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6 Ways Yoga Increases Energy
Have you ever known someone who just lights up a room? What is it that they have that attracts others? Some celebrities have ‘it’, babies are born with what seems an infinite amount of ‘it.’ It is their human energy. They are putting out an energy that is inviting to others and equally infectious. Other people may be doing the opposite, not intentionally; but other peoples negative energy does have a negative effect on you. Notice how gorgeous features on a tense scowling face pushes you away. Conversely, less than perfectly formed features showing acceptance and joy with the warmth of a smile are equally contagious. I remember working with celebrities who were considered gorgeous, and some became more gorgeous over time, while others became downright hideous because their inner energy magnetized their outer appearance. Since the 3rd millennium, B.C., the Chinese called this vital energy, ‘Chi, stating that all matter, animate and inanimate, contains this. Chi is seen as the basis of life. Yogi’s practice manipulating this energy through breathing, physical exercise and meditation techniques. By directing focus on achieving more Chi, more energy through energy producing breathing techniques, integrated with easily attained Yoga poses, you feel an instantaneous feeling of youthful vigor.
1. Exercise
You probably know that you need to exercise, but at the end of a long day it’s hard to find the energy. A study involving over 6800 people in 70 studies found that exercise increased energy and reduced fatigue – and not just in healthy people – people who had cancer and heart disease also benefited with an energy boost. But you have to exert the energy to make it happen. There are three kinds of people in this world, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who just wander, what happened? Unfortunately, some of my patients fall into the ‘what happened’ category after years of mistreating their body. Your muscles were meant to be exercised, your brain is nourished through stimulation and your energy source is the connection of your mind, body and spirit. I just saw a patient today who had never exercised in her life. She is 54 years Ancient, is on 16 medications, has had a recent heart attack, diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure. All this was preventable if she treated her body like the temple it is. Instead she is wondering ‘what happened.’
2. Nutrition
Yoga motivates you to treat your body like a temple for your soul to reside in. If you filled a Mercedes with regular fuel, how would it run? Your body is a first rate machine and needs premium fuel to run at its best. Eating excess weight is like sludge in an engine; it will slow down and stop running. Yoga’s inspirational message helps you treat your body with the respect it deserves and rewards you with more energy.
3. Empower Yourself
Yoga encourages mindfulness so you reckon before you eat. When this becomes a habit, you lose weight and the practice of self control becomes simpler and even enjoyable because you know you are in charge of your health. When you are in charge of your health instead of your health in charge of you, a new found energy rises in your spirit.
4. Relax
Confucius said: “Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.”
In our super-busy, hectic, often frantic, overworked, overburdened world, we do not take the time to be still. Yoga offers peaceful meditation to help you boost your energy to achieve your goals. So stop and hear yourself breathing. Breathing requires one to breathe in the breath of life – to inspire is to be inspired with the gift of life and possess an extraordinary sense of well being. What a blessing.
5. Get Enough Sleep
Yoga can help alleviate anxiety and help you sleep soundly. A former client of mine, Myra, a hospital dietician and college professor stated she hadn’t slept well in 2 years, but once she practiced my yoga techniques, she finally got a long awaited and well deserved 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
6. Yes You Can
Yoga with meditation teaches gratitude and a positive attitude. A Gratitude attitude has a way of transforming your way of looking and acting in everyday life. Your gratitude speaks volumes about the direction, concerns, and qualities of your life. Yoga unites a feeling of gratitude with a physical connection to wellness in a seamless, effortless way to achieve the desired state of being appreciative while giving thanks for the natural life forces that surrounds us. Connecting with nature instills a sense of wonderment and admiration towards the universe. The more we appreciate nature, the more it rewards us by allowing us to relax, unwind and be spiritually linked to this extraordinary planet earth.
By: Suzanne Andrews
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Physical And Mental Benefits Of Yoga
Yoga is known for being one of the most beneficial exercises in the world, and also incredibly fun and enjoyable as it can be practiced by people of all walk of life and ages. Maybe you have even tried yoga and learned that it makes you a different and better person. But what are the types of health benefits can you expect to delight in from doing yoga regularly?
It is very vital to know all the benefits of yoga before you start practicing it, so that you will know that much more just how respected and positive an exercise form it really is.
There are so many different benefits that are offered from the exercise of yoga, and while each different form of yoga does offer its own separate benefits and results, there are some fundamental benefits that you will receive, regardless of which specific form of yoga you practice.
Physical Benefits
Flexibility: Yoga is very effective in increasing flexibility, as it has positions that act upon the various joints of the body, even including those which are never really worked out with other exercises. Stretching your tight body in new ways will encourage it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints. You can expect to gain flexibility in your hamstrings, back, shoulders, and hips over time
Strength: Many yoga poses need you to support the weight of your own body in new ways, including balancing on one leg (such as in Tree Pose) or supporting yourself with your arms (such as in Downward Facing Dog).Some exercises will need you to go slowly in and out of poses, which also increases strength.
Muscle tone: As a by-product of getting stronger, you can expect to see Your muscles get incredibly toned and fit. Especially muscles that have become flaccid or weak, are stimulated repeatedly in order to help you shed flab and flaccidity. Therefore, Yoga helps toned and shaped long, lean muscles.
Pain and Disease Prevention: Increased flexibility and strength can help prevent the causes of some types of back pain. Many people who experienced back pain spend a major part of their time sitting in front computer or driving a car. That can cause muscle tightness and spinal compression, which you can address these with yoga. It works to massage all of the organs in your body, and it is said as being perhaps the only activity that is able to massage all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough way. Yoga also improves your alignment, both in and out of classrooms, which helps prevent many other types of pain.
It is able to act in a wholesome manner on the various body parts, and this stimulation results in keeping disease away and alerting the body earlier when there is something incorrect.
Better Breathing: Most of us breathe very shallowly into the lungs and take breathing for granted and without much thought. Yoga breathing exercises, called Pranayama, direct the attention on the breath and teach us how to better use our lungs, which benefits the entire body. Certain types of breath can also help unblock the nasal passages and even cool the central nervous system, which has both physical and mental benefits.
Total body detoxification: By gently exercising and stretching the muscles and joints through yoga, your body’s blood supply starts working better and quicker, and this aids in the flushing out of toxins as well as providing nourishment up to the last point.
Mental Benefits
Mental Calmness: Yoga asana practice is very physical. Concentrating so intently on what your body is doing, has the effect of calming the mind. Yoga also brings along meditation techniques, such as watching how you breathe and disengagement from your thoughts, which help cool the mind. It is also really one of its main purposes.
Stress Reduction: Physical activity is excellent for destress, and this is particularly right of yoga. Because of the concentration need, your daily troubles, both large and small, seem to melt away during the time you are doing yoga. This provides a much-needed break from your stressors and helping place things into perspective. The emphasis yoga places on being in the moment, can also aid in relieving stress, as you learn not to dwell on past events or anticipate the future. You will leave a yoga class with lesser stressed than when you started.
Body Awareness: Practising yoga will give you an increased awareness of your own body. You are usually called upon to make small, subtle movements to improve your alignment. This will increase your level of comfort in your own body over time, thus leading to improved posture and greater self-confidence.
By: Cindy Heller
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Easy Yoga Poses Anyone Can Do
Reckon you’d delight in yoga but don’t know where to start? Yoga can change your life. It’s much more than a simple exercise regime.
You may be place off trying yoga because you feel it’s too hard. But, the three yoga poses in this article are so simple that anyone can do them, even children.
1. Mountain Pose — Improve Your Posture, Feel Fantastic
The first pose, Mountain Pose looks too simple to be of much benefit to anyone as an “exercise.” Anyone can stand up straight, can’t they? When you try the exercise but, you’ll find that its very simplicity is challenging.
This pose just questions you to stand straight, with your toes lightly touching and your heels slightly apart. Your arms hang down; be aware of your shoulder blades, which are spread and pushed down your back.
Your head is lifted, but not stiff. Imagine that there’s a string at the crown of your head, pulling your entire body upward.
The challenge of this pose is to be perfectly relaxed, and yet aware of your body.
Stay in the pose for at least a minute, or as long as you like, breathing easily without strain.
Even a minute or two in Mountain Pose is a relaxing break, and relieves stress.
2. Forward Bends for Stress Relief
Forward bends can be done standing or sitting.
You can do a standing forward bend anywhere.
Start by standing in Mountain Pose, perfectly relaxed.
Bend forward from your hips, reaching down with your legs straight (don’t lock your knees) until your fingertips, or your hands, touch the floor.
Breathe normally, and relax in the pose.
Inhale, and as you exhale, try to bend forward more into the pose. Relax your head and neck.
Stay in the pose for a minute or two, and then lift out of the pose on an inhalation.
3. Downward-facing Dog — Calms, and Energizes
Downward-facing Dog is another pose you can do anywhere.
Get down onto the floor on your hands and knees. Your knees should be directly under your hips, with your hands slightly forward of your shoulders.
On an exhalation, lift your knees and straighten your legs without locking your knees. Lift your hips toward the ceiling.
Stay in the pose for a minute or two, breathing evenly. Relax.
Come out of the pose by bending your knees until you’re on your hands and knees again.
By: Julia Denham
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