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Able Yoga
Yoga practice, if well done,
enhances your life and life experience
YOGA HELPS to develop awareness. It is to awaken the "witness consciousness" - the
part of you that can step back and observe dispassionately at times.Yoga meditation is for calming the mind, and bringing openness to sensations.
Regular yoga practice benefits the following conditions, among others: anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, insomnia, arthritis, chronic pain, respiratory ailments, and diabetes. In books on medical yoga, and from research journals, you can find yoga postures for you. In yoga books you may learn principles for putting together yoga exercises too, according to deep principles.
The sources say well chosen practice may lower blood pressure, increase cardio-vascular health, increase lung capacity, and release tension and stress. Also, increasing awareness of what is happening normally helps. For example, meditating and thereby lifting your awareness may assist strength of mind and moral tone. There is also some philosophy of life that goes along with yoga - but there are differences among such philosophies too. The one nearest to you may work for you - or parts of it. Use your head there, at least a bit.
How often do you need to practice? Practice once a week to gradually release tension. Practice twice a week to maintain good health. Practice 3-5 times a week to shape your body. ¤
In the end you should realize
that calm, benevolent exercise is something to be thankful for
WHAT WE realize intensely should be incorporated in our way of life through relaxed
instructions and calm, benevolent exercise.In the end you should realize this for yourself: Yoga has many benefits. ¤
The focus of original yoga is to
harmonize the three levels of soul, mind and body for still greater gains, and a focus of
many Western yoga classes is to get a better body
INTEGRATING yoga into your life suggests learning to relax and enjoy life.
(5)Integrating yoga into your daily life - using gentle breathing techniques and relaxation and finding greater mental clarity - much depends on just how you incorporate yoga into your life:
Neither yoga nor divine dance is not intended as a substitute for a regular medical care regimen. Body yoga (hatha yoga) is a bodily fitness program that involves stretching, strengthening, and elongating the spine for proper alignment.
Among the many benefits of good yoga is: Don't accept a dogma as it is told. Look on it as a suggestion and be on the safe side. ¤
Giant or express yoga fulfilment is not a fulfilment that anyone understands by words alone. (7)
Go ahead
NEW TO yoga, make sure that you are practicing yoga for you. Call at least 3-4
people before you select any well-shod instructor. Have a look in the phone book under
'yoga' and maybe on the Internet before you choose an instructor. Make sure that he/she has
acknowledged basic knowledge and that you are comfortable with him/her.
Make sure again, at this stage, that you are practicing yoga for you. There are many
yoga books to borrow in libraries, buy in shops, and study online.
New to yoga, make sure you feel comfortable and safe in the class, and that you can
just let go there and be yourself. ¤
Ask questions first, before you enrol. Ask the questions when you have them, well
before committing, preferably. If they are ridiculed, it could be very wise and do you a lot
of good to drop that arena. Go for something better instead.
Summary
- Yoga practice, if well done, enhances your life and life experience.
- In the end you should realize that calm, benevolent exercise is something to be
thankful for.
- The focus of original yoga is to harmonize the three levels of soul, mind and body
for still greater gains, and a focus of many Western yoga classes is to get a better body.
Let yoga practice usher you into greater gains.
Old yoga advances floundering to some
The friends Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson one time had an argument on the merits of
the polemic writer William Warburton. Goldsmith asserted that Warburton was a weak writer.
Dr. Johnson refuted this, saying, "Warburton may be absurd, but he will never be weak: he
flounders well."
- Main scriptures of yoga teach that yoga is penance,
tapas.
Acts of sacrifice, gift and austerity should not be abandoned, but should be performed;
sacrifice, gift and also austerity are the purifiers of the wise. - Sri Krishna,
Bhagavad Gita 18,5.
Try to sit without slumping too.
Basic Mantrayana
MANTRAYANA is the 'mantra way'. A mantra is a syllable or set of syllables to be repeated mentally only for the very best results, the ancients teach, and that it is best to get it imparted from a genuine teacher, a gurudev, so that it suits your perhaps latent capacities and basic preferences you may or may not be unaware of.
Mantra Yoga is the yoga that works best for musical persons, is an old teaching. Purity of mind counts, and a fit body posture for contemplation. A fit way of life and training helps too, along with the main thing, which are:
Firm focus: aim to centre the mind to one idea - the personally given mantra - for twelve seconds.
Focus (at times or always, depending on your method) on some places in the body, like the spot (area) between the eyebrow, the heart in the middle of the chest (around the sternum if you like), and much could go better.
A little moderate pranayama (controlled breathing) may help some as well. Mind it can be dangerous to some; it has to be much and carefully regulated.
Moderate body exercise in between should be helpful. Well chosen yoga asanas may be wonderful for it.
For those who excel in focusing the mind, there comes a time when the mind dives inside. This turning-point is called pratyahara in Sanskrit. Pratyahara is roughly what happens when we fall asleep, but we do not fall asleep, really. We reach dhyana (Zen), which is often translated into 'meditation', and better: contemplation. At that stage the mind reaches inwards. When dhyana is prolonged, the mind goes inwards and a new term (samadhi) is used for it . . .
These are the first stages and some helpful asides.
Acts of sacrifice, gift and austerity should not be abandoned, but should be performed;
sacrifice, gift and also austerity are the purifiers of the wise. - Sri Krishna,
Bhagavad Gita 18,5. |
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Adjoined
Sh: Raghunathan, N., trans. Srimad Bhagavatam, Vols 1-2. Madras: Vighneswara, 1976.Sl: Prabhavananda, swami, trans. The Wisdom of God. New York: Capricorn/Putnam, 1968.
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