Every time I see these types of programs it makes me think of the negative advise people are getting and what they are putting their body through just to be acceptable to themselves (and others). It is such misinformation about karma and the ‘bigger’ picture called life.
Are they putting themselves through this to be on tv or to genuinely change their life? I was looking on the myspace page of Ryan C who won the first biggest loser competition and what he was saying about damaging his whole body by trying to lose weight in such a short amount of time.
Ayurveda and yoga therapy go deep into the inner system of a person working inside out. Is it the goal to be perfect, beautiful or healthy? This is a personal choice but only one has a good and positive outcome. To lose weight so rapidly especially in such a violent manner trying to beat the clock and putting the cardiovascular system at risk of over excessive workouts help a person to shorten their life.
I had this program on for 10 minutes and started suffering like the contestants as I watched this very unhappy lady screaming at them that they were nothing. This is called motivation in modern excessive material society.
If you ever find yourself in this situation or looking for this type of abuse, maybe contemplate your intention and motivation behind wanting to go through this. There is a safer and kinder way to lose weight that involves practise, discipline and action but on a long term basis without pain and suffering.
Ryan C put on all the weight that he lost only weeks after he lost it all. This is the story of most people who go through this type of weight loss.
Last month while sitting with my father and mother having breakfast a thought came to mind. My father smoked for 51 years up to the point he just had to have a big heart surgery. When we use to get into discussions about life, health or spirituality before his surgery, he repeated the same opinion for as long as I can remember. “Life is for eating, sleeping and having sex.” “I am enjoying my life and one day I will be gone.” I am not affecting anyone by the way I eat, drink or smoke, I am only affecting my own life.”
Now about 6 weeks ago I had to drop everything, all my clients, work and schedule to come and look after him. He had to have his aorta replaced, a pacemaker put in and is now going to take 6 months to recover.
Sitting on the bed looking at him all broken and in pain I was thinking of his mantra. He is a man loved and respected by every person who meets him, but is that doing any good while he is in pain? Should we be thinking of all our actions towards our self and how they will affect others? When we drink a coke, eat greasy fried foods or drink alcohol should we be thinking about how this will affect others when they will have to look after us if we become unwell? My mother has virtually stopped doing anything for herself and is now living his life everyday.
I also just heard that another friend of mind went into hospital for 6 days as she has intestinal issues. They will operate tomorrow. She is very dear to me and we have been friends for so long. When I stay with her she is always laughing at the things I eat or drink as she starts off the day with tea (stimulant) then 4 to 8 cups of iced tea. This is terrible for her condition.
After an accident many years ago she has many internal complications and could never have children. She finally decided to have a baby by a surrogate mother and now has a wonderful child. What is amazing to me is that she does not give much attention to her health (eating, drinking, thinking) as now she is responsible for another living being. Her health has never been very good or a priority so why would she risk affecting someone else? The fact that we are not healthy is why we make unhealthy choices- as light attracts light.
I have made many selfish choices in my lifetime so I can relate.
In yoga philosophy every action or even a thought has a reaction of some degree towards us and therefore towards all other living beings. We are in control of our speech, actions and our mind. Every little move we make which is negative or positive will at some point affect our life and the lives of others. We are connected and should keep that in mind when making choices.
It is no coincidence that most of the yoga, Pilates, natural medicine and other healthy and spiritual materials (including this site) are looked into and used mostly by women and the gay community. Most heterosexual males don’t seem to be very interested in much except sports, drinking, fighting, war, over working, being with their male friends, lying on the sofa or watching some sort of competition between others. (funny, I was writing this piece then I had to go to see a client and on the way outside of a shop there was a gang of men watching a boxing match on a tv screen. There was not a woman insight.)
I have travelled for the passed 22 years to all continents and many of the different countries, was brought up in a Moslem country, then lived in the West and this is what I have found. Men have set out the rules and done the role playing that suited them for so long that we forgot the balance of male/female energy that is naturally in each human being.
Now men have ruled women for as long as we know and they still do in some countries. If we go by the law of Karma and the cause and effect rule which brings back to us everything we have thought and done, men may be in the trouble they are in (living less than women by at least 12 years and having many more times the rate of most diseases than women) because of this passed karma of trying to control women for their own ego self.
Talking to straight guys all around Europe and America I come across men expressing the same struggles-’we don’t feel needed by women except for sex, making babies or being emotionally supportive.’ This I translate into ‘ Women have the same rights, go to work and think for themselves so now we don’t know what to do with the time that we use to spend controlling the female race.’
The cure is not to try and cater to women but to be more balanced in the female/male-Moon/Sun energy in the body & mind so when you do meet someone, you can have a natural relationship devoid of expectations and judgments about what the other is not doing for you.
What do you think? Ask your friends and see if this rings true for them.
Everyone needs a helping hand at some point in their life and at times we need much more help than is available. Psychiatry came about from the Freudian principals the last century but if we look at Freud’s life we will find a man not so happy or content with his own life. So an unhappy man came up with the principal of curing the brain of unhappiness through dialogue. Does this make any sense? The whole system of western psychology is based on his theory.
This was a man with a theory and not a self practice of experience going beyond the mind, intellect and emotions to be free of the senses and therefore to be developed on a higher level of awareness and comprehention. So now the western form of therapy was born where people just talk and think that through this dialogue all their troubles will come to pass.
The main issue with modern psychiatry is that it involves mainly talking, and talking is not action. It is merely a form of communication where we express our intentions but it may not necessarily follow with action.
The other main flaw in this method is that because it mainly involves talking it keeps a person on the level of intellect and emotion where an individual goes through different feelings thinking that something is changing. These feelings seem real and they are on these lower levels but they do not have any manner of setting a person free from their troubles because emotion is directly linked to the senses.
When one operates on the level of the sense and finds gratification physically and mentally, it is very hard to move beyond this point as we can easily become addicted to all we touch, taste, smell, hear and see.
The help you are seeking is within. If at times you need help seek it but don’t become addicted or dependent on the person, giving away your power.
