Yoga can help you control your weight more effectively, whether you need to lose or to gain it. Yoga encourages concentration and strengthens willpower, and the techniques of yoga are enjoyable ways to change your attitudes about exercise, diet, and self-image. With yoga, you will feel better about yourself as you follow a weight management program.
- EXERCISE. People who hate to exercise usually don’t do it regularly. Yoga is self-motivating because, after a short time of practice, one finds that they actually enjoy the practice. It takes you away from the stress demands and you find you pay more attention to inner feelings, needs, and thoughts, which means you ‘figure’ out how to deal with stress with more ease and strength. Yoga will improve your shape by stabilizing metabolism, improving posture and circulation, and toning muscles in the back, stomach, and legs. The poses release muscle tension and increase flexibility so that you feel more relaxed.
- STRESS. Constant demands of stress greatly contribute to the body being out of balance. Using yoga, you are able to choose how to react to the stressors in your life. Many overweight people have learned to automatically reach for food as an escape from stress. Yoga changes your desires so that you are more likely to use your breath or poses instead of food. You lose your destructive eating habits.
- MEDITATION. Relaxation and meditation aspects of yoga support all your behavioral goals. Regular meditation helps concentration and willpower, which helps you stick to calorie or portion allotments, or to regular yoga practice. It may also stimulate insight into unconscious motivators of your eating behavior.
- YOGA. Yoga provides motivation you can’t get in a pill. When you “want” to take care of yourself, the good things you do don’t seem like a chore; instead, you will find they make you happy. Your body becomes your friend. If you treat it with respect, it will support you in everything you need and want to do