Friday, 1 July 2011

Health-Yoga

Yoga:

The name Yoga  comes from a Hindu philosophy used to attain spiritual insight and harmony, but generally refers in common use to a system of exercises as well as now a days system of medicine that is practiced as part of this discipline. The word itself is derived from the Sanskrit "yeung", meaning to join. A yoke as used on oxen is closely related, but also the same root gives us "join", "junction", "junta", "adjust", "joust", and "juxapose" to name a few. Meaning union with the divine, yoga is a philosophy and discipline applied to the development of mind, body, and spirit.

There are many disciplines of yoga emphasizing different aspects or combination of mind body spirit. Through practices of holding a variety of body positions or asanas, and the centering of the mind and breath in a meditative way, the practitioner increases body awareness, posture, flexibility of body and mind and calmness of spirit.

Swami Sivananda recognised that every Yogi, or human being for that matter, possesses and identifies with each of these elements: Intellect, heart, body and mind. Although many people think this term refers to union between body and mind or body, mind and spirit, the traditional acceptance is union between the Jivatman and Paramatman that is between one's individual consciousness and the Universal Consciousness. Therefore Yoga refers to a certain state of consciousness as well as to methods that help one reach that goal or state of union with the divine.

Yoga and Health:

Yoga is one of the ancient science is primarily a system of philosophy centered around the practical approach to the mental and spiritual development of man, enabling him to realize the ultimate truth. But a critical analysis of the classical literature on yoga indicates that yoga is of great value as a method of preservation of health and treatment of various diseases so much so as to use yoga as a system of medicine.

      Ayurveda and yoga are practical and applied science respectively. Vyadhi or disease, has been regarded in yoga sutras as one of the nine viksepas and Lord Patanjali advices

heyam duhkham anagatamâ.

 The pain and misery which has not as yet come can be avoided.

 The yoga chiefly deals with the removal of psychological vedanas(pains) and attainment of ultimate salvation, while ayurveda is more concerned with physical and mental ailments.

       As the yamas and niyamas are totally ignored, diseases like insomnia, hypertension, Bronchial asthma, Rheumatoid arthritis, Diabetes and a host of other stress related disorder arise. If a person is under stress, the system directly effects. The immune system is often one of the first to be affected and this leads to an altered state of biological processes which could lead to diseases like cancer.

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