If you’ve been trying to lose weight, you know how extremely difficult it can be. Counting calories, strenuous exercises that leave you panting for breath, and spending hundreds of dollars on weight loss plans hoping each time “this” one will work for you. It’s incredibly frustrating.

Of course, for most of us, shedding unwanted pounds does require watching our calories and getting of the sofa. But the good news is if you want to achieve and maintain your ideal body weight, you don’t have to spend another penny on special diets or run a marathon to do so.

What’s the secret? Simple. Learn about yoga breathing. When you apply the simple principles of this doctrine, you will address your weight problems on a whole new level.

Who knew losing weight could be as easy as breathing?

You discover how to develop a level of consciousness that includes the mind, body and spirit. Yoga breathing becomes an excellent tool for finally melting away unwanted pounds.

Learn about yoga breathing to dramatically speed up your metabolism

Consistent application of the exercises – which take 5 minutes a day or less – will allow you to change your body and metabolism without strenuous exercise and dieting to distract you. No two people approach poses and yoga breathing in exactly the same way. That’s because each person works within his or her own level of comfort. Once you become aware of your individual needs, you’ve taken the first step to using yoga as an effective weight loss tool.

During yoga the asanas, or postures, affect certain glands in a manner that causes them to increase the rate of hormone secretion. This is especially true with the thyroid, as it is instrumental in regulating body metabolism. Two asanas specifically designed to stimulate the thyroid are the shoulder stand and the fish posture. These exercises also increase fat metabolism meaning stored fat now contributes to muscle and is also burned away as energy. So not only do you lose weight, you’ll have a sleeker, more defined muscle tone. A sluggish energy level becomes energized.

Certain asanas massage the organs in the abdomen, which in turn release stored fat tissue. Other asanas correct metabolic imbalances by influencing the endocrine and nervous system.

These imbalances are one of the prime causes of obesity. Once you learn about yoga breathing, and practice the exercises regularly, you’ll also be able to breathe in a manner that allows the body cells, including fat cells, to increase the amount of oxygen they receive. Oxidation then burns up the fat cells.

And when you continue to practice yoga, you gradually burn more and more calories. Not only that, yoga calms anxiety, which is often is the culprit for overeating.

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When you make a New Year Resolution, or establish a goal, do you approach the journey as a hare or a tortoise? As you venture down the road toward your eventual destination, do you sprint, or prefer to run a marathon? Personally, I am a marathon runner when it comes to my dreams, resolutions and daily goals. Some gifted folks can sprint to the finish line with incredible, quick results. I, on the other hand, am happier going the distance one small step at a time, one day at a time, at my own tortoise pace because I finally figured out that “it really is the journey not the destination that truly is important to me”. I credit my my middle class, Midwest upbringing (and firm, wise parents) to my patience, practicality and willingness to work hard. That patience, along with persistence and passion have, over the years, enabled me to stick with my dreams long past the time when many would have given up and moved on. Call me stubborn, but that stick-to-it-ive-ness – i.e. patience -has paid big dividends on my dreams.

In the course of the past five years, as I have studied and tested what ‘works and doesn’t work’ for resolution-making-and-keeping, I have continually circled round to the notion that good, old-fashioned, common sense is enormously helpful. So much of ‘what has worked’ for me is simple and straight forward. No rocket science, or complicated formulas are needed . . . What is necessary is a dream about which you have great passion and a fierce belief that you have what it takes to succeed.

Here are 10 Common Sense Tips, that can lead to success with dreams, resolutions and daily goals:

Dare To Dream: Open your mind to the endless possibilities. Introspection and research can pay huge dividends: Discover and contemplate the ‘who, what, when, where, why, and how’ of your dream at the outset; then keep your plans simple and realistic, focus on just one life-altering dream at a time.
Decide: When you reach the ‘A-HA’ moment, that fabulous point in time when you know what you must do, make a firm decision to ‘go for it’ with everything you’ve got. No slacking, or quitting is allowed.
Define: In one concise sentence specify what you intend to achieve, how you intend to get to the finish line, and why you’re entering the race.
Develop A Plan: Dreams are huge and overwhelming. A well thought out ‘written plan’ with clear-cut, simple steps, deadlines and a timeline will enable you to proceed methodically, with confidence because you have a system – a process, a game plan that will take you from start to finish.
Do It Daily: Take one small step at a time, one day at a time, for one year. Make your passions ‘Lifetime Resolutions’ that are with you for good, not just something that you do and cross off the list!
Don’t Procrastinate: Just show up and do something every single day, especially the days when you are the least motivated. Those days are big hurdles. Each hurdle that you cross takes you closer to your destination – and that day’s work could turn out to be your best ever!
Don’t Give In To Fear: Fear and doubt are ‘dream-killers’ because they cloud your good judgment and rob you of optimism and positive thoughts. Give fear and doubt the boot by ‘getting busy’ and producing fresh results and a new-found sense of accomplishment every single day.
Don’t Get Discouraged: Progress can be painfully slow and obstacles more plentiful than victories. Carefully track tasks and milestones, in writing, so you can celebrate your wins and take credit for crossing hurdles one-by-one.
Don’t Grow Bored: Revamp and revise your plan frequently, injecting new life into each juncture of the journey. Have some fun!
Don’t Give Up: Patience, passion, persistence, and perseverance will see you through. You may have to ‘start over’ many, many times, but a key to success is being willing and committed to ‘start over’ as many times, as are necessary.

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