tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34009815498124880322024-02-07T19:20:25.433-08:00Keep Your FitnessKamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-33490596530430701102014-07-19T11:42:00.000-07:002014-07-19T11:45:16.013-07:00The Benefit of Yoga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Are you looking for easy way to lose fat? Have you tried everything to flatten your belly, slim your thighs, stiff your butt, and pitch those jiggly arms? Do you want to give up boring exercise? Here is great news for you. I’m going to tell you about an simple, comforting, and FUN way to lose the fat, and lose the stress. You don’t have to go a gym or exercise class—in fact, you don’t even have to leave home. What am I talking about? A breakthrough approach to yoga-yes, yoga-that reshapes your body…while changing your health and your life! How yoga helps you. Lets discover<br />
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1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoga is better than jogging. While jogging, you have to worry about putting all that stress on your knees and hips. But yoga allows fluid movement of your body without wreaking havoc with your joints or leaving you out of breath and you can burn just as many calories as jogging!<br />
2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoga helps to lose fat. Research proves people who do yoga can make 19 pounds vanish. How? Yoga helps tone your muscle and reduce cortisol levels at the same time. This can help you lose stubborn fat.<br />
3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoga removes anxiety and feels you relaxed. A 2011 Japanese study looked at women who practiced yoga for two years and compared their mental states to women who didn’t do yoga. The women who practiced yoga experienced less tension, anxiety, anger, and fatigue.<br />
4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoga improves sex experience of men and women. A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that yoga improves desire and arousal, increase lubrication, intensify orgasm and satisfaction, and reduce pain or women. It can extend the amount of time before a man ejaculates, increasing his sexual enjoyment.<br />
5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoga experience you comfortable and peaceful mind. It improves flexibility and range of motion while reducing ache and firmness.<br />
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Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-35305393150869065392011-04-18T21:31:00.000-07:002011-04-18T21:31:32.966-07:00The Best Way of Dieting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">You all know that pure food brings pure blood. You should avoid the two extremes of gluttony and daily fasting and abstemiousness. You should know (1) <b>What to eat</b> (2) <b>How to eat</b> (3) <b>When to eat</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>(1)</b> Concentrated food such as contains the maximum amount of nourishment in a minimum quantity should be used. You should study some reliable hand book on the relative values of food and use his judgment. We ourselves use nuts, milk, fruits, whole wheat bread, rice in very small quantity, pulse, etc. Those who are non-meat eaters—and we advise it strongly--will do well to see to it that their menu has a good supply of aluminous food, as vegetarians often run the risk of being overfed as to starch and underfed in nitrogenous foods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>(2)</b> Chew and masticate properly so as to extract the food-Prana in full and break up the food-substance into very small bits, reducing it to pulp. Do not be in a hurry to bolt your food but let it linger in your mouth so as to be properly insalivated and so that the nerves of the tongue, cheek, etc., may all absorb energy from food. Remember your stomach is not lined with rows of teeth. This will give you double the nourishment you get ordinarily, avoid constipation, prevent malnutrition, non-assimilation and over-eating. Out of a very small quantity of food you can extract perfect nourishment and thus you avoid loading and "stuffing" the stomach with unnecessary food. It is also economical in case you are a thrifty soul! Eat to live. Don't live to eat.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>(3)</b> Eat when you are hungry. That cultivated "appetite" that craves for satisfaction at certain stated intervals of the day and brings on an "all-gone" fainting, nauseating sensation in the stomach is not real "hunger." In real hunger there is absolutely no sensation in the stomach but there is a rich and continuous flow of saliva in the mouth and that sort of thing makes you enjoy the plainest of fares. Even a dry crust of bread will taste sweet as Manna. Cut off your breakfasts. Drink cold water instead. Eat one good, nourishing meal at 12 A. M., and one light meal in the evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Lastly, let plain living and high thinking be your motto. Do not be afraid to eat when you are hungry and so long as you exercise and work with brain and body even two square meals a day are permissible. Do not grow ethereal and airy, because then you will not amount to much in the world's work. Students, who are perfect Brahmacharies, will not care half as much for lots of food as ordinary folk do. A constant feeling of satisfaction and fullness is present in such. But hard workers must never present in such. But hard workers must never be under-nourished and they require more food than others.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-75582971022880235982011-04-18T21:25:00.000-07:002011-04-18T21:26:10.346-07:00Seven Minor Breathing Exercises<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The main purpose of breathing exercise is to give you control over your Prana and unfold the Psychic Force latent in you. Seven minor breathing exercise that develop your mental and physical strengths are-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Exercise I</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
(1) Stand erect with hands at sides. <br />
(2) Inhale complete breath. <br />
(3) Raise the arms slowly, keeping them rigid until the hands touch over head. <br />
(4) Retain the breath a few minutes with hands over head. <br />
(5) Lower hands slowly to sides exhaling slowly at the same time. <br />
(6) Practise cleansing breath.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Exercise II</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
(1) Stand erect with arms straight in front of you. <br />
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain. <br />
(3) Swing arms back as far as they will go; then back to first position; then repeat several times, retaining the breath all the while. <br />
(4) Exhale vigorously through mouth. <br />
(5) Practise cleansing breath.<b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Exercise III</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Stand erect with arms straight in front of you. <br />
(2) Inhale complete breath. <br />
(3) Swing arms around in a circle, backward, a few times. Then reverse a few times retaining the breath all the while. You may vary this by rotating them alternately like the sails of a wind-mill. <br />
(4) Exhale the breath vigorously through the mouth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(5) Practise cleansing breath.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>Exercise IV</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Lie on the floor with your face downward and palms of hands flat upon the floor by your sides. <br />
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain. <br />
(3) Stiffen the body and raise yourself up by the strength of your arms until you rest on your hands and toes. <br />
(4) Then lower yourself to original position. Repeat several times. <br />
(5) Exhale vigorously through the mouth. <br />
(6) Practise cleansing breath.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>Exercise V</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Stand erect with your palms against the wall. <br />
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain. <br />
(3) Lower the chest to the wall, resting your weight on your hands. <br />
(4) Then raise yourself back with the arm muscles alone, keeping the body stiff. <br />
(5) Exhale vigorously through the mouth. <br />
(6) Practise cleansing breath.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>Exercise VI</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Stand erect with arms "akimbo" that is with hands resting around the waist and elbows standing out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(2) Inhale complete breath and retain.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(3) Keep legs and hips stiff and bend well forward, as if bowing, at the same time exhaling slowly. <br />
(4) Return to first position and then take another complete breath.<br />
(5) Then bend backward exhaling slowly. <br />
(6) Return to first position and take a complete breath. <br />
(7) Then bend sideways exhaling slowly (vary by bending to right and then to left).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(8) Practise cleansing breath.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Exercise VII</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Stand erect or sit erect with straight spinal column. <br />
(2) Inhale a complete breath but instead of inhaling on a continuous steady stream, take a series of short, quick "sniffs" as if you were smelling aromatic salts and ammonia and did not wish to get too strong a "whiff." Do not exhale any of these little breaths, but add one to the other until the entire lung space is filled. <br />
(3) Retain for a few seconds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(4) Exhale through the nostrils in a long restful breath. <br />
(5) Practise cleansing breath.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-78743640689356529182011-04-18T21:09:00.000-07:002011-04-18T21:10:35.742-07:00How to take Breathing Excercise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Find a quiet place as far as possible, where the air is pure and the surroundings soothing and pleasant. After a bath or a thorough rubbing of the body from top to toe, with a wet towel, on an empty stomach, take this exercise: Send a current of holy thought to everyone, on planes seen and unseen, north and south, east and west, engage in meditation--take anyone of the meditation exercises you like. When you are perfectly calm and relaxed, seat yourself cross-legged, assuming any posture that comes easiest to you, with head, neck and chest held in a straight line and the weight of the upper parts of the body resting on ribs. Keep the region about the waist quite free. Loosen the cloth there out and out. Now inhale air slowly and steadily through right nostril after closing left nostril with your finger as long as it takes to count sixteen mentally. Close nostrils, holding the inspired air within and count sixty-four. Then very slowly exhale the air through the left nostril for as long as it takes to count thirty-two. You must begin with a 4 second inhalation, 16 second retention and 8 second exhalation. Instead of dry counting you might improve yourself decidedly by repeating the word "Fearless" as many times holding mentally that dominant idea back of the word. Practice 5 pranayamas mornings and evenings for one week daily. Increase to 10 next week. Work up to 20. Go slowly. Practice as long as you like, but not less than 6 months. Be serious and earnest. This is not for non-serious minds. This exercise will augment digestive power, steady heart-action, make the body light and the mind calm. It shall help also miraculously in your Soul-Unfoldment. During this practice be pure in all ways. Observe Bramhacharya. Practice mental concentration and spiritual meditation. Don't talk much with others. Don't encourage any but holy society. Don't sleep much. Don't work very hard. Keep your emotions well-in-hand. Be always engaged mentally and physically. Be hopeful and cheerful. Never encourage negative thinking. It shall do wonders for you.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-11699789968114694052011-04-06T21:49:00.001-07:002011-04-06T21:49:02.183-07:00How to Purify your Body<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="justify">Skills development for the part of consciousness include cleaning of the body is the question. You need to clean each of the three working bodies - mental, astral and physical. Without cleaning yoga is best left alone. First, as the body of thought is purified? When thinking absolute. Then you need your imagination, your great creative tool, nor to use once. Imagining things, and believe his form of mind-body in the organization you want. Imagine something strongly, as the painter imagines when painted. Display an object if the power of visualization in all, if not, try. It is an artistic faculty, of course, most people shed more or less. See how far you play perfect face you see every day. Through this practice to strengthen your imagination and strengthen your fantasy is you will be great tool you need to do yoga practice.</div><div align="justify"><br />
There is another use of the imagination, which is very valuable. If you feel in your body, mind the presence of the qualities you want, and freedom from those who do not, then you are half and did not. Would also weaken many problems in your life when you need to do before they pass? Why wait until you are helpless in the physical world. If you thought that their problems come in the morning, and until it acts exactly in the middle (you should never hesitate to suggest perfect), if the matter in the day seemed to lose its power, and no longer feel the sting in the same measure. Now each of you must put something in your life than your own problems. Do you think of the phrase and not a question, and if he leaves, you get what you think. You can through their problems and get rid of errors when dealing with them by your imagination.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">As the thought body, becomes purified in this way, you must turn to the astral body. The astral body is purified by right desire. Desire nobly, and the astral body will evolve the organs of good desires instead of the organs of evil ones. The secret of all progress is to think and desire the highest, never dwelling on the fault, the weakness, the error, but always on the perfected power, and slowly in that way you will be able to build up perfection in yourself. Think and desire, then, in order to purify the thought body and the astral body. And how shall you purify the physical body? You must regulate it in all its activities--in sleep, in food, in exercise, in everything. You cannot have a pure physical body with impure mental and astral bodies so that the work of imagination helps also in the purification of the physical. But you must also regulate the physical body in all its activities. Take for instance, food. The Indian says truly that every sort of food has a dominant quality in it, either rhythm, or activity, or inertia, and that all foods fall under one of these heads. Now the man who is to be a yogi must not touch any food which is on the way to decay. Those things belong to the tamasic foods--all foods, for instance, of the nature of game, of venison, all food which is showing signs of decay (all alcohol is a product of decay), are to be avoided. Flesh foods come under the quality of activity. All flesh foods are really stimulants. All forms in the animal kingdom are built up to express animal desires and animal activities. The yogi cannot afford to use these in a body meant for the higher processes of thought. Vitality, yes, they will give that; strength, which does not last, they will give that; a sudden spurs of energy, yes, meat will give that; but those are not the things which the yogi wants; so he puts aside all those foods as not available for the work he desires, and chooses his food out of the most highly vitalized products. All the foods which tend to growth, those are the most highly vitalized, grain, out of which the new plant will grow, is packed full of the most nutritious substances; fruits; all those things which have growth as their next stage in the life cycle, those are the rhythmic foods, full of life, and building up a body sensitive and strong at the same time.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-21934992179591054452011-04-04T03:18:00.000-07:002011-04-04T03:29:27.165-07:00Natural and Safe Weight Loss Tips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of health and healing, Kapha dosha (humor) is primarily responsible for fat and fat in the body and thus reduce Kapah program is the key to successful weight loss.Here are some tips to effectively reduce Ayurveda Kapha dosha, and thus of overweight and obesity battle.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFC6_phKANZuQxVpvslZr8TYDElg5FbMXE-SWg9Bfw0pwvK5ND4UGQ32UlRJvPWUVVp4Q16cG3t7Pse4A-pahNSexQixGEd5ra4rqxwKOM82YipinQQ6HXBDNgWBlWxUHX7SEq25IDVBZI/s1600/weight-loss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt=" weight loss" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFC6_phKANZuQxVpvslZr8TYDElg5FbMXE-SWg9Bfw0pwvK5ND4UGQ32UlRJvPWUVVp4Q16cG3t7Pse4A-pahNSexQixGEd5ra4rqxwKOM82YipinQQ6HXBDNgWBlWxUHX7SEq25IDVBZI/s1600/weight-loss.jpg" /></a></div>Among the four dimensions of our being, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of this article I will address is the physical dimensionality for reducing Kapha and reduce the correlation of weight.</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Weight Loss Tips from Ayurveda</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Obviously, an anti-kapha diet is an excellent starting point for those looking to lose weight. This means eating lots of fruits, vegetables, spicy foods and whole grains. </span></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Exercise for Weight Loss</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Ayurvedic guidelines should be followed for the proper practice in relation to weight reduction:</span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><u>More exercise best:</u> Kapha's qualities fixed, dull, heavy, sweet and cold to be rejected by the exercise. In other words, the more you exercise more fat and do so to reduce Kapha in your body.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><u>Exercise, without too much stress:</u> According to Ayurveda, Kapha people should exert more powerful, but also the exercise should not be extreme. Finding a good balance between too little. A drop of sweat is fun, but if you're completely out of breath, perhaps too much.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><u>Be consistent:</u> Kapha body type has a tendency to gain weight if you need to make exercise a part of everyday life. The most difficult is to get your racing program. Once this is done Kapha people tend to be very firm and stable to meet with him in the long term. Since, however, is a different question types, Kapha, and usually requires a shock. The spirit of the shock therapy to understand, not to lose the weight and not, with the exception of the longevity and quality of life in danger. I say no more, start today!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><u>Yoga for Weight Loss:</u> Yoga is a great way to exercise their holistic training program to be incorporated. These exercises not only help you lose weight but also help your health and well being. <u> </u></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><u>Post-exercise nutrition:</u> After years of not drinking cold liquids. This period is the key that you are trying to increase the metabolic heat in the cells, causing it to burn more calories and drinking cold fluids at this time, this benefit is denied important exercise.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span></li>
</ul><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Hard Physical Work to Burn Calories</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">According to Ayurveda Kapha reducing physically active life is encouraged. Today's era of technology, computers, TV, TiVo, the Internet, work, etc. The manual is less and less people. We must consciously work to physically take your life. Whether the function of selection cutting grass or shoveling snow, it is important not to live a sedentary life with a glow of television and eat.</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Massage Therapy to Reduce Fat</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">There are many forms of treatment in Ayurveda, massage is highly recommended. The weight loss and reduction in view of the high Kapha massage oil, like mustard or linseed is reasonable.</span></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Do not nap or go to bed early. If you want to reduce weight and Kapha in mind that more calories when you're awake and active for a happy snuggled under the covers burned.<br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">These tips will help you to weight loss goals and help you lose weight, be healthier and fitter.</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For one in whom imagination is stronger than the reasoning faculty, the method by devotion, rather than by reasoning, is the method. Let him call imagination to his help. He should picture some scene, in which the object of his devotion forms the central figure, building it up, bit by bit, as a painter paints a picture, putting in it gradually all the elements of the scene He must work at it as a painter works on his canvas, line by line, his brush the brush of imagination. At first the work will be very slow, but the picture soon begins to present itself at call. Over and over he should picture the scene, dwelling less and less on the surrounding objects and more and more on the central figure which is the object of his heart's devotion. The drawing of the mind to a point, in this way, brings it under control and steadies it, and thus gradually, by this use of the imagination. he brings the mind under command. The object of devotion will be according to the man's religion. Suppose--as is the case with many of you--that his object of devotion is Sri Krishna; picture Him in any scene of His earthly life, as in the battle of Kurukshetra. Imagine the armies arrayed for battle on both sides; imagine Arjuna on the floor of the chariot, despondent, despairing; then come to Sri Krishna, the Charioteer, the Friend and Teacher. Then, fixing your mind on the central figure, let your heart go out to Him with onepointed devotion. Resting on Him, poise yourself in silence and, as before, wait for what may come.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is what is called "meditation with seed". The central figure or the last link in reasoning that is "the seed". You have gradually made the vagrant mind steady by this process of slow and gradual curbing, and at last you are fixed on the central thought, or the central figure, and there you are poised. Now let even that go. Drop the central thought, the idea, the seed of meditation. Let everything go. But keep the mind in the position gained, the highest point reached, vigorous and alert. This is meditation without a seed. Remain poised, and wait in the silence and the void. You are in the "cloud," before described, and pass through the condition before sketched. Suddenly there will be a change, a change unmistakable, stupendous, incredible. In that silence, as said, a Voice shall be heard. In that void, a Form shall reveal itself. In that empty sky, a Sun shall rise, and in the light of that Sun you shall realise your own identity with it, and know that that which is empty to the eye of sense is full to the eye of Spirit, that that which is silence to the ear of sense is full of music to the ear of Spirit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Along such lines you can learn to bring into control your mind, to discipline your vagrant thought, and thus to reach illumination. One word of warning. You cannot do this, while you are trying meditation with a seed. until you are able to cling to your seed definitely for a considerable time, and maintain throughout an alert attention. It is the emptiness of alert expectation. not the emptiness of impending sleep. If your mind be not in that condition, its mere emptiness is dangerous. It leads to mediumship, to possession, to obsession. You can wisely aim at emptiness, only when you have so disciplined the mind that it can hold for a considerable time to a single point and remain alert when that point is dropped.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The question is sometimes asked: "Suppose that I do this and succeed in becoming unconscious of the body; suppose that I do rise into a higher region; is it quite sure that I shall come back again to the body? Having left the body, shall I be certain to return?" The idea of non-return makes a man nervous. Even if he says that matter is nothing and Spirit is everything, he yet does not like to lose touch with his body and, losing that touch, by sheer fear, he drops back to the earth after having taken so much trouble to leave it. You should, however, have no such fear. That which will draw you back again is the trace of your past, which remains under all these conditions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The question is of the same kind as: "Why should a state of Pralaya ever come to an end, and a new state of Manvantara begin?" And the answer is the same from the Hindu psychological standpoint; because, although you have dropped the very seed of thought, you cannot destroy the traces which that thought has left, and that trace is a germ, and it tends to draw again to itself matter, that it may express itself once more. This trace is what is called the privation of matter-- samskara. Far as you may soar beyond the concrete mind, that trace, left in the thinking principle, of what you have thought and have known, that remains and will inevitably draw you back. You cannot escape your past and, until your life-period is over, that samskara will bring you back. It is this also which, at the close of the heavenly life, brings a man back to rebirth. It is the expression of the law of rhythm. In Light on the Path, that wonderful occult treatise, this state is spoken of and the disciple is pictured as in the silence. The writer goes on to say: "Out of the silence that is peace a resonant voice shall arise. And this voice will say: 'It is not well; thou hast reaped, now thou must sow.' And knowing this voice to be the silence itself, thou wilt obey."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is the meaning of that phrase: "Thou hast reaped, now thou must sow?" It refers to the great law of rhythm which rules even the Logoi, the Ishvaras --the law of the Mighty Breath, the out-breathing and the in-breathing, which compels every fragment which is separated for a time. A Logos may leave His universe, and it may drop away when He turns His gaze inward, for it was He who gave reality to it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He may plunge into the infinite depths of being, but even then there is the samskara of the past niverse, the shadowy latent memory, the germ of maya from which He cannot escape. To escape from it would be to cease to be Ishvara, and to become Brahma Nirguna. There is no Ishvara without maya, there is no maya without Ishvara. Even in pralaya, a time comes when the rest is over and the inner life again demands manifestation; then the outward turning begins and a new universe comes forth. Such is the law of rest and activity: activity followed by rest; rest followed again by the desire for activity; and so the ceaseless wheel of the universe, as well as of human lives, goes on. For in the eternal, both rest and activity are ever present, and in that which we call Time, they follow each other, although in eternity they be simultaneous and ever-existing.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-35998087835717852122011-03-14T20:53:00.000-07:002011-03-14T22:44:50.453-07:00Composition of States of the Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhox3H96ZFFrt1Ab72_KSIj4csBGVIQ82aZo_Lox-Zl2XJOf9vdyje_iHIyZzKRkPLWZRTAEw3Dc4S4iw3W1jnkkEYsh5HZAomctjwvHHATES6p9CredsDfLF-oiH0AxQfYoyqEGw51YG3z/s1600/state_of_mind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Composition of States of the Mind" border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhox3H96ZFFrt1Ab72_KSIj4csBGVIQ82aZo_Lox-Zl2XJOf9vdyje_iHIyZzKRkPLWZRTAEw3Dc4S4iw3W1jnkkEYsh5HZAomctjwvHHATES6p9CredsDfLF-oiH0AxQfYoyqEGw51YG3z/s320/state_of_mind.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The word which is used for the states of the mind by Patanjali is Vritti. This admirably constructed language Sanskrit gives you in that very word its own meaning. Vrittis means the "being" of the mind; the ways in which mind can exist; the modes of the mind; the modes of mental existence; the ways of existing. That is the literal meaning of this word. A subsidiary meaning is a "turning around," a "moving in a circle". You have to stop, in Yoga, every mode of existing in which the mind manifests itself. In order to guide you towards the power of stopping them--for you cannot stop them till you understand them--you are told that these modes of mind are fivefold in their nature. They are pentads. The Sutra, as usually translated, says “the Vrittis are fivefold (panchatayyah)," but pentad is a more accurate rendering of the word pancha-tayyah, in the original, than fivefold. The word pentad at once recalls to you the way in which the chemist speaks of a monad, triad, heptad, when he deals with elements. The elements with which the chemist is dealing are related to the unit-element in different ways. Some elements are related to it in one way only, and are called monads; others are related in two ways, and are called duads, and so on.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Is this applicable to the states of mind also? Recall the shloka of the Bhagavad-Gita in which it is said that the Jiva goes out into the world, drawing round him the five senses and mind as sixth. That may throw a little light on the subject. You have five senses, the five ways of knowing, the five jnanendriyas or organs of knowing. Only by these five senses can you know the outer world. Western psychology says that nothing exists in thought that does not exist in sensation. That is not true universally; it is not true of the abstract mind, or wholly of the concrete. But there is a great deal of truth in it. Every idea is a pentad. It is made up of five elements. Each element making up the idea comes from one of the senses, and of these there are at present five. Later on every idea will be a heptad, made up of seven elements. For the present, each has five qualities, which build up the idea. The mind unites the whole together into a single thought, synthesises the five sensations. If you think of an orange and analyse your thought of an orange, you will find in it: colour, which comes through the eye; fragrance, which comes through the nose; taste, which comes through the tongue; roughness or smoothness, which comes through the sense of touch; and you would hear musical notes made by the vibrations of the molecules, coming through the sense of hearing, were it keener. If you had a perfect sense of hearing. you would hear the sound of the orange also, for wherever there is vibration there is sound. All this, synthesised by the mind into one idea, is an orange. That is the root reason for the "association of ideas". It is not only that a fragrance recalls the scene and the circumstances under which the fragrance was observed, but because every impression is made through all the five senses and, therefore, when one is stimulated, the others are recalled. The mind is like a prism. If you put a prism in the path of a ray of white light, it will break it up into its seven constituent rays and seven colours will appear. Put another prism in the path of these seven rays, and as they pass through the prism, the process is reversed and the seven become one white light. The mind is like the second prism. It takes in the five sensations that enter through the senses, and combines them into a single precept. As at the present stage of evolution the senses are five only, it unites the five sensations into one idea. What the white ray is to the seven- coloured light, that a hought or idea is to the fivefold sensation. That is the meaning of the much controverted Sutra: "Vrittayah panchatayych," "the vrittis, or modes of the mind, are pentads." If you look at it in that way, the later teachings will be more clearly understood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As I have already said, that sentence, that nothing exists in thought which is not in sensation, is not the whole truth. Manas, the sixth sense, adds to the sensations its own pure elemental nature. What is that nature that you find thus added? It is the establishment of a relation, which is really what the mind adds. All thinking is the "establishment of relations," and the more closely you look into that phrase, the more you will realise how it covers all the varied processes of the mind. The very first process of the mind is to become aware of an outside world. However dimly at first, we become aware of something outside ourselves--a process generally called perception. I use the more general term "establishing a relation," because that runs through the whole of the mental processes, whereas perception is only a single thing. To use a well-known simile, when a little baby feels a pin pricking it, it is conscious of pain, but not at first conscious of the pin, nor yet conscious of where exactly the pin is. It does not recognise the part of the body in which the pin is. There is no perception, for perception is defined as relating a sensation to the object which causes the sensation. You only, technically speaking, "perceive" when you make a relation between the object and yourself. That is the very first of these mental processes, following on the heels of sensation. Of course, from the Eastern standpoint, sensation is a mental function also, for the senses are part of the cognitive faculty, but they are unfortunately classed with feelings in Western psychology. Now having established that relation between yourself and objects outside, what is the next process of the mind? Reasoning: that is, the establishing of relations between different objects, as perception is the establishment of your relation with a single object. When you have perceived many objects, then you begin to reason in order to establish relations between them. Reasoning is the establishment of a new relation, which comes out from the comparison of the different objects that by perception you have established in relation with yourself, and the result is a concept. This one phrase, "establishment of relations," is true all round. The whole process of thinking is the establishment of relations, and it is natural that it should be so, because the Supreme Thinker, by establishing a relation, brought matter into existence. Just as He, by establishing that primary relation between Himself and the Not-Self, makes a universe possible, so do we reflect His powers in ourselves, thinking by the same method, establishing relations, and thus carrying out every intellectual process?</div><br />
</div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-72177494624749741392011-03-08T21:20:00.000-08:002011-03-08T21:20:39.318-08:00How to Improve Mental Body<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzy1gyUF4BjwPpVfiaTEhNr6NfZX5_7IxAxnMszjvrdFuzvXhcQj5ecns8Z4_Q4eJCU79yQJuSt1on1r7cUD0bWsOFSbN2pCCwhZEqY2dYuzPcQNafCTUebDYLMKCdB3xsgZ4bNQIymJ9/s1600/Yoga-Mental+body.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="improvement in mental halth' border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzy1gyUF4BjwPpVfiaTEhNr6NfZX5_7IxAxnMszjvrdFuzvXhcQj5ecns8Z4_Q4eJCU79yQJuSt1on1r7cUD0bWsOFSbN2pCCwhZEqY2dYuzPcQNafCTUebDYLMKCdB3xsgZ4bNQIymJ9/s320/Yoga-Mental+body.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We must now deal with the mental body, which is taken as equivalent to mind for practical purposes. The first thing for a man to do in practical Yoga is to separate himself from the mental body, to draw away from that into the sheath next above it. And here remember what I said previously, that in Yoga the Self is always the consciousness plus the vehicle from which the consciousness is unable to separate itself. All that is above the body you cannot leave is the Self for practical purposes, and your first attempt must be to draw away from your mental body. Under these conditions, Manas must be identified with the Self, and the spiritual Triad, the Atma-buddhi-manas, is to be realized as separate from the mental body. That is the first step. You must be able to take up and lay down your mind as you do a tool, before it is of any use to consider the further progress of the Self in getting rid of its envelopes. Hence the mental body is taken as the starting point. Suppress thought. Quiet it. Still it. Now what is the ordinary condition of the mental body? As you look upon that body from a higher plane, you see constant changes of colours playing in it. You find that they are sometimes initiated from within, sometimes from without. Sometimes a vibration from without has caused a change in consciousness, and a corresponding change in the colours in the mental body. If there is a change of consciousness, that causes vibration in the matter in which that consciousness is functioning. The mental body is a body of ever-changing hues and colours, never still, changing colour with swift rapidity throughout the whole of it. </div><a name='more'></a><br />
Yoga is the stopping of all these, the inhibition of vibrations and changes alike. Inhibition of the change of consciousness stops the vibration of the mental body; the checking of the vibration of the mental body checks the change in consciousness. In the mental body of a Master there is no change of colour save as initiated from within; no outward stimulus can produce any answer, any vibration,ùin that perfectly controlled mental body. The colour of the mental body of a Master is as moonlight on the rippling ocean. Within that whiteness of moon-like refulgence lie all possibilities of colour, but nothing in the outer world can make the faintest change of hue sweep over its steady radiance. If a change of consciousness occurs within, then the change will send a wave of delicate hues over the mental body which responds only in colour to changes initiated from within and never to changes stimulated from without. His mental body is never His Self, but only His tool or instrument, which He can take up or lay down at His will. It is only an outer sheath that He uses when He needs to communicate with the lower world.<br />
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By that idea of the stopping of all changes of colour in the mental body you can realise what is meant by inhibition. The functions of mind are stopped in Yoga. You have to begin with your mental body. You have to learn how to stop the whole of those vibrations, how to make the mental body colourless, still and quiet, responsive only to the impulses that you choose to put upon it. How will you be able to tell when the mind is really coming under control, when it is no longer a part of your Self? You will begin to realise this when you find that, by the action of your will, you can check the current of thought and hold the mind in perfect stillness. Sheath after sheath has to be transcended, and the proof of transcending is that it can no longer affect you. You can affect it, but it cannot affect you. The moment that nothing outside you can harass you, can stir the mind, the moment that the mind does not respond to the outer, save under your own impulse, then can you say of it: "This is not my Self." It has become part of the outer, it can no longer be identified with the Self.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
From this you pass on to the conquest of the causal body in a similar way. When the conquering of the causal body is complete then you go to the conquering of the Buddhic body. When mastery over the Buddhic body is complete, you pass on to the conquest of the Atmic body.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-46828210582961006702011-03-08T20:57:00.000-08:002011-03-14T22:33:46.465-07:00The Function of Yoga in Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcq07xA1I0Xi-TRZlvGRDQMDUocrMUIibU2syO7ny69VB799oGxCvmFtUWGa1sKVS0c3-LOJb3gnMI4ILjsvCmX1IWYN2k3xw0sFojKjxqShvOQWr9JMvmz6goUhB9dTJbllEcSjs_gk1E/s1600/mind+in+yoga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="the yoga effect in mind" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcq07xA1I0Xi-TRZlvGRDQMDUocrMUIibU2syO7ny69VB799oGxCvmFtUWGa1sKVS0c3-LOJb3gnMI4ILjsvCmX1IWYN2k3xw0sFojKjxqShvOQWr9JMvmz6goUhB9dTJbllEcSjs_gk1E/s1600/mind+in+yoga.jpg" /></a>"Yoga is the inhibition of the functions of the mind," says Patanjali. The functions of the mind must be suppressed, and in order that we may be able to follow out really what this means, we must go more closely into what the Indian philosopher means by the word "mind". Mind, in the wide sense of the term, has three great properties or qualities: cognition, desire or will, activity. Now Yoga is not immediately concerned with all these three, but only with one, cognition, the Samkhyan subject. But you cannot separate cognition, as we have seen, completely from the others, because consciousness is a unit, and although we are only concerned with that part of consciousness which we specifically call cognition, we cannot get cognition all by itself. Hence the Indian psychologist investigating this property, cognition, divides it up into three or, as the Vedanta says, into four (with all submission, the Vedantin here makes a mistake). If you take up any Vedantic book and read about mind, you will find a particular word used for it which. Translated, means "internal organ". This antah-karana is the word always used where in English we use "mind"; but it is only used in relation to cognition, not in relation to activity and desire. It is said to be fourfold, being made up of Manas, Buddhi, Ahamkara, and Chitta; but this fourfold division is a very curious division. We know what Manas is, what Buddhi is, what Ahamkara is, but what is this Chitta? What is Chitta, outside Manas, Buddhi and Ahamkara? Ask anyone you like and record his answer; you will find that it is of the vaguest kind. Let us try to analyse it for ourselves, and see whether light will come upon it by using the Theosophical idea of a triplet summed up in a fourth, that is not really a fourth, but the summation of the three. Manas, Buddhi and Ahamkara are the three different sides of a triangle,' which triangle is called Chitta.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
The Chitta is not a fourth, but the sum of the three: Manas, Buddhi and Ahamkara. This is the old idea of a trinity in unity. Over and over again H. P. Blavatsky uses this summation as a fourth to her triplets, for she follows the old methods. The fourth, which sums up the three but is not other than them, makes a unity out of their apparent diversity. Let us apply that to Antahkarana.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take cognition. Though in cognition that aspect of the Self is predominant, yet it cannot exist absolutely alone. The whole Self is there in every act of cognition. Similarly with the other two. One cannot exist separate from the others. Where there is cognition the other two are present, though subordinate to it. The activity is there, the will is there. Let us think of cognition as pure as it can be, turned on itself, reflected in itself, and we have Buddhi, the pure reason, the very essence of cognition; this in the universe is represented by Vishnu, the sustaining wisdom of the universe. Now let us think of cognition looking outwards, and as reflecting itself in activity, its brother quality, and we have a mixture of cognition and activity which is called Manas, the active mind; cognition reflected in activity is Manas in man or Brahma, the creative mind, in the universe. When cognition similarly reflects itself in will, then it becomes Ahamkara, the "I am I" in man, represented by Mahadeva in the universe. Thus we have found within the limits of this cognition a triple division, making up the internal organ or Antahkarana--Manas, plus Buddhi, plus Ahamkara--and we can find no fourth. What is then Chitta? It is the summation of the three, the three taken together, the totality of the three. Because of the old way of counting these things, you get this division of Antahkarana into four.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-65350251854846281742011-03-08T20:42:00.000-08:002011-03-08T20:43:55.675-08:00The Literature of Yoga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lWob2QGuqcqAWBWfYMNBUadKWE0iGR21wa1UIJ7p6ccOoyYy5ONIeVEF1D3_XRqv2hnrulIg18U6Hyynat-7_AqpTeAj8qqGK18BpmDjWefodbNwOxEu12Urt6m7_tKLd2KUCUHx7uVT/s1600/yoga_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="yoga" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lWob2QGuqcqAWBWfYMNBUadKWE0iGR21wa1UIJ7p6ccOoyYy5ONIeVEF1D3_XRqv2hnrulIg18U6Hyynat-7_AqpTeAj8qqGK18BpmDjWefodbNwOxEu12Urt6m7_tKLd2KUCUHx7uVT/s200/yoga_1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately for non-Sanskrit-knowing people, the literature of Yoga is not largely available in English. The general teachings of Yoga are to be found in the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad-Gita; those, in many translations, are within your reach, but they are general, not special; they give you the main principles, but do not tell you about the methods in any detailed way. Even in the Bhagavad-Gita, while you are told to make sacrifices, to become indifferent, and so on, it is all of the nature of moral precept, absolutely necessary indeed, but still not telling you how to reach the conditions put before you. <br />
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The special literature of Yoga is, first of all, many of the minor Upanishads, "the hundred-and-eight" as they are called. Then comes the enormous mass of literature called the Tantras. These books have an evil significance in the ordinary English ear, but not quite rightly. The Tantras are very useful books, very valuable and instructive; all occult science is to be found in them. But they are divisible into three classes: those that deal with white magic, those that deal with black magic, and those that deal with what we may call grey magic, a mixture of the two. Now magic is the word which covers the methods of deliberately bringing about super-normal physical states by the action of the will.<br />
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A high tension of the nerves, brought on by anxiety or disease, leads to ordinary hysteria, emotional and foolish. A similarly high tension, brought about by the will, renders a man sensitive to super-physical vibrations Going to sleep has no significance, but going into Samadhi is a priceless power. The process is largely the same, but one is due to ordinary conditions, the other to the action of the trained will. The Yogi is the man who has learned the power of the will, and knows how to use it to bring about foreseen and fore determined results. This knowledge has ever been called magic; it is the name of the Great Science of the past, the one Science, to which only the word " great " was given in the past. The Tantras contain the whole of that; the occult side of man and nature, the means whereby discoveries may be made, the principles whereby the man may re-create himself, all these are in the Tantras. The difficulty is that without a teacher they are very dangerous, and again and again a man trying to practice the Tantric methods without a teacher makes himself very ill. So the Tantras have got a bad name both in the West and here in India. A good many of the American “occult“ books now sold are scraps of the Tantras which have been translated. One difficulty is that these Tantric works often use the name of a bodily organ to represent an astral or mental centre. There is some reason in that because all the centres are connected with each other from body to body; but no reliable teacher would set his pupil to work on the bodily organs until he had some control over the higher centres, and had carefully purified the physical body. Knowing the one helps you to know the other, and the teacher who has been through it all can place his pupil on the right path; but it you take up these words, which are all physical, and do not know to what the physical word is applied, then you will only become very confused, and may injure yourself. For instance, in one of the Sutras it is said that if you meditate on a certain part of the tongue you will obtain astral sight. That means that if you meditate on the pituitary body, just over this part of the tongue, astral sight will be opened. The particular word used to refer to a centre has a correspondence in the physical body, and the word is often applied to the physical organs when the other is meant. This is what is called a " blind," and it is intended to keep the people away from dangerous practices in the books that are published; people may meditate on that part of their tongues all their lives without anything coming of it; but if they think upon the corresponding centre in the body, a good dealÄmuch harmÄmay come of it. “Meditate on the navel," it is also said. This means the solar plexus, for there is a close connection between the two. But to meditate on that is to incur the danger of a serious nervous disorder, almost impossible to cure. All who know how many people in India suffer through these practices, ill-understood, recognize that it is not wise to plunge into them without some one to tell you what they mean, and what may be safely practiced and what not. The other part of the Yoga literature is a small book called the sutras of Patanjali. That is available, but I am afraid that few are able to make much of it by themselves. In the first place, to elucidate the Sutras, which are simply headings, there is a great deal of commentary in Sanskrit, only partially translated. And even the commentaries have this peculiarity, that all the most difficult words are merely repeated, not explained, so that the student is not much enlightened.</div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-20283156073697499982011-03-07T21:06:00.000-08:002011-03-07T21:22:31.541-08:00Drinking Green Tea Help to Lose Weight?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs0MMDr_U0laf76xfcRUKx6i86sh8AJxI5xdH87BVWfuy2j55DFZqBXjt_R9f89h5rKJXIXWXixGAb77HQYm-mh2gR7c1HbAAlZn-qW_FOhptu-zuvAMqk4ebopTOFOmVY1vNquudJms2/s1600/Green-Tea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="green tea" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs0MMDr_U0laf76xfcRUKx6i86sh8AJxI5xdH87BVWfuy2j55DFZqBXjt_R9f89h5rKJXIXWXixGAb77HQYm-mh2gR7c1HbAAlZn-qW_FOhptu-zuvAMqk4ebopTOFOmVY1vNquudJms2/s1600/Green-Tea.jpg" /></a></div><div alt="green tea" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">There are a numerous of drinks that are said to help you lose weight fast. As logical we all know that there is no magic drink to lose weight, but there are some drinks that can help, with proper diet and exercise. One such drink is green tea; it is showing up on weight loss plans more frequently each day. But what makes this specific tea such a beneficial weight lose ingredient? Here is a short list of just some of the reasons why green tea helps you to lose weight.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b> Burns fat:</b> Green tea has many fat burning properties. First and foremost it contains caffeine which is a well known fat burner. But it also contains antioxidants called catechin polyphenois, these antioxidants quickly intensifies your body's oxidation and thermogenesis which burns up fat cells helping you lose weight. The whole process of oxidation increases your overall metabolism which just further boosts weight loss. </li>
</ul></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b>Lets you exercise longer:</b> Green tea has the ability to slow down the rate your body burns carbohydrates while active, meaning when you are active you will not tire as fast since carbohydrates are what your body uses to do things. Since your body is not burning as many carbohydrates as before, it goes to the next best source for energy, fat. This all results in not only more fat being burned as you exercise, but a larger amount of time you can work out. Thus you lose much more fat and weight thanks to drinking green tea. </li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b>Slows the making of fat:</b> Green tea does more with carbohydrates then just slowing down the rate they are burnt, it also slows down the rate your body can turn carbohydrates into fat. The tea is believed to inhibit fatty acid synthase which is the system involved directly with turning carbohydrates into fat cells.</li>
</ul></div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-47776376337563264022011-03-07T20:34:00.000-08:002011-03-07T20:52:58.818-08:00Is Yoga a Science?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5zeR0fE8B1ve5iqOnzilopL606cvPExI4GARLjcOUsI9g95RAEhyphenhyphenSI9_eHDk-bjIj5bog8WaT2m29yG7b7Izrkxxcjj6aS0dx1z4bpIr7iiRqlUA8Pp0rHztPMjNzqnvVqENyBdVtsMD/s1600/yoga-is-science.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5zeR0fE8B1ve5iqOnzilopL606cvPExI4GARLjcOUsI9g95RAEhyphenhyphenSI9_eHDk-bjIj5bog8WaT2m29yG7b7Izrkxxcjj6aS0dx1z4bpIr7iiRqlUA8Pp0rHztPMjNzqnvVqENyBdVtsMD/s320/yoga-is-science.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Yoga is a science, and not a vague, dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">You know, by looking at the world around you, how enormously the intelligence of man, cooperating with nature, may quicken "natural" processes, and the working of intelligence is as "natural" as anything else. We make this distinction, and practically it is a real one, between "rational" and "natural" growth, because human intelligence can guide the working of natural laws; and when we come to deal with Yoga, we are in the same department of applied science as, let us say, is the scientific farmer or gardener, when he applies the natural laws of selection to breeding. The farmer or gardener cannot transcend the laws of nature, nor can he work against them. He has no other laws of nature to work with save universal laws by which nature is evolving forms around us, and yet he does in a few years what nature takes, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of years to do. And how? By applying human intelligence to choose the laws that serve him and to neutralize the laws that hinder. He brings the divine intelligence in man to utilize the divine powers in nature that are working for general rather than for particular ends.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take the breeder of pigeons. Out of the blue rock pigeon he develops the pouter or the fan-tail; he chooses out, generation after generation, the forms that show most strongly the peculiarity that he wishes to develop. He mates such birds together, takes every favouring circumstance into consideration and selects again and again, and so on and on, till the peculiarity that he wants to establish has become a well-marked feature. Remove his controlling intelligence, leave the birds to themselves, and they revert to the ancestral type.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or take the case of the gardener. Out of the wild rose of the hedge has been evolved every rose of the garden. Many-petalled roses are but the result of the scientific culture of the five-petalled rose of the hedgerow, the wild product of nature. A gardener who chooses the pollen from one plant and places it on the carpers of another is simply doing deliberately what is done every day by the bee and the fly. But he chooses his plants, and he chooses those that have the qualities he wants intensified, and from those again he chooses those that show the desired qualities still more clearly, until he has produced a flower so different from the original stock that only by tracing it back can you tell the stock whence it sprang.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So is it in the application of the laws of psychology that we call Yoga. Systematized knowledge of the unfolding of consciousness applied to the individualized Self that is Yoga. As I have just said, it is by the world that consciousness has been unfolded, and the world is admirably planned by the LOGOS for this unfolding of consciousness; hence the would-be yogi, choosing out his objects and applying his laws, finds in the world exactly the things he wants to make his practice of Yoga real, a vital thing, a quickening process for the knowledge of the Self. There are many laws. You can choose those which you require, you can evade those you do not require, you can utilize those you need, and thus you can bring about the result that nature, without that application of human intelligence, cannot so swiftly effect.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take it, then, that Yoga is within your reach, with your powers, and that even some of the lower practices of Yoga, some of the simpler applications of the laws of the unfolding of consciousness to yourself, will benefit you in this world as well as in all others. For you are really merely quickening your growth, your unfolding, taking advantage of the powers nature puts within your hands, and deliberately eliminating the conditions which would not help you in your work, but rather hinder your march forward. If you see it in that light, it seems to me that Yoga will be to you a far more real, practical thing, than it is when you merely read some fragments about it taken from Sanskrit books, and often mistranslated into English, and you will begin to feel that to be a yogi is not necessarily a thing for a life far off, an incarnation far removed from the</div><div style="text-align: justify;">present one. </div><br />
</div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-5029120262349817112011-01-25T01:11:00.000-08:002011-01-25T01:17:36.390-08:00Getting Fit With Cycling Exercising<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrPIkC_yzJKgHC6StmhfEMKaJHi0AdfNimjyu2Mkqfno6W3G5Xb1Awn9xnUoDGm1dlpfGOeBR7DS_74lAM1db-x1mGrhCM_k67wBlQQpaiUVjK3oLYJDn9oyhr9HH4S95AcWhM1BAjvlo/s1600/cycle-your-way-to-fitness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrPIkC_yzJKgHC6StmhfEMKaJHi0AdfNimjyu2Mkqfno6W3G5Xb1Awn9xnUoDGm1dlpfGOeBR7DS_74lAM1db-x1mGrhCM_k67wBlQQpaiUVjK3oLYJDn9oyhr9HH4S95AcWhM1BAjvlo/s320/cycle-your-way-to-fitness.jpg" width="246" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cycling exercising is one of the quickest ways to loss weight and feel change. Whether you're discovery way to improve your fitness or just look to get a little bit of practice position into your history, a cycling exercising can the finest choice for you, especially if you've got a distance to navigation to job or school time in the mornings. In this article we'll wait at various easy ways to build up your fitness or <span style="color: #494949;">lose weight when cycling.<br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Before trying any exercise for cycling or a weight loss package, it is important to discuss with your well-known physician with a compass to establishing <span style="color: #494949;">current fitness levels </span>and whether or not you are at chance of examination problems arising from <span style="color: #494949;">beginning a course of exercise. Remember</span> that whilst you might regain small, underneath it is <span style="color: #494949;">always possible </span>that there could be some problems that have lay unseen until now and could be subsequently inform by pick up the pace with <span style="color: #494949;">your exercise program.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Firstly, you fitness for cycling <span style="color: #494949;">program</span> should act with a few <span style="color: #494949;">light stretches </span>and may be alter a jog, to change sure your muscles are warmed up for <span style="color: #494949;">physical activity</span>. After that, <span style="color: #494949;">climb on board your bike and get cycling</span>. It's necessary to <span style="color: #494949;">remember</span> that cycling might not be something you are obnoxiously <span style="color: #494949;">used to</span>, with most <span style="color: #494949;">people</span> avoiding <span style="color: #494949;">pedal</span> bikes as shortly as they change their childhood years get a car. As a <span style="color: #494949;">result</span> it <span style="color: #494949;">might be a good idea </span>to<span style="color: #494949;"> take it slowly to start with – whilst you might never forget how to ride a bike, you will certainly need a little bit of a refresher before going out on the open road for your own safety and that of other road users.<br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On your first day, cycle a <span style="color: #494949;">block</span> or ride to learning at a <span style="color: #494949;">medium</span> stride. Don't try to move there - you testament devolve yourself out and you'll be in no state to hit the office. Likewise it's essential to easy yourself in to <span style="color: #494949;">an exercise program,</span>, especially if you haven't been overly spry for a <span style="color: #494949;">few years </span>or you're looking to shift excess weight. With the upcoming days advance your degree and your size on your cycling program, to <span style="color: #494949;">start building </span> up your fitness levels and to get you <span style="color: #494949;">moving and burning calories and fat</span> as your body can <span style="color: #494949;">handle in order to leave you with </span>the perfect introduction to a fitness for cycling program.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cycling for fitness reasons can be both fun and <span style="color: #494949;">practical,</span> and it can also provide shift excess weight in no time at all. Try it today, after visiting your GP for a <span style="color: #494949;">health check, </span>and see what wonders can lie in store for <span style="color: #494949;">you after beginning a more active, </span>healthier mode with a orientation to losing weight and <span style="color: #494949;">feeling great.</span></span></div></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-42335425342115151802011-01-12T21:28:00.000-08:002011-01-12T21:36:20.769-08:00Fitness Medicine Ball: Cap Barbell's Rubber Medicine Ball<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgbCrn4ifQQphUG4cphIzd8RzIWhUmgnpgbE4b9G4SL8cLv48Tein6z73qI5-EmF7OGuk2k7aqJmcnQH220plWkp77FiJP8FfcD3RJ3rXVSjYRDpKZAbEy7EyOuiwEBkcU_eF4PRy0n6qQ/s1600/Cap+Barbell%2527s+Rubber+Medicine+Ball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgbCrn4ifQQphUG4cphIzd8RzIWhUmgnpgbE4b9G4SL8cLv48Tein6z73qI5-EmF7OGuk2k7aqJmcnQH220plWkp77FiJP8FfcD3RJ3rXVSjYRDpKZAbEy7EyOuiwEBkcU_eF4PRy0n6qQ/s200/Cap+Barbell%2527s+Rubber+Medicine+Ball.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: black;">Are you fitness enthusiast? Do you wish keep your body fit for all time? So many fitness tools are available for fitness enthusiast. A classic fitness tool named <b>Cap Barbell's Rubber Medicine Ball</b> has been used for decades to develop strength, skill and stamina. These medicine balls feature an easy-grip surface and are designed to retain their shape throughout years of use. This set comprises an attractive 6 tier spinal rack and medicine bars in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 lb. The rack is nicely constructed and easy to assemble...it takes up very little space and the balls sit nicely on their holders. Even you can set the rack in your office and use the medicine balls frequently in your free time. The price for this set was very reasonable and well worth it for what you get. </span><br />
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<b>Critics:</b> A common blame come from the customers are that the two of the lightest balls were not symmetrical round after they were initially inflated. </span><br />
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However the medicine balls have some drawback considering the other factor this is a nice a product to have to build up your core muscles.<br />
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My story began about a year ago in April (2007), at that time with about 105 kg at 1.77 m.<br />
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Actually I was quite pleased with myself and never thought something for my fitness to do. <br />
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As the sunny weather last year was asked an old friend who every year in spring began his winter fat to exercise, if I wanted to run along and I agreed without much spontaneous.<br />
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From one day to another I have dispensed with anything sweet and fatty radical, it was so I took gallons of Coke to me without having actually thirst or no matter what I ate, when the package was opened it had to be empty.<br />
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We started at min. 4 times a week to run a 5km, at first I did very hard for me because I was never hated the sport and physical exercise as the devil have the holy water I think the last time where I did sports was about 15 years ago in physical education.<br />
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After one month, showed the scale successes already the first to eat the conscious and the regular sports helped to weigh about 4-5 lbs less. <br />
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have contributed to the success that I work on the extreme to take a lot of fruit snacks and lunch for me to get 2-3 slices wholemeal bread with low fat cheese and for dessert Putenwust a low-fat yoghurt.<br />
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After work we went running straight to the slopes for, then there was only a real full meal but it is usually grilled chicken or fish with vegetables. If I was not tired I just ate fruit again to outwit the hungry.<br />
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My friend had no time after 3 months and more pleasurable. I am motivated by the tumbling pound was happily ever after ... after 5 months I was able to cope with 15km without much effort, which culminated this year in March, I ran my first half marathon (21km) in 1:46 h.<br />
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Now arrived at 76kg, I think to myself why I waited so long had something to do, I feel reborn.<br />
I have learned through my story that you achieve everything with a strong will can do what you are carrying out.<br />
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PS: Just FYI, I'm Non smoking, drink no alcohol, no coffee and tea (very unusually for a Turkish so I actually had very good starting conditions in order to increase my stamina so.Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-77176826971136526402011-01-03T01:55:00.001-08:002011-01-03T01:57:51.991-08:00DONE! 50 kilos are goneHi,<br />
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This story is my "real" success story!<br />
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In January 2006 I weighed in at a size of 1.74 cm 125.8 kg-day diet after one year it was 75.8 kg so exactly 50 kg less!<br />
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At my wedding in 1997 I was the last time relatively slender (80 kg) then the weight went steadily uphill. By comfort eating at work I had in 2000 112 kg on it. Then I got pregnant, and I was always matter-after birth and through breastfeeding, I had less-but I had weaned after it went up again with the pounds-so I was in last year kg arrived at 125.8. I was stuck in a vicious circle I was feeling unwell, I've tried to take has not worked out-again-emotional eating, etc.<br />
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In early January, I met an acquaintance who had lost weight kg with a nutritional approach 27th She was so excited and invited me to go to an information day Wake up.<br />
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I did not go first (a group of nothing but "fat" ... I do not know) But I went And it was the best thing I could do. I have a week later with the change in diet - rich in fruit and vegetable dishes, from carbohydrates and protein, complete food and started today, the 50 kg, away!<br />
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I am doing great; life has much more quality back-swim I go to the sports.<br />
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Now I would like to lose 2-3 kg and then it goes to the main hold-that. I really hope I can do it! <br />
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LG<br />
Maus4vKamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-23010342559311681472010-12-30T04:13:00.001-08:002010-12-30T04:15:20.655-08:00My success: of 84 kilos to 57 kilos<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">Hello everyone,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">I also want to try with my success or the one or the other to motivate my success</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">I have set myself no time to when I want to build how many kilos, but it was then but within 4 months (April-August) pretty fast.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">First about myself: I'm Caren, and count 34 Lenze. Like everyone, I have in my life, various</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="color: #22229c;">diet </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">made, and to feel effects JoJo and get the result.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">I had taken a year ago, already has a 10 kilo.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Unfortunately I came into the exam stress (Final Distance Education in April this year) and started a few nuts here and there, sometimes ne disc edition with crispbread etc. Slowly but surely I was again frustrated and more accordingly.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Also, many times just ordered food or a ready meal.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Then in March I had the initial roll back / arms felt and thought: No, that can not go on.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">At the same time, my husband said: we cannot even let the whole Fleich and eat more fish?</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">It came slowly but surely to a real change in diet.</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Last but not least: Almost everyone has one sitting around gathering dust (home trainer) somewhere.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">All beginnings are difficult, but I have since spent every day 1 hour on the Crostrainer.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Currently, I've switched to jogging.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Thus starts my success story.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Initially, no pasta and rice but rather potatoes, fruit, lean dairy products, water and vegetables</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> but o</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">nly marinated, lean fish, but sometimes a piece of grilled salmon.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Then I bought a wok and copied the recipe.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Since then (even if the cutting on a lot of time and work), I only cook with a wok in all variations.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Furthermore, I jog almost every day and even my husband was able to pull themselves together for running - and that is in him something.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">I am also always been a sport type was murder and I still wonder about my enthusiasm.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Oh yes before I forget, I have done, especially in the first through the middle period no chocolate or a tasty, since I was very adamant to myself.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">However, later today, or I eat pizza just like everything else.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Only I do it myself and make sure that the ingredients are also fully valid.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Furthermore, it is with us only fish and turkey or chicken.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">One thing though, also said that while earlier after a meal partially correct "enough or plautzig were, it is never to the abundant food from the wok or barbecue unwell but still enjoyable movement and the good thing! You can thus really tired of eating, whether Batnudeln or whatever deal with the oil sparingly and season to your heart's mood -. Just delicious.</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">So delicious that I've drawn a lot of ladies in the wok-spell - it's worth.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">I hope I could give my story with one or the other motivation and / or Tip.</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">It is certainly not everyone's concept or thing but it does not have to be.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Also, I hope, of course, keep the diet my weight packs.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">My husband has lost just through the changed eating 10 kilos without exercise - in fact quite unfair</span></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">What I do without until today, when I write my former growth: bread, rolls and circulation.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">In addition, if they do because of solemnity: whole grains and lean ham.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">One more last but not least: we have received since moving unlike previously clear skin.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">We go out to eat, but even there we make sure what it is.</span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">And there is still a lot of choice.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">So, I hope those who have forgotten nothing Fagen where I am happy to help and support.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Best wishes to you</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Verdana; padding: 0in;">Caren</span></span></b></span></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-622359195705510302010-12-25T20:59:00.000-08:002010-12-25T21:01:59.842-08:00The Impact of Fructose in Obesity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwH5Begtzx04ukl_N34agS8sYAhidJF3geAdzdi3CCLFHlNFXuD2NV7mWCHlKyRIWEpvzyxDl4IQ4CrnREFSFULBiJgBPFfO1uQVQpcx45LaWcjY1gEI7191OflgUjD8kWKW4hbbn2-Jmp/s1600/fructose-childhood-obesity-300x224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwH5Begtzx04ukl_N34agS8sYAhidJF3geAdzdi3CCLFHlNFXuD2NV7mWCHlKyRIWEpvzyxDl4IQ4CrnREFSFULBiJgBPFfO1uQVQpcx45LaWcjY1gEI7191OflgUjD8kWKW4hbbn2-Jmp/s1600/fructose-childhood-obesity-300x224.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Fructose has recently received considerable attention as one of the factors behind the growing obesity problem, particularly in the USA. Fructose contribution to obesity can be traced mainly to soft drinks sweetened with fructose syrup. Because soda consumption has increased alarmingly and therefore energy intake, while physical activity is reduced so maybe not the fructose can be viewed as a single villain of the piece.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Fructose is metabolized differently than glucose and therefore has little other impact on the body. Fructose absorption in the intestine is done not by the same transport mechanism as glucose, which in and of itself does not affect the uptake rate significantly, but uptake is independent of sodium, in contrast to glucose. Therefore, it can increase carbohydrate uptake and glucose use during strenuous fitness sport with 20-55% by simultaneously adding fructose to glucose, glucose polymers, or even in combination with sucrose.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">However, what may cause problems at high fructose intake is that fructose does not have the same biochemical degradation in the liver as glucose. You could say that fructose enters further down the chain of glucose and glycogen breakdown structure and jump because of some processes that normally regulate the formation and breakdown of glucose. The energy from fructose will be entered into the system relatively unregulated, so that in comparison to glucose, several times easier to form fat from carbohydrates. Since there is glucose influx and decomposition of glucose that stimulates insulin production in the pancreas, which the fructose part is passing, so fructose stimulates insulin secretion is not the same as glucose. Insulin answer is several times lower as fructose must be converted to glucose before it stimulates insulin production. Blood glucose is increased very slowly after ingestion of fructose because it must be converted to glucose first before it becomes "blood sugar". Fructose is a "slow" carbohydrate source with a low glycemic index.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">One of insulin's effects is to slow the breakdown of fat cells, because when it is available carbohydrates (and thereby increasing insulin levels) as the glucose used as a primary energy source. When fat digestion decreases, levels of free fatty acids in the blood and because the uptake of fatty acids is directly proportional to levels outside the cells, which also reduces fat transport into the cell and thus fat burning.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The effects of a moderate intake of fructose is therefore a slower rise in blood sugar after meals and less inhibition of fat metabolism. This is good and you have seen that fructose in the diet, about 50-100g or 10-15E%, in type 2 diabetics produce smoother and lower blood sugar levels without affecting blood lipids negatively [3, 5, 8-11]. Fructose can also improve glucose tolerance in those with impaired glucose tolerance by acting catalytically on glucose metabolism in the liver. A subsidy of about 10% of the amount of carbohydrate from fructose lowers blood glucose and insulin response after glucose load even though the amount of carbohydrate in total is greater.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Problems arise when the amount of fructose is high and especially in the context of an energy surplus. Because fructose does not slow the breakdown of fat and rather stimulates fat formation in the liver, so this implies dyslipidemia and insulin resistance (mainly in liver and adipose tissue). This has been clearly demonstrated in animal experiments but also in human studies where the intake of fructose has been great, about 200-250g/dygn or> 20% E, together with an energy surplus.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The big problem is, as usual, energy surplus, which means that almost all the fat you eat is not burned but is stored in the liver and adipose tissue. An intake of 7.2 g fish oil (1.2 g EPA, 0.8 g of DHA) can improve blodfettrna we have high energy and fructose intake but does not affect insulin resistance. Fructose contribution to fat formation are also under extreme conditions, very small, about 3-7g of fat per day comes from fructose and glucose from the corresponding figure is about 1-3g fat per day in similar conditions. There is no difference in fat at an energy surplus with the extra addition of glucose, sucrose or fructose, but an extra addition of fat provides more fat than the equivalent amount from any carbohydrate source.</span><br />
<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Fructose is best in small amounts so as to have time to fructose conversion to glucose or used directly as energy.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Fructose does not stimulate the release of leptin and does not inhibit grehlinproduktionen, which is saturation and the hunger hormone. Fructose saturating therefore worse than other carbohydrates such as. glucose or starch. This is mainly a problem when fructose is added to foods, for example. soda because soda is liquid and rich in energy, it has a very poor in terms of ability, which does not improve, if soft drink sweetened with fructose consideration.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">A total intake of about 50-80g/dag or about 10-15E% is unlikely to have an adverse effect but perhaps only benefits. The energy surplus quantities can be limited to the lower recommendations. The energy deficit play the amount of fructose, a much smaller role because it can not be formed any surplus but you should probably still does not exceed 15E%.</span><br />
<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">In fruits and vegetables, about 20-50% of the carbohydrates from fructose but because fresh vegetables and fruits are high in water and therefore not as much carbohydrate as a whole as can the intake of fruits and vegetables to be high. Fructose content is about 0.1 to 7g / 100g which very well means that you can follow the Nordic nutrition recommendations about 600g fruit and vegetables per day and maximum 10E% from refined sugars, basically no matter what diet you follow.</span>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-55563313433078163712010-12-02T01:12:00.000-08:002010-12-02T01:16:39.505-08:00Lila's Diary: A Weight Loss Plan<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I was far more quiet busy, but today I will spend my time for writing own diary. I am 21 years old and now my weight is 67.3 kg. At the end of last year, my weight was 71 / 72 kg. In my childhood I am too fat and my weight "creep up" to gradually. Since the beginning of this year, so I try to loose heavy weight and make myself slim. After few months, I succeed to lose weight about 5 kg. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I would therefore like to check with the diary and motivate myself a little better output. So then, first prepare some questions and try find out best answers: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">1) How much do you want to lose weight? First, have 11 kg less.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">2) How long do you want to achieve your desired weight? Before at the end of August wish to decrease1.5 kg per week. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">3) How will you achieve your goals, what methods do you want? Apply I'm going to eat a healthy diet, plenty of vegetables, fruit and whole grain products and, above all, be careful not to eat sweets, and it in to maintain boundaries. 4) Who or what can support you in your goal achievement? My husband and my well wishers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">5) How realistic are your goals? I think they are very realistic. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Thanking</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Lila</span></b></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-51978852221681735142010-11-14T20:37:00.001-08:002010-11-14T20:49:15.646-08:00Secret Weight Loss Tips and Ideas<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Losing weight and getting into shape is not an overnight process. There are a variety of reasons to lose weight. . Instead, it is a gradual shift that must be taken one step at a time. Every day that you stick to your goals is a victory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">There is a variety of lifestyle changes that you will be forced to make if you are truly serious about this venture. Perhaps the biggest barrier is addressing possibly poor dietary habits that directly contribute to obesity and weight gain. The key to successfully losing weight is getting healthy, and in order to do this, you must eat healthy. An inability to make serious changes will stall most of your progress.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Most people want to eliminate, or at the very least severely limit, the amount of sugar and saturated fats that are found in their diets. Unfortunately, this includes most fast food and many of the processed and packaged foods found in their local grocery store. Instead of these unhealthy options, opt to fill your diets with whole, natural, organic foods when possible. This includes lean meats like chicken, turkey, and fish, whole fresh vegetables and fruits.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Another easily overlooked aspect of a good diet is the way that individuals hydrate themselves. Sports drinks, energy drinks, and sodas are merely not ideal, as they are very high in sugar and calories. Drinking lots of fresh, unflavored water is exceedingly important. Drinking water will diminish water retention, flush out surplus toxins from the body, and will boost up your energy levels. This seemingly slight change can rapidly accelerate the pace at which you lose weight.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">You may also wish for to consider shaking up your eating plan. Most people subscribe to the traditional "3 meals a day" philosophy. These three meals tend to be very large and often hurt our metabolism. Instead, try eating 5 or 6 smaller meals every day, approximately every 3 hours of so. plan to make each meal between 300 or 400 calories each. It takes the body around 3 hours to digest food. Keeping a constant but controlled flow of food is great for keeping your energy levels and mood at their peak, but it will also keep your metabolism fired up and will boost your overall resting metabolic rate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Addressing your diet properly is significant, but your diet is best utilized when coupled with an active lifestyle. Try to endure several workouts every week that take benefit of both cardiovascular exercises and resistance training. Building muscle and staying active will assist to burn off surplus calories and will get faster your weight loss. Although your goals may seem far away, it is important that you take this process one step at a time. Weight loss is not impossible, but it is a commitment. Sticking with this will not only help you lose extra pounds, but it could add years to your life.</span></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-37741619394469700172010-11-10T01:42:00.000-08:002010-11-10T01:43:27.175-08:00Is Massage Aids Weight Loss?<span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Getting a massage is a great way to relax. So many people take massage as part of their fitness regimen. Nowadays, people from all walks of life spare a part of their time to enjoy a weekly massage. Those days was gone that massage was only indulged in by athletes training for a sports event. Everybody, with the exception of those who have certain conditions and diseases, can enjoy a massage and its health benefits.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Health conscious people can gain a lot of benefits from regular massage therapy. It can improve flexibility, decrease tenderness and tautness and helps minimize recovery time. It helps break down scar tissue from previous injuries, further improving circulation and mobility. Massage helps flush out toxins from the body. Environmental toxins cause stress to the body, and this becomes an supplementary workload for you. Getting a massage can help you detoxify and make the body focus more on its other functions. Massage also decreases tiredness levels. You can work out better and longer if your tiredness level is reduced, and your recovery time becomes shorter and you can get back to the gym sooner.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Massage can help in weight loss by lowering cloistral levels. Cloistral is known as the stress hormone. When we are under pressure, cloistral is released by the body and triggers the fight or flight response. When the body is stressed out, it focuses its efforts to deal with the stress. The intestines slow or stop the digestion of food. This is why when we are under pressure, we don't feel hungry. This is detrimental to our weight loss efforts in the long run because our metabolism is compromised. Massage as a relaxation measure can help lower cloistral levels, and there are claims that massage breaks up subcutaneous fat capsules allowing it to be engrossed back by the body. These claims however are uncorroborated and there are no studies to back it up.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Massage directly affects the way you exercise. It makes you feel relaxed and it decreases muscle tension. All these benefits aid you to perform your exercises better and longer. The more you exercise the more calories you spend. Massage, then, indirectly assists your weight loss efforts. However, one thing is certain. Massage makes you feel fine and that's enough reason to make it a part of your fitness regimen. After all, a fitness regimen's goal is to make you feel and look excellent.</span></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400981549812488032.post-43058525834125523332010-11-06T22:57:00.000-07:002010-11-06T22:58:32.097-07:00Weight Loss Foods: Great Grains!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWANczqFy6unemfp0aVk5tspAD-CPPLtHj271B6OfCIV1eatUo3XmZ8P3v8qNRuaMGPU30lGx5KjXTECCrR2RXXv-VmY-a47_xEfHo4qaTYvO-BcTfYCDEG5yze50oMRyiZFctWftyn7-m/s1600/rice_paddy_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWANczqFy6unemfp0aVk5tspAD-CPPLtHj271B6OfCIV1eatUo3XmZ8P3v8qNRuaMGPU30lGx5KjXTECCrR2RXXv-VmY-a47_xEfHo4qaTYvO-BcTfYCDEG5yze50oMRyiZFctWftyn7-m/s320/rice_paddy_z.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Which food remarked as best weight loss food? May be grains generally float to the top of the list. But, are all grains formed same? The answer is no, they are not.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Is Rice a Superior Weight Loss Food? </span></b></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">As most know, there are a many of different kinds of rice and rice products. One of the most general questions concerning to rice is from those asking whether white and brown rice present the same weight loss food benefits. No, brown and white rice are not the same. The clear choice would be brown rice. Why, you ask?</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">While both brown and white rice have the equal amount of calories, protein and carbohydrates, the variation is in the processing and nutritional content. Brown rice usually has the least amount of processing, which makes it an excellent weight loss food. To produce brown rice, only the outer husk of rice is detached. </span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">With white rice, not only is the husk removed but the processing goes even further to eradicate the next layers underneath the husk. This layer is known as the bran layer and the germ. This leaves a starchy endosperm for white rice. When this removal takes place, what's left is a grain of rice with various vitamins and minerals lost with the layer removed. </span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Those important vitamins and minerals include, B1, B3, iron, and magnesium. An example is one cup of brown rice contains 84mg of magnesium and the same amount of white rice contains a mere 19mg. Fiber is also lost which is a huge asset to any weight loss meal plan.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Fabulous Fiber!</span></b></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Fiber is a amazing part of any weight loss food list. Why? One of the main causes is because it fills you up and proffers you the benefit of staying full longer! Since feeling full and satisfied is one of the key elements of any thriving weight loss plan, fiber is high on the list.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Another outstanding benefit of fiber is that it eases control blood sugar fluctuations. Being able to control blood sugar and insulin is a big weight loss secret. </span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The Rice Test</span></b></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Speaking of the significance of keeping one's blood sugar in balance, it is vital to understand the glycemic index. The glycemic index is basically how a certain food affects your blood sugar.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">There is a simple test you can do when taking into account rice options. It's sometimes called the "stickiness test". Once you've cooked your rice, notice if it's easy to roll up into a ball. If the rice is easily "mushed" the higher the glycemic index, and the faster it will cause your blood sugar to rise.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">This is one of the reasons brown rice is better than white on your list of foods to lose weight. Brown rice will reason a slower rise in your blood sugar.</span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Good and Bad Rice Choices for Weight Loss</span></b></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Some of the best rice choices for weight loss consist of: Brown Basmati Rice, Black Rice, Jasmine, and Wild Rice. </span></div><div style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Remember that white rice and instant rice, especially those that are microwavable, rice bowls, and any rice that has added sauces, creams, and sodium are not clever choices for weight loss. These rice choices should be avoided for optimal weight loss.</span></div>Kamrul Hasan Noorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454900610205086029noreply@blogger.com0