Elevating thoughts increase our energy and heighten our sense of well-being. Food becomes secondary. You don't lose your taste for it... you just don't attach excess importance to it. Certainly, eating does increase the brain-calming chemical serotonin and other natural tranquillisers in the body, which give us that secure, cosy, and satisfied feeling. So do have elevating thoughts and an elevating attitude. Practise elevated awareness at every opportunity. When commuting to work, allow yourself to be moved by the sincerity and purpose writ on the faces of fellow commuters or the roadside tea-vendor. See the innocence and dignity of the industrious little shoeshine boy. Admire the scenic blueness of the sky and spare an awed thought for the unseen intelligence that creates it. Imbibe joy from the spread of floral splendour — "See heaven in a wild flower," said poet William Blake.
The music of the masters
Mix only with the masters as far as possible. "Sri Aurobindo observes, "Cheerfulness is the music of the soul." While St. Augustine offers a gentle sagely humour: "I was pulled up to God through His Grace. I came down because of my weight." So how much food do you really need in your stomach when your mind and being are so sated with spiritual sustenance?
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