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The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self | 
| Author: Charles Eisenstein
Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
Buy New: $5.45
You Save: $8.50 (61%)
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 109484
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Revised
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0967089727
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780967089720
ASIN: 0967089727
Publication Date: August 2003
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Product Description
The Yoga of Eating is a practical and inspiring manual that offers original insights on the physical and spiritual functions of sugar, fat, meat, and other foods; fasting, dieting, processing, willpower, and the deeper principles of self-nurture. This book appeals to a higher authority--your own body--and shows how to access and trust the wisdom your body has to offer.
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 The Yoga of Eating March 12, 2008
H. Branoff (Vancouver, BC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be read by everyone who eats! Read it and pass it on!
Healing food for the mind! February 25, 2008
Tesa (Cape Ann)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd like to second the reviewer who wrote... "if we lived in a sane world, this book would be a bestseller".
And we can only hope that this day will come!
If you have ever felt confused about how to make sense of the contradictory recommendations of all the external dietary authorities out there as to what "eating healthy" involves, this book could really change your life. It is all about learning to access and trust our body's great intelligence and messages about what we each need to eat, rather than preferring to trust the blanket prescriptions and advice of all kinds of external authorities or traditions. This book offers profound (and I really mean profound) reflections about the relationship between food and consciousness, between our eating practices and our spiritual growth (as individuals and a society). It totally challenges the very foundations of our current culture... which is very much at war with our bodies. It offers a very inspiring and surprisingly simple alternative.
I just loved this book. Reading it was an exhilarating, liberating and healing experience all at once.
While it definitely goes against the grain, it offers the kind of simple and elegant truth that one ends up immediately recognizing as right on!
The Yoga of Eating December 2, 2007
Barbara Hastings (Oregon)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is brilliant, and the man who wrote it has the awareness of a sage. I found myself reading it like I would a John Grisham novel....... with anticipation of what the next page would reveal. Now, I need to go back and savor the profound knowledge Eisenstein has given those of us who have struggled for years with eating and weight loss. It is the first book on weight that doesn't deal with right and wrong. Most of us who have had to deal with body image and weight know exactly what I am talking about. We are our own worse critics.
Eisenstein has a vast knowledge of health and nutrition overall. However, that isn't his focus. His point of view puts the individual in charge of listening to his or her own unique body's wisdom as a guide and resource. For the first time in years, I feel hopeful that I can have a healthy relationship with my body.
Awareness rather than a diet May 2, 2007
Scott Stephenson
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is not about ayurveda or following any other diet program, and does not include recipes or identify what you should eat. The author offers suggestions about how to bring more awareness to your eating habits and life. His solution is to stop forcing your body to conform to the mind or the latest diet strategy. Instead, pay as much attention as possible to each aspect of eating, from "Am I hungry?" to savoring each bite to listening for when the body is satisfied. If the bite doesn't taste good, then the body doesn't need it or want it. He addresses and proposes ideas for cravings, including theories for psychological understanding.
For the more spiritually evolved, he confronts the idea that enlightened people eat vegan, or survive only on air, etc. Just because an enlightened person eats only vegetables doesn't mean that eating only vegetables makes you enlightened. The author suggests that that your body will tell you when you're vegetarian, not your mind. There's even a nice essay about eating meat versus eating vegan from a consciousness evolution and cultural impact perspective.
He offers a highly conscious perspective for those seeking to bring more awareness to their lives. If you're open to the idea of accessing your body's own intelligence or intuition and looking for perspectives to move you further along, then this book will be valuable. If you're looking to be told what to eat, look elsewhere.
Illuminates the Body/Mind/Spirit of Eating. March 31, 2007
Kaayla T. Daniel (Albuquerque, NM United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Readers of today's diet and nutrition books face bewildering and contradictory advice. Eisenstein's gift is to help us cut through all the mental chatter and learn to trust in the higher authority of our own bodies. As we cultivate this inner wisdom, we will learn to distinguish artificial addictions from authentic appetites and identify foods that not only bring us great pleasure but support our quest for health. As a student of yoga, I love this profoundly simple book.
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