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MIND YOUR FOOD
Though he’s never taken a lesson or been on a practice range, Sadhguru’s golf
shotmaking is the envy of many golfers. Named one of India’s 50 most influential people,
Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, a bestselling author & poet. Sadhguru has been conferred the
“Padma Vibhushan” by the Government of India in 2017, the highest civilian award of the
year, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.
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Mark Hyman: One of the questions
that came from the audience is about the
connection between our mind, our mood, our
emotional state, our mental health, and the
food we eat. Everything from ADD to bipolar
disease, to depressioncould be linked to that.
So, what is the connection between our body
and our mind?
Sadhguru: The yogic system does not
identify body and mind as two different
entities. Your brains are part of your body.It is
just that what we generally refer to as mind is
a certain amount of memory and intelligence.
Between the rest of the body and the brain,
which has more memory, which has more
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intelligence? If you look at it carefully, your
body’s memory goes back millions of years.
It clearly remembers how your forefathers
were.The mind cannot claim that kind of
memory. When it comes to intelligence, what
is happening in a single molecule of DNA
is so complex that your whole brain cannot
¿ gure it out.
In the yogic system,there is a physical
body and there is a mental body. There is an
intelligence and memory running right across
the body. People generally think the brain is
everything just because it handles the thought
process. And because of this separation of
body and mind, a large number of people in
2018
the Westare taking antidepressants at some
point in their life.
The Effect of Meat on the
Mind
The type of food we eat has a huge impact
on the mind. An average American is said to
consume 200 pounds of meat per year.If you
bring it down to 50 pounds, you will see 75%
of the people will not need antidepressants
anymore. Meat is a good food to survive if
you are out in the desert or the jungle. If you
are lost somewhere, apiece of meat will keep
you going, because it provides concentrated