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I have no doubts there is a  tremendous  amount of upside to doing a yoga daily rountine and very little downside. It is one of the best bangs for your time bucks. That is why I do about an hour a day. I started out at five minutes and over a number of months have worked my way up. I intend to continue, inshAllah Yoga and the Mind: Can Yoga Reduce Symptoms of Major Psychiatric Disorders? Read more:  http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/28/yoga-and-the-mind-can-yoga-reduce-symptoms-of-major-psychiatric-disorders/#ixzz2JmEjTpj2 http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/28/yoga-and-the-mind-can-yoga-reduce-symptoms-of-major-psychiatric-disorders/?iid=hl-main-lead Yoga does the body good, and according to a new study, it may ease the mind as well. “Yoga has also become such a cultural phenomenon that it has become difficult for physicians and  consumers  to differentiate legitimate claims from hype,” researchers from Duke University Medical Center write in their ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/01/31/seven-dangerous-myths-about-weight-loss-or-are-they-little-white-lies/ The cover copy of a thousand magazines was attacked this morning in t he august pages of the New England Journal of Medicine by Krista Casazza, David B. Allison, both from the  University of Alabama, Birmingham , and a long list of co-authors. Much of what you’ve been told about weight loss is wrong and, in the current style of journalists everywhere, they break these misconceptions down into a list of widely-held myths, which they then attack with dry academic savagery. 1.  Eating a little less and exercising a little more, over the long term, won’t produce large, long-term weight changes.  For a half century, experts have talked about the 3,500-kilocalorie (kilocalories are what we call “calories” in everyday speech). That means for every 3,500 calories you burn or don’t consume, you lose a pound. But this rule was derived from sh...

Just the Doing You cannot expect too much too quickly. The art and science of self-transformation is never steady or linear, sometimes aspects of it are lightening quick and other time glacial slow. There is no telling where, when or how. There is just the patient doing of what needs to be done.

This I know; when life is threatened by something deep within, there stops being guides and that person on their own must come to terms with themselves, life, death, courage, and the Mystery. True honesty is the only compass. This harrowing situation is the best opportunity for enlightenment and a wonderful path into a new birth whether in this body or another. Three things are critical at this time - breathing diagrammatically – meditation - and yoga. Keep your heart good and your mind centered and calm. Step up and out into the unknown and stay there until you know. Do what has to be done. When a trauma transforms the traumatized in a way that elevates her/him she/he is never the same and the world is a better place.