Message #40768

[Jitendra Hydonus]

you can't just assume what works for one works for another. An individualized approach is best. Learning to listen to our bodies is a beautiful thing.

I have a different approach that is supported by Sri Yukteswar in this comment;

What is natural living? To understand  what natural living is it’ll be necessary to distinguish it from what is unnatural. Living depends upon the selections of food, dwelling and company. To live naturally, the lower animals can select these for themselves by the help of their instinct and the natural sentinels  placed at the sensory entrances, the organs of site, hearing, touch, smell and taste. With men in general, however, these organs are so much perverted by unnatural living, from very infancy that little reliance can be placed on their judgments. To understand, therefore, what are natural needs are, we ought to depend upon observation, experiment and reason. ~ Sri Yukteswar