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johnsmith
August 25th, 2006, 06:15 PM
Yoga is the ancient Indian meditation and exercise concept which is good for the total well-being being of an individual. It helps in reducing excess weight by teaching us healthy eating, exercising, breathing, and meditation encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Yoga is an excellent enduring approach to losing excess weight and keeping it off. Yoga also creates many other constructive changes such as reducing stress, increase of body flexibility, mental equilibrium, strength and balance.

Yoga, by strengthening the endocrine organs increases metabolism. The various yoga positions stimulate the endocrine organs facilitating blood circulation. But even with yoga's effect on metabolism, we need to follow the weight loss formula of reducing calorie intake and increasing calorie outgo.

The various twisting poses, bends and inversions of yoga help in stimulating the endocrine system and increasing metabolism. The yoga posture to salute the sun is especially helpful in boosting the body's metabolism. Overweight may cause difficulty in some of the asanas (postures), but practice will make the body flexible and the asanas will be easy to complete.

The standing poses help in strengthening the muscles, warm the body and spends calories generously. Practicing the standing poses increases the level of self confidence and self esteem in us. Integrating a yogic diet and standard of living will promote your weight loss program and positive enduring change. A yogic diet includes increased consumption of whole grains, pulses and vegetables and reduced consumption of fat, animal protein and processed food. A yogic lifestyle heartens consciousness, self-knowledge, purity, discipline and contentment.

Yoga is a procedure and should be approached as such. Practicing Yoga, you will certainly be able to notice and enjoy the gradual changes in your weight. Practice yoga 6 times a week giving a rest on one of the week days.

james02
April 15th, 2007, 08:41 PM
My friend Yoga is a gradual process of replacing our unconscious patterns of thought and behavior with new, more benign patterns that are expressive of the higher powers and virtues of Self-realization. It takes time to accomplish this far-reaching work of self-transformation, and therefore practitioners of Yoga must first and foremost practice patience. Enlightenment, or liberation, is not realized in a matter of days, weeks, or months. We must be willing to commit to an entire lifetime of yogic practice.

JB27
April 29th, 2007, 06:37 PM
you guys are like yoga soldiers