Practice Yoga For Your Total Well Being
Hi Friends,
Today I wish to share with you my experience with benefits of yoga and how it transformed my life and yours too if you would put aside some time in a week to put it into practice.
Looking back, I have started with yoga for some years now and I find that not only does it give me wonderful physical workouts; it also provides me with a completely different outlook in life. It does not matter how tired I may be going into class, I always look forward to it and I come out a changed person when the session ends. I feel refreshed and renewed, like every cell in my body is sparkling.
As a fact, yoga brings us both physical and mental benefits. Physical benefits are toned and better built body with improved respiration and energy level. It also improves our metabolism and promotes better circulatory health.
For mental benefits, yoga teaches us how to focus on breathing while we look and feel younger. It improves our athletic performance too.
Consistent practice of yoga with meditation help to control ailments such as diabetes, blood pressure, digestive problems, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic and heart problems. Scientific tests have proved that yoga has the ability to increase the control of autonomic or involuntary functions like temperature, heartbeat and blood pressure. The very essence of yoga lies in attaining mental peace, improved concentration powers, a relaxed state of living and harmony in relationships.
Through the practice of yoga, we become aware of the interconnectedness between our emotional, mental and physical levels.
My further studies into yoga reveal its following benefits:-
BENEFITS
Physicians and scientists are discovering more and more new health benefits of practicing yoga. Studies show it can relieve the symptoms of several common and potentially life-threatening illnesses such as arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic fatigue, diabetes, asthma and obesity.
Asthma
Studies conducted at yoga institutions in India have reported impressive improvements in asthma. It has also been proved that asthma attacks can usually be prevented by practice of yoga.
Respiration Problems
Patients who practice yoga have a better chance of gaining the ability to control their breathing problems. With the help of yogic breathing exercises, it is possible to control an attack of severe shortness of breath.
High Blood Pressure
The relaxation and exercise components of yoga have a major role to play in the treatment and prevention of high blood pressure and hypertension. Yogic breathing and relaxation techniques have been found to lower blood pressure and reduce the need for high blood pressure medication in people suffering from it.
Relief of Pain
Breathing exercises used in yoga can also reduce pain because our muscles tend to relax when we exhale. Lengthening the time of exhalation can help produce relaxation and reduce tension. Awareness of breathing helps to achieve calmer, slower respiration and help in relaxation and body pain.
Arthritis
The easy stretches with deep breathing exercises relieve the tension that binds up the muscles and further tighten the joints. Yoga is relaxation and exercise rolled into one – the perfect anti-arthritis formula.
Weight Reduction
Regular yoga practice helps in weight management because it improves our metabolism. It is able to overcome anxiety and thus solving the problem on anxious eating. Yoga deep breathing increases oxidation or burning up of fat cells. Yogic exercises induce more continuous and deeper breathing which gradually burns, sometimes forcefully, many of the calories already ingested.
Mental Performance
Regular practice of breathing through one nostril is said to improve communication between the right and left side of our brain. This increased brain activity is associated with better performance and doctors even suggest that yoga can enhance cognitive performance.
Mood change and Vitality
The practice of yoga over a period of time also helps to improve our outlook and energy level.
Would you start practicing yoga from today for some good reasons? If you do not know how to go about, just like me before, go for some yoga lessons to start off and soon you will find yourself looking forward to the sessions as you feel the changes within you, total calmness, concentration with harmony within self.
If you like my post, your comment here will make my day!
wishing you all the happiness,
Janice
Today I wish to share with you my experience with benefits of yoga and how it transformed my life and yours too if you would put aside some time in a week to put it into practice.
Looking back, I have started with yoga for some years now and I find that not only does it give me wonderful physical workouts; it also provides me with a completely different outlook in life. It does not matter how tired I may be going into class, I always look forward to it and I come out a changed person when the session ends. I feel refreshed and renewed, like every cell in my body is sparkling.
As a fact, yoga brings us both physical and mental benefits. Physical benefits are toned and better built body with improved respiration and energy level. It also improves our metabolism and promotes better circulatory health.
For mental benefits, yoga teaches us how to focus on breathing while we look and feel younger. It improves our athletic performance too.
Consistent practice of yoga with meditation help to control ailments such as diabetes, blood pressure, digestive problems, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic and heart problems. Scientific tests have proved that yoga has the ability to increase the control of autonomic or involuntary functions like temperature, heartbeat and blood pressure. The very essence of yoga lies in attaining mental peace, improved concentration powers, a relaxed state of living and harmony in relationships.
Through the practice of yoga, we become aware of the interconnectedness between our emotional, mental and physical levels.
My further studies into yoga reveal its following benefits:-
BENEFITS
Physicians and scientists are discovering more and more new health benefits of practicing yoga. Studies show it can relieve the symptoms of several common and potentially life-threatening illnesses such as arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic fatigue, diabetes, asthma and obesity.
Asthma
Studies conducted at yoga institutions in India have reported impressive improvements in asthma. It has also been proved that asthma attacks can usually be prevented by practice of yoga.
Respiration Problems
Patients who practice yoga have a better chance of gaining the ability to control their breathing problems. With the help of yogic breathing exercises, it is possible to control an attack of severe shortness of breath.
High Blood Pressure
The relaxation and exercise components of yoga have a major role to play in the treatment and prevention of high blood pressure and hypertension. Yogic breathing and relaxation techniques have been found to lower blood pressure and reduce the need for high blood pressure medication in people suffering from it.
Relief of Pain
Breathing exercises used in yoga can also reduce pain because our muscles tend to relax when we exhale. Lengthening the time of exhalation can help produce relaxation and reduce tension. Awareness of breathing helps to achieve calmer, slower respiration and help in relaxation and body pain.
Arthritis
The easy stretches with deep breathing exercises relieve the tension that binds up the muscles and further tighten the joints. Yoga is relaxation and exercise rolled into one – the perfect anti-arthritis formula.
Weight Reduction
Regular yoga practice helps in weight management because it improves our metabolism. It is able to overcome anxiety and thus solving the problem on anxious eating. Yoga deep breathing increases oxidation or burning up of fat cells. Yogic exercises induce more continuous and deeper breathing which gradually burns, sometimes forcefully, many of the calories already ingested.
Mental Performance
Regular practice of breathing through one nostril is said to improve communication between the right and left side of our brain. This increased brain activity is associated with better performance and doctors even suggest that yoga can enhance cognitive performance.
Mood change and Vitality
The practice of yoga over a period of time also helps to improve our outlook and energy level.
Would you start practicing yoga from today for some good reasons? If you do not know how to go about, just like me before, go for some yoga lessons to start off and soon you will find yourself looking forward to the sessions as you feel the changes within you, total calmness, concentration with harmony within self.
If you like my post, your comment here will make my day!
wishing you all the happiness,
Janice
posted by Janice H. at
12:09 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Janice,
Appreciate you wrote so much about yoga. I have wanted to go into it but just could not find the drive to do so. After reading your article, I shouldn't have any excuse not to do so.
Thanks for the great content.
Jennifer
LA, USA
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