Tag: Body

Do you need to change your relationship with food?

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nutrition factsAfter another weekend of gorging, this blogger’s posts hit home.  A few choice excerpts from Craig Harper’s top 15: Nutrition for Dummies.

3) If it comes in an exciting range of fluorescent colours, don’t eat it.
4) Nobody accidentally eats cake. Own your choices and your behaviours.
6) Calories consumed in secret count. Your friends might not know but your arse will.
7) If dieting was an effective way to lose weight permanently, nobody would ever diet twice.
8) Don’t confuse ‘what your head wants’ with what your body needs. Your mind is a lying b*tch.
10) If you haven’t had a poo since June, maybe cut back on the processed food. And try a little fibre. Just saying.

 

Then he follows up with another solid post titled: Your Body: One Year From Today – A Question of Change.  A few excerpts:

“…If you’re serious about changing your body, and more importantly, keeping it that way, below you’ll find 12 relevant, valuable and potentially-transformational questions…

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Genetics aren’t optional but what we do with them is…

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By Craig Harper: Fifteen Lessons From the Gym Floor.  A few excerpts

go jogging not“In thirty years of working with bodies and, more importantly, the people who inhabit them, I’ve learned a bit…

1) Genetics aren’t optional but what we do with them is.

3) Many of us like the idea of losing weight but not the practical reality of it.

4) Some of us have been *almost* changing our habits and bodies for years.

5) Many of us have an unhealthy and dysfunctional relationship with food.

6) In many instances our body is the result. Not the problem.

10) The most effective exercise program is not always the most enjoyable program.

13) Finding a problem requires less effort than finding a solution.

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Stress Test…

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My Brother sent this post to me over the weekend from Living The Balanced Life.  I panned down the body visual and mentally took the stress test.

  1. Irritability & Anger.  Anxiety: Check
  2. Grinding Teeth & Tension in Jaw: Check Check.
  3. Increase Heart Rate. Diabetes:  Not that I know of. No Check. (Only after Espresso)
  4. Upset Stomach.  Abdominal Pain: No Check (Note: Evidence of occurrence after Taco Bell)
  5. Weight Gain: Check.  Check.
  6. Decreased Sex Drive: No comment.  WTMI.
  7. Muscle Tension:  Check.  (From any form of exercise)
  8. Alcoholism, Tobacco, etc: Clean

50% score.  I clearly passed this test!  Off to work to test the stress muscles…

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You are not your body. You are not your mind.

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Swami Vivekananda

 

WSJ Magazine: What Did J.D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?  The surprising—and continuing—influence of Swami Vivekananda, the pied piper of the global yoga movement. 

Fascinating article worth reading in its entirety on this man’s influence on Henry & William James, Leo Tolstoy, Salinger, Carl Jung and many others.  A few of my favorite excerpts:

“By the late 1960s, the most famous writer in America had become a recluse, having forsaken his dazzling career…While he no longer visited with his editors, he was keen to spend time with his spiritual teacher, Swami Nikhilananda…”

“Though the iconic author of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ published his last story in 1965, he did not stop writing.  From the early 1950’s onward, he maintained a lively correspondence with several Vedanta monks and fellow devotees.  After all, the central guiding light of Salinger’s spiritual quest was the teachings of Vivekananda, the Calcutta born Monk who popularized Vedanta and yoga in the West at the end of the 19th century.

“These days yoga is offered up in classes and studios that have become as ubiquitous as Starbucks.  Vivekananda would have been puzzled, if not somewhat alarmed.  ‘As soon as I think of myself as a little body,’ he warned, ‘I want to preserve it, protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies.  Then you and I become separate.’ For Vivekananda, yoga meant just one thing: “the realization of God.”

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