This document outlines a 5-month program using principles from the Bhagavad Gita to improve one's life. Participants focus on resolving two major issues or problems. They read one chapter of the Gita per week, journaling ideas and solutions. A mentor is consulted weekly. After 5 months, participants expect to have their problems significantly reduced or solved, with reduced stress and improved relationships.

1. Gita Yoga
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Improve your life in
5 months
using the principles of Bhagavad Gita
By Andre Gray
www.GitaYoga.net

2. Introduction
In this economy financial stability, let alone security, is difficult to
achieve. Relationships with our spouses, children, relatives and friends can
be strained, unhealthy and even destructive. If we or someone we love are
dealing with health problems this can also exact a heavy and very damaging
toll on us emotionally.
It is well documented that in stressful financial times divorce rates
soar and the number of articles in health magazines and scientific journals
that link illnesses to strained or broken relationships is too numerous to
count.
All these issues, when unresolved and left unchanged can lead to:
• Insomnia
• Digestive Problems
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Distress
• Irritability
• Anger and Resentment
• Divorce
• Loneliness
• Anxiety
• Stress
The longer we do not address these issues and change course the higher
the probability that we will not be able to change course at all. This does not
have to be so. We can start a processs today and in less than 5 months have
turned our life completely around.

3. The Cause
End of the world conspiracy theorists notwithstanding the probably of
modern society coming an abrupt halt in the next year are unlikely.
Merely endeavoring to survive, not to mention succeed, in today’s
world can be overwhelming, causing stress, straining our relationships and
diminishing our emotional and physical health.
The solutions we need are solutions that have stood the test of time
are as sound today as ever before. The principles of the Bhagavad Gita are
such solutions. The principles of the Bhagavad Gita are tried and tested. The
endorsements of Arjuna, Shankara, Thoreau, Emerson and Gandhi are
testimony to the universally applicable nature of its content.
The Requirements
What you will need:
• Bhagavad Gita
• Bhagavad Gita Mentor/Advisor
• Journal/Diary
• 45 uninterrupted minutes a day, 5 days a week.
• Commitment

4. How to Begin
1) Select a time of day when you can remain uninterrupted for 45 minutes.
This is of absolute necessity.
2) Spend some time identifying, clarifying and writing out the two biggest
issues or problems you face. Write these two issues clearly and concisely in
two separate sentences/phrases on the first page of your journal. (We will
work only on solving and dealing with two of your major concerns in this 5
month period, no more.)
3) Share these two issues with your Mentor.
4) Monday: Write Problem #1 into your journal.
5) Open the Bhagavad Gita to the first chapter and begin reading. As you
read, with attention and focus, ideas, solutions and realizations will begin to
come to mind as the various philosophical principles resonant with the issue
you are confronting in your own life. As these ideas and solutions come to
mind stop reading and write them down in your journal before continuing.
Read only the first chapter.
6) If during your reading no ideas or possible solutions come to you, do not
be worried, this is common and more than likely to be the case. If, however,
you were able to write down some possible ideas and solutions go back, read
them and plan a way that you will implement or begin to implement that
idea or solution in the next 24 hours.

5. 7) Tuesday: Repeat the process with Problem #2. Write the problem at the
top of the appropriate page and begin reading the first chapter of the Gita.
Again you will write any ideas or solutions that come to mind. Review the
ideas and find ways to implement those ideas and solutions in the next 24
hours.
NOTE: Read the same chapter the entire week. Monday and
Wednesday read for problem #1. Tuesday and Thursday read for
Problem #2.
8) Friday: Compile the solutions of the week on to the page, along with any
questions or clarification you need about a particular principle. Contact your
Mentor/Advisor, either by phone or e-mail, and share the progress you have
made over the week. You can also take this opportunity to ask any questions
you may have about particular points in the Gita and how to implement them
in relation to the problems on which you are currently working. Continue to
implement the ideas and solutions gained over the previous four days.
9) Following Monday: Repeat the process reading from chapter two.

6. The Results
There are 18 Chapters in the Gita, reading a chapter a week you will have
completed this process in less than 5 months. You will have spent this time
proactively confronting, addressing and solving the two problems that have
caused you distress.
After the 5 months you will find:
• Those two “enormous” problems, if not already solved, are no longer
insurmountable but are smaller and far more manageable life issues.
• You are in control of your problems they are not in control of you.
• You have regained self-confidence.
• You will have significantly reduced if not eliminated stress and
anxiety.
• Your relationships have improved dramatically as well as your ability
to sustain them.
• You have found the power and optimism that comes with confronting
and dealing constructively with life’s issues.
5 months may seem like a long time, particularly when we are distressed.
However, with this process you will make incredible improvements in the
situation, and in your ability to deal with the situation, within weeks, not
months.
For more information contact the author Andre Gray at::
www.GitaYoga.net