You will learn the basic techniques and concepts of yoga in this chapter.- Exercise
- Breathing techniques
- Meditation techniques
The Basics of Yoga
Yoga is basically an ancient knowledge of body which originated from
Indians and it is more than 500 years old. The basic word of yoga is
originated from a Sanskrit word “yuj” which means to unite or to integrate
two things. Yoga is exercised and practiced to unite your body with your
spirit or you can make it easier and say that the reunion of person’s own
consciousness and universal consciousness is achieved through yoga.
Ancient people, who practiced yoga, believed in the fact that in order to
achieve internal peace, a person must integrate and unite his mind, body
and spirit. Without this reunion, person can never achieve internal peace.
This is very dense and difficult process to unite all three of the above
because you need extraordinary control over your emotions, intelligence
and actions. Yugis developed some easy and short cut ways to achieve
balance between intelligence, emotions and actions and this balance was
dependent upon three basic things that were exercise, breathing and
meditation. These three things are thought to be the pillars of yoga.
Exercise
Human body is treated with lots of respect and care in yoga and this allows
the yoga exercises to be very friendly and calming for body structure. Once
you start practicing these exercises, then, you will see that there is no twist
in these exercises and they are very basic poses which are formulated by
yogis to develop peace within the body structure.
Breathing Techniques
Breathing techniques were included in this process because breathing is the
source of life and when your source of life is out of order then, how can you
expect to have harmony and order in your life.
Breathing techniques help person to gain control over his whole body and
his whole internal system as well. These techniques are little difficult to
learn but yoga is all about practice and you can learn them by regular
practice easily.
Meditation Techniques
Meditation is another thing which is necessary for yoga practice but there is
some misconception involved about this technique and people think that
their mind has to go blank for meditation.
This is not the case because meditation is just another self-controlling
technique which allows you to think more clearly and it harmonizes your
thoughts and actions. All three of the above things are very necessary part
of yoga and you have to learn all three of the above step by step. You can
say these techniques are the stairs to master yoga.
Most of the people become hesitant and say that they have never done any
stretching exercise and they cannot learn the difficult poses of yoga but this
is a wrong thinking. Yoga is for everyone who wants peace and harmony in
his life. There is nothing in this world which is made and designed for specific people instead all humans have equal capabilities and everyone can
practice and master yoga.
You just need to concentrate very hard on these skills and integrate them in
your life in such a way that they become your habit. There is a saying that
you should make yoga so much important part of your life that you may
forget to eat but you should never forget to practice yoga.
This saying can tell y9ou the importance of regularity in yoga. The first
thing which yoga will give you will be a great looking and perfectly healthy
body which everyone wants and after that later stages of breathing
techniques and meditation appear.
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