Yoga as Preventive Therapy

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From years of experience, I’ve discovered that Yoga helps bring natural order and balance to the neuro-hormones and metabolism in the body. Simultaneously, these practices improve endocrine metabolism, thereby providing you with a preventive shield. That’s what I also call my Curative Value

I believe it works like this: Yogasanas activate the energies that have accumulated and stagnated in the energy pockets of your body and since left inert, these energies create various ailments. Pranayama, or Yogic breathing exercises cleanse your body, mind and consciousness by venting toxins from the body. Then there are Yogic kriyas, cleansing techniques that rid the body of free radicals.

Yoga, I’ve found, also succeeds in integrating all aspects of action, wisdom, and peace into one. It aims at integration on three levels: Psychic integration, of the various facets of the self; Cosmic integration, of the aspects of the universe; and Existential integration that comes only when one fully realizes that the Self and the universe are one.

Believe it or not, Yoga can actually help reduce pain by helping your brain regulate the secretion of natural painkillers into the body? Pranayama, or breathing exercises commonly used in Yoga mostly help in this. The muscles tend to relax as you exhale; so lengthening your time of exhalationpain management. can help induce relaxation and reduce tension. Maintaining a certain awareness of one’s own breath helps achieve calmer, slower respiration and assists in relaxation and

Yoga can be a rewarding preventive therapy; a life-long activity that promotes health and maintains functions of organs as you age. It can be a part of almost everyone’s fitness plan as the different types of Yoga and the opportunities to advance and improve are boundless.

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