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The Purpose of Yoga - Solutions for Releasing Anxiety

...s, pains, and aches. Is the tension in your face, back, neck, shoulders, legs, arms, or hips?

Get to know how your body responds to mild warm-ups and develop routines to compensate for physical tension. The connection between mental and physical tension is symbiotic. If you resolve a physical form of tension, you will resolve mental tension, as well.

In Hatha Yoga, there are more than 1500 postures to choose from. Many of us have seen charts, or books, with 500 to 600 asanas to choose from. If you become creative, you will soon discover many more while sitting in a chair.

You can practice Yoga while you are at your desk, in your bed, on your couch, on a bus, or when you walk. When you add the breathing component, (Pranayama), to your daily life, you have many more combinations of techniques.

Heres another approach to dealing with anxiety. However, you must use it in the right time and place. Do not be silent! Let it out vocally. Some people laugh, pray, sing, cry, or shout, but each method works at the r...more

Can Yoga Boost Immunity To Fight Viral Attacks?

...ng the functions of respiratory and digestive systems.

common cold, a mild infection in the nose and throat by a virus, can be prevented by doing a regular ling mudra along with the kapalbhati pranyama (breathing technique), which results in inhaling more oxygen in to lungs thereby curing cold.

Hence Yoga practice helps one to fight against many psychosomatic disorders/viral diseases and improves his immune system and handle the stressful situations in a more positive manner.<...more

Yoga And Balance? Yoga Teaches About Balance

...d will naturally still. This is the same concept as Zen meditations "just sitting."

Emotions are energy in emotion. Yoga teaches that emotions become balanced when the mind becomes balanced. As the mind becomes balanced forgotten suppressed emotions arise into perception. These repressed emotions naturally balance themselves in a balanced mind. A practice called stopping demonstrates this principle. To practice this technique get mad then totally stop all body movement and remain perfectly still. Emotions are dependent on the body's movement. When the body is held completely still anger is impossible. This is different then lying about emotions and repres...more

Purpose of Yoga - Reasoning With Fundamentalism

...nteresting, but stupid.

Of course, there are also countless statements that Yoga is evil, and Yoga is anti-this or anti-that. Lets look at the definition of evil closely. Evil is bad, wicked, mischievous, prejudicial, vicious, hurtful, to have bad intent, and to desire pain for someone else.

That description is actually much more fitting for a religious fundamentalist. In the past, hanging, burning at the stake, drowning, and the rack, were used by religious fundamentalists to rid society of accused witches. Everyone was a suspect, and anyone that was accused, of anything, was tortured, until they confessed.

The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), written around 1486, was a pop...more

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