Obesity, eating disorder & overweight is merely a type of Karma/layers of Toxins collected

Like many of you, my journey of weight loss seemed to be never ending. The struggle seemed to be ongoing. Like all of you, I tried everything to loose weight eg: different diets, starving myself, workouts, life styles etc.   More than anything maintaining the weight was a daily battlefield. Everything seemed to create only stress, nothing gave me a permanent solution. I am sharing this with all of you as I know how difficult it is being over weight and trying to loose weight throughout the life. Deep down we all know that it’s not healthy being over weight, diseases easily attacks and energy level is always low. I want you to feel and realize how it is to get freedom from diets, workouts and stressful life. I was slowly but steadily able to loose weight, become healthier than ever before with the Practice of Yoga. Yes YOGA can help you to reduce weight IF spiritual knowing is infused with awareness and proper guidance. So let go further and discover how spirituality can make impossible “I’m possible”.

Now, I am no longer worried about CONTROLLING my weight, diet, lifestyle and my life. From 86 kgs to 61 kgs.  I am no longer worried about over eating, cravings, acidity and indigestion. Yes, it is possible. Possible through Self-Improvement with Spirituality. My will power and devotion to improve my whole being with proper guidance is my secret. I have got freedom from so much controlling process in my life. Self-Improvement becomes natural and simply happens when we turn our focus inwards, become spiritual. 

Before starting to understand why any weight loss program or diets or lifestyle change, failed, I first started to understand what exactly is weight, what are the causes of weight gain and then comes the step where weight loss happens. 

What according to me the Weight is? You have been given this beautiful human life as a gift after around 8.4 million lives in the body starting from algae, bacteria, animal, tree and so on. This body carries the weight, gets the shape, features etc according to something called “Karma”. We are born pure, that’s the gift, but eventually we destroy this instrument by abusing it with inappropriate food, negativities, alcohol, smoking etc. Whatever discomfort, diseases, abnormalities in our bodies are due to this “Karma”. So if we try to understand this little by little we can not only achieve the physical goals in life but also spiritual growth also kicks off.

“Spirituality is Practicality” - Acharya Shree Yogeesh

Let's try to understand what type of Karma you might have collected. What type of karma  you might have made a strong hold on your entire being inside and out?

Deepest ditch which can not be ever fulfilled is the ditch of hunger. You will never be satisfied with food, whatever comes on your way it goes into your body. This might also be put as strong desire and greed of food or many worldly things have made home into this home (our body - where we live). Desire and Greed are like an open sky which will never be fulfilled. A person can adopt any shortcut or take wrong path to fulfil this greed and desire. The result of sneaking or stealing money or food is you collecting lots of bad karma or toxins around your body inside and out. But believe me, if that is understood 100%, from your deepest being, you can easily reverse it. 

So understand this concept and learn to have some kind of discipline in your eating habits and lifestyle. 

That’s what I did. What Practice did I do? Three simple steps to understand the weight gain or weight loss.

Step 1: First step is to STOP the source of Toxins/Fat or “Karma”. 
​I stopped abusing my body. I started to live on the principle of Non violence, understood this huge concept is a very simplest manner. The first simple but the most important step is to give a boost to your energy levels, immune system, metabolism and weight loss process. For now we will try and understand a little aspect of Non-violence, which is to become vegetarian. We won’t go in details of it as there are lots of videos and articles available online which shows why you should become vegetarian. I will post some interesting links to the videos on why to become vegetarian? Once you have taken this life changing step, you have now initiated your weight loss process. So now just being vegetarian or if you are already vegetarian that does not mean the goal has been achieved yet. But yes you have an advantage to move forward quickly.

Step 2: Understand what are other toxins?
Belly is the root. All the information is sent from this area to the brain to process. But if the information itself is incorrect, manipulated, polluted, heavy how can you expect the clean and perfect results from the brain? So do not put into this stomach which is harmful such as alcohol, meat, greasy food etc. Other than just food, there are many influxes into our being. Many are subtle and many are visible. Many of them have manifested into our body in the form of fat, parasites, diseases etc. There are many toxins, but few of them are your 
Thoughts, Emotions, Anger, Cravings and many more like step 3.

Step 3: This is final but very important step is to WATCH. Watch with Awareness. Watch what?
W - Watch your Words
A - Watch your Actions
T - Watch your Time
C - Watch your Conduct
H - Watch your Habits

Now you would say how all of the above can contribute to my weight gain or weight loss. Yes these are the huge contributors. Knowingly or unknowingly if we don’t start watching all of the above, we are collecting the fruits of our ignorance. There are many scriptures which teaches about all the above. To know more about how all the above can impact your weight, you may read some jain scriptures for more details. I will post the links soon..

I will just share one very interesting question in a jain text:
Someone asked the master: Why this body is distorted, abnormally bulging, never able to loose weight no matter what?
The master replied: the employee or a person who steals from the employer collects that kind of karma which makes him/her bulging, fat and will never loose weight until he/she is self realized.  So WATCH your Actions. - (Book Gautam Pruccha, Enlightened Master Mahaveera Answers Questions)
This is a clear example of greediness and desire. One can go or take any path where they can be profited or their desire gets fulfilled. 

In short “As you sow so shall you reap”.

How to increase awareness to keep on WATCHing? 
-Intensified pranayama with my teacher’s guidance. 
-Meditated whenever possible. 

Keeping all above 3 steps in mind, I moved forward. I know, I am moving forward as I realized and felt like the layers of toxins are being peeled off. Layers by layers of negativities, emotions, past events, guilts, pre-conceived ideas, grudges, beliefs, etc. all seemed to have settled within suddenly started to dust off slowly. With every layers of emotions, anger, hate and revengefulness shedding off, I felt lighter and lighter. The body fat started to reduce. Intensive pranayama “Purnam Yoga” helped me to purge all the emotions, negativities, anger out of my system. 

During each and every yoga and meditation practice, I learnt to cry it off, accept the past, let it go, live in present etc. In my initial practice lot of past events came on the surface. Remained there for few days, bothering me, keeping me uncomfortable, distracted. But slowly I learnt how to collect courage, face it and finally purge it away through Purnam Yoga & Meditation. 

Now how would you know that you have started to peel the layers off?

1. Very first symptom is that you would Realize it. You would FEEL it - Deep.
2. You will feel lighter every time you have peeled off one layer.
3. It  (the one that has been peeled off is the one that is not needed anymore in your being / system), will never bother you again.
4. Those events, pain, situation will never get repeated again in your life.
5. This process will bring more clarity, wisdom and understanding.
6. You will feel more peace, joy and focused.
7. You won’t be bothered too much by outside chaos, as you are now focused inwards.

To understand this clearing of toxins and burning karma let me give what my layers looked like and how I managed to clear them off.

Past Grief, Abuse or Events
Your own Wrong Conduct

Cry it off. Let go.
Accept what happened - overcome the stage and not feel guilty - “Guilt is a Biggest Sin”.
Let it go - Dissolved it through meditation.
Confess it out to - The most Trusted person is a Spiritual Master.
Forgiveness to the one who did it.
Realize that the past is gone. 
Let it come to your surface.
Vow to yourself you will not repeat the mistake again and stick to it
Purge it out of the system through yoga.
Close the source of this negativity forever.
Forgive yourself and forget.

Tips how to achieve all of the above:

1. Do not force yourself, anything or do not pretend , let it happen.
2. Meditation, Purnam Yoga, Mantras 
3. Devotion, Trust and Surrendering .

Practical Tools for weight Loss:

1. Practice Kapalbhati 3 minutes - take break , 3 minutes- take break and 3 minutes. 
https://youtu.be/d6d7_oJGzKQ

2. During Meditation, focus on third eye which is in between your eyebrows.
https://youtu.be/EzQd3LnGSAA

3. Self Analyze to start improving day by day. 
https://youtu.be/mPnrnBowQSw
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"Learn to feed the Soul. Not Control Mind."

No matter how hard you try to melt down that fat through your physical action like exercise, workout or diet, but if you have never learnt how and what to feed your soul, you will never achieve the goal. 

Practicing to Live in the Soul fully, listening to your intuition or your heart is called "Soulfulness".
So what does "Mindfulness" mean? Living in Your Mind or head.

Through your practice to remain focused on your mind, you have not achieved much. Have you? You regained your weight, you still are angry, you still eat whatever you see.

Learn what is food for the Soul? Once you know what is food for Soul, you will automatically start sheding not only all the layers of fat, but many negativities, like anger, depression, loneliness etc will be gone.

Final words to conclude is that I eventually learnt how to practice "Soulfulness". Yes you think it is now a new concept while you just started to learn practicing Mindfulness? If you have practiced mindfulness before, let me give you a little hint. Mindfulness is the new concept. But the "Real Masters” teach to practice soulfulness, which is an Ancient practice but forgotten, unfortunately. According to them Mind does not exist at all, but we all know Soul exists, as our own existence proves it by itself. You may read how I practice soulfulness. Read my another blog on how to practice soulfulness. 

“Mind is such a fool, which is never full.” So now you know why your practice of Mindfulness never worked permanently as you have proved it by yourself, by reading this blog, as you might be also struggling through the weight loss process and nothing have worked yet, not even Mindfulness. So why not try Soulfulness. And wait whatever good that has happened while practicing mindfulness, if you focus deeply, all has happened because of Soulfulness. Mind is always on the Surface and Soul is deep. So we are familiar with mind only. 

So if you understand this, we can easily put our self improvement process on fire.

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Jai Siddhatma - Bow to all Liberated Souls
Spirituality With Shailja.
Thank you.

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