正确的断食对你大有裨益（明天断食日）
Did you know that fasting has many benefits when done properly? Apart from the right way to fast, there is also a right time to fast. Fasting twice a month on ekadashi days is the best way to do it and has been a part of the yogic culture for time immemorial.
你知道正确地断食有许多好处吗？断食除了有正确的方法，还有正确的时间。每月两次在Ekadashi日断食是最好的做法，自古以来这已成为了瑜伽文化的一部分。
Sadhguru: It is important that you don’t fast forcefully. If you observe the natural cycle of the body, there is something called a mandala. The mandala means that every 40 to 48 days, the system goes through a certain cycle. In every cycle, there are three days when your body does not need food. If you are conscious of how your body functions, you will become aware that on these days, your body does not need food. And without effort, you can go without food on that day.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：重要的是，你不能强行断食。如果你观察身体的自然周期，有个叫做Mandala（曼陀罗）的东西。Mandala的意思是，每过40到48天，（人体）系统会经历一个特定的周期。在每个周期中，有三天你的身体不需要食物。如果你意识到你的身体是如何运作的，你就会觉察到在这些日子里，你的身体不需要食物。在那些天你能毫不费力地不吃东西。
If you are constantly drinking coffee or tea, then, if you fast, it will become torture for you; fasting will be very difficult. So if you want to fast, first of all prepare the body by eating the right kind of foods.
如果你经常喝咖啡或茶，那么断食对你来说将变成折磨；断食将会非常困难。所以如果你想断食，首先要通过吃正确的食物来让身体做好准备。
Once in every 11 to 14 days, you may not feel like eating. On that day, you should not eat. You know, even dogs and cats have this awareness? Have you noticed that on particular days, they will not eat? They are aware of their system. On the day the system says “no food,” it is a cleaning-up day, they will not eat. Since you don’t have this awareness, they fixed Ekadashi. Ekadashi comes once in every 14 days in the lunar calendar. At least every 14 days, you could go without food. If you are unable to go without food, if your activity levels are such and you don’t have the necessary sadhana to support you, then you could go on a fruit diet. Just observe your own system, and you may notice that on certain days, you do not really need to eat. Forcing food on those days is not a good thing to do.
每过11到14天，你可能就会有一天不想吃东西。在那一天，你不应该吃。你知道连猫狗都有这种觉知吗？你有没有注意到，在某些特定的日子里它们不吃东西？它们对自身系统有觉知。当这一天系统说“不需要食物”，这就是一个清理的日子，它们就不会去吃东西。因为你没有这种觉知，他们就把Ekadashi日固定了下来。在（印度的）阴历里，每14天就会有一个Ekadashi日。至少每个14天，你有一天可以不吃东西。如果你做不到不吃，如果你的活动强度如此之高，而且你没有必要的Sadhana（灵性练习）支持自己，那么你可以吃水果餐。只要观察自己的系统，你可能就会注意到，在某些日子里你真的不需要吃。在那些日子里强迫自己吃东西可不是件好事。
Suppose one wants to fast for a certain period, it must always be supported with the right kind of spiritual practices or sadhana. If you forcefully fast without preparing your body and mind sufficiently, you will only cause damage to your health. But if your body is properly prepared, if you are mentally also in a certain state, if you are prepared energy-wise, then fasting can be of much benefit to you.
假如一个人想要断食一段时间，就必须总是有正确的灵性练习或Sadhana支持。如果你在没有充分准备好身心的情况下强行断食，只会对自己的健康造成损害。但如果你的身体准备好了，你的精神也处于某种状态，并且你在能量上也准备好了，那么断食会对你大有裨益。
If you are constantly drinking coffee or tea, then, if you fast, it will become torture for you; fasting will be very difficult. So if you want to fast, first of all prepare the body by eating the right kind of foods. If it is a great torture when you hold back your urge to eat, you will only cause damage to the system. Maybe you are thinking of performing some kind of a feat “I did not eat for three days,” and you want to go and tell that to the whole world. Please don’t do such things. It is of no benefit to you. You will just make yourself weak, that is all. Just understanding the body and coming to a deeper understanding of how the system functions and what is the best thing to do, is more important than doing something like this.
如果你经常喝咖啡或茶，那么断食对你来说将变成折磨；断食将会非常困难。所以如果你想断食，首先要通过吃正确的食物来让身体做好准备。如果你抑制食欲时感到极度痛苦，你只会对系统造成损害。也许你想表演一个“我三天没吃东西”的壮举，想把这件事告诉全世界。请不要做这种事。这对你没有好处。你只会让自己变得虚弱，仅此而已。只是去了解身体，更深入地了解这个系统如何运作以及做什么最好，比做这样的事情更重要。
It may not be a good thing for everybody to fast, but it has many benefits if it is done with proper understanding. So finding the right situation for the system and taking off food at that time will be a good thing to do.
断食对每个人来说不一定都是好事，但如果有正确的理解，它会有很多好处。因此，为系统找到合适的状态，并在特定时候放下食物将是一件好事。因此，找到恰当的时候给身体系统断绝食物，将是一件好事。
Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
间歇性断食的好处
Intermittent fasting is a new name. What we have known by experience in the Yogic sciences, today modern science also is coming in-line with it. Your body and your brain work at their best only when your stomach is empty. We always make sure that we eat in such a way that however much we eat, our stomach must always be empty within two to two-and-a-half hours’ time. For any correction and purification that needs to happen in the body, your stomach needs to be empty. This is very important. Otherwise, the purification on the cellular level will not happen. In Yoga, a minimum of eight hours’ gap between one meal and the next meal is recommended. If you do this, you will see that, whatever health problems you have, a minimum of fifty percent will go away in six weeks’ time.
间歇性断食是一个新名字。我们通过瑜伽科学的经验所知道的，当今现代科学也正在与之同步。只有当你的胃是空着的时候，你的身体和大脑才会发挥最佳的作用。我们总是确保这样的饮食方式：无论我们吃多少，胃必须总能在两到两个半小时内排空。因为对于任何需要在体内进行的矫正和净化，你的胃必须是空的。这很重要。否则，细胞层面的净化就不会发生。在瑜伽中，建议一餐和下一餐之间至少间隔八小时。如果你这样做，你会发现，不管你有什么健康问题，至少有一半会在六周内消失。
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