The Yoga rules

By Glen Wood

Beliefnet is a large website covering a wide variety of spiritual topics. Try starting with the Pain Management Center where you can listen to a lesson in meditation or follow 10 yoga poses for pain management, in this case back pain.

Yoga is an excellent therapy for healing sore and injured back muscles, reducing recovery time, preventing re-injury, and reducing the risk of disability from back pain. Yoga helps alleviate lower back pain by strengthening and stretching the muscles of the lower back, reducing inflammation and increasing circulation of blood and prana. Regular yoga practice also improves posture and body mechanics, relieving pain and preventing injury by keeping the spine in proper alignment.

Yoga meditation is one of the five principles of yoga. It is one of the essential yoga techniques in order to achieve mental stability and health. It has many poses, some of them being more complex. Also there are some simple techniques of meditation that can be used by people in their everyday life and also to combat everyday problems including back pain.

Humans should be protectors, not destroyers. To protect life and respect the individuality and independence of all forms of life is a primary practice of the Yoga teachings. By following this precept greater tolerance, understanding, mutual love, help and compassion develop - not only between individuals, but between all humans, nations races and religious faiths.

Yoga In Daily Life offers the spiritual aspirant guidance on life's path through the practice of Mantra Yoga and Kriya Yoga. As the most highly developed beings upon earth, humans are capable of realizing their real nature and inner Self, God.

Practitioners of Yoga are shaping their future through daily practice. Change will be a constant factor throughout life - whether you recognize the effects of change, as it occurs, or afterward.

Adding visualization to your yoga exercises can make them even more relaxing and more effective at relieving stress. The concept is to visualize images that will guide your mood. If you think of sad things during your visualizations, you'll become sadder. This also means that if your mind wanders to work and other stressors, you'll become more stressed. By teaching yourself to concentrate on peaceful and relaxing images (back pain free), you will help relive even more stress from your body.

Meditating lets you enter a state of peace and quiet reflection, calming your body and mind. With Yoga Nidra, you will also be listening to music in the background, which has a wonderful calming effect. Meditation removes you mentally from where you are while your mind and body rest. Research shows that people have immense success with meditation to relieve stress, according to Roger Jahnke, doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine, and author of "The Healer Within."

Glen Wood - The Yoga Teacher, dedicated to unlocking the Real Secrets of Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain.

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