? Yoga Health Secrets?
Happiness is in the mind, and the mind is supported by the body ? a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Your happiness depends on your mind and it depends on your body. Without physical health you can’t be completely happy, and without mental happiness you can’t be completely healthy.
Health is a positive state; not just the absence of a negative one. It’s not only the absence of disease. There are 3 important points:
1. Cleanliness There are two aspects to cleanliness: internal as well as external. We’re usually preoccupied with the way we look on the outside, but we don’t pay any attention to our inside. We may bathe every day and keep our body relatively clean on the outside, but meanwhile we stuff so much garbage down our throats that our intestines start to resemble a clogged-up sewer pipe. You can’t be healthy without inner cleanliness. On the other hand, if you’re clean internally, you won’t even catch a cold.
2. Vitality: Vitality comes from the body’s energy resources. We gain energy from the environment: from the sun, our food and water, and the air we breathe. That energy becomes vital energy in the body; the vitality that keeps us alive. The more vitality you have, the stronger you are, the greater your physical well-being, and the more inspired you’ll feel.
3. Resistance: Resistance to disease is an automatic result of both cleanliness and vitality. If the blood is pure, the cells that fight disease can function freely, without being caught in a ’’traffic jam’’ of toxins and impurities. Resistance is an internal matter, and healing is also from within. Medicine only assists the body’s natural internal resistance. Resistance also depends on your lifestyle.
A well-controlled lifestyle gives physical health, mental peace and contentment. But nowadays it’s difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle ? what with the pollution, the pressure of everyday life, and the lack of nourishing food and drink. So what’s the answer? Know yourself; take responsibility for your own health; be your own doctor.
I’m not saying you’re never going to need specialized medical treatment, but at least you can minimize the chance of needing it. ’’An apple a day?, ’’ well you know the saying! Even the basic things like how to eat, how to breathe? even how to think ? there’s an art and science to every aspect of life that we should be aware of and make good use of. Well, the good news is you can start from today! It’s not a matter of learning ? just knowing what are the right things to do.
And it’s the doing that counts. If you don’t learn to read, you may have wasted half your life. But if you don’t learn to swim, you could find yourself in a situation where you’ve wasted your whole life!
The point is: it’s what we do that matters most. Mind Keep your mind positive! The mind creates its own reality. You become what you think. If you think negatively, your life will automatically be negative. On the other hand, your life will be positive if you think positively.
The state of your mind is ultimately going to determine how you feel, what you experience and who you are. What kind of a life we lead depends on our thinking. Negative thinking makes life miserable, while positive thoughts create a happy, successful and fulfilling life. Create your own reality! If you think the chair you’re sitting on is a throne, then for you it is a throne! See the bright side of everything ? and there is a bright side; we just have to see it. ’’Live in the present, ’’ and avoid stress, anger and other negative feelings.
Remember: these are very simple techniques that don’t require any special equipment or additional expense. You just have to know them and practice them: that’s all your mind and body are asking of you!