Health benefits of yoga

Today’s world is busy and quite stressful. People are finding ways to get rid of their stress somehow. They invest a large sum on various treatments for this purpose. Training yoga at home can be a better method for you if you want to ease up your mind.  Yoga deals with mind and body. History has shown the benefits of yoga. Great monks by practising yoga even learned how to gain mind control!

Anxiety is our greatest enemy. Anxiety causes various health problems. We may try to deal with it by making ourselves busy with some tasks. Actually by doing that we are not really trying to resolve the problem, but we are learning how to forget the problem. Yoga practice can be an excellent method for this problem. Yoga consists mainly of breathing and stretching exercises and meditation. These methods have found to have various health benefits.

Let’s find out the various benefits of yoga. The main benefit of yoga is mental and physical fitness. The ageing process that is mainly caused due to autointoxication can be prevented by yoga. If you want to achieve the maximum benefits from yoga, you have to combine yoga with the practices of pranayama, yogasanas, and meditation. Yoga practice on a regular basis tends to relieve from health conditions such as digestive disorders, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, asthma, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, asthma, heart conditions and varicose veins. Tests on yogis have proved that they are able to control body’s involuntary functions such as heart beat, blood pressure, and temperature. Research on the effects of yoga on HIV patients currently has come up with promising results.

Medical scientists say that the yoga therapy is very beneficial since because of the balance that is created between the endocrine system and nervous system which influences the other systems in the body. By practicing yoga, we will know interlink between the physical, mental, and emotional levels of the body. This awareness leads us to understand more areas of existence.

Studies proved that yoga therapy tend to relieve symptoms of some life threatening diseases such as areteriosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, AIDS, and asthma. Asthma can be dealt even without any drug combination. Physicians believe that yoga practice help the patients to gain control over their internal environment and restoration of self-awareness. Yoga therapy can be very useful even for pain management. It stimulates the brain’s pain centre for production of the pain killers in the body. Breathing exercises is also used in yoga therapy to reduce pain.

Weight reduction through yoga practice is a better method for obese people to loose their weight because there are no side effects. The thyroid gland is associated with the body’s metabolism. There are some specific asanas for stimulating the thyroid gland. When the gland is stimulated, it increases the fat metabolism so that the fat is stored is converted to energy thereby reducing your body weight.  Practicing yoga daily increases your self-awareness; it relieves chronic stress, sharpens your concentration, and relaxes your mind and body. There are many other psychological benefits too.

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