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In 1995 I came to the United States and settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There I met Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, a medical doctor, yogi, and author. Dr. Khalsa is the president and medical director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation, and I credit him with turning my life around for the second time.

I began to work with Dr. Khalsa as his personal trainer; it was a wonderful experience for both of us. As I coached him to make his body stronger, he taught me yoga and meditation, through which I was finally able to get out of my body-obsessed mind-set.

In 1998 Dr. Khalsa invited me to join his company, Khalsa International, and become fitness director at the facility in Tucson, Arizona, where he treats his patients. He also introduced me to Joseph DeNucci, then the general manager at Miraval resort, whose "life in balance" philosophy was - and is - so in tune with my own. While I was working at Khalsa International, Mr. DeNucci, who had been a yoga teacher and is a very spiritual person, invited me to come to Miraval for a couple of days to see if I would like to create a fitness program for the spa. After those two days, my energy was flowing, and I knew in my heart that it was a place I'd be staying for a very long time.

My journey has taught me many things: that harnessing the power of a true core desire can change your entire life; that being physically fit and healthy must go hand in hand with being mentally and emotionally healthy; that if you want other people to love you, you first have to love yourself; and finally that loving what you're doing creates a positive fl ow of energy that's contagious. If you're passionate about your life, other people will share that passion.

A New Approach to Fitness

In the pages that follow, I will lead you on your own journey so that you, too, can arrive at a place where your mind and emotions are driving your desire to lose weight and become fit on both a conscious and a subconscious level. You will be using your mind to direct your body and working toward fitness from the inside out. As a result, I can promise that you will become thin, trim, fit, and as beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside.

There are many books on many subjects, including physical fitness, that tell people what to do. In my opinion, that is a lot like writing on someone else's blackboard with your own chalk. What I mean is that the authors of these books want you to see things from their perspective. In contrast, I will be asking you to consider your own perspective and to decide whether shifting the way you see yourself in relation to the world might serve you better. I believe that most of us already know what we should be doing to lose weight and improve fitness. In fact, with all the information on exercise and nutrition coming at us from the media every day, it would be almost impossible not to know. The problem is that for most people, there's a large disconnect between knowledge and action. My goal is to teach you how to shift your thoughts so that you are able to go from knowing to doing.

In this book, I will take you through the very same steps I followed to arrive at where I am today mentally, emotionally, and physically. I will provide all the information you need about what kinds of foods to eat and what kinds of exercise programs will work for you to achieve your individual goal and level of fitness. But that's part two of the plan. First I'm going to provide you with the information and understanding you need to be able to follow through with my program and actually achieve what you want.

The bottom line is that goals are achieved when the right information is loaded into the subconscious part of your brain. I will teach you how to harness the power of your subconscious mind to build the fit and fabulous body you want but have never been able to achieve. It's a question of mind over body!

Before we begin, I want to point out that my professional expertise lies in helping people to achieve health and fitness, which is, of course, the focus of this book. Personally, however, I know that all the information I'll be giving you can be used to achieve whatever you truly desire in every aspect of your life. All of these techniques are designed to create the right balance of body, mind, and spirit, which is all anyone needs to banish stress, defeat fear, overcome failure, and bring more happiness into his or her life.

© Nordine Zouareg 2007

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About the Author

Nordine Zouareg is an International Celebrity Fitness Coach who works with clients from around the world. Nordine has come a long way - from being born in the back of a truck in the Sahara desert and contracting Rickets to becoming an acclaimed fitness expert worldwide.