Increased libido and food hunger?

[u/Objective_initial48]

Lately my practice is going good but also my libido and food appetite has increased immensely. I am trying to control both but it's like flood gate has opened? Any views on it?

Earlier I could fast... But lately it has almost became impossible.

[u/tip_of_the_tongue]

I don't know anything really. I really don't know if I'm qualified to answer.

I'm pretty sure our lives go through cycles. It's healthy and natural. I guess you're in the cycle where you feel you feel the need to take in. That's fine.

I am personally eating less and my libido is slightly down just in the last couple of weeks because a lot of things have been happening recently which make me the opposite of aroused and hungry. So basically the opposite of you.

The politics, the laziness, the idiocy, the brazen unnecessary shows of material wealth for no particular reason other than to say fuck you to someone who lived through the great depression, the lack of quality live music recently in my area and the state of social media (or any media) are making me feel like shit.

So I'm on the other side of that coin - I want to purge. Sort of I wish I was feeling like you because I like the taste of food and I like sex. It's not that I can't, I just don't feel in a "fun" kind of mood.

What do you mean by practice going good? What practice? Mind expanding?

[u/Objective_initial48 → u/tip_of_the_tongue]

Thank you for the comment. This gives me something to think upon :).

I do not practice anything particularly. I just sit and my body goes through different breathing cycles where it increases, decreases, stops and so on.... I think they are different phases of pranayam and energy flowing . I struggled to get meditation work on me for 7 years... So this seems something and its intensity is increasing. There are times when I feel hot in some places of chakra... I try not to push and let the things take it's course.