Guest guest Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Dear Gene, Welcome and Sat Nam! All Yoga is about awakening Kundalini Energy and living an awakened life. The difference between KY as taught by Yogi Bhajan and various forms of Hatha Yoga is that this Yoga works much faster. You can have an experience in 1 minute with KY that might take quite awhile to experience in Hatha. Always tune in when you practice KY and tune out before practicing Hatha. The 2 are compatible but not to be practiced at the same time or without tuning out. Don't mix the styles in other words. See if you can find a Kundalini teacher that can better instruct you in this incredible gift that Yogiji has given us! Blessings on your path! Guru Ravi Kaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 I've been watching for a response to Pat, since I also have a problem eating compulsively, am significantly overweight, and am very interested in the issue. Just curious now why no one has responded yet. I just started doing Kundalini yoga a few months ago and love it. I've also been doing yoga along with Nirvair Singh's weight loss video and really like that too. But the eating problem persists no matter what I do--I can do alright following a diet program for a few days or even a week or so, and then I fall off. There's very much a feeling of being out of control. If anything can remove whatever the barrier is and/or rewire my brain and biochemistry so that I can overcome this problem, I think Kundalini yoga can. Any ideas? Judy. I also am a food addict and compulsive overeater and hope that kundalini yoga will help with me heal this. I am anxious to learn and practice. Sat Nam Pat in SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Judy & Pat, Sat Nam. I hope this suggestion is allowed. I have read in both Shatki Parwha's and Gurmukh's books and have my own experience with 12 step programs. Combining the spiritual practice of both the program and Kundalini yoga, allowing Infinite Creative Consciousness to remove the obsession and working to increase the awareness of your own being, will bring marvelous results. If you would like more information, please contact me out of the group. Be in Love, Joan On Friday, August 12, 2005, at 07:22 PM, Judy Allbutt wrote: > I've been watching for a response to Pat, since I also have a problem > eating compulsively, am significantly overweight, and am very > interested in the issue. Just curious now why no one has responded > yet. > > I just started doing Kundalini yoga a few months ago and love it. I've > also been doing yoga along with Nirvair Singh's weight loss video and > really like that too. But the eating problem persists no matter what I > do--I can do alright following a diet program for a few days or even a > week or so, and then I fall off. There's very much a feeling of being > out of control. > > If anything can remove whatever the barrier is and/or rewire my brain > and biochemistry so that I can overcome this problem, I think > Kundalini yoga can. Any ideas? > > Judy. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 Pat and Judy: There are sets in Kundalini Yoga to help correct your metabolism. You may look there. Also, I find that Kundalini Yoga will help me confront my habits by giving me higher awareness, but it won't usually make the decision for me. At some point I have to make a decision with the higher awareness I have. So one thing is to keep remaining aware throughout the day of what we do that may go against the yoga that I try to practice. There are 2 kinds of food cravings: 1) My body is warning me that it has not received specific nutrients it needs to function properly. Say I am hungry and I crave for chips. What is it about the chips that my body's functionning depends on? I feel it inside of me. Sometimes it might be that I have not had enough pure oil in my system. So then I take a spoonful of the cleanest purest oil I have available. I wait to see if my body still "craves" the chips. (By the way, drinking pure olive oil also helped restore the lining of my stomach so I could digest better: alcohol, fried foods irritate that lining and bacteria then invade the body with for result... body odors and such...) 2) My emotional system seeks comfort and my body really does not starve from any lack of nutrients. If I crave desert, do you think my body needs more sugar? Likely not, I have had fruit and other foods with sugar in them! I remember craving sugar, craving sausages, raw meat,... (before my vegetarian days)... I knew it was not due to a physical deficiency so I made a deal with myself: I will first meditate on what my craving is really about and when I know, if I still want it, I'll give it to myself. I realized pretty soon that my craving for sausages was related to feelings of emasculation (does it sound funny?), my desires for raw meat were linked to inner anger and I wanted to tear something apart with rage like a lion or a tiger might. Sugars were always related to wanting to soothe down some agitation... and guess what I wanted after sugar... a nice cup of coffee... and the agitation was back in a hurry... plus the crash after the sugar rush... The awareness of what I truly needed and the awareness of what I was doing with food to appease my cravings led me to know myself differently and to want to care for myself differently. It takes discipline but in the end I got self-love... So the idea is to give yourself a chance to be aware of what you truly need and do the best to support that... and see what happens! Awareness gives one incredible power! And the decisions that are supporting you become easier to make. It is the same with any change we want to bring to our lives. We need to do it with awareness and a lot of love. Nobody else can do it for us. Kundalini Yoga can help restore a balance in our body if we also support that balance with our other daily decisions. Does this help? Blessings, Awtar Sing Rochester, NY > I've been watching for a response to Pat... Any ideas? > > Judy. > > > I also am a food > addict and compulsive overeater and hope that kundalini yoga will help > with me heal this. I am anxious to learn and practice. > Sat Nam > > Pat in SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Il giorno 12-08-2005 1:35, rfarley51, rfarley51 ha scritto: Dear Gene, Welcome and Sat Nam! All Yoga is about awakening Kundalini Energy and living an awakened life. The difference between KY as taught by Yogi Bhajan and various forms of Hatha Yoga is that this Yoga works much faster. You can have an experience in 1 minute with KY that might take quite awhile to experience in Hatha. Always tune in when you practice KY and tune out before practicing Hatha. The 2 are compatible but not to be practiced at the same time or without tuning out. Don't mix the styles in other words. See if you can find a Kundalini teacher that can better instruct you in this incredible gift that Yogiji has given us! Blessings on your path! Guru Ravi Kaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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