Is It OK to Eat Small Meals Frequently? | Sadhguru Answers

you may not feel lethargy because you are eating small meals but you cannot stop the digestive process if you want to be at your full potential within an hour and a half to two your stomach should be empty when there is food in the stomach the excretory system shuts down almost coal and not being clean means you're asking for problem so if you know human body from within you yourself look at this just see how your body feels when there's food in the stomach and how your body feels when the stomach is empty you will see your body and your brain will work at its best when your stomach is empty if food is constantly being processed in your digestive system a certain amount of energy naturally is gone there so your both your brain and body will not function at their best you may not feel lethargy because you are eating small meals but you cannot stop the digestive process when digestive process happens for every other animal after they eat they sit down they just sit down because there is not enough energy for other things whether carnivorous or herbivorous animals after they eat they sit down and that is a natural need within a human being also after he eats he would like to sit down because there is not enough energy for other things now you think by eating small meals through the day you can be active throughout the day you can be but not at your full potential if you want to be at your full potential you must keep your body and your metabolism of the body in such a way whatever whatever you eat whatever you eat within one and a half to two and a half hours your stomach must be empty this is what yoga always insists within an hour and a half to two your stomach should be empty stomach being empty does not mean hunger only when the energy levels run down you feel hunger otherwise stomach must be empty only when the stomach is empty stomach means stomach bag the food would have moved to other areas of the intestine in the intestine the process is very different that's not digestion that's assimilation there it doesn't take much energy it's a digestive process when the food is in the stomach bag at that time it's best to keep your activity at low now throughout the day if there's food in the stomach then you bring down your whole potential of life one more aspect when there is food in the stomach when the digestive process is happening the excretory system shuts down almost eighty percent of it shuts down when I say excretory system it's on the cellular level the purification of the body is happening that will shut down at least 80 percent or in other words all the impurities which had to move out of the system will not move out which will create various problems for you over a period of time and if you eat at different times even your excretory system from the intestines will not happen efficiently for you because the waste matter doesn't come at a certain time into the colon it will come at different times so you will have problem with that also so throughout the day your colon also won't be clean coal and not being clean means you're asking for problems the colon should be clean always and yoga there's enormous importance to this in any of the traditional systems you will see if you go to an ayurvedic doctor or a receipt or anybody first thing is he'll Purge you because he knows that most of your problems are because of unclean colon and the way people are eating today keeping the colon clean is going to be a big challenge for them suppose you eat one big meal like we normally do one big meal and uh either we don't eat anything else or if we are too active maybe we eat a fruit or something you will see your colon will always remain clean and people should try this they must Purge themselves one day and see how it feels suddenly there is something light and beautiful about you every day that's how you're supposed to feel [Music] [Applause] [Applause]