| Meditation is to weight loss, what diet and exercise are | | | | practices you will do in your effort to lose weight. |
| to getting slim. The power to make a decision is "the" | | | | Here are a few reasons why this is so: |
| most important step -- and the first one -- in the | | | | Weight loss is not just a physical activity; all of our |
| grueling, even daunting at times, path to getting thin...and | | | | actions begin in our minds. If you are trying to lose |
| healthy. However, "keeping up" with that decision can | | | | weight you probably already "know" that you have to |
| be even more overwhelming. Consistency equals | | | | exercise more, and change some of your eating |
| success. But the mind can overpower our very | | | | habits. |
| willingness to act upon that well intended decision. | | | | You "know" this to be a fact, yet you are unable to do |
| When you learn about yoga breathing, you understand | | | | it. All people, whether fat or slim, have this same |
| that the basis for controlling our mind depends on how | | | | dilemma. We "know" many things intellectually, but we |
| we train ourselves to direct our very thoughts. | | | | are not always able to put our best intentions into |
| Meditation is the foundation for that training. | | | | action. |
| If you are like me -- who struggled with my weight for | | | | Meditation is one of the best methods to take control |
| years -- you will fully understand how painful, even | | | | of your own self. When you learn about yoga |
| demoralizing, being overweight can make you feel. I will | | | | breathing, you will understand how during meditation |
| speak to you from personal experience. You ponder | | | | you study how to make your mind stronger. Someone |
| and wonder how did you let yourself get to that stage. | | | | who meditates is exercising the "mental" muscle by |
| And the more you stress over it, the more you tend to | | | | directing the mind away from the noise of the world |
| find comfort in more food. I have been there! The | | | | outside toward the calm within. |
| good news is that, after years of fighting the "weight | | | | It is not a question of mind over matter, or having to do |
| battle", I found what really worked for me. And here is | | | | anything that you do not want to do. Meditation is an |
| the whole secret... | | | | activity that changes you from the inside out. Instead |
| Meditate -- that is it. And learn about yoga breathing to | | | | of forcing yourself not to eat the doughnut in between |
| get you there! | | | | meals, the very desire to eat it will vanish. Instead of |
| Yes, I have gone mad (you are probably thinking, | | | | fighting with yourself to go out for a walk, exercise will |
| right?) But think about this. | | | | become something that you enjoy doing. |
| Normally when we think about some weight losing | | | | If you get into the practice of meditation, no one will |
| activity, we think about burning calories or sweating off | | | | have to twist your arm to make you live a healthy |
| the fat. When you meditate you have to sit very still, | | | | lifestyle, it will become your natural choice. To learn |
| without making a move. Although you will not burn | | | | about yoga breathing is to learn how to meditate to |
| many calories during a typical meditation session, | | | | finally break through the single most powerful obstacle |
| meditation may be one of the most important | | | | you have encountered so far: your own mind. |