Yoga for Health and Peace
Yoga For Excellence!
A healthy body is however, not an end in itself, but the means for the full development of one’s potentialities. The term “Yoga” has been used to connote a variety of meanings. It covers in its scope in the elementary training of a body by a few simple therapeutic or physiotherapy exercises to the spiritual liberation of the mind from body and its limitation. However, Yoga is used in common parlance for psychosomatic system of cultivation of body and mind which promotes normal, healthy, peaceful human activities.
Yoga is a subject that excites people’s curiosity. It enjoys much popularity. Yoga practices or Yogic practices have proved beneficial in promoting total health and mental peace as also in developing personality. Yoga is also a therapy for many diseases and disorders. People are increasingly being convinced that yoga makes good health, contentment & happiness in the present-day stressful life. Swami Kuvalayanand said, Yoga has message for human body, for the human mind and the human spirit. A healthy body is prime requisite for success and happiness in the life. The Yogic practices help to keep the body healthy and trim and build-up it resistance to diseases. Any can one testify to these prophylactic effects of Yoga from his own experience. One should practice of Yoga as an effective path for self - improvement.
Regular practices of Yoga can lead a person to a positive health, is no longer strange statement. Person who practices Yoga live longer, lead healthier life, they are less susceptible to diseases compared to others, they can withstand stress and strain of everyday life much better and they have a general positive outlook towards life. Physical usefulness of Yoga is so important that several diseases are now better treated by Yogic practices. Constipation, certain spinal diseases, certain types of obstructive airways diseases, hypertension related symptomatic overactive are better treated by daily yogic practices. The Western World has confirmed the usefulness of Yoga. Diabetic, hypertension, hypercholesterolism are perhaps related to stress. Yoga practices help in overcoming this stress.
The body which has been well prepared by Asanas can be further purified by practicing Pranayamas. Pranayama purifies both, the body and the nadis (Nerves) A clean and radiant body is the sign of purification of nadis (Verves). By regular practice of Asanas and Pranayamas, one definitely improves one’s health.
Yoga is also an imperial science which one has to experience personally. It is a practical science.