YOGA HEALTH. CONTAINING INFORMATION ABOUT YOGA
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- 2. HEALTH BENEFITS Improved flexibility is one of the first and most important of yoga, regular practice of yoga gradually improves flexibility and impossible yoga poses will become possible. 1. Improve Flexibility :
- 3. 2. Builds muscle strength: Yoga helps to build a strong muscle and also protect the human body conditions like arthritis and back pain.
- 4. 3. Posture Aesthetic sense: Poor posture can cause back, neck, and other muscle and joint problems. Yoga sublimates the aesthetic abilities of a human being by taking these to a higher level of thought.
- 5. 4. Prevent cartilage & joint This can help prevent degenerative arthritis or mitigate disability by squeezing and soaking areas of cartilage that normally aren’t used. Joint cartilage is like a sponge
- 6. 5. Protects Spine If regularly practiced a well balanced yoga with plenty of backbends, forward bends, and twists, it helps the disks supple.
- 7. 6. Increases blood flow Practice of yoga can helps circulation to hand and feet and gets more oxygen to cells. Yoga also boosts level of hemoglobin and red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the tissues.
- 8. 7. Ups Heart rate Regular practices of yoga get the heart rate in to aerobic range; it lowers the heart attack and can relieve depression.
- 9. 8. Drops blood pressure Yoga practice really helps for reduce high blood pressure, few studies of people with hypertension, published in British medical journal the Lancet, compared the effects of Savasana (Corpse Pose) with simple lying on a couch.
- 10. 9. Finds a healthy lifestyle A regular practice gets moving burns calories, and the spiritual and emotional dimensions of your practice may encourage addressing any eating and weighting problems on a deeper level. Yoga may also inspire to become a more conscious eater.
- 11. 10. Lower s blood sugar Regular practice of yoga gets blood sugar levels down, and decrease risk of diabetic complications such as heart attack, kidney failure, and blindness.
- 12. 11. Helps focus An important component of yoga is focusing on the present. Studies have found that regular yoga practice improves coordination, reaction time, memory, and even IQ scores.
- 13. 12. Relaxes systems Yoga encourages relaxing, slow breathing technique, and focusing on the present, shifting the balance from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic nervous system. The latter is calming and restorative; it lowers breathing and heart rates, decreases blood pressure, and increases blood flow to the intestines and reproductive organs.
- 14. 13. Improve balance Regular practice of yoga improves the balance of body. People with bad posture or dysfunctional movement patterns usually have poor perception, which has been linked to knee problems and back pain.
- 15. 14. Prevents IBS and other digestive problems Ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation-all of these can be exacerbated by stress. So if you stress less you’ll suffer less. Yoga, like any physical exercise, can ease constipation and theoretically lower the risk of colon cancer. Yogis suspect that twisting poses may be beneficial in getting waste to move through the system.
- 16. 15. Helps serve others Karma yoga (service to others) is integral to yogic philosophy. And while you may not be inclined to serve others, your health might improve if you do.
- 17. 16. Keeps allergies and viruses at bay Kriyas or cleansing practices, are another element of yoga. They include everything from rapid breathing exercises to elaborate internal cleansings of the intestines. Practice of Jala nethi, removes pollen and viruses from the nose, keeps mucus from building up, and helps drains the sinuses.
- 18. 17. Benefits relationships A regular yoga practice helps develop friendliness, compassion, and greater equanimity. Along with yogic philosophy's emphasis on avoiding harm to others, telling the truth, and taking only what you need, this may improve many of your relationships.
- 19. 18. Helps keep you drug free Studies of people with asthma, high blood pressure, Type II diabetes (formerly called adult-onset diabetes), and obsessive-compulsive disorder have shown that yoga helped them lower their dosage of medications and sometimes get off them entirely.
- 20. 19. Betters your bone health •It's well documented that weight-bearing exercise strengthens bones and helps ward off osteoporosis. •Many postures in yoga require that you lift your own weight. And some, like Downward- and Upward-Facing Dog, help strengthen the arm bones, which are particularly vulnerable to osteoporotic fractures.
- 21. 20. Releases tension in your limbs: •Do you ever notice yourself holding the telephone or a steering wheel with a death grip or scrunching your face when staring at a computer screen? •These unconscious habits can lead to chronic tension, muscle fatigue, and soreness in the wrists, arms, shoulders, neck, and face, which can increase stress and worsen your mood.
- 22. 21. Boosts your immune system functionality •Asana and pranayama probably improve immune function, but, so far, meditation has the strongest scientific support in this area. •It appears to have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the immune system, boosting it when needed.
- 23. 22. Increases your self-esteem •Many of us suffer from chronic low self-esteem. If you handle this negatively—take drugs, overeat, work too hard, sleep around—you may pay the price in poorer health physically, mentally, and spiritually. •If you take a positive approach and practice yoga, you'll sense, initially in brief glimpses and later in more sustained views, that you're worthwhile or, as yogic philosophy teaches, that you are a manifestation of the Divine.