Totally clueless (Meditation as Food)

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Sat Nam and welcome Gramma Judy,

This a very worthy subject for discussion. Yesterday I heard on the

NPR radio* (see below link) that "the man" is spending 36 Billion,

with a B, every year to get me to try a Big Mac or eat Captain Crunch,

again. The ongoing efforts through all forms of media to keep us

craving and hungry makes our minds and bodies the battleground. I am

currently doing a 3 day watermelon fast and, Oh Boy, the fight is

intense. I was walking around Whole Foods, somewhat mindlessly, with a

parfait in my hands. My only weapon was to stop and think, count at

least one or two of the 99 reasons why I shouldn't take this parfait

home with me (I was probably undressing it with my eyes). I won. I was

able to put it back and immediately felt a small moment of clear

space. That's all I'm after, at this point. It's a meditation and an

exercise in gaining my SELF. I need to be my own best friend and each

impulse (from my mind) to injest can be isolated and traced back

though my nervous system, and my glandular system to a thought....but

a strong, persistent thought with roots that go way back to some

unfullfilled need(s). I was a Carnation baby, so I didn't get Mother's

milk. That much I know.

 

 

Regarding "Sweatin the the Oldies" vs. standing on your head, you have

many options. Walking is great is part of a healthy lifestyle. Also,

check out the Fat Free DVDs at

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You might like this.

 

"Meditating is a sort of eating, a consumption of subtle energies

which are digested by the mind's subtle digestive fire. Meditation is

a critical element of all daily programs because it satisfies the

mind's hunger. Insufficient or improper meditation keeps the mind

hungry, and makes it turn outward through its sense organs to seek

satisfaction from sense objects, including especially physical food.

 

Use of food to satisfy the mind alone without consideration for the

body always leads to disease. Good meditation nourishes the organism

so thoroughly that the body can maintain itself on less food. Control

of desire, which is mental hunger, is the key to longevity and

immortality. Anything can be a meditation, as long as it is sincere

and heartfelt"

--Meditation as Food (from "Prakuti" by Svoboda)

 

If, in the end you lose weight, consider it a by product of a inner

victory.

Sat Nam,

Dharam

 

*http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5474564

 

--- "gramma judy" <judykhendricks wrote:

Now, I'm not one for dancing with Richard Simmons or running with

Denise Austin but at the same time I can't stand on my head. Reading

through some of the yoga info I see that I can lose weight by sitting

and meditating? Why, I can do that! You know, I really think this is

what I'm looking for and with your help and guidance I can shed 150

pounds, right! Just one thing....how long do you think this will

take? I'm in you hands.

>

> In your debt with love,

> gramma judy

 

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