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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
Times Of India
http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1951455393.cms
Other Times of India articles:
Why We
Need to Get Connected to God
One Message Runs Through All Faiths: Only Connect
Yoga - Beyond
The Body And Mind
Guru's
Guidance to a Life of Fulfillment
Every Day is a Celebration For the God-conscious
All about mysticism
Your
Mind is a Monkey, Learn to Steady It
Awaken
Aspiration by Raising Energy
Reason and not Dogma is the basis of Vedanta
Kundalini Yoga
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