Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Yoga Practice

Yoga is a very popular discipline practice these days. It is practiced to keep our mind, body and soul in good shape. All the three should be good in order to feel good and healthy. Yoga is a discipline that cannot be practiced casually. A person needs to take it seriously and need concentration. The best part of yoga is that even if a person cannot concentrate but is willing to learn it then that person can be taught to have concentration.

A person can practice different poses while practicing yoga like Child’s Pose. In this pose first lie flat on the ground with face facing ground. Your body should be straight. Then rise your body up from the nee. Now you’re both the legs should form an angle of 90 degree with itself. Now rotate your bodies further backward so that you’re both the legs are forming angle of 180 degree with itself. Your body should be straight from waist. Now from the waist lean your body forward so that it form an angle of 180 degree with your hands held toughing the ground and are straight too. This is Child pose. Best part of this pose is that it is very comfortable and relieves stress quickly. This pose when practiced for 5 minutes improves the person spiritually. In this position take deep breath then hold it for 3 seconds and then release it starting form toes. During this imagine body weightless and stress free.

Another type of practice is Salutation pose. This pose can be practiced in sitting as well as standing position. In this pose user join their hands and keep their body straight. Then the user should inhale during which the user should bring its hands together and then rest the thumbs on the center of breast bone (in center) lightly. Now press the palms and fingers together firmly and evenly. During this if you observe that one of your hands is dominant then this means that there is imbalance. Now the user should bow head slightly and try to draw the neck towards the center of the head. Now using your thumb lift the center of breast bone upward and then down to back of the upper arms so that your elbow hangs heavily downward. This pose is used to improve your meditation process. For starters one can practice for 5 minutes and the longer. Benefits of this pose can be immediately realized. One will feel calmness in the heart and opening of mind.

Another very effective yoga pose is of Sun Salutation. When one comes home after hard day the person prefer to relax on the bed. This is wrong to do as the deoxygenated body parts will remain deoxygenated. In this pose person stand straight and try to bend forward, left and right to the expend it is comfortable. This way it will loosen up body joints and can get proper oxygen. This system can tone up digestive system also and its effects can be felt immediately.

There are many other poses that a person can practice in yoga and they all are very effective for their respective areas.

Yoga Therapy

Yoga originated in India roughly five thousand years ago to finding the path to enlightenment. It can give you relaxation to mind, body and soul, ability to communicate with its body. It helps in making body fit and that person’s mind will also be relaxed. Giving the ability to communicate from your within is itself great which is very well practiced in Yoga.

Yoga Therapies are used worldwide. It is used in many Health Cares in United States and almost 60% Health care use Yoga therapies in some or the other form in their classes. It is also used to cure or control various types of problems like joint pain, Internal Imbalances, Stress, Neck and back pain etc.

In yoga by interacting with owns body is very important. Human’s stomach is considered to be the energy center which process and give energy to body, similarly mind is considered to be a playful thing which want to jump from one place to another. If they ever have any problem in their working then severe effects can be seen on the body of that person. One should try to listen to their warning signals and if one doesn’t then that person has to face consequences.

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.

Our body gives signal when there is some problem in stomach and it is our work to solve the problem (can be solved by choosing meditation). Yoga therapy says that we should be free and listen to the signal of the body, try to solve them through meditation and special exercise depending on the problem whether is it of stomach of mental tension.

In yoga a person can follow 3 steps therapy that will improve all mind, body and soul. They are:-

  1. Stimulate relaxation -In this process move your shoulders 5 times clockwise and 5 times anticlockwise in which arms should rest. During this process neck should be erect. This process helps in frictionless flow of blood in and out of the brain.

  2. Breathe Observation - the person should close eyes and try to free the mind from all tension or anything. Now try to observe your body’s breath process. If a person is able to observe and bring it to normal level then that person is at de-stressing level in which mind start losing all the stressful things.

  3. Yogic Breathing - Again in this process your eyes should be closed. Try taking gentle and comfortable deep breath. Now the person should feel the air going to the stomach and them coming up to lungs. Now exhale the air. During exhaling the air one should try to exhale from the top and then from the bottom.

This way yoga therapy can cure many problems.