The Physical and Mental Benefits of Practicing Yoga

Feb 5
08:29

2010

Karan Khalsa

Karan Khalsa

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This article talks about the physical and mental benefits of regular practicing of yoga.

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Yoga is an ancient art and activity of nourishing and maintaining the physical,The Physical and Mental Benefits of Practicing Yoga Articles mental and spiritual balance of human being. Regular practicing of yoga can improve immune system, lower the cholesterol level, help an individual to relax and even improve the mental clarity. By practicing yoga one can easily connect with his own spiritual self. Daily yoga practicing means doing different yoga poses which are known as asanas regularly. These yoga poses or asanas involve all the body organs and muscles, thus improve the blood circulation in the whole body including some particular areas where normally blood does not flow. Each and every form of yoga is beneficial for human beings. Kundalini yoga helps to awake one's own self-consciousness and unite it with the divine consciousness.

Yoga practice has both its physical and mental benefits as well as spiritual one. Practicing yoga strengthens the immune system, help the body to dump toxins and get more oxygen to all the body cells which give an energized and relaxed feeling after completing a yoga session. Yoga also ensures a better respiration which in turn can stimulate body’s lymph system. One can also improve red blood cell count in the body by doing different yoga poses. More red blood cells in the blood denote general improvement of health. Yoga music incorporated in yoga practicing promises the best possible result. Any kind of spiritual music be it meditation music or etc. leaves a soothing effect on the mind and thus increases the concentration level. Yoga also lubricates the body joints and in that way prevent arthritis and other such bone ailments. With regular practice of yoga one can keep his body joints, ligaments and tendons in proper shape and condition. Furthermore, yoga is very much helpful in burning the extra fat and reducing the cholesterol level in the body. It helps to keep body in perfect shape without taking help of any strict diet chart or slimming pills. Yoga also acts as anti-aging formula and many more countless aid to human kind.

Yoga is the art of maintaining a balance between mind, body and soul. Yoga gives a perpetual sense of calmness to the mind. Both yoga and meditation calm down the mind and free it from all tensions, worries and anxieties that come with our daily lives. Sometimes people become unconsciously stressed out. They lose their vision or aim in life. Practicing yoga or meditation bring back the concentration and clarity. By doing yoga poses or asanas, one can increase the mind’s sensitivity to body sensations. It is the ability to relax consciously when felling stressed out. And perhaps the most important contribution of yoga in human's mind is that it changes the perception or the whole outlook to the life of an individual. It injects a feel good sense into human mind which in turn help to combat any tough phases. Meditation music enhances that feeling of completeness with its calming and soothing tunes. The tranquility of any yoga music transfers the mind of an individual to a higher realm of spirituality and helps it to connect with the divine spirit.

Spirit Voyage, the online music company, has come up with a whole new enticing range of yoga music CDs and DVDs. These yoga DVD will be of great help to the yoga practitioners as well as beginners. Soul Bride by Tarn Taran Singh, Fluid Power Vinyasa Yoga by Shiva Rea, Reaching the Real You DVD by Yogi Bhajan and many more yoga DVD and books are there to help you out in learning and practicing every forms yoga like Kundalini yoga, Hatha yoga etc.