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Regular Mind Body Yoga For Mental Health And Body Fitness

Yoga helps in knowledge of the self. It provides adequate stretch to the muscles and reduces muscle tension. The injury of ligaments and muscles, associated with yoga is minimal. It tones the muscles and provides flexibility to all body parts. A person’s attains self awareness by regular Yoga practice. Yoga involves poses or asanas, deep breathing or pranayama and meditation. These help to improve the posture of the individual.

Psychological Benefits of Yoga

The psychological benefits of yoga are improvement of concentration, decrease in hostility, increase in somatic awareness, improvement in mood, better attention span, improvement in depth perception, increase in self acceptance, increase in social skills, better memory, increase in overall well being and improvement in learning efficiency.

The various biochemical benefits of yoga are: 

• decrease in catecholamines
• increase in ascorbic acid
• decrease in blood glucose
• increase in choline esterase
• increase in hematocrit
• increase in thyroxin levels
• decrease in LDL and VLDL cholesterol levels
• increase in lymphocyte count and
• decrease in sodium levels.

Yoga also improves the pliability and flexibility of the individual. It allows the mind to relax, when in stress. The physiological benefits of yoga are many, thereby preventing many diseases or health conditions. Normal gastro intestinal function, increase in breath holding time, increase in grip strength, better eye and hand coordination, increase in cardiovascular efficiency, increase in galvanic skin response, better joint motion, improvement in dexterity skills and improvement in cardiovascular efficiency. It also provides relief from asthma and allergies. Yoga also involves stretches that help in detoxification of the system. It flushes and removes the waste metabolites and other toxins. This in turn, delays the process of ageing. It tones the muscles, and thus prevents the flab around the abdomen and thighs. It harmonizes the mind and the body and thereby helps in their coordination. Yoga also helps to stop certain habits such as smoking.

Yoga is also effective for individuals suffering from insomnia or sleeplessness. The reaction time is better and the autonomic nervous system is stable. Muscular strength and flexibility are better. Maintenance of weight is possible. Yoga also improves the immunity levels and functions of the renal system. Yoga acts as a massager of the internal organs. It stimulates and massages the organs, and thereby prevents any kind of infection of the particular organ. Yoga is non strenuous and acts as a lubricant for the tendons, joints and ligaments. The art of yoga practice is important and requires care.

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