Eating with fingers has recently been looked down upon - considered not very sophisticated or suave. Especially at restaurants, people even eat pizzas with a fork and knife!! Eating with the fingers has multiple benefits - some very obvious and some not very obvious. Balances the five elements. In Ayurvedic understanding, the body and everything in the universe are made of five elements — fire, water, air, earth and space — each represented by a finger: thumb (fire), index (air), middle (space), ring (earth), little (water). Traditionally, eating with the fingers is believed to energise the food and keep the

Most people loosely associate Prana with breath. While Prana is NOT breath but our engergetic field or Life Force. Prana is present in everything - whether living or non living! Everything in creation has prana - with varying degrees of density/frequencies. The book by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati on Prana and Pranayama mentions this experiement conducted in USA on Swami Nadabrahmananda Saraswati who could remain comfortable without breathing for extended periods just by power of his prana. He was placed in an airtight glass chamber. A lighted candle and a live monkey were placed in similar chambers. Electrodes were connected to