![]() But in today’s world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to eat good quality food because the food that you get is mostly kilograms of commerce, not really fuel for the body. That kind of food will lower the sleep quota considerably. If you eat that kind of food which has the least amount of complex memory in it, it will become part of your system within two to four hours of consumption. If you have any sort of concern for yourself, you have to be conscious about what goes into your system. The nature of a human being is such that while every other creature adapts to the situations it is placed in, a human being is able to create the situations that he wants. The doctors are prescribing that you must sleep for eight hours, otherwise you will not be physically and mentally healthy because even they are eating the same food! #2 Eating Simple Then you bring it and keep it in your refrigerator for another month and have a bite whenever you feel like it. A whole lot of things there have been there for over a month. Think about when you go into a superstore and buy stuff. It is just that your energy goes down, so it causes inertia in the body. Trouble need not necessarily mean you are immediately going to get some ailment because not all of them are capable of infecting you with something. If you eat that food and join the party that the bacteria and whatever else are having, you will be in trouble. ![]() There is a whole host of life which may be microscopic – you cannot see them but they are all having a party. Rotting means some other life has started making this into their food. There is nothing wrong with rotting because that is another form of life. Whether it is vegetable matter or animal flesh or many other things, the moment you take the life out of it by cooking, it begins to rot. Suppose you are dead and we keep your body for three days, it will rot. If food is cooked, in a way you have killed it. That means your maintenance downtime increases because the fuel that you are putting into the system is low-grade. It will need long periods of sleep because the body needs to spend a lot of energy to counter that inertia. If you eat food with high inertia, the body becomes lethargic. After that, inertia will start setting in. In the Yogic culture, the simple understanding is that if you cook something, you must consume it within a maximum of ninety minutes. Sadhguru: What are the things that you can do to bring down your sleep? The first thing is, eat fresh food. Tips to Reduce Sleep Quota #1 Eating Fresh Food If your system is very well-aligned and well-lubricated, there is least amount of friction and the downtime of maintenance will naturally come down. The damage will be maximum if there is too much friction in you. In the course of living, how much damage do you cause to yourself – that is the question. How much maintenance downtime you need simply depends on how much repair there is to be done. It is a maintenance and repair time for the damage that happens to the body because of daily living – on the cellular level, on the energy level, and in many different ways. That means this is a time when the body gets rid of impurities. Sadhguru: We must understand what sleep is. Questioner: Well, the science of it, yes. ![]() Sadhguru: You want me to go deeper into sleep! ![]()
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