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Yoga
Yoga is self-diagnosis, healing, prevention, and maintenance.
Although it is not a substitute for your doctor, it has been
developed and practiced safely and successfully by millions of
people who never had doctors, for thousands of years. If you are
under a doctor's care already, or are seriously out of shape,
then you should consult your primary health care provider before
beginning yoga practice.
If you were
perfectly healthy, you would be able to do most yoga postures
and exercises easily with minimal effort. Therefore as you begin
learning the basic stretches, you will immediately discover
where your deficiencies are. Do not let yourself be discouraged
by this. Your body has adapted itself as perfectly as possible
to all of the things you have done (or not done) with it over
the course of your entire life up until now.
If you experience pain or
other stress-related ailments it is merely a reflection of your body's
inability to adapt perfectly to the (usually lack of) activity you have
habituated to. Your body is perfectly capable of adapting to the demands
you will begin placing on it in your practice, IF you give it the care
and respect it deserves! It is easy and unwise to overdo it. It is
essential to discover your limits and safely, gently, begin to expand
them.
The reason yoga produces
such profound states of well-being is that it substitutes for the kinds
of activities our bodies and minds are naturally designed for. No other
creatures except us attempt to hold our spines upright and straight
constantly. If walking on two legs wasn't bad enough, we sit in chairs,
wear restrictive clothing and tight shoes. Freeing yourself regularly
from this confinement by practicing yoga will predictably give most
people a heightened sense of well-being.
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Experiences of
Yogis
Some people think it is divine.
Others find it addicting and a powerfully effective substitute for
negative habits. Yoga techniques substitute for the kinds of
activities our human ancestors must have done in the course of their
arboreal lives. It is pretty safe to say that if humans also lived
and hung around trees all their lives, like other primates, then 70%
to 90% of them would ever suffer from chronic back, neck, and head
pain.
Obviously it
takes time for your body to tuck itself in here and fill out there.
Tissues have to grow, Others need to shrink. This is why it is important
to drink lots of water and eat ample amounts of wholesome food in
conjunction with regular moderate practice. In challenging those muscles
to remodel themselves, you are literally clearing out lots of junk from
your tissues. Metabolites generated by the exertion as well as toxins
that have accumulated over the years because of the poor circulation
associated with sedentary lifestyle. It has taken time for you to wind
yourself up in a knot. So, naturally, it will take time to unwind.
Enjoy Yoga
The essence of yoga is to make the
process as efficient and enjoyable as possible. In the beginning it
is therefore essential that you learn not only what the stretches
are, but how to stretch, How to relax, How to breathe. Then you will
really be ready to workout - safely. Realizing the progress made
often inspires yogis to sing for joy in praise for such divine
providence! YOGA is the original song and dance!
Yoga instils qualities like
- Genuineness, Wholesomeness and Compassion within you. It teaches
you that love heals the giver at least as much as it does the recipient.
And therein dwells the sacred power of community, union, harmony, yoga,
and free and fair civilization.
As you practice these simple
exercises you will immediately find out what needs the most attention,
while giving it the attention it needs. The effects are immediate and
the results keep becoming more apparent the longer and more often you
engage in the pure self-indulgent healing art of yoga. Yoga is as
magical as the power of life itself.
Yoga
performed without proper guidance and teaching can be very dangerous and
one should be extremely cautious before starting it.
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