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Everybody
always wishes to achieve in life whatever one wants. But is it
always possible?
Everybody wonders if there is any magic, which can help in such
fulfillment of wishes.
Yoga
is the best answer for all these questions. Once two people with
different problems came to learn yoga. One wanted to increase
the weight and the other wanted to reduce the weight.
 They
were asked to join same class for their problems, as same type
of study can help this happen. They started practicing yoga and
became friends. After interaction they learnt that they were given
same type of exercise for exactly opposite problems. They came
to office for enquiring. They were told that as they had already
completed half of the periods, they could attend the class for
remaining periods and see the result for themselves. After the
course was over, they were very surprised to see that the person
who was overweight had reduced his weight by 3.5 kgs, and similarly
the person who was underweight had increased the weight by 2 kgs.
This
appears to be surprising, but one who knows about yoga won't find
it surprising. Yoga is the process of normalization. Yoga does
not help in increasing or decreasing the weight but it helps normalizing
the weight.
As
there is external normalization, there is also internal normalization.
Yoga also helps in normalizing the constituents in the body. There
is cholesterol present in blood. The percentage of cholesterol
should be fixed in blood. The percentage on higher as well as
lower side is dangerous. Like higher percentage can lead to heart
attack. But many don't know how to reduce this harmful cholesterol.
 An
experiment was carried out at Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India.
There were 30 to 32 students whose cholesterol was measured. Out
of these 15 to 16 had cholesterol more than 250. 2 students had
less than 150, and others were in normal range. A Yoga class was
conducted in which same type of yoga was given to all students.
At the end of the course, when checking was done, it was found
that students whose cholesterol was high had reduced to 220 to
230 from 250 to 270 ranges. The students whose cholesterol was
less had increased to 160 to 170. The cholesterol of the rest
remained same in the normal range.
Different
health problems like blood pressure which if more or less than
normal is dangerous can be normalized. Insulin, when more or less
than normal can cause problems can be normalized.
Thus Yoga helps in normalizing our health and helps us lead a
healthy and happy life. There is no preventive medicine in any
of the therapies or with any of the doctors. They only have cure
for problems. But only yoga has preventive effects.
 Similarly
many rejected cases from all the streams of medicine come to Yoga
for cure. One person had come to us with hic-cups problem which
were continuously troubling him for 4 months, he could not even
sleep. This was affecting his health as he could not eat or sleep
properly. All the medicines had failed. Finally some body suggested
him to try Yoga. And after practicing Yoga for 8 days, his hic-cups
stopped permanently. Thus 8 days of Yoga helped, where 4 months
of medications failed. Many such diseases can be cured with Yoga
along with many other dangerous diseases like blood pressure,
back problems, asthma, cancer, psychosomatic diseases etc.
But
Yoga is not the answer only for curing disease. Yoga is useful
for many other things. Yoga has preventive effects. Thus Yoga
is also a precautionary measure as diseases can occur to anyone
at any time in life. Everyone today is unsecured regarding health
and praying for healthy life. As there are no precautionary medicines
available, there is little that one can do. But regular practice
of Yoga is always an effective preventive measure. Prevention
is better than cure. Only science of Yoga has the solution. Regular
practice of Yoga for 30 to 45 minutes is very effective.
Like
diseases another important issue which creates lot of tension
is addition. Right from alcohol, tobacco, drugs to drinking tea
or coffee are additions. To get rid of one addiction, one leads
to another. Drugs are one of the major problems around the world.
There is no Yoga de addition classes as such conducted specially.
But the person who joins yoga classes themselves come and accept
after few days that practice of Yoga has reduced their addictions.
No one is specifically asked to quit addictions before joining
Yoga, but they are not allowed to practice it in class. The Yoga
education to body and mind helps automatically removing additions.
 Yoga
is much more than dealing with these social problems. Along with
dealing with such problems, yoga also helps in increasing efficiency
of individual. It does not increase only office work efficiency
but all types of working abilities such as emotional, physical
and mental efficiency. The activities are very important and necessary.
Yoga helps in increasing concentration which in turn increases
efficiency.
An income tax officer had come for Yoga classes for curing knee
pain. The officer experienced that not only his knee pain got
cured but his efficiency had increased. He was a badminton player
and Yoga practice had helped in improving his game.
We
need this efficiency even while cooking. Same
lady cooks food everyday but depending on her concentration and
mood the taste of the food changes. This increase in concentration
helps students to secure good marks as their memory and grasping
power increases. All mental abilities and strength can be developed
by Yoga. This can be verified through various psychological tests.
The intelligent quotient or IQ cannot be changed but results show
that Yoga can have positive effect on the IQ. The fact is students
who practice Yoga become sharp, and secure good marks.
Thus right from reducing diseases to increasing intellectual capabilities
Yoga is the best answer. Yoga does not mean wearing saffron clothes
and doing exercises which are difficult to achieve. In fact asana
means the most comfortable position. But easy exercises like preliminary
Yogasanas, meditation, Pranayama are very helpful. Easy way of
meditation is to sit and chant Omkar. Easy way of practicing Pranayama
is to inhale and exhale lots of air, which is known as Deep Breathing.
Everyone can do it.
Breathing - Something which is very crucial for life. We breathe
@ 18 times in a minute that makes 21000 times in a day, 21000
X 365 days X your age. We inhale @ 600 cc of air; the capacity
of lungs is @ 6000 cc. That is @ 10 % of the total capacity.
Yoga has answer for this too. Starting Pranayama only teaches
to breathe as much as possible. If we try, we can inhale at least
4500 cc. But after Pranayama you can increase the capacity to
inhale 5500 cc air. This deep breathing has lot of good effects
on the body and mind.
To increase concentration chanting of Omkar is the most effective
technique. Chanting of Omkar includes deep breathing. This has
good effect on children as well. Chanting of Omkar 11 times before
going to sleep will give you sound sleep, similarly chanting Omkar
before studying will certainly increase the concentration.
Thus Yoga can be claimed to be a magic word, which is the only
answer for everyone in today's world.
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