Benefits of Sitting on the Floor And Eating | Life Education

Eating food by sitting on the floor is one of the things which has been followed in Indian culture, not only in India; Chinese, Japanese also Korean culture has this habit of sitting on the floor and eating. This southeast Asian culture is unique, no other culture or country has this habit. Especially Indians don’t use to eat at the dining table, now the lifestyle has changed but I am talking about 40 years back. People nowadays believe, that eating food at the dining table is royal; that’s why we losing that tradition but even now many urban and suburban peoples used to dine on the floor in their houses. Let’s see the benefits of sitting on the floor and eating in detailed information.

Not that I am complaining about the people who prefer the table to the floor for dining, yep; we can’t blindly blame them. Days evolved and it might also sound like old fashion but we don’t throw the gold when it gets old.
Some of the old cultural traditions are more worthy than gold, our ancestors did those on purpose but don’t believe everything which comes on the internet; look, read, analyze, and decide because there are more conspiracies and foolish thoughts are spread nowadays in the name of ancestors by saying “our ancestors are not fools”. But we can believe in this, I mean eating food by sitting on the floor.

 

 

This is a health perspective that describes in Ayurveda and Siddha medical practices. Yep, actually when you sit on the floor while dining there are some outsider benefits other than health like you can save money from buying an expensive dining table and also you can gain some space on your house but jokes apart it is seriously healthy.
There are lots of benefits while having floor dining, I meant health benefits. Let’s see them one by one as follows with an explanation.

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List of Benefits of Sitting on the Floor And Eating

• It induces our brain
• Helps for digestion
• Gives the body flexibility and exercise
• It improves the bearing of our body
• Exercise to joints
• Improves efficiency of the body
• Gives blood circulation
• It improves mental stability
• Aligns the chakra of the body
• Also helps to stay us on earth

Brain Activeness

Sitting by folding legs is yoga and the posture is called Sukh asana while doing this; your pressure point at the lower spine activates which keeps your mind active, and you can feel the taste of your food much better. Because your brain will be more active at that posture also helps to concentrate on food while eating.

Digestion

While eating in that posture we used to bend our belly to grab the food also we will unbend while swallowing, this back-and-forth action makes our liver and intestine active. So, we can easily digest the food. Indian food culture has rice and wheat as major coarse. Which came from plants and have fiber content, it is hard to make digestion for our liver because plant fibers have a cell wall. Non-vegetarian dishes can be easily digested by our liver because animal cells do not have a cell wall but plants do.

Body Flexibility

We are unintentionally doing exercise while having floor dining, which makes our muscles and bones stronger. Many parts of the body like the abdomen, spine, ankles, knee, pelvis, hip and lower back are stretching which gives strength to our body.

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Body Bearing

Blood circulation will be better while we sitting by crossing our legs, normally sitting in a chair will give irritation on our back and bum but those irritations won’t happen in-floor the dining. When you sit in a bad posture you may get body pain and it may also cause some illness.

Joint Exercise

Joints are responsible for stability whether it is building or the human body. While sitting with crossed legs your hip joint, knee joint and toe joint start flexing also while eating wrist joint, finger joint, and elbow joint start flexing this process helps to improve our body stability.

Blood Efficiency

Everyone knows blood is pumped by the heart throughout your body, when you sit on the floor by bending, your body veins can work with more efficiency throughout the body will be better.

Blood Circulation

A cross-legged posture helps the heart to circulate the blood to every organ effectively, also while dining at the table you won’t experience such things. When your digestive system has sufficient blood flow then it can break more ATP and amino acids.

Mental Stability

In this hard world, also in a hard daily routine, people need a stable mind. We can’t always be calm and pleasant at work. We will expect that calmness in-home while on the toilet while taking shower while sleeping and also while eating. That’s why our parents used to say don’t talk while eating. In-floor dining you will get that calmness.

Aligning The Chakras

We know our body has 7 chakras which means 7 pressure nodes we can align our chakras while eating food by sitting on the floor with cross-folding legs. This well keeps your body pure and helps to live a longer life.

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Attachment with Earth

Do you remember our parents or grandparents used to say this, don’t sit by supporting your hand on the floor while eating? I don’t know what are they saying that but we have a bond between this earth. After all, we came from stardust so we are all same; you, me, land, river, dog, tree, and everything. As close as we have to be with the earth. So just try to practice floor dining.

We can’t sit on the floor after our 50s or 60’s because our body will be tired those times, but before your body becomes tired just keep dining on the floor. Try it and I am sure it will help to elevate your day.
Practicing good habits won’t harm us and this is a great habit to practice which helps us to stay healthy and happy forever.

Try to understand your body and don’t hurt it, keep it present, and live a healthy life, which is more important than your work and profession. We are all educated so we have to act mature, that’s why I recommend you to follow this type of dining.