PURPOSEFUL TRAINING

Purposeful Training

In today’s busy world, it is easy to get overwhelmed by what is happening around you and let it take control of your thoughts and emotions. With purposeful training at EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss in Bridgewater and Edison, New Jersey, you can relax your body and mind to reduce daily stress and anxiety and manage your dietary habits. Contact us for a purposeful training consultation or schedule an appointment online today.

Purposeful Training Q&A
What is purposeful training?

Purposeful training is a technique based on Buddhist principles that means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment through a gentle, nurturing lens. You focus on being intensely aware of what you sense and feel in the moment, without interpretation or judgment.
Many thoughts and emotions pervade you constantly, and it might seem like they’re out of your control. You might spend too much time planning, worrying, daydreaming, and thinking negative or random thoughts which can be draining. This can make you more likely to experience anxiety, stress, and symptoms of depression. Mindful training and exercise help you become aware of them and use that awareness to make long-term behavioral changes by directing your attention away from this kind of thinking and engaging with the world around you.
Our doctors at EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss work closely with you as you learn to adapt to your daily life, regardless of where it applies. We will answer your questions and remain available between visits via EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss.
purposeful training helps you to regain and take a more active role in your own life. You can regain a sense of control over your feelings and the way you interpret and react to the world around you.

How Does Purposeful Training Work?

Purposeful training requires you to make changes and pay attention to your internal thoughts, feelings, and the world around you, which can improve your behaviors and mental well-being. One of the most crucial parts of purposeful training is to learn how to be more attentive. You can be easily distracted by external factors such as your TV, phone, or computer.

Purposeful training requires you to take time to notice your surrounding environment, smells, tastes, sights, and sounds. Minimizing judgment about the stimuli around you is essential as you become more aware of your surroundings. This greatly helps reduce stress and avoid negative thoughts.
Simple mindful exercises can be practiced anywhere and at any time. Some of the most critical parts of purposeful training include the following:

• Live in the moment: Try to bring open, accepting, intentional, and discerning attention to everything you do and bring your attention back whenever the mind starts to wander. Find joy in simple pleasures.
• Focus on your breathing: When you have negative thoughts, try to sit down, take a deep breath and close your eyes. Focus on your breath as it moves in and out of your body. Sitting and breathing for even just a few minutes can help.
• Minimize judgment: Minimizing decisions about the stimuli around you is essential. This helps you reduce stress and negative thoughts.

For more structured purposeful exercises, such as body scan meditation or sitting meditation, you will need to set aside time when you can be in a quiet place without distractions or interruptions.

How Does Purposeful Training Benefit Me in The Long Term?

At EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss, our doctors often integrate purposeful training into weight-loss plans to help patients address unhealthy eating habits. Along with nutritional counseling, exercise, and obesity medications, it can help you lose weight. Even diseases like diabetes can see indirect improvements from purposeful training. It can help you change your diet and habits to manage the disease and symptoms better. However, that’s far from the only benefit of purposeful training. Other benefits include:

• Reducing stress: purposeful training is beneficial for several mental and physical disorders.
• Better sleep: Practicing purposeful meditation can help treat certain sleep disorders and improve sleep.
• Improved immunity: Greater gains in immune function are seen with practitioners of purposeful meditation training.
• Lower heart rate: Participants in purposeful training have shown significantly lower heart rates and performed better on a test of cardiovascular capacity.

While purposeful training can improve your relationship with food, you can also apply it to other areas of life. The principles and techniques you learn with purposeful training can also help you manage the following:

• Pain
• Stress
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Body fat
• Dementia
• Loneliness

If you are no longer bothered by things that used to irritate you, are more aware of your body, or snap out of your mental patterns, then you can be sure that purposeful training is taking effect.

To learn more about purposeful training and how it can apply to your life, call EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss or request an appointment online today.