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Benefits of Yoga   by Kamen

Yoga is a wonderful all-encompassing exercise for staying healthy. Yoga’s origins hail from ancient India enhancing both physical and mental well being. In the West, the most commonly practiced branch of yoga is Hatha Yoga. This uses postures, breathing techniques, conscious relaxation and meditation. By turning, twisting and stretching in proper manner, will certainly make the body muscles more flexible. One can get flexibility in hamstrings, back, hips and shoulders.

Traditionally there are four paths of yoga. Jnana, Bhakti, Karma and Raja. These paths are not separate; they all work together in forming the art of yoga. Only a Yogi or Yogini will concentrate on perfecting the art of one of these paths only. Most commonly all four paths are blended together to balance out yoga practices.

Yoga Benefits:

Yoga also seems to have psychological benefits as well. practitioners and those who study them report that it helps you become more aware of your body, accept yourself more readily, Improve Your concentration, memory, learning and mood.

Yoga is good for relieving mental or physical stress. Concentration which is essential part of Yoga, melt away the day to day stress while doing the Yoga and seem to bestow a lasting peaceful composure.

In yoga meditation trains your mind to be one-pointed. There will be many obstacles along the way. Some of these may include doubt, laziness, fear of failure etc. Getting around these obstacles and not letting them interrupt your journey can be achieved by training your mind to stay focused on your objectives.

Breathing is important – Breathing is important in any kind of yoga. In laugh yoga, a person can breathe deeply by drawing in a large breath through his or her nose that immerses his or her lungs. Hold the breath for about 10 seconds, and then slowly exhale. Pay attention to the way the air leaves the lungs. This process should be repeated three times.

One gets the essential awareness of his body through Yoga. Subtle changes of body movements during Yoga session or afterwards make you feel better aligned to day to day needs and better comfort. One becomes more confident about his self mentally or physically. It decreases heart rate and increase cardiovascular efficiency.

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