What Should You do With a Yoga Book?

If you are deciding which yoga book to buy for your collection, choose a book that will captivate your imagination, and suit your needs. On the subject of reading yoga books: It has been a life long passion for some of us. Yet, it is not the number of books you read, but how you apply them to your life and the lives of others around you, which makes a difference.

The practical application of what you learn is more important than the quantity of Yoga books you read. So, the question is: How will you put the knowledge you learn to good use? To take an extreme view: If a homeless man reads personal finance magazines every day, he has educated himself, but he has not applied any of the advice.

You would be surprised what the homeless know. I knew a man who was homeless, yet he was very familiar with the ups and downs of the stock market. How did he learn so much? He pulled the Wall Street journal from the trash and mentally absorbed it. Unfortunately, he never applied the knowledge he learned.

This is a critical point to understand. Knowledge is like a bank savings account - You have to save, but you also have to put your savings to good use. In the words of Andrew Carnegie, I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

To learn knowledge, without applying it to life, is a waste. It is not intentional, in most cases, but what a shame it is to know so much and not be able to help anyone with it.

Within yoga, today, are so many books to read, which were not accessible to many of us a few decades ago. Some yoga texts have been in existence for thousands of years, but local libraries did not have much on the topic of yoga.

At that time, we did not have VCRs, DVDs, Internet access, e-books, MP3 Downloads, or yoga audio books.

So, what did we do? When we acquired a yoga book, or any book, we analyzed it by hand, and read a little. We made sure it would suit our needs, before we checked it out of the library, or purchased it from a book store.

The reason is simple If we buy or borrow any kind of a book, the value of our time is magnified by our complete comprehension and the ability to put it to practical use.

Copyright 2007 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, has written many books on the subject of yoga. He is a co-owner and the Director of yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in Attleboro, MA. http://www.riyoga.com He has been a certified Master yoga teacher since 1995. To receive a Free yoga e-book: "Yoga in practice," and a Free Yoga Newsletter, please visit: http://www.yoga-teacher-training.org/index.html

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The Amazing Benefits Of Green Tea - Especially For Weight Loss

In this article I'm going to talk about the various benefits you can obtain from adding green tea to you daily beverage intake.

But before I get into that, you need to know what green tea is.

Unlike Black tea most of us drinks, green tea comes from China or Japan. Not only is it an ancient tea leaf, it also has amazing nutritional benefits you won't find anywhere else.

green tea has become more and more popular among Americans in the past decade due to the media influence and the ever increasing "push" to live healthy.green tea provides us with some of nature's most powerful natural substances.

Let's now talk about the major benefits of drinking green tea.

Here is a short list of benefits you can obtain from drinking this amazing teas:

1. It reduces high blood pressure.
2. It reduces blood sugar.
3. Contains Antioxidants to remove free radicals in human body.
4. It reduces the risk of heart diseases.
5. It reduces the risk of stroke.
6. It reduces the risk of blood clot.
7. It reduces bad cholesterol in the blood.
8. It reduces harmful effects from cigarettes smoking.
9. It reduces arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
10. Helps prevent osteoporosis.
11. Helps prevent allergy, cold and flu.
12. Keeping fluid balance.
13. Relieve fatigue.
14. Awakening thought (also includes concentration).
15. It boosts your immune system.
16. Aiding in cancer prevention and reducing tumor growth.
17. Helps with oral hygiene
18. Supporting liver protection.
19. Helps with stress relief.
20. And this one is a major benefit - it aids in weight Loss by increasing the metabolism and burning calories. You won't find this in many teas.

Drinking only a few cups of green tea can do your bodyvery good.

If you are looking to lose weight with green tea...well it's very easy. It seems that the media made green tea a very popular weight loss remedy. Due to it's attention...they have now came up with weight loss pills with green tea in them.

...Imagine that...a healthy diet pill.

That is just another form of green tea which makes it easier for people to commit to such a healthy substance.Taking a capsule is much easier than committing to drinking a few cups of green tea.

In the end I'm sure that the capsule based green teas will help you lose weight much faster than the green tea itself, due to other ingredients withing the capsule which boosts the process.

It all depends on the consumer's need in the end.

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