Yoga and Motivation

As you all know that Yoga originated in native India roughly 5000 years ago to finding the path to enlightenment. It can give you relaxation to mind, body and soul, ability to communicate with its body. A person practicing Yoga will have a fit body and that person’s mind will also be relaxed. It also has the ability to make a person more active then that person was ever before.
Motivation has strong connection with Yoga. To understand their connection we need to know answer to some basic questions that will be ultimately the answer to the connection. Firstly, we feel completely normal during a course of an event and on the other day with the same event we feel stressful. From where does this stress arise? When we are stuck in a traffic jam we get frustrated and when we think over it we feel that it is due to some external source while it is our own internal state. This is all because we want to achieve a set of things whether it be losing weight or getting promotion. We do all this to get happiness which is root cause of the suffering. This does not mean that we should stop having any preferences but it is that we should not get trapped in it. We should not bind our self with set of criteria. The easy way out of this is to free your mind. Don’t be crazy about achieving the thing you want to achieve. Try to let go your mind free and feel relaxed.

Secondly, people are confused on what fitness should they choose, should they choose a program that make them muscular looking or one which make them lean look? Well, it is not this way. According to yoga everybody have a limit and different requirements. A person should set the requirements after assessing self capabilities. For this the person has to work under the person’s guru and then set the requirements. After the person has set the requirements then that person is motivated by the person’s guru to achieve the target. The person can self motivate to accelerate the process and get more out of the workout but under any case this should not be overdone.

Thirdly, not much people know that stress and anxiety are caused by the persons own ego and also ignorance. So, a person can also go for this type to program in which yoga track these problem causing elements and try to remove them so that person have a peace of mind. This program requires lot of motivation as the person is fighting against itself (feelings).

So it is clear how motivation and yoga have connection between them. And Yoga can also be used as a tool for overall personality development. In fact it is the only disciple that does so. At the end I would say Yoga is must thing and everybody should try to practice this for their own good even if this is for few minutes a day.

Yoga and Meditation

Yoga is a popular and ancient technique used to combine mind, body and soul. It is also used to cure many type of disease including mental and physical. Yoga practicing person feel good and healthy. To practice yoga a person need to know how to meditate as it is the only source to interact with our body and inner-self. When a person meditates then that person is in a state to communicate with his body and soul, and can free the person from all the stress that the person is suffering form.
There are many people who suffer from different kinds of problems like migraine headache, full body pains etc. They go to doctor and take pills which show affect for few days then after few visits doctor tells you to consult to a specialist and again you start taking pills, this process keeps on going. This process can also have severe side effects like stomach upset or other problems. Instead of going through this entire painful process one can go for yoga classes and practice meditation. Best part of this is that it has no side effects and there is no pain in it. In meditation a person relaxes the body. The person has to take deep breath and hold it as long as it is not painful and then exhale out slowly. Then the person tries to free the mind from all the tension. The person should now try to feel light if the person is not feeling so. Now the person should try to observe the motion of the breath. After doing all this, the person can now do the specific exercise for the problem that the person is having. If the problem is of neck then the person can go for neck exercise, if it is headache problem then the person can go for related exercise.

In order to feel good the person should have positive attitude and can follow the three points which are:-

1. Awareness . we must train ourselves of what and how is our brain thinking. How are thoughts generated and handled by our brain. If we are able to do so then we will have right control on the processor of our body.


2. Acceptance . in awareness we learn to control our brain but this can lead to a problem of making judgment of what we are thinking. This can be a dangerous situation unless we learn to accept things that are happening around us. Try to be calm as mush possible at times of difficulty and say to you “I can solve this problem”. There can be a situation in which your partner refuses to go with your decision, in that case don’t be mad and accept that it is natural that your partner has such thinking and that’s what your partner is following.


3. Attitude . need to accept truth and your thoughts. If one is successful in doing so then that person can now actually start working on the problem. One should always have positive attitude of problem solving and not getting tense over the problem.

These three points can make whole lot of difference in Meditation and ultimately help the person himself.

What is Yoga

Yoga is misunderstood by people and they thing it is just like any other cool thing, yes it is cool but it cannot be compared with any other thing. Yoga originated in native India roughly 5000 years ago. Yoga was discovered for finding the path to enlightenment and it is.

It can give you relaxation to mind, body and soul. It helps the person to communicate with its body and understand it much better which unfortunately not body do these days. An experienced person can develop the ability to combine all the three elements and can become very powerful spiritually and mentally. If a person practice Yoga then that person’s body will be fit and that person’s mind will also be relaxed. A person practicing yoga is more active then that person would have ever felt.

As we all know that life these days are very hectic and we don’t get time for ourselves, plus we are always up to solving one or other problem. If a person fails to solve his or her problem then that person might suffer from depression and more devastation things can happen. There can be body problems with all these tension. As yoga has the ability to incorporate the power in a person to fight with all these problems so it is becoming more and more popular these days. Yoga has gained popularity not only in Asia but also in west. Its popularity can be easily felt by the fact that many Hollywood stars even judges there line up with their guru and practice yoga. According to the new review almost 75% of the Health care in United States includes some or the other form of yoga in their classes. The numbers of Americans that include some form of yoga in their exercise have risen to twice since last 5 years.

Looking at the power of yoga many questions has been raised like can yoga prevent heart attacks or can it rejuvenate looks of people. The amazing think about all this questions is that the answer is YES. Most people who have heart attack is due to mental tension and yoga is a very powerful way to relax your mind and free form tension even if it is for small time but this time is enough for the body to gather enough strength to fight with this tension again. It is been observed that people practicing Yoga live longer than usual.
If a person study Buddhism then that person can see that Yoga has great influence on this religion. Zen (is derived from Sanskrit work “dhyan”) Buddhism deals with “dhyan” of Yoga. Yoga is extensively used in Bhagavad Gita. In it Yoga is used for action, devotion, Knowledge.

There are different categories of people who are practicing Yoga. They are classified in following groups:-

1. People seeking for Spiritual Element


2. People who are more concern for Fitness and Flexibility


3. Finding solution for Health Disorder


4. Others for All-Round Development

At the end I would say Yoga is must thing and everybody should try to practice this for their own good even if this is for few minutes a day.