Mindful Eating with Osho’s Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide

Food is divine and eating right is an art! Just like breathing, eating is also essential to our existence. But even in these simple basics, many people go wrong!!!

Osho the charismatic and gifted speaker, the leader of world spiritual movement and a propeller of healthy eating and rightful living shared some deep and helpful insights on eating right.

So, many patients come to my clinic and say, “Doctor, I eat only home-cooked food, less oily, less spicy, yet I suffer from indigestion so often. What’s wrong with my system?” It is the reality for so many people who eat the right food in the wrong way and suffer the wrath of indigestion and related disorders.

Osho says ‘Annam Brahma’- food is divine and eating well is an art. It’s more than stuffing food into the stomach. It is to arouse all the sense organs to see, taste, smell, touch and chew the food, to digest the food. 

The act of eating should be treated with such deep respect that while eating you forget everything. It is an existential prayer for nourishment and energy, for health and healing. Neither stuffing nor starving is right. A real lover of food eats only to the point where the body feels perfectly satiated and tranquil.

Osho illuminates the art to understand the language of the body, to understand the language of the stomach. It has a language of its own, you just need to understand that language. Give only what is demanded by the stomach not what is desired by the tongue!

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Mindful eating by Osho

5 tips on eating by Osho

1. Eating what is healthy and needed by the body is the only way of eating.
2. Food is best eaten in its raw form. Raw food gets totally absorbed in the body and give all the necessary nutrients needed.
3. Natural foods like fruits, nuts, vegetables should make up the diet of a person. A person cannot eat more of these things than needed as it gives complete satisfaction and saturation.
4. Avoid eating non-vegetarian food which is against the nature of man. 
5. Any food which makes man unconsciousness, excited, extreme, or disturbed is harmful.

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Osho says how to eat

The right way of eating is as important as eating right. It should be like chanting of a prayer, slow, steady, focused and in a rhythm.  

5 tips on how to eat – 

1. Eat with full awareness and eat meditatively. Only then, you will never eat more and you will never eat less.
2. The state of our mind when we eat is much more important than what we eat.
3. Eat joyously and happily. Drop your worries and sadness before sitting at the table. Eating food in a worried and hurried state can make even the best food act as a poison.
4. Another unhealthy habit is eating food in anger.
5. Eating in a blissful state with a feeling of gratitude and thankfulness is the true sense of eating right.

Mindful eating by Osho – Simple tips

1. Never discuss negative things while eating. It snatches the peace away.
2. Eat-in a seated position. Eating in a hurry with the plate is hand is as good as eating waste!
3. Avoid distractions like TV or mobile, while eating.
4. The tongue is only a watchman, don’t let it behave like a master.
5. Chew each grain properly before you swallow.

In this modern-day, so many people live in stress and worries, disconnected from their own mind and body. It is through food that they could find their route back to the soul. A few minutes of peaceful, meditative silence while eating can make a world of difference to the body!