Meditation and Goop

Goop is a weekly newsletter from Gwyneth Paltrow that I subscribe to. She has a pretty cool website with little tips and sights from her travels and adventures and people and places that have inspired her.

Last week the newsletter showcased this detox that she's done from a place in NYC called Organic Avenue. This week was on meditation. I thought I'd share a paragraph from the newsletter:

"The Buddha was more like a therapist than the founder of a religion. He saw, from his own experience, that self-awareness makes self-control possible. If we want to change what we become, the Buddha taught, we have to change the way we think. “A disciplined mind is the road to Nirvana."

For all of my patients and friends that are doing detoxes right now or have been struggling to lose weight remember this little paragraph. A lot of the time we are not aware of what we are thinking so we can't be in control. We just live through our immediate reactions: if we eat something sweet, we want more of it even though we are full. Anyway that's enough deep thoughts for tonight.