Use Yoga For Your Health
To the yoga practitioner, yoga is a way to get in tune with your mind and body, but to many other people, yoga is just a mysterious eastern cult that claims to improve both your mental and physical health. For some people, yoga is nothing but sitting in the lotus position and repeating a mantra. And still others think yoga is nothing but quackery. No matter where you are in the debate, you have probably heard that yoga is good for your health.
Recent studies have shown that yoga can be a safe method to increase your physical activity. These same studies also show that there are numerous psychological benefits due to the meditative nature of yoga. You not only get a stronger body with improved flexibility, but your get a stronger, more flexible mental attitude. Therefore, using yoga for your health is a positive benefit on many levels.
Some studies have shown that when you practice yoga, you become more in tune with your body, mind and spirit. These studies show that when you get these aspects of your life in harmony, you are able to improve your health, happiness and other areas of your life.
There are numerous reasons to start practicing yoga for your health. Many people take up yoga simply as an exercise program because of medical reasons, such as a back injury. Others take up yoga because of a knee injury prevents them from jogging or other strenuous exercise. Many athletes take up yoga to improve their flexibility.
As with any exercise program, yoga can improve your health by increasing your muscle strength and flexibility and your respiratory endurance. It also tends to reduce pain and inflammation by increasing the oxygen supply into the blood stream which helps to flush the body and eliminate toxins.
Another health benefit of yoga is increased positive mental state, lowered levels of aggressiveness, anxiety and excitability. People who practice yoga tend to be in better health and have fewer physical complaints and illnesses. yoga health benefits include getting more restful and restorative sleep.
yoga can be practiced by virtually anyone at any age. You dont need specialized equipment, maybe just a yoga mat to practice your positions on. You can buy a dvd or even find an exercise program on TV if you dont want to take the time to go to a gym for classes.
Remember; dont over strain yourself when you start. The instructors on these videos have been practicing yoga for years and are extremely limber. You will not be able to match all of their movements, just do what is comfortable. The old theme, No Pain, No Gain is not true with yoga. Start slow, and gradually build up in order to obtain the best benefits from using yoga for your health.
Sydney Heiden is a practitioner of yoga and founder of Yoga and Meditation for Beginners. For more yoga tips and information, go to her website, www.Yoga.Cool-Home-Stuff.com.
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How to Meditate Like Goldilocks
If Goldilocks were to leaf through a few meditation books, she might find some approaches to be too hot, others too cold. But soon enough, we know she'd land on a system that feels "just right" to her. She always does.
Meditation is Like Porridge
When you take your first taste of meditation, it is good to follow your inner guidance. too hot? too cold? Find an approach that feels "just right" as it offers you a bridge from your every day state of mind into the clarity, awakening, and healing you seek.
Scattered Mind
In our ordinary state of mind, we rapidly alternate our focus between what is wanted and what is not wanted. This creates static in our vibration. When you focus in such a way that increases the split in your energy, you feel worse. When you deliberately select a focus that brings you into alignment, you feel better.
The more you become like Goldilocks, the more you can clearly tell which technique feels too hot, which one's too cold, and which one is "just right" for you. The more you follow your inner guidance, the more easily and swiftly you can bring yourself into a deep and beneficial meditative state.
The Missing Ramp
Most people give up their meditation practice (or never even begin) for one reason. This reason takes many forms but there is really only one reason. It may feel like "I don't have the time." Or it may show up as "I don't really understand how to do it." It may even look like "I try but I fall asleep."
All these obstacles to meditation are the same at their root. They may look different, but they are all evidence of something missing. The thing that is missing is a ramp.
Your mind is functioning at one frequency and meditation asks it to function at a completely different frequency. When you sit down in your everyday mental pace and ask yourself to jump levels with no ramp, you may be asking the impossible of yourself.
But when you have a ramp, you can do it. When you have a simple way to reliably move from the rhythm of your everyday mind into the rhythm of meditation, you advance rapidly. You begin to reap the benefits of meditation that usually take years and years to achieve.
Aligned Mind
A physical ramp will get your car from one level to another, but what kind of ramp will elevate your mind? The ramp that brings you comfortably into meditation is built of inner alignment. And just like Goldilocks, who knows a good ramp when she sees one, you will know you have achieved a shift in your vibration when you have found your inner alignment. It feels "just right."
Here is an exercise you can do right now to begin your inner alignment. Try this before you meditate and see if it changes the experience for you.
1 - Sit with your spine upright and close your eyes.
2 - Imagine a vertical beam of light running through your spine. It extends infinitely above your head. It also extends below you through the center of the earth and beyond.
3 - allow your muscles to relax and let this beam of light call your spine to a relaxed and powerfully upright posture.
4 - On each in breath, feel your breath begin at the base of your spine and let it rise through the beam of light to the top your head.
5 - On each out breath, feel the breath and the light expand outward to fill your whole body. Feel it illuminate and cleanse your physical cells as well as your energy body.
This simple process of beginning your alignment with the vertical axis offers many benefits:
It brings you into greater awareness of the now.
It promotes healing.
It heightens your sensory awareness so that you have more joy in your human experience.
It augments your insights and talents.
It increases your natural abilities by making you whole.
As you do this process, I recommend you approach it like Goldilocks. Find a way to do it that feels "just right."
For a complete system of inner alignment that leads you into deep meditation in record time, comfortably and easily, read Dr. Rebbie Straubing's book "Rooted in the Infinite: The Yoga of Alignment" You can download the introduction and first chapter at http://RootedintheInfinite.com
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Alternate costumes
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