Healing Powers of Yoga

The regular and consistent practise of Yoga helps manage a number of ailments, particularly the chronic and functional sort.



People with background of Yoga, who have developed a desire to discover the higher consciousness within themselves, soon come to experience the Healing Powers of Yoga. Living with Yoga gurus and doing a little work for them from time to time, they come to learn, first about Yoga poses, breathing exercises and other Hatha Yoga practices.





They start to wonder if, when they practise a pose such as Sarvangasana, the thyroid really gets stimulated. Or of they do regular Sirshasana, the pituitary really gets activated.



Likewise, when they practise Paschimottanasana the pancreas get stimulated. Frankly speaking, at least in the beginning, the claims made for Yoga don’t easily convince them.

But then, there are an increasing number of people with their own background of medical studies, find that these statements made are not wholly convincing. Still they keep them in my mind, and during the years of their yoga practises they take to learning Yoga and other such philosophies, eastern and western, as well as other newer philosophies and psychologies.

A lot of folks visit a lot of Yoga gurus for treatment of their problems. They, in turn, suggest that they take up Yoga practices. Serious seekers and Yoga practitioners witness all that. A lot of them report – wandering all over India and people – how other people come to them to ask them what Yoga they should practise to become free of disease. Not knowing very much about it, a lot of them retire into retreats and ashramas again, to study and practise Yoga thoroughly.

Subsequently, a lot of Yoga practitioners came to the realization that Yoga is not just a series of poses, practices such as breathing exercises and kriyas. True, they do produce great changes in the body, sometimes in the main organs, sometimes in the endocrine glands, and sometimes in the nervous system. But the real Healing Powers of Yoga are mental, the case of mind over matter, manifest in our everyday lives.