In this chapter, I will reveal all the benefits and advantages of yoga which
you can get directly or indirectly.
- Increasing flexibility
- Increased use of joints, ligaments, and tendons
- Increased strength and weight management
- Improved blood circulation
- Detoxification
- Stress relief and pain relief
- Focus on the present and inner peace
- Yoga is beneficial for all age groups
- Better breathing and body awareness
The Precepts
Yoga is taken as a physical remedy for many problems and especially for
people, who tend to suffer from different health-related problems like pain,
stress, fatigue, sleeping disorder and other similar issues, yoga is perfect
solution. It just needs a bit of practice and patience to see the results and
initially, you can face some problems but as time passes, you will learn
the art of doing exercises properly and will start to relax after doing them.
The following are the few advantages that you can get from yoga exercises.
Increasing Flexibility
Getting a flexible body is the dream of almost every person but it is very tough
to attain a certain level of flexibility without a proper exercise routine. All the
exercises of yoga are based to increase stamina, flexibility, and length of
your muscles. I have seen people who started yoga when they were not even
able to touch their foot toes but after some practice, they were able to bend
their back completely without any trouble to touch their toes. Not only this
but if you observe different poses of yoga then, you will know that it
emphasis on certain parts of the body which are almost ignored in daily routine
but yoga exercises get these parts activated and makes them flexible to
work.
Increased Use of Joints, Ligaments, and Tendons
As I mentioned above that yoga increases flexibility and it is because of that
long research of yoga positions. Every position is well-thought and well-conceived that you can activate those parts of the body which are
normally ignored, for example, shoulder are a part of our body which can
change our whole posture but we seldom do any exercise or certain
movement which involved shoulders. In yoga, on the other hand, there are
special postures that give stress and relax shoulder particularly and
ultimately you make your shoulders strong and flexible.
Increased Strength and Weight Management
Yoga exercises help you in increasing the overall strength of all your body
parts including your bones. This increased strength increases support for
your whole skeleton. This is a great way to achieve a healthy and toned
body. It not only increases the overall strength of your body but it also helps
you in maintain you are weigh because you have to practice different postures
every day and in those postures, if your weight increases, you will notice it
in a very timely manner.
Improved Blood Circulation
Yoga is recommended for patients who have increased blood pressure or
even low blood pressure. There are different poses and exercises for both of
these purposes. It regulates blood in a more proper way because the
positions which are practiced in yoga are very precise and these positions
make sure that every organ of the body comes in the exact position which
makes the job for the heat easier. It circulates blood more easily and
more properly.
Detoxification
In yoga, muscles are stretched very gently and in some techniques, massage
are done and these techniques ensure proper blood flow in the whole body
which also works as detoxification of the body. All the undesired secretions are effectively removed from the body because everything works in order.
Stress Relief and Pain Relief
Cortisol is a substance in our body which controls the amount of stress and
it is seen that all the yoga exercises help to reduce the amount of cortisol in
the human body which ultimately limits the effects of stress on our body. In
ancient times, yoga exercises were used to cure different kinds of pain and
in some parts of the world, some expert yogis still practice this technique of
lowing and getting rid of pains.
Focus On Present and Inner Peace
Inner peace is a thing which is very rare in this materialistic world and
through practice of yoga, you can get this rare quality in yourself. Along with
physical health, improving mental health is also a future of yoga exercises
because it creates harmony between the thoughts, minds, and actions of our
body. It allows you to converge and focus your thoughts on one purpose of
your life. It avoids all the distractions and enables your mind to think very
clearly about the success.
Yoga is Beneficial for All Age Groups
If you observe yoga techniques then, you will notice that these techniques
are not specific for any age group because some of these are very easy and
some of them are complex which shows that people from any age group can
practice these techniques and get results. In fact, as you keep on getting
older, you master the art of yoga and all the skilled and prominent masters
of yoga are very old aged people who have got all the control over these
techniques and they are now teaching these techniques to their ancestors.
Stamina increases with practice and people who have been practicing these
techniques from young ages can become master of these arts in their older
age.
Better Breathing And Body Awareness
When you keep on practicing yoga for longer periods of time then, you get a
sense of awareness about your body and you know exactly what is going on
inside your body. This helps you in identifying any faults and disorders very
early in the stage which helps to get rid of that disorder early.
With better breathing techniques, you feel comfortable and there are
techniques in yoga which can enable you to attain relaxation in minutes.
These techniques do not require any particular environment or timing and
you can execute them even in your office chair to relax.
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