YOGA FOR REFRESHING YOUR HEALTH AN MIND

Nowadays, yoga is one of the popular exercises that people like to practice. Yoga helps the exercisers balance both the physical and mental system. Daily practicing yoga would not only refresh your health but also bring exercisers self-consciousness. Yoga was founded and practiced for more than 5000 years.

Firstly, yoga was originated in India. Later, it was known and accepted by millions across the globe as it is a good exercise to balance the physical and mental system. Yoga relaxes the exercisers and releases them from strain, which affects the efficiency of the nervous system. Practicing yoga on a regular basis would reduce pressures of daily life. As a result, the exercisers would learn how to master the right breathing system, which will rejuvenate their health, creative thinking, and good mind.

Advantages and disadvantages of Practicing yoga : Yoga is good for every generation worldwide. It is similar to fitness and gymnastics that its training needs a set of rules. Yoga is an applicable exercise to reduce strain and pressures. It can facilitate you to control your weight and also help you in the right breathing techniques and bring you peacefulness through meditation. The right breathing system is the key point for yoga exercisers all over. After practicing yoga, your body and mind get in touch with each other. This is what we call the body's art of balancing physical and mental health. Your consciousness would be build up little by little automatically. Then you could control and manage your emotions accordingly. Yoga gives you an elevated sense of self-esteem and be friendly to others because of a peaceful mind. Besides, yoga helps you to be able to manage your life efficiently due to a better consciousness.

But there are some dis-advantages or limitations of yoga too. Some kinds of training are not suitable for someone's health conditions. For example, the old should avoid some asanas that are too difficult to master, otherwise it will cause injury to the body. The practitioners should choose and modify the training programm which is suitable for their age, gender and physical conditions.

The right place for yoga training : When you are ready to start training, you should find a quiet and private area that makes you comfortable. It should be a place without interruptions, which would easily by available at home, where you are training.

How long could I reap my benefits from yoga training? :  Of course, it is the same as doing every other thing that it would take some time for you to practice yoga regularly before any changes appear. if you practice yoga on a regular basis, it's certain that you will see the changes in your body soon. You would realize how yoga brings you to be able to control your breathing system, emotions, mind and body on the whole. The more regularly you practice yoga, the faster benefits you would see.

Courtsy : Catherine Tyler

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Yoga can tackle psychological disorders

RESEARCHERS at the Dev Sanskriti University here say that a holistic way involving yoga and herbal medicines can combat psychological disorders. The researchers subjected 60 patients of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to a combination of yoga, pranayam,  recitation of Gayatri Mantra and herbal medicines. The highly revered Gayatri Mantra is based on a Vedic Sanskrit verse from a hymn of the Rig Veda. The 60 participants were equally divided into males and females. They got 45 individual sessions of therapeutic interventions of holistic approach. Each session was of 60 minutes, with patients doing pranayam and Gayatri Mantra for 10 minutes each and yoga for  20 minutes.  The most widely utilized treatments now are pharmacological management and behavior modification, said an article in the first issue of the Dev Sartskriti University's Interdisciplinary International Journal. A major disadvantage of drug treatment for anxiety disorders was that the relapse rate was very high, said researchers Deepak Singh, Pranav Pandya, O.P. Mishra and Pragya S. Lodhi. Pandya is the chancellor of the university. Mishra is the Emeritus Professor of psychology while Deepak Singh and Pragya Singh are professors in the department of psychology. The "holistic approach produced significant reduction in the level of OCD". said the research paper. "The combination of these specific techniques has collective effect on the patients and causes significant reduction in the symptoms of OCD." the university said. 

"Thus, the holistic approach can provide a new strategy for management of OCD. The findings are an important exploration with wide scope for further research and applications," it said. The paper also said some of the medicines in the market "cause many side effects" and approximately 90 percent of patients suffer a relapse if they discontinue medication. 

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