Understanding Yoga

I normally never talk about the benefits of yoga, because I consider all the greatest benefits as side effects of it. People may initially come for yoga because it offers a variety of health benefits and a way to become free from stress. Physical and mental benefits are definitely there - one can experience remarkable changes within their physicality and mentality.

Psychology of Yoga

In the present scenario where yoga and gym exercises are considered to be two parallel fields where if talked about mass and common mentality, yoga has been defined for elders and gyms for youth.

However there are many people who have come out of their chronic ailments quite miraculously with the benefits of doing yoga. The definite ones are in terms of being peaceful, joyful and healthy, but that is not the essential nature of what it is.

The real thing about yoga is that it makes your experience of life so large and all inclusive that instead of being an individual, you become a universal process. Once you start practicing it, you may see that it yields phenomenal results.

When the physical dimensions of yoga were first taught, it was expounded as to how to align this human system to the cosmic geometry. If you got this geometry right and all fits in perfectly, the friction is taken off. The friction here means the internal friction i.e. the condition when you start working against yourself and if your start working against yourself how will you handle the external stress. In simple terms yoga is the alignment of body, mind, emotions and energy, the elements that should never let you stumble in life.

Once you align all these properly, whether it is business, home, love, war or whatever it may be, you will do it with a certain level of efficiency and competence.

Now the question arises, how to hold your body aligned? Just learning to hold the body right is not a simple thing.

You remember in the 70's and 80's when you got a television in your home, there was an aluminum antenna on top of your house. If it was aligned properly, the whole world would pour into your sitting room because you got it into the right position.

Similarly this body has a tremendous capability. The world 'Yoga' means 'Union'. Union means the distinction is gone between you and the world i.e individual and universal, everything has become you hence you are in yoga. Not because you imagined something but because you perceived it. Perception can happen only if you are in the right way else not.

Benefits of Yoga

Yoga does not mean doing a particular practice or twisting your body. Yoga means any method that you use to reach your higher nature.

Why is yoga needed in one's life?

Of course there are physical benefits. It can do many things to a person, including health improvements and making body flexible. But with a healthy body you can still be a mess in your life. There are more people on this planet ' healthy and miserable' than ' unhealthy and miserable'.

With yoga, physical and mental wellbeing are both taken care of.

Yoga helps in the development of boundless expansion of a human which otherwise can never happen through physical means.

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