The Body Temple: Kundalini Yoga for Body Acceptance, Eating Disorders & Radical Self-Love by Ramdesh Kaur

Author:Ramdesh Kaur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spiritvoyage.com

a. With your thumbs, massage under your cheek bones. 15 seconds.

b. With the base of your palms, massage your jaw in circles. 20 seconds.

c. Use three fingers of each hand to massage the sides of your neck. 10 seconds.

d. Massage your ears with your palms in a circular motion. 30 seconds.

Making Peace with Food

This next kriya allows us to experience conscious eating to retrain our bodies and minds to eat for health and repair our relationship with food. It teaches us from the inside out how to eat mindfully and digest with consciousness. It takes about 50-60 minutes to complete, can be done in a group or alone, and should be done with nourishing foods. Do not do this with junk food or trigger foods. This kriya is divided into five parts: Mental Preparation, Eating Consciously, Meditation on Digestion, Eating Unconsciously for Contrast, and Cleaning Up.

I've included the original transcript of the lecture in which Yogi Bhajan takes you through this healing kriya himself. Imagine that you are at a table with this great master of yogic science, and allow him to guide you through this powerful eating exercise. If you are in an advanced state of a serious eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, consult with your doctor or therapist as to whether you can safely engage in this kriya at this time. If you are healing your relationship to food and seeking to strengthen your self-image, or learning to overcome compulsive overeating or compulsive restricting, this kriya may benefit you enormously as it teaches you to eat consciously and to consider meals a spiritual practice.

Yogi Bhajan said about this kriya:

“You eat to live. You should not gobble food, because the secretion of the stomach is ordered by the pituitary and on the command of the pineal, so when you quickly fill your stomach, bloat it up immediately, and give it a shock, then it gives your body a shock for the next three hours. This is what we call an upset stomach. For food to be rejuvenating and to give strength to keep the body young, you have to use the saliva of your mouth. If you do not mix saliva in every morsel of your food, you are eating poison.

If you procedurally eat the food which you usually gulp in 15 minutes, it will become your best friend, your best strength, and your best self. Usually when you eat, your entire nervous system moves and you move your mouth and tongue together. But you just swallow things, you don't eat them. When you swallow food that is not chewed properly, it swallows your strength, your life. Then nothing is left of you. Slow eating is one of the best meditations on this Earth.”

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