Comments on: Reverse Obesity with One Yoga Move

By: Andrew R - Go Healthy Go Fit

Andrew R - Go Healthy Go Fit — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:25:51 +0000

Heather,

I know that you didn’t mean to intentionally hurt anyone, and I apologize if my comment insinuated that. I just think that the title is misleading (and it seems to me that it would be hard for you to not have at least known that when picking it). If it was an actual quote from the article, then that’s another thing.

Again, I enjoy you’re writing (content) and I wasn’t taking a shot at that.

Thanks for the response.

All the Best,

Andrew R

By: heather

heather — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:02:03 +0000

Hi Andrew. I definitely did not mean to offend or undervalue anyone’s hard efforts to lose weight. My idea for the title came from an article I recently read on the nationally-recognized yoga teacher, Ana Forest. For years, Ana was a bulimic and binge-eater. After she began to do yoga, she continued to still wrestle with her food addiction. She self-devised her own therapy for helping her get through those tough moments when she was caught in the grips of her food-obsessed thoughts. Rather than succumbing to a binge, she would do a few rounds of sun salutations. This powerful and energetic sequence of movements in combination with the yoga breath not only gave her a physical workout but it also calmed her mind and allowed her to get her some needed space from her frenzied thoughts. The Sun Salutation also allowed her to feel her own power and strength, both in mind and body. On her road to recovery, Ana confessed to doing these preventive sun salutations hundreds of times until she became more in control of her thoughts, emotions and behaviors. It was this interview that I read on Ms. Forest that fueled my writing of this blog and the subsequent title. Thank you so much for your feedback and do accept my apologies for offending you in any way.

By: Bill4562

Bill4562 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:01:37 +0000

In the trailer of the movie http://www.whatifthemovie.tv, it showed a Hira Ratan Manek (HRM), one I had previously studied, an engineer who has gone for years without food, and months without water, and was studied by 2 universities for NASA for almost a year, in which he had no food, only a little buttermilk occassionally. NASA calls it the HRM phenomenon.

It just goes to show that we are limited by our belief structures in believing what we can or cannot accomplish.

Seems here that most of us don’t regard our minds as being possible to do such things. Even the trailer of this movie will take one onward into possibilities.

By: Andrew R

Andrew R — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:11:34 +0000

Hey Heather,

I really try to keep my comments as constructive as possible, so let me take a deep breath here. I’m all for catchy titles, but come on… I can understand how harnessing your body’s energy may aid in the battle of reversing obesity, but the title is a little misleading.

Coming from someone who went from being obese to being in great physical fitness, I know EXACTLY how hard it was to accomplish this feat. (you can check out my about me page if you’d like to see the details) It was a combination of will power, educating myself and most importantly, understanding how to eat properly. But one thing is for sure, this is a problem that is so widespread that it requires a little more responsibility on the part of those of us who have the knowledge to help people with a serious health matter.

For what it’s worth, I did enjoy the article, just not the title.

All the Best,

Andrew R