Will Yoga Help Me Lose Weight

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hey guys Mike vect here with yoga for men the other day we received a message on our Facebook page uh from someone inquiring about whether or not yoga would help them lose weight uh great question absolutely yoga will help you lose weight but not probably in the traditional way you might think of losing weight of course there's the physical fitness aspect to the yoga practice where you're going to burn calories as you're moving through your body but I think the main way that yoga might help us lose weight if that's what we need to do is the same way that it can help us deal with you know other addictions or even obsessions that we have you know in terms of helping us quit smoking you know it just allows it it makes us more mindful right the yoga practice makes us more mindful we start to pay attention to you know the things that we're doing off of the mat by paying attention to every little thing that we're doing while we're on the mat and in that we can start to move you know beyond the active mind right or even the just reactive mind to slowing things down a little bit to where we might start to notice you know how and why why we think the way we do and why we make the decisions that we do and once you're at that point you can start to shift right we can start to make different changes it might mean that instead of grabbing that cigarette that you're having that impulse to smoke you just make the decision not to have that one doesn't mean that you're not going to have another one later on that day but just in that moment of deciding that this isn't what I want to do right here and right now you start to develop that habit you start to change you start to shift that habit and really that's what yoga is about yoga is about little tiny changes over long periods of time so there you have it becoming more mindful in everything that we do guys feel free to submit questions on the yoga for men page and we'll do our best to answer them here for you namaste