The Yoga rules

By Jeffrey Meier

Yoga

We all live stress filled lives? Many of us want to become fit, healthier and would like to weigh less. Could yoga help us to achieve some of these wants as well as bring benefits to our life and our health?

The practice of yoga is growing more and more popular each day. People are learning that it has many emotional and health benefits. It also has many therapeutic and preventive benefits.

You may all ready know that yoga is a great way to relax. The stretches, the poses, the quiet music the whole process can relax our minds and our bodies.

Of course, relaxation is the key to learning how to deal with stress. Relaxation also helps our body to cope with many health problems such as depression, high blood pressure, and tension that fills our muscles and can result and overall aches and pains.

You may realize that yoga is a great way to learn flexibility techniques. The different poses learned can help to build strength in various joints and muscles throughout one's bodies. This flexibility that is learned can help the body at work and at play. It can help the body to move better, to bend better and to have more strength.

Yet, there are other benefits that comes with the regular practicing of yoga that you might not be quite aware of that helps both the body and mind, such as:

Physical benefits:

Detoxification of the entire body

You know that toxins build up in our body. These toxins come from everyday living, from breathing bad air, eating foods we shouldn't, etc. But did you know that when you are practicing the various yoga moves you are helping to flush out these toxins from your system? You do this by gently stretching your muscles and joints throughout your body.

Toning your muscles

Toned muscles are sleek looking, tight muscles. These are the tight of muscles that look good in whatever you wear. These muscles are achieved by all that stretching and holding those sometimes hard poses.

Strengthens and correct our posture

We learn how to stand up straighter from our poses. We then learn how to carry these corrections on into our real life.

Ease back pain and neck pain

The stretches can help to eliminate stress from key locations in our shoulders, backs, spine, necks, etc. Once this stress is gone or is lessen, we may find relief from pain.

Create balance and grace

We may become more graceful and more balance in our real life. How? By practicing our moves and our poses over and over and by paying attention to our posture and how we carry our body.

Improvement in overall health conditions such as:

Increase circulation

Improve heart condition

Improve breathing disorders

Boosts immune response

Decreases cholesterol and blood sugar levels

Weight loss

By increased movement and increasing mental moods

Mental benefits:

Harmonizing your mind with your body

When our body and mind becomes one, we are less stressful. We find our inner calm. We are able to perform all of our tasks better and quicker. We no longer feel weighed down or confused.

Better body awareness and better body attitude

As you learn each move and can hold each pose longer, you begin to learn more about your body. You also may begin to like your body better. This can help one achieve a better self image.

Feeling refresh frequently

This can help keep the mind from feeling cloudy or drained.

Overall relaxation of the mind and body

This can lead to many other mental benefits that can help in every aspect of everyday life such as:

Sharper concentration
Center attention

Feeling more free

This can help one to achieve more creative endeavors.

Yoga is now being used as an exercise tool, a mediation tool, a tool to help conquer one's stress and as a tool for overall better health. Unlike most traditional forms of exercise, a person does not have to be in any certain shape to begin yoga. You can practice yoga at any age or at any fitness level.

Yoga stresses quality of movement of the quantity. This makes it ideal for many people.

If you are looking for a new way to achieve a better, healthier you? Could yoga bring benefits to your life and your health? Why not see how flexible you really are and learn some new yoga moves and poses today? Your mind and body may thank you.

Jeffrey Meier of Jam727 Enterprises at http://www.Jam727.com offers information articles on a wide variety of subjects including Yoga at http://www.jam727.com/yoga2/index.php