Friday 12 July 2013

Yoga and Exercise for the Healthy Mind

Yoga is not just about health and fitness, since this discipline relies strongly around the union between mind bbody and spirit. For this reason meditation is such an integral part and why yoga can result in
increased focus and concentration. This is also why this kind of exercise is so helpful in handling the stress that is a common by product of life today.

For that ancient yogis who practiced this discipline daily, the best goal of yoga was enlightenment or self realization. Whilst not all of us will head to a yoga class with enlightenment in your mind, the mental and emotional benefits of this kind of exercise will certainly not be lost upon us. Yoga is truly a unity of mind, body and spirit for optimum health and wellness.

Through regular practice you will see that yoga is a great stress reliever. Coping with constant stress means your cortisol levels remain high, which compromises immune function, undermines memory and could lead to permanent changes in the mind. Excessive cortisol has been linked to osteoporsosis (high amounts of cortisol extract calcium and other nutrients in the bone), high blood pressure and insulin resistance.

A regular practice has been shown to improve depression by increasing serotonin levels and decreasing monoamine oxidase and cortisol. Yoga is renowned for inducing relaxation. We live our way of life at full pace, carrying lots of stress with hardly any downtime. But downtime is essential and relaxing actually helps us to do better. Restorative poses, meditation, pranayama and also the king of all relaxation, savasana, give our harried central nervous system a much needed break. Full relaxation, which yoga offers, also offers the added benefit of helping us sleep better, which will help to make us rested, alert and performance better.

And last although not the least, yoga encourages you to definitely relax, slow down, breathe and concentrate on the present. Being focused on the current makes us happier people in general because we're mindful and fully conscious of living life NOW. We're not stuck in the past, reliving loops of memories or fretting about the future but really living our life in our.

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