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Stop the feeble attempts to get ahead.Be mindful about every single thing youdo. This enables you to get more done, bemore efficient and more effective. And itleaves time for — yes, exercise! Too of-ten we say we don’t have enough time toexercise. Well, if you stop multitaskingand truly save time for things that aremost important, then you will have timeto exercise and also time to prepare thehealthy food you need to get you throughthe day.

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High intensity interval training (HI-IT) is gaining popularity with nosigns of slowing down anytime

soon. HIIT is characterized by cycles ofshort burst high intensity activity atmaximum heart rate coupled with recov-ery cycles to improve aerobic fitness.

The American College of Sports medi-cine predicts it will be the top fitnesstrend in 2014.

Driving the popularity of such work-outs are the time requirements, or rather,lack thereof. Traditional HIIT sessionslast between 18 and 27 minutes and arecompleted two to three times per week.If you compare that to publicly held rec-ommendations of 30 minutes, five timesa week, it is clear why fitness enthusiastsin our time-crunched, deadline-enhancedsociety would jump on board.

Research shows that HIIT can achievethe same training benefits as comparedto continuous aerobic exercise. Studies

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Yoga can help you find the inner peacenecessary to break away from being on the

prowl against just about anything in your path

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Imagine you’re driving a carriage. The horsesare crazed, and you can’t control them. Whathappens?

Now, know that the horses are yoursenses, and the carriage is your mind. To

control your mind, you must control your senses.Untrained, out-of-control senses are adept at

flinging the mind off track. They are hunters,always on the prowl. They might be seekingsecurity, love, money, the job, an improved self,entertainment and distraction or positivethoughts.

When they spot prey, your mind must covet.And how do you begin to covet? You covet whatyour senses perceive every day, and you becomeexternally oriented.

Welcome to the Adversarial RelationshipParadigm.

It’s You vs. Everything Else. EverythingElse is separate from you and waiting to beacquired, conquered, defeated or adored.

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Your mind is pulledoutside yourself, sev-ered from the essenceof your life’s purpose.You’re too busy wres-tling prey to theground.

So how do we learnthat behavior and whatcan we do about it?How can we betterlearn to navigate ourincreasingly combativesociety and find peaceof mind? One way tohelp, or course, is yoga.Yoga is incredibly pop-ular in Southwest Flori-da, but are you gettingthe right thing out of it?Can you use it to easethis sense of never-ending conflict?

You must tameyour senses

Why do we do yoga?It has nothing to do

with fitness, althoughfitness can be a byprod-uct. Every yoga prac-tice begins with settingan intention. Whatknowledge do you needto recognize?

An hour’s practiceprimes your body’senergy centers withprana (life force); then,you’re ready for finalmeditation. This is whatyou’ve been workingtoward. You’re openand ready for the uni-versal download.

It’s during this mo-ment that some arefortunate to experienceSamadhi. Samadhi isunion with the divine.It’s transcendence fromthe physical. You areone with all that is.

You are no longer anisolated being walkingon the surface of theplanet. You and theuniverse are not just

connected but one.Since the universe isabundant, there is noloneliness, want orneed.

The AdversarialRelationship Paradigm,You vs. EverythingElse, does not fit intothis equation.

Samadhi is possible,but, because yoursenses lead your mindto covet, you can’treach it.

You must tame yoursenses. Now.

Pratyahara: sensewithdrawal

Yoga has eightlimbs. The first fourare basic: Yamas andNiyamas (codes ofconduct), Pranayama(breath control) andAsana (the physicalpostures). These areaddressed in most gen-eral yoga classes.

The upper fourlimbs move into mind.

If you want to takeyour yoga to a differentlevel, if you want toexperience Samadhi,Pratyahara is next.

When you sever thesenses’ connection tothe mind, the mind is nolonger pulled outwardand is free to moveinward. Precision: Thegoal is not to clear orempty the mind but tofocus the mind. Oncethe mind is focused,then unification withthe divine, all there is,is possible.

How can you tameyour senses? Para-doxically, you traveldeeper into them.

Allow silence to belife’s soundtrack

Sit in Sukhasana,cross-legged and on theground. Close youreyes. Count each in-halation and exhalation.Every day, see how

high you can countbefore being interrupt-ed by a thought. Youhave thoughts approxi-mately every 1.2 sec-onds, so be patient withyourself.

Isolate sound. Sitanywhere: home, acorner at work, out-side. With your eyesclosed, note the indi-vidual sounds. The airconditioning. Voicesoutside the door. Yourcomputer’s hum. Birds.Choose one sound, andfocus on it. Amplify ituntil it drowns all oth-ers.

Fast one day perweek. Drink only hotwater with lemon. Sipit, and be grateful.

Enter periods ofvoluntary celibacy. Ifyou can only make it asingle day, so be it.

Invest in blindfoldsand earplugs. Sit out-side, and feel your seaton the earth and thewind on your skin.Instead of defining thesensation, just feel it.

Turn off all commu-nication devices andsocial media for oneday. Or an hour.

Every hour, on thehour, close your eyesfor one minute.

For one day, don’tbuy anything.

A favorite: Do notspeak today. If a day isimpossible, set asideone hour of silence.

Get an eye pillow.Lie down on the floor,set your phone’s In-sight Timer, cover youreyes and breathe forten minutes.

Allow silence to beyour life’s soundtrack.Turn off the housetelevision. Drive with-out the radio.

Life of equanimityand serenity

As the stimulation

of your senses driftsinto nothingness, yourmind will enter a fo-cused state of concen-tration. You will havemoved into Dharana,the sixth limb of yoga.As you practice, youwill naturally and even-tually drift into a stateof meditation, Dhyana.

This process mightbe frustrating becausealthough you’ve madestrides disengagingfrom the mad stim-ulation of your senses,they will interrupt you

from time to time. Ac-knowledge the thoughtsgently, without sup-pressing them, andthen let them go.

With time, Samadhi,a feeling of bliss andunification with all thatis, will begin to mani-fest in your practice.

Disengaged fromyour senses’ demands,you will be able to live alife of equanimity andserenity despite whatthe out-of-control stal-lions throw you. Ene-mies. Opposition. Prey.

Targets. You will departthe Adversarial Rela-tionship Paradigm.

And, from a differ-ent place, you can getdown to business.

Nancy B. Loughlin is a writer andyogi in Fort Myers. She can bereached at NancyLoughlin@Ya-hoo.com or Twitter @Nancy-Loughlin.

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