10 benefits of yoga

10 Reasons why Yoga is Necessary


Yoga is a science of healthy living. For a common man, yoga is a fashion for keeping himself healthy and fit and for some other it's useful for developing their concentration, memory, and creativity. Yoga helps to improve muscle strength, stamina, immune stability, perceptual sharpness, intelligence, memory, emotional stability and altogether maintain a positive physical and mental health.

Many of the common health and social problems cannot be solved through antibiotics, vaccines or surgeries. As everybody knows yoga involves various patterns of exercises, postures, and practising them appropriately helps us to give a better and healthy lifestyle.

Yoga can be broadly classified into 4 streams.

  1. Work
  2. Worship
  3. Philosophy
  4. Psychic control
Yoga is a spiritual, mental and physical practice. With time a number of health benefits associated with Yoga are discovered. A consistent practice of Yoga offers all type of physical and mental health benefits. Listed below are the reasons why Yoga is necessary:

  • Improves Flexibility 
 


"I am not flexible enough to do Yoga."  You've heard that one before, you might have even said it yourself. Well, you should know that your inflexibility actually makes it easier to feel the stretch.

Flexibility has many health benefits, including healing aches and pains, helps in balancing, and injury prevention. Stretching the muscles can also help to relieve tension and stress, which can cause all sorts of problems.
    • Builds Strength
     

    Over past few years, there has been a boom in Strength training into its various forms. It improves bone density, stronger muscles help to stabilize the joints. This can also help in preventing injuries - especially important to those with hypermobile joints.

    It has also been shown to have a positive effect on our mental health, including a reduction in anxiety, depression and pain intensity; improved sleep and confidence, self - esteem and resilience. 

      • Increase Muscle Tone

      Yoga has proven to be an effective way to increase flexibility and strengthen our muscle tone. It's also helpful in relieving the pain from the common areas such as back, neck, and hips.

      Yoga may appear to be all about stretching the body and holding long poses, but those poses pack a lot of power that builds strength, endurance, and muscle tone.  Yoga helps us to build muscle tone over time, as it is considered a weight-bearing exercise, where we rely on our bodies to form the poses with precision. This consistent exercise promotes a better quality of health and makes us less likely to succumb to certain muscle conditions and injuries.

      • Improves Balance

      Improved balance is one of the most important benefits of Yoga as you get older. We spend all day balancing our work and personal lives, while ironically neglecting our literal sense of balance.
      Solid physical balance is more than just being able to stand on one foot. The ability to balance prevents future injuries improves your focus and relieves stress.
        • Support Joint Health

        Do you feel pain in your knee joint or shoulders while doing little things? Is the pain limiting you from enjoying life the way you want to enjoy? Are you tired of taking painkillers multiple times a day?

        If you said yes for either of these questions, you are willing to end your relationship with the pain. As the age increases the chances of joint pain increases. Yoga is the best way to get relief from all kinds of joint pain. It keeps you far away from that unbearable joint pain.
          • Prevents Back Pain

          Most of the people take their back for granted. But at some point in just about everyone's life, our back revolt and remind us that they need attention and love too. Thankfully, for many of us the pain is temporary but for others, it may be much more exhausting and frustrating.

          In several cases medical attention becomes very necessary, but if your pain is less server than Yoga may be able to help you by strengthening the back, stretching it and improving circulation to the spine and nerves. 

            • Teaches Better Breathing

            The role of breath is very important in Yoga postures. First, we have to understand why breath is incorporate in Yoga practice. Our body requirements of energy changing depending on our actions. If we exercise then more oxygen is required so that breathing can become relaxed and deep. The mental activities also affect the breathing.

            So for the mental and physical functions, breath is very important in Yoga practice, we integrate focus on breath during the slow movements as well as while maintaining asanas or Yoga positions.
              • Fosters Mental Calmness

              "Inner peace or peace of mind is a colloquialism that refers to the state of being peaceful at both mentally or spiritually, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong. Being "at peace" is considered by many to be healthy and the opposite of being stressed or anxious."

              Being calm helps you to bring reason into your thought process and lowers your stress level, ultimately making you a happier, calm and more confident person. Thus, with the help of Yoga a person can stay mentally calm and happy.
                • Reduces Stress

                Yoga works to relieve tension and reduces stress from both body and mind. The way I see it, stress isn't something we can entirely avoid. Yoga is the best way to get relief from stress and keeps the person happy and healthy. Today, people don't have time to take care of their health and to maintain the stress level.

                In order to lower the stress level, you have to practice Yoga daily. So that you can live life stress-free and happy which will definitely make your day.
                  • Increase Self Confidence 

                    Self Confidence is something that every person should have. In order to be truly happy in life, you need to be proud of who you are. Not to be confused with conceit, confidence is having belief in yourself and freedom from self-doubt.

                    Without self-confidence we are weak to the world and more appropriate to become depressed. Although each of us come from different backgrounds and communities. Self Confidence is something we all have to work on and Yoga is the most effective way to increase the self-confidence.

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                    Comments

                    1. It definitely works in different levels, and it's great, as long as you don't become one of those obsessed people talking about it all the time or thinking it makes them superior to every other being on Earth.

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