5 Shocking Ways Yoga Causes You To Lose Weight
updated 8/3/2210-18-2024 Update: this link is no longer active to the Sivana Spirit blog. I am working on getting the article contents back from the company and I will post it here.
Yoga is an awesome healing tool!
I confess, I did not write the title to my article published on the international Yoga blog: Sivana Spirit.
Had I written the title, I would not have used the work "shocking" as Yoga's affects no longer shock me. I am not certain they ever did. I do know, had I been asked 20 years ago when I started doing Yoga postures, I would not have expected all the benefits Yoga has brought into my life. (Notice I put postures in italics up there. I have been doing Yoga meditation, guided visualizations, and mindfulness work since I was 26. I sincerely had no idea this was Yoga. When I started doing postures, I thought like so many others do, that the postures were Yoga. I have learned a lot!)
But these Yoga revelations have not been "shocking." They have been smooth and silky, warm and fuzzy, and oh so stealth in sneaking into my life.
To read more about these "shocking" Yoga weight loss impacts and benefits, click here.
Yoga truly is an easy and amazing tool for health and healing. Maybe this fact is the shocker in a culture that prefers more difficult answers.
Yoga tones the vagus nerve… this is a huge factor in creating awareness of what triggers you to do the things you do & react the way you react. You become a calmer, more peaceful person, able to stop - reflect - and chose healthy choices as opposed to knee jerk reacting into emotional outbursts and choices that do not serve your highest good or healing energy.
Namaste good people.
Yoga Supports these things in Your Life (photos added 7/17/19)
The Final Tip: Divine Weight Loss
This is it... the final weight loss tip coming to you with LOVE.
Truly, I could write many more. I want to inspire you and not overwhelm.
Final Divine Weight Loss Tip:
Gratitude: An attitude of gratitude for everything in your life and all you are as a divine human being does wonders in the quest to make healthy choices. When you see yourself, truly for the divine spirit you are, the natural tendency is for TLC towards self.
Practice gratitude for you.
Every AM, wake up and make your first thought about what you are grateful for today. Make something up if you have to and stick with it. Every PM, as you are shutting your eyes for the day, visualize one thing that happened today that you are grateful for. Anything counts, even that you made it through the day. Heart centered thanks to self for that fact. Each day, finding 1 thing to be grateful as the sun comes up and again, as the moon shows her face, will get easier & easier. It is a practice.
Remember: There is no perfection and yet you are perfection.
If this sounds counter-intuitive to you, try practicing honoring your divine being every day in everything you do. Let me know how this changes your attitude about you and your actions towards yourself. I love to hear people's amazing stories about their health and healing.
I often have people say to me things like: "I can't be as perfect as you, Paula, around food choices and exercise." Trust me... I am not perfect. But, I do make choices from this space:
Is this natural for my body?
Will it feed my cellular health?
Will this choice inspire my highest good on this planet so I can best serve myself and others?
I move on from this space and make my choices. This attitude, coming from my mind,heart, and soul, makes it easy for me to choose healthy lifestyle options. Then I slather my choice with gratitude! Much as I slather my life with butter. But that’s another story.
Strive for Purr-Fection: Ever notice how cats are Purr-Fectly content in just about any situation? Approach life from a cat mentality and make the situation Purr-Fect in the moment!
I wish you calm and peace as you heal mind, body, and spirit and re-balance your weight and health.
Cats being Purr-Fect:
Dogs are Purr-Fect too but in a totally different way. ; )
Divine Weight Loss Tips 1- 7&8&9&10
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/2/divine-weight-loss-tip-1
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/4/divine-weight-loss-tip-3
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/5/divine-weight-loss-tip-4
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/6/divine-weight-loss-tip-5
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/7/divine-weight-loss-tip-6
https://www.paulayoumellrn.com/blog/2014/8/9/divine-weight-loss-tip-7-8-9-10