Meditation -- the practice of focusing your

attention in order to find calm and clarity.

Your efforts around exercising and eating well

can lower high blood pressure and put the

weight in control.

It can also help you manage stress, which

drives some people to eat.

Meditation directly helps you lose weight,

meditation does help you become more aware

of your thoughts and actions.

Meditation

Most types of meditation have these four things in

common:

A quiet location. You can choose where to

meditate -- your favorite chair? On a walk? It's

up to you.

A specific comfortable posture, such as

sitting, lying down, standing, or walking.

A focus of attention. You can focus on a word

or phrase, your breath, or something else.

An open attitude. Keep bringing your attention

back to your breath, phrase, or whatever else it

is you're focusing on.

Mindfulness meditation can be done sitting orwhile doing your daily activities.

The key to mindfulness meditation is to payattention. That means no multitasking. Forexample, to practice mindfulness meditationwhile eating, pay attention to your food ratherthan reading, talking or watching TV during ameal.

This method encourages you to taste andenjoy food but to closely watch how muchyou’re eating and why. Keep your awareness inyour body rather than zoning out and thennoticing you’re stuffed, again.

People sometimes lose weight without eventrying when they start to meditate. This has todo with expanding your awareness of what’sgoing on in your body.

People eat for two reasons: physical andemotional hunger. Meditating can help to calmyou enough that you’re less likely to getstressed out and use food as a copingmechanism.

Awareness of your stomach is a big part of

mindful meditation strategy for losing weight.

On a scale of one to ten, with one being

starved and ten being post-Thanksgiving

dinner, it recommends waiting till your hunger

level is close to one. Food tastes better when

you’re hungry.

An empty stomach is the size of a closed fist.

Open your hands and imagine your two palms

full of food. You should only fill your stomach

two-thirds full for optimal digestion. This is

about a level five on the one to ten scale.

The high stress level of the modern world

keeps people in fight or flight mode.

When you’re stressed, steroids release and

increase your belly fat, because the body

interprets chronic stress as famine.

Meditation counteracts this response. Rather

than stressing you out, meditation soothes your

nerves and averts that extra belly fat.

Thanking

you

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