How do you know if you are experiencing genuine hunger versus a craving or conditioned response?

Genuine hunger in Ayurveda is specific to the digestive region, arrives three to five hours after a complete previous meal, and resolves cleanly after an appropriately sized meal. Cravings tend to be specific, arrive regardless of when you last ate, and are frequently associated with a particular emotional state or time of day.

Is body intelligence the same as intuitive eating?

They share the goal of a non-pathological relationship with food. The difference is Ayurvedic body intelligence distinguishes between prajna (the body's genuine wisdom) and the voices of dosha imbalance that can masquerade as body signals. Intuitive eating generally does not make this distinction.

How long does it take to restore body intelligence through dinacharya?

The hunger signal begins to clarify within two to four weeks of consistent meal timing. The natural sleep-onset signal returns within ten to fourteen days of consistent 9pm screen cessation. Seasonal food impulses take a full seasonal cycle -- three to four months.

What Is Body Intelligence and How Does Ayurveda Define It?

What Is Body Intelligence and How Does Ayurveda Define It? Body intelligence in Ayurveda is the innate, self-regulating wisdom of the body -- called prajna in Sanskrit -- that knows how to maintain balance, signal its needs, and repair itself when given the right conditions. It is the intelligence that produces genuine hunger three to four hours after a complete meal, that makes you want to sleep before 10pm when you are not artificially awake, that creates food aversions during illness, and that generates the seasonal impulse toward lighter eating in spring and heavier eating in winter. Modern life suppresses body intelligence systematically. Ayurvedic practice restores it. There is a question I ask in almost every consultation I do: when did you last make a food choice based on what your