Just Eat It.

In some old-ass Indian book, my boy Lord Krishna delineates three gunas, or qualities: sattva (purity), rajas (passion), and tamas (inertia). Supposedly, the foods that we intake will help yield different proportions of these qualities in ourselves.

Sattvic food

is the purest diet... It nourishes the body and maintains it in a peaceful state. And it calms and purifies the mind, enabling it to function at its maximum potential... Sattvic foods include cereals, wholemeal bread, fresh fruit and vegetables, pure fruit juices, milk, butter and cheese, legumes, nuts, seeds, sprouted seeds, honey, and herb teas.

Rajasic foods

are very hot, bitter, sour, dry, or salty... They destroy the mind-body equilibrium, feeding the body at the expense of the mind. Too much rajasic food will overstimulate the body and excite the passions, making the mind restless and uncontrollable. Rajasic foods include hot substances, such as sharp spices or strong herbs, stimulants, like coffee and tea, fish, eggs, salt and chocolate. Eating in a hurry is also considered rajasic.

And finally, a Tamasic diet

benefits neither the mind nor the body. Prana, or energy, is withdrawn, powers of reasoning become clouded and a sense of inertia sets in. The body's resistance to disease is destroyed and the mind filled with dark emotions, such as anger and greed. Tamasic items include meat, alcohol, tobacco, onions, garlic, fermented foods, such as vinegar, and stale or overripe substances. Overeating is also regarded as tamasic.

Naturally, the bulk of my dietary activity is tied up in the latter two categories. I regularly overeat/overdrink spices, herbs, fish, chocolate, tea, coffee, garlic, and alcohol- in a hurry. Given how uneventful my life has been despite these sinful indulgences, I better step a lil' harder on these ingredients. Sattva has never had any sort of appeal to me, either in diet or character. It's basically full circle next to Tamas, in fact, because either way you're just an inactive blob- might as well be mentally deranged while (not) at it. Then at least you can deliver some bad-ass art to the world.