The Yoga rules

By Sarah Russell

Yoga and meditation are terrific ways to bring the mind and body together as one and improve youra mental clarity. How often do you find yourself stressed out and unable to carry out your duties or responsibilities, just because you have feelings of uncertainty and clashes of thought? Performing yoga regularly can help reduce stress and negative feelings, leading to a healthier mind and body.

Stress takes an incredible toll on our bodies, affecting our endocrinl and emotional systems in a negative way. Excessive stress has been linked to high blood pressure, heart attacks and a host of other nasty illnesses. Practicing yoga can help put this right and bring our physical systems into balance by reducing stress.

Yoga and its purification practices have been long established as successful methods to improve a variety of disorders and health issues. The following are some of the many benefits associated with yoga.

1. Yoga is known to boost suppleness; with positions utilizing the different joints of the body - including those which are not always used in ordinary workouts. When you first start to perform yoga, you may feel stiff and sore. But with continued practice over time, you'll discover a new flexibility in your joints and muscles.

2. Yoga also increases the lubrication of joints. The positions used in yoga exercise the muscles and tendons within the body, which may help relieve chronic joint-related pain.

3. When you perform yoga, you're actually massaging all the organs in your body. This improves circulation throughout the body and helps process bodily wastes more efficiently. Yoga is thought to be one of the few forms of exercise to do this.

4. In addition to helping shield off disease, yoga helps practitioners become more aware of their bodies. Many people who perform yoga regularly in the long term find that they can tell when a health issue or infection is looming, allowing them to attend to the issue before it becomes more serious.

5. Yoga offers a complete detoxification of the whole body. Stretching the joints and muscles of the body and massaging the internal organs guarantees the best possible blood flow to all parts of the body. This, in turn, helps to flush out toxins, making us much healthier overall.

6. Not to be vain, but yoga helps you look better! Yoga stimulates flabby and frail muscles, toning them up and encouraging excess fat to disappear.

All of these wonderful changes are merely side effects of the powerful practice of yoga. The harmonization between the mind and body is the real gain, resulting in extraordinary and life-changing benefits. It is no longer a secret that people are able to will themselves into attaining astonishing goals. Yoga gives you the strength and power of will to achieve your dreams.

Yoga and meditation work together to reach unity with the mind, body and spirit, guiding the way to a blissful experience that can only be achieved by the practice of yoga. Through the practice of yoga, you'll achieve an emotional balance that creates a serene calmness and positive attitude and improves your physical health at the same time!

Want to learn more about how yoga can change your life? Check out Sarah Russell's new book - The Beginner's Guide to Yoga and Meditation - at:

http://www.Mind-Body-Connection.com