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With every training session we all work so hard on focussing why we are here and creating and maintaining balance. We are practicing ideas and principles that ultimately need to transcend the classroom and permeate our life in order for us to really benefit. I'd like to talk (what's new) here about my feeling on how this pertains to a huge aspect of our life: Food!

First of all, I want to acknowledge that we are all very unique and that we should really experiment and explore what works for us and what doesn't. I don't feel there is one diet for all. Actually, I feel there should be 6 billion different diets, one for each person on the planet because we are all uniquely different. Also, what works for us now dietarily will probably not work for us 10 years from now as our bodies change and metabolisms shift. So, just like in a yoga pose, we need to be open and sensitive to what's happening right now, so we can give ourselves what we need. Maybe more than any other aspect of our lives, we need strength and discipline to alter the deep-seated habits and attachment as well as addiction to food. This will require a sincere effort. It's a wonderful challenge that will benefit every aspect of your life. Improving your eating habits may be one of the single largest steps toward wellness and balance.

There are many interesting and important aspects to this subject. Although we are all unique and subjective, I feel there are objective and general guidelines or principles that are necessary and will be highly beneficial.

I feel the single most important aspect of a healthy diet is "NOT overeating" . Eating the proper amount of food is probably the largest factor in heightening your life span, increasing your energy level, heightening mental acuity, decreasing age related disease, including heart disease, strengthening your immune system, decrease obesity and obesity related problems, decreasing digestive problems, increasing bowel function which decreases toxicity and toxicity related problems like colon cancer to name a few. Also, the mental discipline and sensitivity developed to facilitate this will highly benefit every aspect of your life. Now, there are many issues associated with over eating, some very deeply rooted: unhappiness, stress, stuffing feelings, addiction and old eating habits. So, you can see why not over eating will take a sincere effort. I sincerely believe that if any of these issues are to be properly dealt with and eradicated, they must be honestly looked at or felt, something we are not doing if we continue to stuff our face (or bury these issues with food). It's time, I love myself!! Creating balance or health means exposing and eradicating the imbalances, which begins the process of healing. This is not any easy process, but what kind of success at any level is attained easily. If life were not challenging, how would we learn and grow. Let's embrace the challenge, let's support each other and let's enjoy the myriad of benefits we shall reap.

Now, not over eating is personal and subjective. What's too much food for you might not be enough for someone else. Whatever is the right amount of food today might not be tomorrow or 25 years from now. So, according to your age, physical activity, energy output, metabolism, etc. your diet will vary. It's very important to get in tune with your body's needs. In order to do that we are going to have to break some deep seated habit patterns. Like the way we eat, the amount we eat, the frequency we eat, what we eat, the time we eat, etc. A balanced diet needs to be attained in a balanced manner, so let's not change everything at once. Let's do it in a step-by-step manner, so we don't overwhelm ourselves and shock our bodies. It's called a gentle but firm approach.

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