{"id":2398,"date":"2025-08-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:29:45","slug":"yoga-looks-at-the-mind-weight-loss-through-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/yoga-looks-at-the-mind-weight-loss-through-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"YOGA LOOKS AT THE MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our success as a species is largely due to our intelligence, out capacity for thought. The mind has become very good at what it does. Success has spurred it on to greater aspirations. Now it wonders if it would be better off on its own, and teases itself with notions of a virtual reality. The mind entertains itself with imaginings of &#8216;everything &#8216; just being thought. It forgets the requisite coalescence that allows it to exist, making consciousness and thought possible. To state it mildly, the mind has thought itself into a state of imbalance. Yoga reveres balance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_914\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/76175_301487916641385_1242933732_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-914\" class=\"size-full wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/76175_301487916641385_1242933732_n.jpg\" alt=\"Yoga Maintains Balance Over the Mind\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/76175_301487916641385_1242933732_n.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/76175_301487916641385_1242933732_n-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/76175_301487916641385_1242933732_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoga Maintains Balance Over the Mind<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yoga reveres balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our success as a species is largely due to our intelligence, out capacity for thought. The mind has become very good at what it does. Success has spurred it on to greater aspirations. Now it wonders if it would be better off on its own, and teases itself with notions of a virtual reality. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,28,29,5],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balance","tag-mind","tag-thought","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}