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07:37:17 am on October 5, 2009 |
I like teaching Astanga Yoga because I like to see people get healthier before my eyes.
Introduction
Do you want to improve any aspect of your life? Do you want to be happier, be more energetic, look better, feel better, get more done, be more focused? Keep reading. This is a book to help people get better. It may seem surprising that all these problems can be addressed in one short book. It’s not. I’m going to let you in on a secret: everything in your world – spirituality, happiness, love, productivity, creativity, everything, depends on your health. Being healthy and looking good are the same things. Want to be more attractive? Get healthy. What about depression, or trouble focusing? I’ve got news for you; the brain is an organ. It’s the one doing the driving, the decision-making. It’s the emotion center and where your ideas originate, but it is still an organ. When your body’s systems suffer from any ailment, your brain is suffering. Your thoughts, your emotions are suffering. So if you want to feel better, get healthy.
So this is a book on health and nutrition, but it’s unlike any that have been written before. It draws largely from the readers’ own knowledge, experience and common sense. It doesn’t reveal any discoveries or newly conducted studies. Instead, it equips the reader with some basic information that enables them to come to logical conclusions about health on their own. Brace yourself, though. While what you are about to read is basic, it suggests practices drastically different from what is currently considered ‘normal.’
Think of the joggers and gyms and the pills and infomercials. The overwhelming array of books and products dedicated to promoting health and fitness demonstrates the demand for information. Most people want to be healthier. Few are actually able to do anything about it. The potential is there; people are trying. It’s just hard to find good information, information that will really help.
This book is dedicated to teaching you to live and eat naturally. There’s no need to buy any pills, count calories or order any exercise machines. Living and eating naturally comes naturally. As a living organism, everything it takes to be happy and healthy is incorporated into your design. You don’t see any other organisms stumbling around looking for information on nutrition or dieting tips. Like them, you have what you need to know.
If it’s so easy, if health comes naturally, why all the overweight, unsatisfied, depressed people? If everyone has all the information, why the book? All organisms can live in a range of conditions, but the conditions that are ideal for them are pretty well defined. The conditions in which they thrive are specific. A weed can grow up through a crack in the sidewalk, seagulls can live at the garbage dump, but those aren’t the ideal conditions. They won’t thrive there. Certain conditions are ideal for organisms and humans are no exception. This is a book to help you realize the optimal conditions for you as an organism. Once you realize them and adopt a healthy lifestyle, you will start to thrive. You will begin to look better, feel better, treat others better. Ultimately, you will be better.
The way I want to show you is the natural way. A way that gets you closer to the way, biologically, you were intended to live, a way that enables you to reach optimum levels.
Not only does it blaze the trail to health; it motivates you to follow it. The reason it is a relatively short book is because all the answers are already there with the reader.
The reason what I propose will seem so drastically different from our current tendencies, is because we live in such drastic opposition to our natural way of life. Consider what the average person does in a day. Maybe they spend four hours in front of a computer, hunched over, eyes focused on a blue screen. For lunch maybe a fast food and a soda. Eating at red lights. Four more hours in front of the blue screen and then home. Maybe sitting in traffic first. A large dinner, maybe a beer and bed. Pretty typical. Not very natural. What I’m going to tell you is pretty atypical and extremely natural.
RAW food and yoga. That’s it. That’s the whole key to a healthier, happier life. I practice Astanga yoga 6 times a week. I eat 100% RAW food. I have for 6 years. I feel great. I love life others around me. I look foreword to everyday. Nothing can stop me. When you are living naturally, nothing is in you way. The potential in humans is huge. That’s a fact that doesn’t need much substantiating. Man’s achievements are breathtaking. When you are living, correctly, naturally, nothing can stop you.
Why have I come to these conclusions? Why haven’t these ideas caught on already? Remember the weed growing up through the crack in the sidewalk? Or the seagulls living at the garbage dump? Organisms are able to ‘get by’. In the process of getting by, we take things for granted. Pains, colds, flues, that we are getting sick and dying. This is so common that it is considered normal. Things like vitamin and minerial deficiencies don’t show up one day on your finger, like a cut. You don’t really see them until the bone breaks.
So in my book, without wasting words, I demonstrate quite decisively the grave importance of a healthy diet. “Oh, I already know a healthy diet is important?’ You may, but on what level? Do you think of poisoning your blood when you eat low quality foods? Do you think of your body using dyes and chemicals to build the tissues of your eyes, lungs and brain? I encourage you to think of every item you put into your mouth as medicine or poison. Each mouthful is either helping or hurting you. Once I establish the importance of a healthy diet, I help you understand the essentials of that optimum diet. The basic fundamental rules of it.
To convince you, I don’t rely on logic alone, I encourage you to try it. RAW food and yoga? Where are the studies to support this? Conduct the studies yourself. Collaborate with your body and realize the truth as you experiment and experience for yourself.
After we reach an understanding with diet, we tackle yoga. First we consider our body and make some projections about what types of things would benefit it the most. Then we take a look at an exercise that emulates the characteristics we put forth. I show you poses, explain their benefit and then, just like with our diet discussion, I encourage you to feel the benefit in your own bodies.
This is book is fun to read. Not only is it an experience in itself, it introduces a whole new life, a rewarding and fulfilling one that you can start the same day you start the book. Those 70% that aren’t taking the steps to improve their lives and bodies just don’t have the information. You can’t blame them. Consider the barrage of gimmicks and theories and studies aimed at creating and maintaining health. It’s overwhelming to wade through them and decide on something that you can be sure is true.
So while this is a book about getting better, improving all aspects of your life it is more specifically, a book about health, Read it before? No you haven’t. Not this one.
According to the New York Times, 60 million Americans are obese. An article in USA TODAY (give the date) reported that the United States was planning to wage a war on obessity similar to the war on drugs.
Chapter 1: Nothing is more Important than the Food You Eat. (there are no coincidences – make the connection
It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of a proper diet. You are your diet. The cliché ‘you are what you eat’ has, for the most part, lost its edge. Let me try to sharpen it again. YOU ARE MADE OUT OF WHAT YOU EAT. The food that you put into your mouth becomes you. The cells that make up the tissues in your eyes and lungs and blood are made from the food that you eat. Your body is making over a million cells a second and the material it uses is the food you eat. Think about that. Right now your body is using the food you ate this morning to create and maintain you. What did you eat for breakfast? Think of your body using something like a Pepsi or a sugary cereal to make up your blood. Think of making a weak cell.
To some degree, I’m sure you are already aware of the impact food has on your body and subsequently your life, but to what degree?
You aren’t being naughty, or breaking the rules when you eat low quality food. You are poisoning yourself. From now on, think of everything you eat as either medicine or poison. You are either giving your body materials it needs to thrive, or materials that damage it.
Namaste,
Fred Busch
http://www.tuscanyyoga.com
http://www.yogatransformations.com
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