Dietary Changes

What the body wanted to eat shifted — sometimes dramatically

5.7% broadly reported · 43 accounts
4.9% confirmed minimum · 37 accounts
What is this

What the body wants to eat shifts during or after the awakening process — sometimes dramatically. Accounts describe losing appetite entirely, becoming unable to tolerate meat or heavy food, developing extreme sensitivity to certain substances, or feeling called toward a much simpler diet.

Several accounts note that the sensitivity extended beyond food — to alcohol, caffeine, and other substances that had previously been tolerated without difficulty.


How common is it
43
Broadly reported
Includes passing mentions, implied references, and clear descriptions — anyone whose account touched on this theme.
37
Confirmed minimum
Explicit first-person descriptions with real specificity. The conservative count — what was clearly and unambiguously described.

From the accounts
So I shut it down, and at 17 became vegetarian, and I spent some time when I was 17 around the Hare Krishna organization, you know, coming into the temples and just smelling the incense and hearing the bells and seeing the Indian clothing and eating a vegetarian diet and just woke back up again.
even before they were a vegetarian they might get protein cravings for meat and then you have other people they get food aversions like maybe before they did eat meat and suddenly it just turns their stomach to think of eating meat and they turn into a vegetarian.
Other people will find that their dietary preferences are really changed, that for some reason after Kundalini awakening some people have a craving for sugar.
values are changing, maybe your dietary needs are changing, maybe your lifestyle needs are changing.

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