The benefit and uses of sattvic foods and spices.

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what might be interesting to understand a little more around is what we call savic tasic and rajasic um Foods so there are three terminologies that relate to how sort of certain spices and um produce and fats and things are allocated a a like a bodily impact generally in brief you'll see cic Foods being praised because they're about kind of balance and ESS um and tasic and rajasic Foods being kind of demonized so a tasic food is a food that brings your system down into the Spire of death as they say in some of the most like kind of for boing irotic websites and then rajasic foods are foods that stimulate and you know in the opposition of balance like create feelings of attachment and aggression and um you know accentuated Drive sort of pushing ourselves into material gain and want but I wanted to talk about it because I think that um there's a lot that we can like learn about how we are and how we feed ourselves by removing connotation so just from the really Simple Pure understanding that all of those three points are points that um we meet on a daily basis in our life so a downward curve is the curve towards sleep an upward curve so rajasic food is the curve towards weakeness and and um you know performance of tasks and things that we're required to do every day as people and then those balancing foods are the foods that um we would think about as being perpetuation so the things that allow us to maintain our states and ourselves as we move through the day in that way you can think about um how to use those aspects of food and flavor to create um the right structures and consumption for you depending on where you are in your day so apologies for the pressure cooker I don't know how loud it is for you but um so when you talk about that thick Foods or foods that promote sort of balance and that ability to to have steady perseverance ghee like coriander uh seed ginger powder where are we here um these are foods that are considered to be sort of there's many more but considered to be uh inbalance rajasic foods which are foods that accentuate Drive no surprises for guessing there so chili garlic um Peppers so hot foods onion um and then TASC Foods so foods that that create downward energy force so things like rice chicken pumpkin watermelon even avocado um they're interesting Notions because when we consider them to be Notions and not rules or edicts um um we can begin to to moderate our habits or the way that we eat and the ingredients we choose to eat depending on um where we are in our day and where we are where we are how we are feeling in ourselves um so rasc foods are actually useful stimulants are useful for when we feel like we need that little bit of boost TASC food or a food that that pulls on a down in a downward space or reduces that energy can be an antidote to the opposite to too much force to Too Much ambition to the desire to settle into sleep and then these Subic Foods these balanced foods are foods that we want to incorporate every day because so much of our everydayness is about the ability to to continue to um perform tasks and not become exhausted and to still hold ourselves in ourselves so cic rajasic tasic a few examples Google's a great source if you just are not sure and you're wanting to get more into that and and how to feed yourself um select your produce Google um their aric um attribution and you should be able to figure out from there you know how you want to mix and match it's an interesting start point it's a very uh common way of functioning a house for a traditional Regional Indian household is utilizing these pieces of information it becomes a way to mix mix and match and feed yourself with um intuition and accurity and thought and wisdom and [Music]