The Average Joe Fitness

Are There Ben­e­fits Of Prac­tic­ing Yoga?

Absolutely! There are so many phys­i­cal ben­e­fits of prac­tic­ing yoga that it can be hard to name them all. The pri­mary empha­sis of yoga is on well-being of the self. It is not con­sid­ered to be ther­apy for spe­cific ill­nesses or injuries. Instead, it gives a broad holis­tic approach, where prac­ti­tion­ers learn a new lifestyle and way of think­ing and being in the world. A byprod­uct of this “new life” is the heal­ing effects of yoga. As a per­son prac­tices yoga, they often find that some ben­e­fits of yoga are the fact that some of the spe­cific dif­fi­cul­ties he or she has will tend to go away. These effects have been ver­i­fied clin­i­cally. Let’s look as a few of the ben­e­fits of yoga as they per­tain to specifics.

Heal­ing Effects – Ben­e­fits Of Yoga

One of the most impor­tant ben­e­fits of yoga is its abil­ity to relieve fatigue and stress, to invig­o­rate the body vital­ity, and the fact that it is anti-aging and a won­der­ful relax­ation therapy.

Yoga has been shown to improve asthma in approx­i­mately 75% of cases. Also, asthma attacks can be pre­vent­ing using yoga instead of drugs. Other stud­ies claim a 93% improve­ment rate.

For severe breath­ing prob­lems like chronic bron­chi­tis and emphy­sema, stud­ies have shown that yoga helped with the abil­ity to exer­cise, and in ways that tra­di­tional phys­io­ther­apy did not. Most of them increased their tol­er­ance for exer­tion and recov­ered after exer­tion more quickly than before. They also gained the abil­ity to con­trol their breath­ing problems.

High blood pres­sure (hyper­ten­sion) can be treated and pre­vented with the relax­ation and exer­cise aspects of yoga.

Yoga is believed to reduce pain, by help­ing the brain’s pain cen­ter reg­u­late the secre­tion of nat­ural painkillers in the body. Breath­ing exer­cises also help with reduc­ing pain. These can be a one of the most won­der­ful ben­e­fits of yoga, since all of us have pain at one time or another.

Back pain has been cured and pre­vented by using yoga. Yoga will enhance strength and flex­i­bil­ity. Also, reduc­ing the mus­cle ten­sion can reduce back problems.

Dia­betes has also been shown to improve while prac­tic­ing yoga, so that their blood sugar low­ered and they needed less oral med­i­cine. How­ever, the patients in this study were also put on a veg­e­tar­ian diet, so the yoga alone might not have been respon­si­ble for the improvement.

Accord­ing to one study exam­in­ing the ben­e­fits of yoga, yoga can give one a pos­i­tive out­look on life and raise one’s energy level, even greater than the other options cho­sen for the study – relax­ation and visu­al­iza­tion. The yoga group had much greater increase in men­tal and phys­i­cal energy and feel­ings of enthu­si­asm and alert­ness. (Relax­ation made peo­ple more sleepy, visu­al­iza­tion made them more slug­gish and less con­tent with life.)

Because yoga is a gen­tle form of exer­cise, it is a good way to get relief for arthri­tis – what a ben­e­fit of basic yoga! Exer­cise has long been rec­om­mended for arthri­tis as a treat­ment, but now, as long as it is not too much of a strain, yoga can help with arthri­tis. Yoga does not need to cause pain or strain. Even if you can only move an inch and hold the posi­tion for about five sec­onds, you are enhanc­ing your body’s flex­i­bil­ity – though slowly. Be care­ful not to overdo yoga on a hurt­ing body!

Each of these ben­e­fits of yoga can be yours if you become a yogi – or prac­ticer of yoga.

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