Special Spiritual Benefits (of Yoga)
Practising yoga regularly imparts great benefits, which are:
Basic spiritual benefits
Improved Concentration
Regulated Breath
Clarity in Mind
Advanced spiritual benefits
Thought Control (Clear and one-pointed thought)
Mind Control (Firm Will power)
Psychic control (like telepathy, clairvoyance etc.)
Ultimate spiritual benefit - The realisation that you and every other
being in the universe are one! So you = me and me = you .
Healing of the body, psyche and soul is one of the basic directions
in the yogic activity and serves the whole psychobiological and
spiritual restoration. Purifying, healing and rejuvenating yogic
exercises can restore health, life force, joy and also lengthen the
life span. Laya Yoga practices serve liberation, salvation of the
soul and its reconciliation with God.
Discover your breath - A major and important benefit you may notice
with yoga practice is that you are more in touch with your breathing.
Yoga poses are practiced in harmony with the breath. One of the
residues of this constant concentration on breath is that students
tend to pay more attention to their breath outside of class. Most
students' report they are surprised to learn that they find
themselves holding their breath frequently during the day in response
to stress. By learning to notice their breath holding they can begin
to break the habit. When one breathes easily throughout the day, less
tension will accumulate in the body.
Free your thoughts - One of the most important things you can learn
from a yoga class is that your thoughts have the ability to affect
your overall contentment and health. During the deep relaxation pose
( savasana ), one systematically relaxes every part of the body, even
suggesting that the brain itself is 'relaxed'. During conscious
relaxation, thoughts are experienced more as energy, which is
associated with the brain than as the sum total of who we are.
We have thoughts, but those thoughts no longer take over our bodies
and minds at large - triggering tension, anxiety or other responses.
Yoga teaches us that consciousness and thoughts are not the same
thing.
During relaxation we are able to let the thoughts flow through us
without dancing away with them to the past or the future. We remain
conscious, allowing the thoughts to come through us, but we learn not
to interact with them. We can say to ourselves," Oh, there's another
thought of dinner, or of person 'X' or of fear about tomorrow's
meeting.”Then we can let go of that thought and return to the
relaxation at hand. This is a meditative practice, which gradually
over time allows us to 'dis-identify' with our thoughts.
When thoughts are experienced just as thoughts, not as reality
itself, then the path to freedom which yoga promises begins to unfold
naturally. And that path is as sweet as a perfectly ripe mango.
Special Spiritual Benefits of Yoga
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