Did You Know? Our Ancient Indian traditions have Many scientific reasons behind every activity they do. One such tradition is to have food on the floor. Yes, no dining tables! The western world has actually started adopting this tradition in their day to day lifestyle. so now let us see some beautiful health benefit of Ancient Indian Sitting on the floor and Having food.
Benefits:
Resolve Indigestion Problem:
When you sit on the floor, you sit with crossed legs in Sukhasana (Yogasana). Sukhasana is a subset of Padmasana. Unlike Padmasana in Sukhasana, the legs are not interlocked but a posture is a form of Padmasana or mudra which helps in the reduction of gastric problems in the Body.
When you eat food while sitting on the floor, you will bend forward and backwards while eating your food. This forward and backward movement activates stomach muscles, resulting in the secretion of stomach acids that help digest food easily.
Helps To Keep You in Good Shap:
Having food in Sukhasana will also help you in Weight Management. When you sit on the floor, your Mind and Body becomes Calm, Nerves are Relaxed. So a person can focus on food. A calm mind sends signals to the stomach to increase the secretion of stomach acids. Likewise, the stomach sends a signal to the mind that a sufficient amount of food has been consumed and thus saves you from overeating.
Natural and Automatic Body Exercise:
Sitting on the floor instead of chairs will give direct benefits to your body muscles- knees, thighs, stomach, upper and lower abdomen.
Sitting and getting up from the floor requires a lot of strength. Our studies have found that senior people sitting in Padmasana or Sukhasana who can stand up without any support are more fit, flexible, and healthy.
Stay Young Forever:
Eating on the floor give correction in your body posture. Eating food while sitting in Sukhasana posture does not lead to shoulder, proper spinal cord position and reduce back problems, so Indian sitting food habit prevent premature ageing of your body.
Healthy Heart:
Eating food sitting on the floor gives better blood circulation towards the Heart and Thus heart easily pumps blood to all organs. However, when you eat food on the dining table blood circulation is obstructed and the heart has to pump harder to ensure proper blood circulation. Thus eating on the floor reduces the risks of a heart attack.
Hope you enjoy our article and made up your mind from now onwards you guys will prefer to have food on the floor like Ancient Indian Sitting. you can also have a look at our Suggested Products for good and healthy health.
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