When you reduce your weight by taking a pill or following a diet, your weigh reduction might be only a temporary achievement.
To get permanent results, you have to grow as a person.
Remember that extra weight always has a reason. From we are borne someone puts something into our mouths when we are uneasy or cry, just to comfort and quieten us.
This is a strategy that works, and as time goes by, we very quickly adopt this strategy of filling our mouths with something when we are emotionally upset or uneasy. And it keeps working as efficiently as ever. It is like a pill that works all the time, whatever the emotional problem, just like when we were children.
But it has all the side effects of whatever narcotic you could care to mention. You get addicted, because the problem you ate away is not solved,- it is just packed down beneath a temporary surface layer of food bliss in our psyche, so that you don’t feel it any longer. But once the intoxication recedes, you feel the need to eat again, because now you feel uneasy again, and now you probably don’t even remember what the problem was all about,- you just feel uneasy. The problem is still there.
We are in a habit of not solving any problems on the personal level, and not learning anything about ourselves, and that makes us incapable, and liable to use the same dysfunctional strategy whatever problem arises in our lives. It is all on auto pilot, that is, a subconscious strategy.
And the body weight just keeps building. We don’t even know that we eat, just like a smoker discovers he has just had a smoke after it has turned into toxic gases. It was all on autopilot.
The strategy just doesn’t push the right button. If we need comfort, we should go and get some true and healing comfort from someone or something we care about or believe in, and from whom or whatever we feel ready to receive comfort.
If we need to reduce anxiety, what we actually need is not food or nutrition, but a calming influence of some sort on the emotional level. It could be a piece of music, a meditation, some exercise, some self help to build qualifications and skills, without which we feel insecure. -And so on and so forth. A slowing and steadying of breathing is necessary through a good and efficient strategy.
We need a lot of strategies to be able to meet different challenges in life, not just food. And food should be used for nutrition, and not for any and all types of other purposes.
So, what has yoga to do with all of this?
Well,- a whole lot, I can tell you.
Yoga is a system to increase your awareness, your inner strength and your personal integration through postures, movements, breath-cultivation et cetera. As you keep doing your exercises, what was previously experienced as problems might just evaporate, just like darkness fades when the sun rises.
The process is not to chase or to fight the darkness, but to bring in the light.
What was a problem while you lived in the dark, that is without full awareness, with a lower state of consciousness, are not at all a problem when you gradually turn on the light, or increase your awareness. It is just seen as a perfectly normal situation in life,- a situation with which you are at home. A rope on the floor is not a snake ready to attach you any longer,- it is just that,- a rope. No heart palpitations, no sweating, no autonomic reactions, and no need for food, nor pills nor medications, and no dysfunctional strategies of any kind.
To reduce weight through yoga is fast, efficient and permanent, and comes as a consequence of your own inner growth of awareness and consciousness, your own inner state of integration, which should always be the prime focus, whatever problem you want to solve. Improve the problem solver, and the problem might just redefine itself to some sort of normal phenomenon in life, and not an experience that calls for any distraction, autopilot strategy, subconscious strategy or anything else that could compromise your feeling of self worth and feeling of mastery in life.
Yoga is not designed to lose weight,- it is designed for perfect health, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
When you grow on all levels, and fat just evaporates from your body as a natural consequence, your weigh loss will be permanent, and you will finally be out of the jojo-experience of trying one diet or incomplete strategy for weigh loss after another.
You will then be free to fill your life with more meaningful pursuits that chasing a mirage of some future, slim body.
You will experience life without the perspective of gaining weight again, and staying healthy for the rest of your life.
You seek health on all levels, and you receive a slim and fit body in return, among a lot of other benefits.
If you seek just a slim body, you might get that, but you won’t necessarily get a healthy body. Some diets are very unhealthy, yet very effective for slimming your body. A deadly sick person also get slim, but that is a bi product of being deadly sick, not a result of a healthy strategy. A thin body should be a result of having a a healthy body, not a sick one, due to improper and faulty diet.
Getting your desired end result in terms of body weight as a bi product of your inner growth and your overall state of health is a far superior strategy to all the other strategies available today.
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