| There is an overwhelming percentage of our society | | | | of human history has seen huge improvements in |
| that is becoming overweight. Of course critics often | | | | technology, medicine, and science there has been an |
| pass the buck to fast-food, television, or long work | | | | unfortunate side effect. We have forgotten how to |
| hours. It's true, our way of life as a species has | | | | relax. We have forgotten that, before television and an |
| completely changed over the last 100 years and these | | | | 8 hour workday, we used to really know how to enjoy |
| changes do affect us and our bodies. But are they the | | | | a pleasant sunrise or the sound of the wind. We used |
| cause of the problem or just a symptom? | | | | to enjoy being who we are, now we are constantly |
| "Help I want to lose weight quickly" is one of the most | | | | looking for ways to improve ourselves. |
| common cries for help we hear today and it's not | | | | More than fast food, T.V., or long work hours, our way |
| what it appears to be. We don't just want a quick-fix | | | | of thinking, our way of being, is the reason we are |
| to our weight problem, the problem is much deeper. | | | | gaining so much weight. We often forget that our body |
| Think about it, it's not just what we eat or what we do | | | | is an extension of our mind. If our mind is burdened |
| in our day to day lives that has changed, it's how we | | | | with self-judgment then our body will begin to change |
| feel and even how we think. | | | | to suit that way of being. If we forget how to enjoy |
| Truly, this call for help is actually "help I've forgotten | | | | life, our body will change to make it harder to enjoy. |
| how to live naturally". Even though the last 100 years | | | | |