Paramahansa Yogananda
Quotes on Health
BETTER HEALTH
Eat less, eat finely ground nuts, eat more raw vegetables, and eat abundantly of fruits. Eat nuts, cheese, eggs, and vegetable proteins in preference to meat. Fruits are the most spiritually beneficial of all foods.
And exercise! Walk daily. Take an early morning walk to keep your heart in good condition.
Cheerfulness is very important to health. It is the best antiseptic that you can have — plus the thought that you are all right.
Vigorous rubbing of the body with the hands generates life force.
Eat nuts, cheese, eggs, and vegetable proteins in preference to meat. Fruits are the most spiritually beneficial of all foods.
Every day, for beneficial results, eat green-leafed vegetables including a carrot, and drink a glass of orange juice (including pulp) with a tablespoonful of finely ground nuts. Mix good salad dressings made of thoroughly ground nuts, cream, a few drops of lemon juice, orange juice and honey with all salads.
As Sri Yukteswar recommended, find the diet best suited to your needs and follow that.
If you are infected with the germs of worry you should go on a strict mental diet. You should feast regularly on the society of joyful minds. Every day you should associate, if only for a little while, with joy-instilled persons--those who meditate and feel the joy of God as a reality. Seek them out and feast with them on this most vitalising food of joy. Feast on laughter in the company of these really joyful people. Steadfastly continue your laughter diet once you have begun it, and at the end of a month or two you will see the change--your mind will be filled with sunshine.