Could practicing yoga bring any benefit to the one practising it?
By Carol Haily
Yes of course, where should we start because there are
so many that it would hard to name all the physical benefits. In its core yoga is all
about well-being of the self. Yoga is not meant to be a therapy for a one particular
illness. A practitioner of yoga learns a new way of thinking and lifestyle and all of
this in a broad holistic approach. Another product of this new lifestyle and thinking
is that you start to see the healing effects of yoga. When you start to practice yoga
you will see that one of the benefits of yoga is that some of the difficulties you have
in life tend to go away or become less difficult. Clinical tests have been conducted that
verified these effects so it is not just the practitioners that claim this.
How yoga will benefit you
With yoga you will be able to relieve yourself of stress
and fatigue, get vitality back it is anti-aging and a relaxing therapy. There are studies
that show asthma to improve by 75%, some studies even show 93%, and yoga can help prevent
asthma attacks so there is less need for drugs. Yoga helps to get the ability to exercise
back for people having breathing problems like emphysema or bronchitis, this is done in ways
that normal physiotherapy could never do it. Studies showed that people suffering from
breathing problems increased their exertion tolerance and recovery, more so then before,
in the end they could better control their breathing problems. If you suffer from high
blood pressure then yoga can help in treating this and of course prevent it because of
the relaxing aspect of the exercises. Yoga can also reduce pain, during exercises it helps
the secretion of natural painkillers. The same effect can be accomplished with breathing
exercises. Seeing that everyone gets pain in one form or another a lot of people could
benefit from this. When someone does yoga on a daily basis the tension in the muscles
will reduce and it enhances flexibility and strength, therefore a lot of back pains are
cured or prevented this way. Diabetes, another illness that really benefits from yoga,
blood sugar being lowered while practising yoga and thus less oral medicine is needed.
This study was done in combination of a vegetarian diet, so it could be that it is not
the yoga alone that can take the claim for this improvement. Yoga is a gentle exercise
and because of this a good way to relief some of the pain you get from arthritis. It is
not necessary for yoga to cause pain. Always be very careful with a hurting body, don't
overdo it.
These are just a few of the benefits that yoga can give
you. Like we said to many to name all of them but you get a picture why we like to recommend
that you start practise yoga. The sooner you start the sooner all these and the non mentioned
benefits of yoga can be yours.
About the
author:
Yoga, Homeopathy and other old wisdom's is what Carol Haily is looking for. Subjects
ranging from
insurance for yoga teacher
to
homeopathy for ear ache and mild fever she
addresses it all at here website.
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I wish you all the best on your yoga adventure!
To your health,
Thomas T :)
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