yes! Should I tell you? No, not necessary. (Laughter) Because in the next ten days I'm
in five different countries, doing... I don't know how many events... all kinds of events. So you are able to keep this up simply because
you don't overeat it's very very important. Everybody eats two meals I generally eat only one meal. 4:35 in the evening because I
don't like to sit in front of the plate and worry about how much to eat, I like to eat well. So 4:35 in the evening, if I eat a meal, it's only next day. Is this enough... which... Am I looking ok? Hello?
Audience: Yes! Sadhguru: I'm not looking like your patient,
isn't it? I am not going to come to you. (Laughter) Because any correction and purification
that needs to happen in the body, your stomach needs to be
empty it's very very important. Otherwise the purification on
the cellular level will not happen. You pile up things and then you have all kinds
of problems. The first thing is inertia in the body. Inertia means - there are many levels
of inertia, if you don't notice all that... The amount of sleep that you have is inertia. All of you, you have come here to live or...? Hello?
Audience: To live. Sadhguru: To live, right! Not here here, I am saying
into this life, you want to live or...? (Laughter) The intention of life is to live, isn't it? But... Because you talked about American
doctors, this is all being picked up here also. All American doctors say, ''Minimum
seven to eight hours, you must sleep''. So that means one third of your life you must sleep. Another two, three hours, four hours goes in
bath, toilet, eating, this... this... this... you know! So literally fifty percent of your life is just maintenance. Suppose you have a vehicle,
you have a motorcycle or a car... If it goes to service one day
in a month, all right to keep it. If it goes to service fifteen days in a
month this is a nuisance, isn't it so? Most people have made their systems into a nuisance
because their own body is a big impediment in their life. Anything they want to do, their
body will not allow them to do. So in this there are many aspects. One important aspect is, people are eating
much more than what they should eat. Simply because they have been told, ''You must eat
more otherwise you will become weak, this, that...'' No there is a way you keep your body. A fuel... Today everybody is trying to work towards
a fuel-efficient car or motorcycle everything. This means what? If the machine runs smoothly it
will consume less fuel, isn't it? So if you sit here and you are very much
at ease, now it will consume less fuel. If you're (Gestures) like this all the time, then it will consume more fuel, it will want you to eat. Compulsiveness will come about this. So this new name 'intermittent eating'... You should see, in United States
people come to our programs. Our programs will run ten hours, twelve hours so... But they will come with some
biscuit and something else. They say, ''I have sugar intolerance. I have to eat.'' I tell them, ''You just be here,
you're not going to die, I'll ensure!'' Because I don't want anybody dead
on my hands, alright? (Laughter) I'll make sure! In the first day, ''No, no, no I have to eat.'' By third day, they gave up all that. Twelve hours
without food, they sat there, they're perfectly fine. See... Health is not something you can do from outside. Health is something you have to do from within. From outside when something goes
wrong, you can seek some help. But all the time something is wrong with you,
this means what? You're a faulty machine. Yes, all the time something is wrong with
you why? That's not how this is designed. This is designed for health. Every cell in your body is designed to create health, isn't
it? They're all working hard to create health, except you. So... Minimum eight hours gap is
what is recommended in yoga. Between one meal and the next meal
there must be an eight-hour space. If you do this, you will see half your problems
of health - whatever you have health problems, - minimum fifty percent will go away in six weeks' time. If you do certain other things which may
right now seem little extreme to you. If you have a little yogic practice,
something meditative within you, then you will see, ninety percent
of your problem will go off. Ten percent if it still persists we can treat it. Now it's become like this, the health care systems,
especially where there is heavy insurance policies, people are eating and drinking all kinds of
rubbish go to the doctor and say, ''Fix me''. This is not how it works.
