🌞 Sun Gazing

The Forgotten Morning Ritual That Can Transform Your Life

In a world of blinking screens and artificial light, sun gazing is one of the most natural, ancient rituals we’ve forgotten.
But if you ask me, it’s the one ritual every person should try at least once in their life — not just for health, but for clarity, stillness, and inner reset.

🕰️ The Timing Matters (It’s Everything)

You can't just look at the sun any time of day.
True sun gazing happens within the first 30–45 minutes after sunrise. After that, especially in summer, the rays become too harsh for your eyes and can be dangerous.

So if sunrise is at 6:00 AM, aim to be outside between 6:00–6:30 AM.
After 6:45 AM (especially in summer), I wouldn’t recommend it.

😴 The Preparation Begins the Night Before

To be outside at sunrise, you need to:

• Sleep at least 8 hours before

• Be in bed by 9:00 or 9:30 PM

• Wake up naturally refreshed, not from an alarm

This one change — prioritizing sleep — sets everything else right: your digestion, mood, energy, and willpower.

👣 How to Do It

• Step outside early, right after you wake up

• No sunglasses, no filters, no screens

• Find a spot where you can see the sun directly, even just on the horizon

• Stand barefoot on the earth — grass, soil, tile, bench — let your feet connect

• Look gently at the sun — not staring hard, but soaking it in.

• Close one eye and look with the other eye and do the same with the other eye. Initially you may not notice any difference. but slowly you will start noticing red ball and everything else to be dark around it. And it may be different for you. but again take it slowly.  Not all in one day or one week. It took me almost 3 weeks. it may be more or less for you. Take it Slowly. 

• Breathe slowly. Feel your chest rise and fall. Be present.

• Do it for a few minutes(start with 1 min and then go upto 5 min. I wouldn't recommend more than that- even after 6 years i don't do it more than 5 min). That’s all. 

💡 What It Does for You (Over Time)

Not in a day. Not in a week. But slowly, beautifully, like a fog lifting:

• 🌞 Boosts Vitamin D levels

• 🧠 Improves memory and focus

• 💤 Regulates your sleep cycle

• 🌿 Aligns you with your circadian rhythm

• 😌 Lowers anxiety, worry, and rumination

• 💪 Strengthens immunity

• 🧘‍♂️ Adds clarity and purpose to your mornings

• 🌈 Slowly pulls you out of depressive episodes

• 👁️ May even improve eye health and vision (early rays only!)

🧘 A Silent Practice of Power

There’s no chanting required.
No yoga mat, no app, no tracker.
Just you, the earth, and the rising sun.

It’s one of the few rituals that brings scientific, emotional, and spiritual benefit—all at once. And once you start doing it, you won’t even notice when the change happens.

You’ll just realize… you’re different.

🔁 Don’t Force It. Just Begin.

Don’t expect a miracle in two days.
But give this ritual 3 weeks — and it will quietly change your mornings, your hormones, your headspace.

You’ll wake up not with dread, but with light.

And in a world that moves too fast, this might be the most radical thing you can do.

Please note: This post is based on personal experience and cultural traditions. Please use discretion and consult a professional if needed.

🪔 Rituals

🪔 Living with Ritual

Not just routines, but quiet inheritances — reminders to pause, to honor, to live with meaning. The quiet habits that shaped our homes, healed our minds, and remembered what the heart never forgot. 

🌞 Light That Heals

Sun Gazing

🍲 Recipes

🍲 Grandma’s Homely Recipes

Simple, soulful dishes that taste like childhood, devotion, and love.

In every Indian home, recipes are more than just instructions—they are memories. Passed down from grandmothers to mothers, whispered over kitchen fires, or scribbled in old notebooks stained with turmeric and time, these dishes carry the warmth of generations.

At Bhuangan, we celebrate the sacred and the simple—just like the meals served after a morning puja, or the rasam that healed more than just a cold.

Now that it's summer, our bodies crave more than just taste - they need hydration, cooling, and balance. And there is one drink that finds its way into almost every Indian home during this season:

(Recipe coming next!)

🌀 Ativrushti Anavrushti: When Too Much Is As Harmful As Too Little - By Satya | Bhuangan Blog

Ati vā anā vā  

Neither flood nor drought nurtures life. Only the quiet stream sustains.

🌧️ The Wisdom in Rain

There’s a saying in our place:
“Ativrushti Anavrushti.”
Too much, or too little — both are dangerous.

It may speak of rain and harvest, but its wisdom goes far beyond weather.
It speaks to the rhythms of your body.
To the rituals we follow.
To the silence between advice and action.

“Moderation is sacred. Balance is everything.”

🧬 Your Body Is Ancient — And Uniquely Yours

No one comes into this world empty-minded or blank-bodied.
You carry within you the memory of generations — in your genes, in your gut, in your cells.
What works for one may not work for you — and that’s not a flaw. It’s your fingerprint.

Some bodies absorb quickly, some resist at first, some bloom slowly over time.
So when someone suggests a healing practice, a food ritual, or a spiritual fix — listen.
But then… pause.

Ask:

Is this right for my pace?
Does this honor my past?
Is this a flood when I need a stream?

🌱 Start Small. Go Slow. Don’t Overturn Your World Overnight.

Your body is not a trend to hack.
It’s a landscape to understand.

Take advice, take inspiration — yes.
But don’t bulldoze your entire life overnight. That overwhelm?
It’s why so many start strong, then quit.
Because they rushed to follow, instead of learning to adapt.

“If one tulsi tea helps, you don’t need five.
If one sun salutation feels right, you don’t need fifty.”

Understand first, then begin. Begin small, then walk.
Let your body trust you again.

🌸 Your Pace Is Sacred

Some see results in days.
Others — months.
And for a few — it takes years.

But here’s the secret:
If you give your body the right inputs — something is happening.
You may not feel it yet, but your body is listening, shifting, responding.
Not all healing makes noise.

So as long as there’s no harm — continue.
Let time and patience do their invisible work.
But never — ever — cross the line of balance.

“Too little and nothing grows.
Too much and everything drowns.”

🕊️ A Bhuangan Thought to Carry:

“Even sacred things, when overdone, become burdens.
True wellness is knowing how much, when, and why.”

So next time someone offers you a practice, a mantra, a diet, or a lifestyle:
👉🏽 Don’t reject it.
👉🏽 Don’t copy it blindly.

Reflect. Adjust. Listen. And then, if it feels right, begin. Slowly. Gently. With respect.

Because your body is not slow.
It is sacred.
And sacred things take time.

🌿 If this resonates…

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Let’s grow — together — in balance.