Yoga makes you feel better

Yoga makes you feel better

 

     “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, the science of youthfulness”

Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Citta) and mundane suffering (Duhkha).

Mental health is a blessing, it keeps you active and helps you in solving every kind of issue, and handles every problem you are facing. If you are mentally strong then you can do anything with spirit and you feel easy to do your work, you can get good grades in your studies, you can enjoy the company of your friends, you can enjoy the weather, you can enjoy your meal. If you are mentally weak then you are useless, depressed, and stressed. If you want to keep yourself healthy then you have to do such things that make you so. Stressful and depressing life is of no use. If you are not healthy, you always keep on quarreling with your siblings and friends, you can’t enjoy the luxuries of your life.

                                      “Health is Wealth”, so keep yourself healthy.

The main purpose of writing this paper is to highlight the importance and usefulness of exercise in your life. There are different kinds of exercise, but the most important and useful is Yoga.

Yoga is something that keeps you healthy in both cases, mentally as well as physically and spiritually. Yoga makes you feel better in every field of life whether it is a profession or education or any other department of life. You always feel young and your mind also remains healthy and active. There are many researchers who are doing work in this field. There are also some professors who use to teach Yoga at different institutions. Here I will quote some prominent scholars who keep on talking about the significance of yoga on different platforms.

Seth Powell is a longtime practitioner of yoga and a scholar of Indian religions, Sanskrit, and yoga traditions. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in South Asian Religions at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of medieval and early modern Sanskrit yoga texts and traditions, as well as their intersections with the culture and practice of modern transnational yoga. Seth also holds degrees in the study of religion from the University of Washington (MA) and Humboldt State University (BA).

Mindfulness and movement

 

“These two studies complement each other beautifully,” says Schmaltz, who is also a certified yoga instructor. “Simply put, we’re looking at the effect of adding movement to a mindfulness-based practice, whereas Dr. Hill’s group is looking at the effect of adding mindfulness-based aspects to physical exercise.”

“Instead of leaving yoga in the domain of spirituality or alternative health, we’re beginning to see there is a deeper way to understand how the science works,” says Rao. “

 

Inflammation

 

Hill elaborates: “We’re hoping that by engaging in this mindful movement people will have more parasympathetic ‘tone,’ which will show up in their blood in the form of reduced inflammation. Many chronic diseases are associated with inflammation — even cancers are associated with inflammatory changes.”

 

Theories on the Origin of Yoga

 

Two general theories exist on the origins of yoga.

Ø  The Linear Model holds that yoga has Aryan origins, as reflected in the Vedic textual corpus, and influenced Buddhism; according to author Edward Fitzpatrick Cringle, this model is mainly supported by Hindu scholars.

Ø  The Synthesis Model holds that yoga is a synthesis of indigenous, non-Aryan practices and Aryan elements. This model is favored in Western scholarship.

 

 

Yoga is first mentioned in the Ridvega and is referred to in a number of the Upanishads. The first known appearance of the word "yoga" with the same meaning as the modern term is in the Katha Upanishads, which was probably composed between the fifth and third centuries BCE. Yoga continued to develop as a systematic study and practice during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's ascetic and Sramana movements. The most comprehensive text on Yoga, the Yoga, Sutras of Patanjali date to the early centuries of the Common Era. Yoga Philosophy became known as one of the six orthodox philosophical schools of Hinduism in the second half of the first millennium. Hatha Yoga texts began to emerge between the ninth and 11th centuries, originating in Tanta.

 

Benefits

“One of the benefits, we think of this particular type of yoga, is it’s got an aerobic stimulus associated with it,” McGowan said. “We know aerobic training definitely has a positive impact on the cardiac and autonomic nervous system, and there is evidence from some of the treatments with cancer that there are some things that can happen later on with dysfunction of the nervous system, so we are hoping to tackle that and see some changes.”

Ø  Yoga keeps you active and strong

Ø  It keeps your body and soul strong

Ø  It helps in meditation

Ø  It helps students in their studies

Conclusion

 Yoga is helpful in every field of life. It keeps you mindful and helps you to get rid of depression and stress. It makes you feel healthy and comfortable in every situation and helps you in getting involved in useful activities and in curriculum activities.