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If you are doing yoga, excess weight will definitely go. Y oga rejuvenates the system and brings so much sense into you that you will not overeat. Once a certain level of awareness arises in your body, your body becomes such, it will just eat what is needed for it. It will not eat anything more. This is not because you are controlling or regulating your life in anyway or because somebody is telling you to go on a diet. With yogic practices, you do not have to control yourself. Y ou just do the practices. This takes care of the system in such a way that it will not allow you to eat more than needed. If you do some other exercises or dieting processes, you are always trying to control yourself. This is the big difference with yoga. When you start kriyas, certain people start losing weight, certain people start gaining weight. If your digestion was bad and your ability to convert the food into flesh was not good, when you start practicing kriyas, the digestive fires get activated and because of the improvement in digestion, the conversion of food to flesh will be more efficient and you start gaining weight.
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If your digestive fires were already okay and you start doing kriyas, once again the conversion rate will improve. But instead of turning the food into flesh, it will turn food into a subtler dimension of energy. Now, however much you eat, you will find you are losing weight. If you are practicing the kriyas, you may even find that if you eat a larger quantum of food, you still do not put on weight, you even lose weight. Or, it may be the other way around: your food quantum comes down dramatically, but still you do not lose weight. This is simply because the conversion ratio is being altered. We do not teach yoga to reduce weight. It is not something that you do to slim down or for your backache or your headache. Y es, those things will anyway happen becoming healthy, becoming peaceful, loving, gentle these are the side effects of yoga, not the focus of yoga. The focus of yoga is to set another dimension alive within you, which is beyond the physical. Only when that is alive, slowly the existence opens up to you in a million different ways. Things that you never thought existed become a living reality for you, simply because a dimension beyond the physical has become alive.
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I feel good and healthy after doing kriya

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5 months ago

yes it is really true. if u do it in a longterm process you will find wonderful results

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Very true, sadhguru.. I can start feeling these symptoms after started doing my kriya's regularly in a short period of time.

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What is the difference between Kriya and Yoga Asana ?

N e e l e s h w a ri

I feel very calm and peaceful after doing shakthi salana kriya! I feel a wonderful practice offered to me. I cant just say thanks for this.

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I definitely agree that Yoga is way more than just doing something physical. It allows us to create deep connections with our inner selves. This is one amazing post. Thank you for sharing this with us Sadhguru.

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After doing kriya im eating much and quickly feel hungry, but since my wait remains same,thanks for sadhguru for giving me this wonderful oppurtunities

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