Saturday, September 20, 2008

Benefits of Yoga!

Nowadays the buzz word is YOGA! Everywhere around the world, everyone speaks of Yoga now! Though it started and belonged to India once, the importance of it is getting exposed and the benefits are really seen in real life.

Western, European, Middle East Countries are practicing Yoga. Why this sudden change? I won't say sudden change, but a slow change that is happening. The speed is not enough if one wants to live healthy, peacefully and more importantly happily.

What does Yoga do? Though I have given the definitions already and there are forms of Yoga, the asanas, Karma Yoga and Bhakthi Yoga are easy to do. But, it requires complete committment and dedication.

Physical Benefits of Yoga Asanas:

1. It brings a good practice and habit of exercising in human system;

2. It gives a rhythmic life--you set a time to do the Asanas and it becomes a routine;

3. It helps in shreding weight; throught continuous practice and making it as part of daily routine, all portions of your body goes through physical exercise;

4. The entire body gets a shining; do not use towel or napkin or clothes to wipe out the sweat; just do it with your hands and it really helps;

5. Helps to control or even reduce BP, Cholestrol, mainly sugar in the blood;

6. It helps to control and reduce the sugar level - Diabetics;

7. It helps in eliminating the back ache; with proper guidance if you do the asanas, sure that it will help in back ache;

8. It helps in eliminating the neck pain as well;

9. It helps in controlling and eliminating the Arthiritis; Do it when you are not in pain and know the right asanas to do for arthiritis;

10. Asana is not only about physical movement (postures) of body. It also involves proper breathing; proper inhaling and exhaling through nostrils. This helps in controlling asthma and bronchitis;

Benefits Related to Mind:

1. Through meditation and proper breathing techniques, the mind can be controlled onto something that you really want to focus on during meditation; Normally the mind is not easily controllable; it waves--for a second it is Las Vegas and next second it is in Sydney and the next moment in Delhi. Mind has no speed and it is the fastest travelling machine in this universe;

2. It helps proper breathing practice which is very imporant for a healthy life;

3. Keeps the mind clean and avoids bad thoughts;

4. The big word and most often used word in the machine world is STRESS. It can be easily controlled and you can control your mind rather than you are controlled by it;

5. The focus and concentration improves;

And Many More....... what benefit you wanna get out of Yoga and Meditation? You will get it. Only thing you need to do is to practice them with full committment and dedication. Love doing it and you will get what you want!

All the Best!

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