How breathing can help you lose weight I remember reading in Be Here Now by Ram Dass a part where he talked about a woman who began to use the powerful yogic breathing techniques for weight loss. Not only did she lose weight, she overdid it and ended up with psychic powers as well. Putting the attainment of those powers aside, I think many of you would be interested in knowing how yogic breathing can provide a holistic natural way to lose weight. The breathing technique Ram Dass was … [Read more...]
Obesity and Overeating; Why you have no willpower…
Here's what I have learned in the ten years of working with people who struggle with diet plans and are seeking healthy ways to lose weight. Although Kelly Brownell who wrote Food Fight is focusing on children who are certainly victims of the obesity epidemic, we are all prey to these insidious and dangerous phenomena of the addictive substances in processed food. What is going on? I think we have all been misled into believing and thinking that diet and exercise are the answer. … [Read more...]
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight.
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight. Why are we reluctant to call eating disorders and other negative habits that relate to food eating addictions? According to Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, a powerful book, the definition of an addiction is: a habit that causes negative consequences and despite these consequences you cannot stop or change easily. According to most addiction experts, an addiction is also a chronic neurobiological … [Read more...]
Drop the Story ! How to Reduce your Stress with a Pause
I have been taking a fabulous tele-class with Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God. Neale explained very clearly the reason we are stressed, get stuck in ruts and repeat behaviors that do not serve us is because we see things as an imagined truth as opposed to the actual truth. It is has been said that if you want to change your “life” you have to change your reality… shift out of the imagined to the real truth. This is possible, because you create your reality by virtue … [Read more...]
Real Reason Most Diets Don’t Work
Have you noticed that many of your issues with food don't really have much to do with food at all? With all life's demands, challenges, choices, and frustrations coming at us seemingly non-stop, it's hard to stay focused and be successful, especially with our goals for healthy eating, exercise and self care. It seems like something we should be able to control. Think again. More>> [button text="More" link="http://www.nirvanadiet.com/real-reason-diets-dont-work"] … [Read more...]