What
is Yoga? It means the unity of the discrete awareness and universal truth, or
soul with spirit. The yoga culture is practiced in India, since 5000 years. It is
actually the ancient knowledge of the human body. Many people think that Yoga is
just a physical movement like bending, twisting, and stretching, inhaling and exhaling in a complicated way, but it’s more than a movement, a preparation of disciplined
and balanced body-mind-soul.
Yoga
can give us endless benefits, but we should do it with right process. Today, we
are surrounded by many drastic diseases. Healthy body and mind is the key of a successful life. Every day, we are dealing with pollution, wrong life-style ,
and lots of stress. It takes us far away from the good health. But Yoga works
like a soldier. The
application of the pose (asanas) reinforces the body and brings a feeling of
well-being. Yoga increases the intellectuality and a strong concentration power, it
stables the emotions and makes us more rational and more caring towards each
other.
The
Asanas intensify muscle power, increases suppleness along with good blood circulation.
Yoga for us, is, one solution for many problems. It organizes and balances our
hormone systems. Not only it controls cholesterol level, blood pressure, and enhances
cardiovascular performances, but also builds up a powerful immunity to protect
our body.
The practice of breathing techniques
(Pranayam) improves our respiratory system. It makes our lungs strong as well
as increases the consumption of oxygen in our blood. It is a blessing for
asthma patients or for one who suffers from respiratory disorders. It makes a
strong nervous system, thus, making it easy to face many extreme situations.
Pranayama also calms the mind.
In this cutting age, we are threaded
by Cancer, Diabetes, Parkinson, Obesity, Cirrhosis of lever , Thyroid, Arthritis,
back and neck pain, Migraine, many type of hormonal problems, sleep disorder, and
depression. Sexual and complications about the child birth are also seen extensively
nowadays. Due to workload and stress, people get captured by smoke and consume
alcohol, which is a mother of many drastic diseases. If we regularly practice
yoga (Asanas, Pranayama, Meditation), our inner system becomes capable to fight
against many of these unwanted diseases.
Diabetes is a silent killer. In this
century, a large number of mass of the world suffers from diabetes. It
mainly happens due to the deficiency of insulin composition by the pancreas or
shortfall of cell response to insulin, an imbalanced glucose level is seen in
blood as an outcome. Some Asanas can help us to control diabetes and prevent
it.
Akarna
Dhanurasana (Archer’s Pose)
Method: Sit
down with legs stretched affront. Now, hold the toes of both the legs with opposite
hands. The toe of the right leg should be brought towards the right ear. Head
should be held straight.
Benefits:
It
is super beneficial for diabetes, abdominal fat, gastritis, hyperacidity,
sciatica, strength of the wrist, biceps, triceps, dysentery, constipation, nervous
weakness.
ARDHA MATSYENDRASANA (Half Twist Pose)
Method: Stand
keeping legs straight. Fold right knee and keep the heel below the anus. Fold left
leg and bring it to right side of the right leg and keep feet in touch with the
ground. Then move right hand on the left knee kept below the armpit. Then touch
left heel with left hand.
Benefits:
Very
effective for diabetes, it massages kidney, liver and pancreas. It helps
maintain softness of the body, massages the muscles of the back and belly,
improves digestive power, lumbago muscular , rheumatism, slip disc, and improves
the functioning of nervous system .
HALASANA (Plough Pose)
Method: Just
lie straight with two hands beside, then raise legs upwards & bring them
behind head to touch the ground.
Benefits:
Beneficial
for diabetes as it motivates pancreas, spleen and the entire lower abdominal
organ by the massage. This asana is very useful for weak liver function,
problem of kidney, indigestion, constipation, excess fat in waist region,
thyroid, diabetes, piles, dysentery, eye problem, asthma, bronchitis, abdominal
wind too.
Besides
asanas, breathing practices, especially anulom-vilom (alternate nostril
breathing) and Kapalbhati (one-time inhale; exhale 30 to 50 times quickly ) is mostly
effective. Anulom vilom is very helpful in diabetes as alternate nostril
breathing has serene results on the nervous system. This even balances the stress
levels and is effective in diabetes treatment. Kapalbhati , on the other side,
energizes the pancreas to release insulin, thus helping control diabetes. But
remember, before doing any of the Yoga pose (Asanas, Mudras, Pranayama) take
expert advice.
There is no age for yoga. There is
nothing that is too late or soon for starting yoga. But it will take time to
rebuild our human body. Along with a healthy diet, plenty of water consumption,
positive attitude with regular exercise, yoga helps to get a healthy, happy
body, mind and soul. It makes us a good human being, which is the first condition
to be healthy. Hopefully, in many people, interest grows for yoga activity.
