Sunday, October 21, 2007

Benefits of Yoga
By Singh Vineet


Number of people practicing yoga is increasing everyday as the transformation is inevitable and self driving, you feel the instant changes that help you relax and energize.

India is the motherland of 'Yoga', spiritual practices. Indians coined the term Yoga that refers to technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation. Yoga has been attached to Hinduism and its religious practices. Yoga originated from a Sanskrit word 'yuj' which has several meanings in different context (means union, control, to yoke etc.). Yoga practice aims to make you free of worldly desires and materialistic world, and feel the power of eternal supreme. People have also practiced yoga as form of exercise and postures. 'Shakti from Bhakti' is the enchanting mantra.

Starting with few facts and figures related to yoga - eight limbs of yoga practices are: Asana (postures); Dharana (Concentration); Dhyana (Meditation); Niyama (5 observances); Pranamaya (Lengthening); Pratyahara (Abstraction); Samadhi (Liberation); Yama (5 abstentions).

In this over consuming world the stressed mind state needs relaxation and yoga practice is a best natural remedy that lets you control yourself and you become self-disciplined by concentrating on your core. Tangible benefits of Yoga are on your health, fitness, and wellness:
Complete relaxation of mind and body: Rejuvenate your mind, body and soul with yoga practices.

Lubrication of joints, ligaments, joints and massage of all organs - Get relief of pain and stiffness in different parts of body, yoga practices lets free movement of body parts and joints. It stimulates all your internal organs and parts. Softly realize yoga benefits will dwell upon you, really reliving. Yoga with meditation harmonizes your organs and body parts. Yoga help you energize and keep pace with spirit of day-to-day pressure and fatigue. You can see automatic healing, it is self driving and changes can been seen from the first day of practicing yoga.

Physiological Benefits - Really you will enjoy the real benefits of yoga once you start practicing it, it is difficult to enlist them, I will discuss few of them. If you are perturbed with nervous disorder, practice yoga as you will experience stable automatic nervous system equilibrium. Is you pulse rate fluctuating?? Having blood pressure problem? Over-weight or under weight, suffering from insomnia??? One solution to all problems: musculoskeletal flexibility, endocrine normalization, increase in strength and immunity, find yourself completely balanced.

Psychological benefits of yoga include increase in concentration, decrease in anxiety and depression, somatic awareness increases.

Biochemical benefits ATPas increases, hemoglobin increases, vitamin C increases, cholesterol increases.

Yoga bestows peace of mind because of its therapeutic nature tranquilizing your mind. It guides your mind to control your actions and body functionalities.

In brief, yoga is life, gives the power to lead, it is an art, a set of guidelines and principles, a culture that binds all organs and parts, it is the right path to follow, stimulates your body to attain divinity. Set your self free and practice yoga single minded to attain peace, stability, flexibility................remain ageless, practice Yoga the, awakening lingo.

The author is an aspirant writer on Yoga Ayurveda and Health. To, buy books online, best seller books on ayurveda, yoga & meditation, log on to - online book store, online Indian books on ayurveda, yoga and health treatment store.

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