If you want to learn how to lose weight, get familiar with some powerful tools you can use on your mind that will strengthen your willpower. The truth is many people are overweight because the food they have learned to love or eat due to convenience and habit is addicting. There is a new book out Anatomy of Addiction by Howard Markel who explains how Freud overcame his cocaine addiction. Everyone knows one of the hardest things to overcome is a cocaine addiction, but did you know … [Read more...]
Overeating, obesity, and the 7 biggest myths about happiness
Many people overeat and can’t break free from their bad habits because the habits are serving a purpose. What we really want is to find more meaning and purpose in our lives which makes us feel happier. Research shows that we are not that good at figuring out what makes us happy. There are a lot of myths about happiness. So if you think that by losing weight or fulfilling any one “goal” you will be happy, think again. The real goal is to find a bigger meaning to what you want and focus on … [Read more...]
Breathe and Lose Weight
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...]
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