TRANSCRIPT: Day 11 Perfect Health Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey

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Welcome to day 11: Eating for Balance. While we often learn about food from external sources, Ayurveda teaches us to trust the inner wisdom of our bodies, which insightfully guides us to make the correct food choices.

Eating an array of colourful foods, rich in nutrients, that also provides the six tastes – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent – helps us align our Doshas and keeps us balanced.

Just as conscious breathing invites greater Prana, or energy, into our lives, so do nutritious foods and fresh, clean water. It’s important to make choices that are in tune with our bodies and eat with awareness in order to stay healthy and thrive.

Day 11 — Eating for Balance

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”  ~ Hippocrates

OUR CENTERING THOUGHT:

I choose foods that help me thrive.

OUR SANSKRIT MANTRA:

Om Vardhanam Namah.

I nourish the universe and the universe nourishes me.

Journal Questions

What are some foods your body often craves? Are they healthy and supportive to your wellbeing? Is your body speaking to you about something it requires for balance?

How do you feel when you eat fresh, healthy food?

What changes can you make today to plan more nutritious meals and eat with more awareness?

OPRAH WINFREY

Welcome to Day 11. Eating for balance. Many of us learn about good nutrition by gathering information from so many external sources, food labels and health classes and recipes and articles. 

But today Deepak offers a different way to view food that is more in harmony with our bodies, and our unique needs. As we've been learning the science of Ayurveda, though ancient in its existence provides us with profound yet simple insights that for a lot of people may sound brand new.

In today's discussion Deepak shares with us how by listening to our bodies we can choose the best foods to help us feel energized, balanced, vital and whole. 

So take a moment let's settle in as Deepak tells us how we can truly start to nourish ourselves by following the guidance of our intuitive bodies, and then we'll meditate together.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

Food is consciousness. It is concentrated intelligent energy that nourishes the body, mind and spirit. 

We eat natural whole foods and drink an abundance of clean fresh water, we enhance our Prana, the life-giving energy that enlivens our entire beings. 

In Ayurveda, a balanced diet does not revolve around fats, carbohydrates, proteins, calories, and vitamins.

Many of us know these aspects of what we eat, through our intellects, not through direct experience.

Instead Ayurvedic nutrition's origins are in nature and Doshas. Our body compositions play an important role.

When we take the first bite of food for example, the Doshas receive a great deal of information, primarily through taste.

We find ourselves instinctively drawn to those foods that incorporate a mixture of six essential tastes: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, pungent and astringent.

Favouring some tastes more than others to align with, and balance our Doshas.

In this way, we learn to follow our innate intelligence, and intuitively eat a balanced diet.

It's important that we appreciate and celebrate food, and all that it does for our bodies.

Eating with awareness, taking our time as we chew our food, and sitting at a beautifully set dinner table with loved ones, rather than in front of the television, are habits that create an ideal metabolic environment for both our mind and body.

Opting for fresh organic produce, ensures our bodies get the maximum nutrients nature has to offer. Choosing foods that offer a variety of colour, helps keep our meals balanced, and phytochemical rich, while pleasing our senses of sight smell, and taste.

Consider how wonderful it is, to enjoy a visually pleasing plate, abounding with fresh nutritious food.

We feel energized, and alive. 

As we learn to eat in harmony with our bodies, we begin to eat in ways that truly benefit us. Choosing foods intuitively using nature's cues helps prevent and heal us from illness, and enables us to feel balance, vital, and whole. 

Let's prepare for our meditation and consider our centering thought:

I choose foods that help me thrive.

I choose foods that help me thrive. 

Now let's prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. 

Begin to be aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more at peace.

Now gently introduce the mantra silently to yourself:

Om Vardhanam Namah. Which means I nourish the universe and the universe nourishes me.

Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises, or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra.

Om Vardhanam Namah.

Please continue meditating, I'll remind the time and in a while you hear me ring a soft bell, letting you know it's time to end.

Om Vardhanam Namah.

Om Vardhanam Namah.

Silently in your mind.

~ Meditation ~

Please stop repeating the mantra. Take some long deep breaths and give yourself time to rest. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

Throughout your day, focus on this centering thought: 

I choose foods that help me thrive

I choose foods that help me thrive

I choose foods that help me thrive

Namaste.

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