POWER OF YOGA

Today's world is full of stress and tension. This takes a toll on one's mental and physical health. Slowly, people have come to understand the benefits and cure those results from yoga. This has not yet become a chain reaction considering most of us are lazy to pick up a healthy habit. Yoga has branched off into many directions or cults. Nowadays doing yoga can be a fashion of sorts or it can even be a pastime that one picks up and slowly promotes its benefits to others.

If you look at the current followers of yoga, everyone does it from the celebrity stars to the sports stars and the persons in the judiciary. One thing common in all of these is the will to perform and for that sustenance of effort, yoga helps them. It is no wonder that even though it could boast of thousands of years of existence, it is still a minority considering its followers that flock to it, which is if you consider it as a religion of health.

A path to enlightenment that winds back 5000 years in its existence in native India, yoga has suddenly become a hot commodity that people pick up as a novelty and discard as it is a practice with no tools or site preparation or cost involved.

It’s the radiant bliss and the glow on the person who practices it and the flexibility and the wide variety of options in the asana that gets one and all attracted. Even though it is native to India, a lot of people in the western nations have studied and explored its richness and thereby yoga has found a lot of followers in those countries.

Yoga is found to be a remedy to cure a lot of diseases though research is going on to find its effectiveness in curing certain hard to cure diseases. The modern generation is beset with all sorts of stress right from childhood. No wonder schools have inculcated teaching yoga in schools right from primary grades.

Actually speaking, yoga has to become a part of our life as food is to the body. It has the power to heal us mentally and physically. The irritation, the frustration and the complexities associated with today's fast paced life that gets absorbed and eats into our physical and mental fabric is thrown out as a toxic from our bodies through yoga.

It changes the personality in you, gives courage to your character and builds on the confidence in you. Concentration in studies and a positive approach to life is the merits of yoga. It brings a positive aura around us. It brings inner peace and when our mind is peaceful we make the people around us also happy. Practicing yoga helps to accumulate positive energy which then flows from within and surrounds us.

The suicide cases among students after examinations are increasing due to the stress and pressure they are having from the outside world. No one is there to give them the medicine of relaxation. One can call yoga as the greatest stress buster in our busy and stressful life.

The change in the life style, the eating habits and the fast life has brought a lot of stress into children and adults living in cities. The parents, the teachers and the society should value the power of yoga which can bring into our new generation, a source of inner peace which will transform every individual into a strong and positive human being.

Meditation in yoga brings down your temper which will improve your health. Being angry with someone hurts you more than the opposite party. Inner engineering programs in yoga teach mind control and do not allow your emotions to control you.

Thousands of research studies have shown that in the practice of yoga a person can learn to control such physiologic parameters as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory function, metabolic rate, skin resistance, brain waves and body temperature, among other body functions. Illnesses such as obesity that is so widely rampant in boys and girls can be controlled using yoga. The costly weight management techniques employed by fitness clinics can thus be avoided along with the medical pills that come with it.

The biggest problem in practicing yoga is procrastination and the urge to do something different. Yoga requires a bit of patience for one to practice it regularly, but with it comes a lot of patience and wisdom to handle problems affecting one's health and society as a whole.

The advice to the young generation is to pick up this as a hobby, develop it as a habit and remain addicted to it. This would help all of us to stay away from other unwanted degenerating hobbies that take a toll of our health and lives.

                                                                                                                                  Ms.Beena Kollara