Obesity and the improvement of the figure - Part 1
There is little need to explain to you the connection between obesity and your health. Apart from being aesthetically all wrong it puts a strain on the heart, the internal organs, the legs and feet and in fact the entire body. It is dangerous to be overweight. It is your duty to improve your figure for the sake of your health, your peace of mind and your normal well being. But before I explain how Yoga can aid you to regain a slim, supple, and graceful figure I must impress on you right at the start that there is no magic formula which will sheer those extra pounds off you while you go on consuming four square meals a day with snacks in between and goodness knows how a lot cups of tea sweetened with sugar. In short, Yoga is not black magic. It is sheer average sense. It will aid you if you're prepared to aid yourself. In presenting several Yoga asanas in this chapter I must again impress on you that these alone will not make you lose weight. Yoga you observe is a technique of life not just a system of physical culture. You must study Yoga as a whole and let it pervade every part of your life. Let it steadily alter your technique of thinking and in time it will influence your attitude towards food. For a lot people food is a social occasion, or a means of chopping up the day. To very a lot others it's a form of sheer solid comfort in periods of stress or anxiety. To still others it's a hobby or a release from boredom. They don’t know what to do with themselves so they eat—and grow fat. I do not suggest that you try drastically to alter your consuming habits as soon as you read this book. Let Yoga gently do that for you. Practice Yoga as a complete science, and very slowly adjust your consuming habits according to your state of mind. By this I mean that at the moment, maybe food is of main importance to you. It is right that you have this incentive to eat for it's necessary to take food in order to live, but a lot people, far too many, take far more food than they need. This outcomes in a gradual build up of fat in the body until there you are—two, three, or even more stones overweight. It is never easy to take off weight and Yoga is not a short cut by any means, but this much I promise you. That once you have slimmed, the Yoga way, you would be able to eat as you please and not gain an ounce. Yoga, in affecting the glands, establishes a rhythm in the body so that you do not feel a desire for food that you do not need. You want to eat only ample to keep superbly fit. Your new calmness of mind will make it unnecessary for you to resort to food for comfort or as a means of relieving tension or boredom. As I have said, Yoga will influence your technique of life, even against your will; it will alter your attitude towards a lot things and one of these things is the food you eat. Having warned you that I have no magic formula dreamed up by the ancient Yogis with regard to recovering a slim, beautiful figure, let me discuss the first step in this ‘battle of the bulge’. The bulk of overweight people suffer from incessant constipation, so one of your very first tasks is to turn back to chapter five, re-read all I have written, and vow to make an immediate onslaught on your lethargic bowels, as this complaint is very fattening as well as uncomfortable. Practice all the Yoga asanas described in the chapter on constipation, and in particular practice the water-drinking habits of the Yogis and the relaxing and contracting movements known as Uddiyani. This unburdening your body of excessive waste, and the practice of Yoga asanas and breathing exercises will go a long technique towards sheering that superfluous fat from your body and here is a Yoga asana which will aid you on your way. It is called the SIDESLIP and it should not present too much difficulty if you spend the first couple of days limbering up your torso with the following simple movements. Limbering up Exercises Stand up straight, feet together, arms raised to shoulder level. Holding your arms steady swing them as far as possible round to the right. Twist your body to the maximum to bring your right arm as far round as you could and at the same time turn your head to look over your right shoulder so that you twist your neck to the utmost; as you turn slowly bend your left arm so that when the swing to the right is at its height your left thumb should touch your right shoulder. 3. Hold this position for a few seconds and then repeat the swing to the other side. You can repeat these swings ad lib but at first it's as well to limit yourself to a maximum of six if you have never taken any exercise before. Two points to remember. These swinging movements from side to side should be performed slowly and rhythmically. Emphasis is on the full sweep of the arms and the twisting of your torso to the utmost rather than on speed. Speed isn’t a word used in Yoga, rather replacement the word pressure. At the extreme points of the twisting movement you could exert a slight pressure to amplify the value of this limbering exercise. And having practiced it for a day or two you should graduate with no difficulty to a more advanced lateral twist called THE SIDESLIP POSTURE. 1. Kneel down on the floor and sit back on your heels. Raise your arms above your head, clasp your hands together and turn them palms upwards. Slide your body off your heels to the right and at the same time gently swing your arms towards the opposite side. I have demonstrated the correct movement in figure 34. You should not bend forward while performing this movement but move from the waist to the side only. Now raise your body off the floor, swing it slowly and gently to the other side and at the same time swing your arms over to the opposite side. Try to keep your knees together throughout the Sideslip Posture, but if you find this hard or impossible at first you may hold your knees apart to maintain your balance but at all periods endeavour to bring your knees together. Many people, while attempting this asana for the first time have difficulty with stage 3, that is the lifting of the body off the floor and the swinging it to the other side. Actually some people have trouble in getting themselves off the floor at all in this position and others, if they do succeed, land with a amazing thump on the opposite side and have difficulty getting up from there. Be patient. This exercise is not quite so easy as it looks. Graceful, and a amazing favourite with women everywhere, it appearance simple ample but in actual fact it requires a high degree of muscular control and concentration. Remember your head while you're doing the SIDESLIP POSTURE. It should bend the same technique as your arms, which you should, throughout the movement, try to press backwards as far as possible to avoid any possible sagging forward of your body. This asana is one of the finest in the entire Yoga range for slimming the waist and lowering that pad of fat which often settles on top of the hipbones. You will feel a powerful stretch from your hips to your armpits and if you do this exercise correctly you will feel rather sore in the region of your hip joints the next day. This is common and it will prove to you that this Yoga exercise has already begun to work for you. While one side of your body is being stretched the other side is being powerfully contracted. You can feel it squeezing the fatty tissue. It also imparts a healthy massage to the organs and muscles of the abdomen and helps the torso towards a new suppleness and grace. |
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