Benefits, side effects and risks of Yoga

Benefits of Yoga

• Improve mood and sense of well-being

• Counteract stress

• Reduce heart rate and blood pressure

• Increase lung capacity

• Improve muscle relaxation and body composition

• Help with conditions such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia

• Improve overall physical fitness, strength, and flexibility

• Positively affect levels of certain brain or blood chemicals.
  

Side Effects and Risks of Yoga

• Yoga is generally considered to be safe in healthy people when practiced appropriately. Studies have found it to be well tolerated, with few side effects.

• People with certain medical conditions should not use some yoga practices. For example, people with disc disease of the spine, extremely high or low blood pressure, glaucoma, retinal detachment, fragile or atherosclerotic arteries, a risk of blood clots, ear problems, severe osteoporosis, or cervical spondylitis should avoid some inverted poses.

• Although yoga during pregnancy is safe if practiced under expert guidance, pregnant women should avoid certain poses that may be problematic.

Ants - A Zen Story

Ants were staying in a colony situated in a garden. A man walked beside their colony. Colony of Ants trembled and part of colony fell down. Ants ran here and there to save themselves. Some Ants died, many survived. Scientist research team of Ants did a research on this. They came to a conclusion that it was a massive earth quake measuring 7.9 on Richter scale. Rescue operation had begun.

Ants could never know that the earthquake in their colony occurred due to a visit by a man near their colony.

A continent on earth faced an earth quake. Human measured the earthquake at 7.9 on Richter scale. Human proved that there was a fault line and two big stones were forcing each other, and earthquake came because of release of this energy.

Human never knew that someone walked nearby.

Science has proved that human cannot hear many sounds. In the same way there are so many things which are impossible for human to see or know.

There are many more colors in cosmos and universe and on earth which human cannot see.

Human is a very very minute part of this cosmos / universe.

How does a person become self reliant?

How does a person become self reliant?

By doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation.

When you start doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, you start realizing yourself. You start become more healthy, you do not fall ill. You start connecting with nature.

Once you get healthy and start connecting with nature by doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, your need and wants start decreasing naturally, automatically.

Your urge for more starts decreasing. If you are alcoholic or smoker, your urge or need for them automatically decreases.

You start enjoying Pranayam and Meditation, you start enjoying the mountains, sun, sea, colors, flowers. You donot feel that you should have more and more

You start feeling oneness with everything.Your urge to have your name on everything decreases.

Your need for artificial momentary happiness, which later has worse hang up reduces.By doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, your urge to eat unhealthy food decreases.

You automatically start avoiding unhealthy food. If you have unhealthy food before you, you will get natural power not to eat it.

We become self reliant by doing Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation because our body balances itself.

Remove loneliness

As per wikipedia

"Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person or animal experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation."

How to fill this emptiness or isolation.

Sometimes people feel loneliness even if they are in the crowd, even if thousand of people are their neighbor.

Loneliness is a feeling, which a person choose themselves. They individually decide that they are lonely.

Whole natural creations in this universe are with us, so why to feel lonely.

Find a companionship with yourself, with nature and everything around you.

We need air, which is easily available. Have it to the full.

We need water, which normally is available to our required need. Enjoy it to the full.

We normally get food as per our needs, enjoy it to the full.

We can do Yoga Pranayam and meditation with help of earth, air, space, and our body and soul. We donot need anything else.

Do yoga Pranayam and meditation, you will not have time to feel lonely.

Where is the time to feel lonely? When you have whole nature with you. To make nature our companion be with nature, follow natures way.

Do yoga, pranayam and meditation. Breathe, inhale, exhale.

Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation would make you feel that whole universe is your. You will be able to find companionship in everything.

Small small things would excite you. Flowers, Trees, Birds, Sky, Cloud, Moon, Rising and Setting Sun, Fresh Air, Rain, Snow, Colors everything would excite you.

You would not have time to be alone.

Yoga, Pranayam and meditation increases your confidence in yourself.

You become more strong physically and mentally.

Through Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation, reach to a state of consciousness where you get connected to everything.

Rajesh

http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com

What to do if you are unable to sleep ?

When you go to bed to sleep and are unable to sleep, you wait for sleep to come. Change your sides, but unfortunately sometimes you are unable to sleep.

There can be various reasons for not being able to sleep. May be you are under stress or you have some tension, or you slept much during the day. Some times even though you are feeling sleepy, but are unable to sleep.

Instead of just lying on the bed, do the following:

1. Sit and rub your feet, give massage to your feet including sole's for 5 minutes each.

2. Massage both your calf's for 5 minutes each.

3. Rub your palm and massage your wrist upto elbow for 5 minutes each.

4. Massage you hand and feet, toes and fingers.

5. Sit. Keep your spine straight. Fold your hands and touch your shoulder's with your palm fingers and rotate your arms from your shoulder for 10 times.

6. Straighten your hands, close your palm with thumb inside your palm, touch both your closed palms together and rotate your palms.

7. Straighten your legs, keep them together and rotate your feet’s, both together ten times clockwise, ten times anti clockwise.

8. Lie down on your stomach, put your palms besides your shoulders, raise your chest and shoulders, bring them down. Do this for 5 times.

9. If you know about yoga, pranayam than do them. Just remember you need to be empty stomach to do some yoga and pranayam.

10. Meditation is a conscious sleep, which gives better results than sleep. If you had done meditation in past than do it now also, instead of just lying down and waiting to sleep.

Please take advice from registered medical practitioner before doing any form of exercise.

This is for people who do not have any illness and may not be able to sleep some times due to some stress or tension or due to any other reason.

Give time to yourself

Give time to eat. Chew your food properly. Eat healthy food.

Give time to breathe. Take deep breathe. Give time to inhale and exhale.

Give time to exercise, do yoga, do pranayam, meditate.

Give time to talk. Pause before you speak.

Give time to keep silence.

Give time to your Parents, Spouse / Partner, Siblings, Childrens, Friends.

Give time serve others.

Give time to bath.

Give time to your hobby.

Give time to brush your teeth.

Give time to rest.

Give time to sleep.

Give time to go to nature.

Give time to walk on green grass.

Give time to see sunrise

Give time to see sunset.

Give time to yourself.