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 Overview
Yoga
is a great exercise and also a wonderful therapy to promote a healthy
body. The health benefits many people reap from yoga include: it
increases the efficiency of the heart and slows the respiratory
rate, improves fitness, lowers blood pressure, promotes relaxation,
reduces stress, and allays anxiety. In addition it is also known
to promote coordination, a better posture, flexibility, range of
motion, concentration, sleep and digestion. It can also be used
as supplementary therapy for conditions as diverse as cancer, diabetes,
arthritis, asthma, migraine, and AIDS. It also helps to combat addictions
such as smoking. However, if it is used by itself it isn't a cure
for any illness. But it has contributed to the reversal of heart
disease.
Yoga
is not only used for exercise but it is also used to bring individuals
closer to God. For example, Dynana yoga seeks union through meditation,
while inana yoaga entails the study of scriptures and karma yoga
calls for selfless service to God and mankind. The yoga we practice
today is hatha yoga, and this is intended to prepare the body
for the pursuit of union with the divine while raising the person's
awareness of creation to a higher and keener state. Each rule
of yoga is aimed toward treating an individual aspect. The breathing
exercises are aimed at helping you control your respiratory system
properly. Deep, slow breathing is often encouraged. The yoga postures
are intended to stretch and strengthen the muscles. However, the
other postures are also used to improve posture and to relax the
body. The meditation part of yoga is aimed at focusing the mind
and relaxing the body.
Review
from NIH
Yoga
is a way of life that includes ethical precepts, dietary prescriptions,
and physical exercise. Its practitioners have long known that
their discipline has the capacity to alter mental and bodily responses
normally thought to be far beyond a person's ability to modulate
them. During the past 80 years, health professionals in India
and the West have begun to investigate the therapeutic potential
of yoga. To date, thousands of research studies have been undertaken
and have shown that with the practice of yoga a person can, indeed,
learn to control such physiologic parameters as blood pressure,
heart rate, respiratory function, metabolic rate, skin resistance,
brain waves, body temperature, and many other bodily functions.
Regular
yogic meditation also has been shown to reduce anxiety levels;
cause the heart to work more efficiently and decrease respiratory
rate; lower blood pressure and alter brain waves; increase communication
between the right and left brain; reduce cholesterol levels (when
used with diet and exercise); help people stop smoking; and successfully
treat arthritis.
Copyright 2000. National Institute of Health, All Rights Reserved.
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