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Physical benefits of yoga:

 

 

Flexibility: Stretching your tight body in yoga practices will help it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints.

Strength: Many yoga poses require you to support the weight of your own body in easier ways, including balancing on one leg or supporting yourself with your arms. Some practices require you to move slowly in and out of poses, which also increases strength.

Muscle tone: As a by-product of getting stronger, you can expect to see increased muscle tone. Yoga helps sharp long, lean muscles.

Pain prevention: Increased flexibility and strength can help prevent the cause of some type of back pain, neck pain and lumbar pain. Many people who suffer from back pain and neck pain spend a lot of time sitting at a computer or driving a car. That can cause tightness and spinal compression, which you can begin to address with yoga.

Better breathing: Most of us breathe very shallowly into the lungs and don’t give much thought to how we breathe. Yoga breathing practices called Pranayama, focus the attention on the breath and teach us how to use our lungs, which in turn gives pure oxygenated blood to entire body. Certain types of breathing processes can also help clear the nasal passages and even calm the central nervous system, which has both physical and mental benefits.

 

Mental benefits of yoga:

 

Mental calmness: Yogasana practice is intensely physical. Concentrating so intently on what your body is doing has the effect of bringing calmness to the mind. Yoga also introduces meditation techniques, such as watching how you breathe and disengagement from your thoughts, which help calm the mind.

Stress reduction: Physical activity is good for relieving stress, and this is particularly true with yoga. Because of brain concentration required, your daily troubles seem to melt away during the time you are practicing Yoga. This provides a much needed break from your stressors, as well as helping put things into perspective. Yoga teaches us to emphasis more on living in current moment can also help relieve stress, as one learns not to dwell on past events or anticipate the future.

Body awareness: Practicing yoga will give you an increased awareness of your own body. You are often called upon to make small, subtle movements to improve your alignment. Over time, this will increase your level of comfort in your own body. This can lead to improved posture and greater self-confidence.

One of the aims of yoga is to develop the personality of the individual. Yoga is based on logic and human psychology. Those who understand yoga know that even wrong thinking influences the various parts of our body. Using the body to quite the mind and enhance inner peace together with the capacity to act is a concept to be understood in practice of yoga.

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