Obesity has been called the “Great American Disease” because it now impacts 30 percent of U.S. adults (which amounts to over 60 million people). It is, however, a global disease that affects more than 300 million worldwide.
Pratiyahar is the practice of cutting a negative thought with a positive one. This is how to control the mind. It is the same thing with a habit.
Follow along with this guided meditation. This meditation is for cutting through 'haunting thoughts'. Haunting thoughts are thoughts that keep revisiting you and causing you ongoing pain and grief.
The way in which they destroy themselves, is when poison comes out of you, you immerse yourself in poison. Your thoughts are poison, your words are poisoned. Your presense is filled with poison, and over time you poison yourself. You can't live in poison and not absorb it. If you are always trashing someone, you are living in trash, you eat trash.
Everyone wants to be happy. Many people talk about it. But do you know where true happiness comes from? Guruka Singh explains each of the following steps: commitment, character, dignity, divinity, grace, and power to sacrifice which all lead to inner happiness.
Studies show "You only have so much willpower." Fortunately, there are strategies you can take to improve your willpower and make it easier to make healthy and productive choices.
Stress is responsible for 75 percent to 90 percent of Americans' doctor visits, according to the American Institute for Stress.
Most people find it challenging to stick to a healthy diet and oftentimes exacerbating the challenge are insatiable food cravings.
At least 14 deaths of marathon runners, football players and other athletes have been attributed to a condition called exercise-associated hyponatremia, which results from drinking too much water or sports drinks.
As it turns out, healthy people who are able to take part in manic thinking - without the corresponding crash - have much to gain emotionally.