What Should You do With a Yoga Book?
... who was homeless, yet he was very familiar with the ups and downs of the stock market. How did he learn so much? He pulled the Wall street Journal from the trash and mentally absorbed it. Unfortunately, he never applied the knowledge he learned.
This is a critical point to understand. Knowledge is like a bank savings account - You have to save, but you also have to put your savings to good use. In the words of Andrew Carnegie, I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
To learn knowledge, without applying it to life, is a waste. It is not intentional, in most cases, but what a shame it is to know so much and not be able to help anyone with it.
Within Yoga, today, are so ma...more
Yoga and Gratitude
...are thankful for.
Yoga promotes a persons emotional and physical well being. And, as studies have shown, so does gratitude. Its as if both are vitamins for the soul. Yoga and gratitude both improve a persons ability to handle stress (which directly impacts physical health) and improve the way a person interacts with others. Both also rid the body of negative emotions, replacing them with positive ones. When this happens, good health generates itself.
Many people likely find gratitude in exercise at the end of a workout, grateful that their arduous routine is over and they feel refreshed. But, yoga isnt merely about working out, and its not just about exercise.
Yoga and gratitude are on the same wave length, as if cast from the shell of positive thinking. Gratitude, because its a way of looking at things, and yoga, because it teaches people to embrace the present moment, are naturally able to enhance each other. Gratitude is a way of deeply appreciating the full spectrum of life the good and the bad, the joy and the suffering. Yoga provides a mindful practice to invite one to respond to the full spectrum of life from the highest place with...more
Stress Management Through Yoga
...ing stress, in this part of Yoga a person sits in a posture (usually in relaxing mode) and concentrate his / her mind over one point with eyes closed. The mind is concentrated upto an extent when an individual feels that he / she has no interaction with the surroundings, infact the mind reaches in a neutral stage thereby relieving mental exhaustion. Hence yoga provides the best cure to this serious ailment which is disrupting the life of millions of people daily. Anyone practicing yoga daily is rarely suspected to stress, as yoga creates the mind and body immune to stress.
Finally Yoga has and is proving itself as Stress management Tool and now a days it is being used in Western world too as a major alternative to the offensive allopathic drugs.
...moreYoga for a Healthy You
...The benefits of exercise are many for a healthy life. Exercises are of many forms and yoga is one of them. But though yoga for healthy living is getting popular by the day you should decide if yoga will suit you.
The common benefits of regular exercise are that it reduces the risk of many illnesses by boosting our immunity and also conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, osteoporosis and blo...more
