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it was someone’s child? We can’t. We cannot even admit<br />
to ourselves what we are doing. How then, can we<br />
consider ourselves honest people if we are lying every time<br />
we eat? And these are not lies that only cause<br />
misunderstanding; these are not “little white lies.” These<br />
are lies that are killing our planet, our animals and<br />
ourselves.<br />
This is what the true yogic life is —contemplation,<br />
introspection. We ask ourselves, “what right do I have to<br />
take the life of another?” We must pause and think about<br />
the decisions we make.<br />
make). Thus, our own bodies become flooded with these<br />
“fight or flight” chemicals, making us even more prone to<br />
simple survival instincts.<br />
Thus, the saying, “you are what you eat,” comes alive. If<br />
we eat stress hormones, then we are eating terror and of<br />
course it is no wonder that we cannot find peace in our<br />
lives.<br />
So, if you are a vegetarian, great. It will not only improve<br />
your health, but it will change the very nature of your<br />
being. If you are not a vegetarian, then at least think about<br />
it. The yogic life is one of contemplation, honesty and<br />
integrity.<br />
Additionally, a yogi is calm; a yogi is centered; a yogi is in<br />
peace, not in pieces. We cannot be calm and in peace if<br />
we eat meat. Bloody food leads to bloody thoughts. Eating<br />
Additionally, how our food is prepared is as integral to our<br />
an animal with stress hormones coursing through it, leads<br />
overall health and peace as what we eat. I am not going<br />
to stress in us. Let me explain: When animals (humans<br />
to go into all the details here, as there is not space, but it is<br />
included) are threatened, we secrete large amounts of<br />
very important our food is prepared with love, with<br />
hormones. These numerous hormones are frequently<br />
devotion and with purity. The energy of preparation is<br />
referred to as adrenaline. Their purpose is to prepare our<br />
absorbed into the food, and — just as the animal’s stress<br />
body to fight, to save our lives. Have you ever noticed<br />
hormones affect our own bloodstream — we are<br />
that when you get scared, a lot of things happen inside<br />
physiologically affected by the energy of the cook and the<br />
you? Your heart beats fast, your digestion stops, your palms<br />
place of preparation. Thus, chant, sing, meditate while you<br />
sweat and your physical impulses become very good and<br />
cook and encourage devotion in those who cook for you.<br />
sharp. These are the result of the hormones. And they prepare<br />
us to either fight or run away. Thus, they are<br />
Eat pure, fresh food. Then, you will see the magic of it!<br />
sometimes called the “fight or flight” hormones.<br />
So, if being a vegetarian and taking care of the food you<br />
eat is all you can do right now, then do it. But, let me go<br />
When an animal is about to be killed, its body is flooded<br />
further and explain how to let “yoga” saturate every aspect<br />
with these stress hormones which remain in the animal’s<br />
of your life. For, remember there is both yama and niyama.<br />
tissues. So, when we eat those tissues, we are ingesting<br />
Yoga is not simply yama, or refraining from lower instincts.<br />
those hormones (which are the same as our own bodies<br />
It is also niyama, the embrace of and adherence to higher<br />
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