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Joseph Van Moorleghem - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Joseph Van Moorleghem is a private citizen living in Geneva, Switzerland, with his wife and children since 1999. He has travelled the world extensively and lived in countries like South Africa, Ivory Coast, Zaïre (now Congo), France, and Germany. He is fluent in French, Dutch and English and currently a full time work from home internet marketer.
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- How to Understand Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] People suffering from obesity face a real life threatening health challenge. What's more, most of them know this and have come to accept this as a condition about which they can do very little or nothing. This is not necessarily true, but many obese people perceive themselves as powerless when it comes to tackling this problematic condition.
- Yoga and Meditation
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] What is the relationship between yoga and meditation? At face value, Yoga seems to be a health and fitness related activity with strong links to spiritual practice and well being, yet both are intimately bonded. How?
- Every Breath You Take
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] The British occupation of India also produced unexpected results. Amazed by the prowess of yogis, scientists wrote reports on what they were able to see during experiments which could be contenders for MTVs' extreme culture, where young people perform the craziest experiments in front of cameras just for kicks.
- A Solution If You Are Still Not Making Nearly Enough Money Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] I have been struggling to make money online for years. Then I found out how to do it thanks to someone who, like me, had struggled for many years to "crack" the code and decided it was time to share his knowledge with anyone who is interested in making a decent income from Internet Marketing activity.
- Why Most of Us Fail at First When Dieting
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You probably have heard of the "yo-yo" syndrome, the fact that people are able to lose a couple of pounds during some or other crash diet, which they put back on in a matter of days to end up weighing even more. What causes this? The fact is that when we decide to go on a diet, we also sacrifice the notion of "reward" that is linked to a good solid meal. That is a very hard thing to impose on ones' self, because now, we are psychologically "punished" and left with a permanent feeling that something is missing. Sure, with enough peer pressure we can prove to everyone that we have character enough to pull this off.
- Correct Meditation
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Correct meditation is not easy for those who are in maya. A simple test towards correct practice in meditation consists of inviting the candidate to the following exercise: count from one to ten inwardly (be honest to yourself) without being interrupted in the flow of your thoughts by an itch, a smell, a sound, an emotion or even a thought other than the sequence from one to ten.
- Know What Meditation is All About
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Meditation, basically, is about being still. This encompasses the body, the mind and the soul. Yogis can meditate for hours, even days on end. In Tibet, monks in monasteries practice meditating outside during winter in sub-zero temperatures in the snow. Others have been rumored to start levitating while in deep meditation.
- HCA, Snake Oil or Not?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] There are many diet pills brands that come under the form of capsules that contain a herbal supplement, in effect, extracts from a plant named Garcinina Cambogia, which grows in India and other Asian countries. The active ingredient is a chemical named hydroxycitric acid (HCA) of which some sources claim that it acts as an appetite suppressant, a serotonin stimulant and a fat production inhibitor. (It reduces appetite, makes one feel good and slows down the production of fat).
- Weight Loss Traps
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Whether its about losing a bit of winter fat or correcting an obesity problem, making the decision to lose weight is not the easiest one to make. In fact, for most of us, it is a daunting challenge. These 10 tips should be of help if you want to go for it, they are about what to avoid.
- Obesity, Breaking The Habit
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] We are creatures of habit, that much is known. We do not create habit out of sheer laziness only, but mostly to be efficient. Nevertheless, as in all things in life, all good things can turn on us. When it comes to our eating habits, adopting unproductive habit can be as dramatic as leading to obesity. Were it not that I had to learn this from personal experience, I never would have known. Creating habit is a question of setting ones' mind to it for a period of 21 days. It works like a charm. When it comes to breaking through cycles of non productive eating habit, the same applies.
- Food Combining - The Burger Effect - Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Nutritionists have calculated there are more than enough calories in one hamburger to count for a whole meal. But when the stomach is irritated, the owner of the stomach might interpret this signal as something else. So, notwithstanding the fact he has absorbed the equivalent of a whole meal with the first hamburger, his irritated stomach seems to claim yet more food. The result is equally obvious: instead of stopping after having absorbed the equivalent of a whole meal, the signals that are interpreted as hunger pangs in the stomach drive one to eat the equivalent of a second whole meal.
- Yoga, Or Creating The Link With God?
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga, which is a sanscrit word meaning "unity" or "to unify" refers to this strange discipline that has been practiced by people, mostly in India, who have a very specific goal in mind. Why would yogis, as they are referred to, go through the arduous discipline of practicing the most bizarre and unnatural positions for hours on end?
- Obesity - What Is It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The medical world describes the cause of obesity as follows: "An increase in body fat (both visceral and nonvisceral (subcutaneous)) requires that energy intake be increased over energy expenditure." This short description is followed by a lengthy "however" and is destined for doctors who are trained to understand what is written. In short, obesity has many causes, among which are included genetic disorders, gland disorders, hormonal disorders and metabolism disorders, only to name a few. Suffice it to say that if you want to find the real reason for your obesity, you will need to consult a medical doctor.
- Food Combining - The Burger Effect - Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Did you ever wonder why you feel so heavy after eating a couple of hamburgers? Good old fashioned logic or common sense would dictate that when one eats a single hamburger, there is not enough food in the stomach to fill it up. To continue with this fallacious approach, one could also assume that this prevents the individual from obtaining a feeling of satisfaction. When we are not satisfied or when we are still feeling hungry, we quite naturally tend to go for a second helping.
- Kriya Yoga - Brief History
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] It was master Lahiri Mahasaya who introduced Kriya Yoga to the modern world during his lifetime in the nineteenth century, yet Kriya Yoga is, according to some scriptures, much older than that.It would appear that the Bhagavad-Gita mentions a Kriya Yogi technique in a stanza that states: "That meditation expert becomes eternally free who, seeking the Supreme Goal (Samahdi), is able to withdraw from external phenomena by fixing his gaze within the mid-spot of the eyebrows and by neutralizing the event currents of prana and apana within the nostrils and lungs; and to control his sensory mind and intellect; and to banish desire, fear and anger."
- Why to Choose to Practise Bikram Yoga
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] There are many reasons why the practise of Bikram Yoga can be beneficial to you. The advantages Bikram Yoga bring can totally change your life. This being written, Bikram Yoga is also known as "hot" Yoga and therefore can be considered a variant or westernised version of Ashtanga Yoga. Another good reason for taking up Bikram Yoga is that it has been "westernised", or adapted to the needs of western capitalistic society.
- Yoga - A Brief Historic Perspective
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Some of the earliest traces of Yoga take us as far back as 7000 years ago. Excavations in Pakistan tend to point to a link between shamanism, Hinduism and Yoga. Figurines found at the Mehrgarth excavation site depict Yoga postures which are still in use today. The first actual teachings of Yoga are to be found in the Vedas, which are reputed being the oldest scripture in the world. In more recent decades, yoga has greatly and swiftly evolved. From being an occult science only accessible to the brahmin caste of India it has become a mainstream activity that can serve the purpose of helping every living individual evolve beyond maya.
- What is Ashtanga Yoga and is it Right For You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Ashtanga Yoga is also known as Eight Limb Yoga. It postulates that the path of purification is made up of eight limbs of spiritual practice. The first four limbs that Ashtanga Yoga proposes to master are - yama (do, attached to a moral code), niyama (don't do, attached to purifying the body and study), Asana (Mastering Postures) and Pranayama (control of breath).
- Namaste - Yoga Adepts
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] There are by default an equal amount of definitions on the subject of Yoga as there are individuals alive on earth and every single one of these definitions is the only correct one. Indeed, this very definition could be classified as a sutra, or "mind boggling" expression of a truth. Please note that I did not write "the truth", but "a truth". And I most certainly would not classify the above definition as a sutra, as it would be a lack of true modesty, which is a characteristic of the yoga adept, or pupil on the path.
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