Physical Health

Physical Health / Wisdom For Seekers

10 min Watch / Listen • 6 min Read

How to naturally cleanse the five elements

Questioner: Pranam Sadhguru. So, I have listened to you saying that 72% of our body is water, and if we drink the energised water, it really... we can have grip in the body and mind. Is it true with the air and food that we take? Because in the city, we have ...

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5 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

How to know more about the human system?

A seeker asks Sadhguru - "My question is, if I want to learn more about the human body, would you recommend just doing more yoga or reading the human body as it's described in yogic sciences, or just experience by exercising more often?" Sadhguru says, through the process of ...

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15 min Watch / Listen • 10 min Read

Earth: How to handle for better health (The Five Elements)

This body is nothing but an outcrop of this planet - the mother Earth. Just being in regular touch with the Earth has miraculous affect in improving one's health. Sadhguru explains in this talk how just this simple technique can cure most of your ailments and offers simple tips ...

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Physical Health / Society

11:13 min Watch

What’s wrong with our medical schools?

I want to explore the way we educate physicians in this country. And, there is a lot of research around this in the United States medical education, that we take caring, compassionate people into our medical schools. So, it does not look that our problem is our selection. People ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Tracy Gaudet

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Physical Health / Society

4:32 min Watch

Is modern medicine’s approach fundamentally wrong?

Interesting, now that live in the veteran administration and I interface with the department of defense. I was in a meeting not very long ago, and someone from the department of defense said, 'do you know this, health in this country is an issue of national security'. And, I ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Tracy Gaudet

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Be Inspired / Physical Health / Society

8:53 min Watch

What does good health really mean?

I think the subtext which I actually am talking about because I liked it for today, is an experiential symposium on optimal health and wellbeing. And, I think there is a tremendous amount for us to talk about, even in that phrase. One is, the role of experience. And I will say ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Tracy Gaudet

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6 min Watch / Listen • 5 min Read

Yogic Perspective on Good Health

What is the relationship between the spiritual self and the physical body as it relates to disease and self-healing? ...

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13 min Watch / Listen • 10 min Read

What is the right way of fasting?

The body needs to be fixed while running. In that, what and how we eat plays a very significant role. There are 4 stages of digestion: Ingestion - Digestion - Assimilation -Excretion. Fasting is a way to give a break to the digestive process, so that cleansing can happen at the ...

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2:55 min Watch

What are the benefits of Neem & Turmeric?

I also wanted to tell you that I'm taking 'Neem' in the morning, at least a month now. Neem is great. What are the benefits? ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Nikki Walton

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3 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

The right way of breathing

Are you breathing from your chest or the belly? Which is the right way to #breathe? Did you know that If you breathe from your belly it will cause lethargy! ...

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3 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Energy body is the foundation of Health

Essentially, if your energy body is balanced and fully activated, there can be no physical or psychological ailment in you. Ailments are of two kinds. One is infectious. Infectious means, it’s an invasion from outside. That we have to deal with medicine. But over 70% of the ...

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4 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

Why are Thyroid problems rising?

Your physical structure is very closely related to your psychological structure. Just a thought will fluctuate the glandular function. I’m saying that is how fine the system is, that it is trying to calibrate everything to keep you in a good place. Another dimension of disturbance ...

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5 min Watch / Listen • 5 min Read

The scientific reason to be a vegetarian

Food is not to be made into a philosophy or a kind of a religious process. Food is the requirement of the body. If we watch the body - with what sort of food the body is most happy, body is most at ease. You will naturally notice vegetarian, or plant-based food - body is most ...

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5 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

Health tips to deal with Asthma

Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru, I've been managing my asthma with medication for a long time. What can I do to eliminate, or at least mitigate asthma? ...

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Lifestyle / Physical Health / Wisdom For Seekers

5 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

Benefits of walking barefoot

Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. What is the significance of walking barefoot. Also, is there any additional physical and spiritual benefits of walking barefoot on Amavasya, and Shivaratri days? ...

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7 min Watch / Listen • 6 min Read

The fundamentals of good health

This human system - in yoga - we look at it as 5 sheaths, or 5 layers. 5 layers of body. In the yogic system, everything is seen as body. These are called - annamayakosha, manomayakosha, pranamayakosha, vigyanmayakosha and anandamayakosha. To create health for yourself, there ...

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3 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

Consuming Neem can prevent cancer

When I say cancerous cells - every one of our bodies has cancerous cells. But they’re disorganised. They’re all over the place. For some reason, if you create certain situations in the body, they will get organised. Everyday neem just does that. It just reduces - it keeps ...

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2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

How to cure 70% of ailments

ll health comes to us in two fundamentally different ways. One is, we may acquire infectious diseases, that we contract by living in the world. If you have an infection, you must go to the doctor. Because infection is like an invasion from outside. It has to be handled on war ...

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3 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Benefits of cold water bath

It’s always best that we use water which is little cooler than the room temperature. Just a certain volume of water to flow over you, or to be immersed in a water which is cooler than room temperature. But if you’re in a colder country, if you’re in a temperate climate, ...

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Mental Health / Physical Health

2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

The right way to bathe (when not taking a head bath)

In the yogic culture, a shower, there was no shower. Bath always meant dip in the river. Always went to the river, dipped, come out and do it. If you do this, your muscles will be good. So an alternate way of doing it is, usually in our homes the pail that we use to pour water ...

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4 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Benefits of chanting AUM

If you are suffering from excessive fear, distorted dreams, bad dreams, nightmares, unstable mind, unstable body. If your general constitution is weak, you tend to fall sick too often. Particularly children, if they have attention disorders. Daily utterance of AUM for a few minutes ...

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2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Don’t stand and eat

But, if you sit with food, but with legs open - like many people are standing and eating. If you stand and eat, there are many negativities to this. Because, you must understand, the longing for food is not just in your mouth. Entire body is longing for it, entire body. ...

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3 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Water can act like poison – if consumed like this

Anyway, 72% is water, 12% is earth, only 6% is air. Water is 72%. So maximum care should be taken about the water. Because it’s 72%. You must take enormous care about the water because it’s 72%. And it has tremendous memory. ...

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2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

How to stop ageing?

If you are moving from wakefulness to sleep consciously, there will be no ageing process within you. That is, your cellular age will stay the same for a long period of time. It will not age with the chronological age of who you are. ...

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4 min Watch / Listen • 4 min Read

Yogic superfood: Benefits of eating Horse gram

The horse gram is one - among the lentils, it is the most protein rich lentil found on the planet. It’s very high powered. So that’s why race horses are fed with this gram, which is called as horse gram today. Now this will increase heat in the body. If you feel too much ...

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6 min Watch / Listen • 4 min Read

Yogic principle: do not use your left hand for doing hard things

Questioner: Sadhguru, I have noticed that in India, there is a kind of prejudice against the left hand. It seems that it's considered in a way inferior and the use is repressed. I would like to know what is the root cause of this. And also I know that left hand ...

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1 min Watch / Listen • 1 min Read

How to harmonize your system?

With your bare hands and bare feet - see, particularly the palms and the souls. If they come in touch with the earth on a daily basis, at least for a few minutes, a certain harmonising of the physiological process will happen. ...

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2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

Do this to wake up like a newborn

One thing is, before you go to bed, just sit on your bed, just for two minutes. Two minutes, just see - suppose you’re going to die right now in two minutes time, how it’ll be. And then sleep. You will see tomorrow when you wake up, you will wake up like you were just born ...

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2 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

A 30 day experiment for better health

If you just do 'this' [make a fist and release] a thousand times a day. Just do like 'this' [make a fist and release] thousand times a day, and after one month just see how well your hand will work. Nothing else. Just sit here and just do this thousand times a day. After 30 days, ...

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3 min Watch / Listen • 2 min Read

A simple way to become healthy

Only by using this body you can keep it well. When you say health, you’re talking about physical health. You must use this body. The more you use it, the better it gets. One of the simplest things about health is just to use the body. If you sufficiently use the body, body ...

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