Yoga For Health

THE ADVANTAGE OF YOGA FOR HEALTH

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The healthy body have become the dream for all people in the world since  a long   time. To get a healthy body, we can go to the gymnastic place. Because it is be best choice for all people in this time. But by exercise the gymnastic we can only form physically of our body. It is not make our soul be healthier. To get good physic and healthy soul, there is a good alternative for us. It is by exercise yoga. Yoga is a practical aid, not a religion. Yoga derives its philosophy from Indian metaphysical beliefs. The word yoga comes from Sanskrit language and means union or merger ( union between the limited self and the Divine Self ). The aim of Yoga is not really to unite us with anything for we are already united. It is to help us realize our identity with the Divine Self, to make us know and tune into our intrinsic nature⁽³⁾. Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. To achieve this, yoga uses movement, breath, posture, relaxation and meditation in order to establish a healthy, lively and balanced approach to life⁽²⁾. Most people think that yoga just involved stretching and flexibility exercises, but there is more to yoga than just these, yoga is more about creating balance in the body and mind. The different poses in yoga has specific physical benefits. The practice of yoga makes the body strong and flexible, it also improves the functioning of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and hormonal systems. Yoga brings about emotional stability and clarity of mind⁽¹⁾. So it is important for us to know about the advantage of yoga for our health.

Yoga can prevent our body from disease so it has a lot of advantage for our health⁽⁴⁾. The advantage of yoga is increasing flexibility. Yoga can increase flexibility because yoga has positions and movement that make our body can be limber. Stretching our tight body in new ways will help it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints. Over time, we can expect to gain flexibility in our hamstrings, back, shoulders, and hips⁽⁵⁾. Beside that it can increase lubrication of the joint, ligaments and tendons. Likewise, the well researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body. Surprisingly it has been found that the body which may have been quite rigid starts experiencing a remarkable flexibility in even those parts which have not been consciously work upon. It is here that the remarkable research behind yoga positions proves its mettle. Seemingly unrelated "non strenuous" yoga positions act upon certain parts of the body in an interrelated manner. When done together, they work in harmony to create a situation where flexibility is attained relatively easily⁽⁴⁾. Yoga can also massaging all organs of the body. Yoga is perhaps the only form of activity which massages all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough manner, including those, such as the prostate that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire lifetime. Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts. This stimulation and massage of the organs in turn benefits us by keeping away disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder⁽⁴⁾. The other advantage of yoga is stopping detoxification⁽⁵⁾. By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny as well as providing nourishment up to the last point. This leads to benefits such as delayed ageing, energy and a remarkable zest for life. Now, almost people in the world especially in Indonesia have a job. They are very busy with their job. They have to finishing their schedule that they have. So, everyone sometimes feel boring and stress. Stress can be reduced by yoga too⁽¹⁾. Because, it can make their mind fresh by the position and movement in yoga. So if their mind are fresh, they will fell comfort and stress can be lost. Physical activity is good for relieving stress, and this is particularly true of yoga. Because of the concentration required, our daily troubles, both large and small, seem to melt away during the time we are doing yoga. This provides a much needed break from our stressors, as well as helping put things into perspective. The emphasis yoga places on being in the moment can also help relieve stress, as we learn not to dwell on past events or anticipate the future. Yoga can also prevent the causes of some types of back pain by increase flexibility and strength⁽⁴⁾. If our body are flexible and strength, our back can kept from pain because our body can be limber and the back is not become rigid. Beside that yoga will give us an increased awareness of our own body. we are often called upon to make small, subtle movements to improve our alignment. Over time, this will increase our level of comfort in our own body. This can lead to improved posture and greater self confidence. Most of us breathe very shallowly into the lungs and don't give much thought to how we breathe. Yoga breathing exercises, called Pranayama yoga, focus the attention on the breath and teach us how to better use our lungs, which benefits the entire body. Certain types of breath can also help clear the nasal passages and even calm the central nervous system, which has both physical and mental benefits⁽⁵⁾.

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Because the cost of medication is too expensive, yoga is the best alternative to keep in good health. Yoga can keep our body from diseases⁽⁴⁾. The practice of yoga makes the body strong and flexible, it also improves the functioning of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and hormonal systems⁽¹⁾. Yoga brings about emotional stability and clarity of mind. By doing movement and position in yoga can make the blood circulation in our body become fluent. So it can make our body healthy and look fresh. Yoga can not did promiscuously, it is dangerous for beginner. So we need a teacher who have a skill about it. Beside that if we doing yoga, we must step by step to get a good result. If we exercise yoga regularly, it can be useful for our health. So try it regularly⁽¹⁾.

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