Wednesday 21 May 2014

9 Ways Yoga Helps You Stay Fit

It is no secret that practicing yoga on regular basis improves health and lifestyle. You start to sleep better and feel more relaxed in your actions and inactions. Some changes that you feel are obvious and easy to define, and some are subtle and you can only feel them.

However today, with researches and keen observations, scientists have provided concrete deductions to how practicing yoga can improve a being - mentally, physically and spiritually; and has found the ways to explain the inexplicable.

Although, yoga helps us in improving our lives in many ways, but here we have pointed out nine most commonly observed positive changes in people who do yoga regularly.

Improved Flexibility: When you begin to practice yoga, you may find yourself unable to perform simple physical feats like touching your toes. But as you stick to it, gradually, you start to build flexibility in your body and almost every single day you find yourself doing something that you weren’t able to do the day before.

Greater Strength: As you perform several asanas your muscles get strong, which not only provides you good looks but also builds up stamina and strengthens your immunity system.

Better Body Alignment: With all the stretching during the yoga practice, your body alignment starts to improve, which is helpful in keeping back, neck and other joint problems at bay.

Improved Bones Strength: Some asanas require you to lift your own weight upward or downward repeatedly and it is well known fact that weight-bearing strengthens bones.

Better Blood Circulation: Blending breathing patterns with physical postures results in better flow of oxygen into our body, which improves the blood circulation and reduces the risk of clot formation in blood vessels.

Relaxed Mind: With meditation and deep breathing, you become able to keep stress out of your mind; and after each session, you find yourself more calm and content.

Maintained Weight: With every yoga session you shed lots of calories, so even if your diet includes a big portion of fat, your weight remains balanced, however, on regular practice you naturally develop the habit of having a balanced diet.

Improved Brain Functioning: On regular practice of yoga, your brain develops a habit to avoid mental distractions which results in better memory, better concentration power and even improves your problem solving skills.

Lengthen Lifespan: Yoga brings peace to your mind. You mind learns to diminish the effects of frustration, anger, fear, desire and more. When you learn to quiet your mind, the chances of having diseases like insomnia, high blood-pressure, and heart attack that are caused by these negative emotions, start to vanish altogether.

Regardless of the place you do yoga at, most of the observed changes remain the same, however, the more closer you get to nature with your practice, the better you feel. Many practitioners visit India every year to learn or simply practice yoga in Himalayas, which gives a new dimension to their experience. For the purpose, many retreats have been opened to teach yoga in Dharamshala and other areas of the Himalayas, where practitioners feel more closer to nature.

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