Friday, August 27, 2010

How does meditation?

Meditation - a contemplation, art, to get rid of the human mind from unnecessary thoughts, look inside yourself. Meditation helps to understand yourself, to think about the meaning of existence. In addition, classes are improving the well-being and provide emotional balance. In this article we will try to explain how meditation works, by what mechanisms it has its magical effect on the mind and the body.
First, what is important to remember, beginning to engage in meditation - focusing on your own mind is not as easy as it first seems. Out of my head superfluous thoughts - this is just the tip of the iceberg; this is just a lot easier to cope. Harder to teach myself to linger in this purified from the total surplus position for a long time. However, there are a few tips that may help beginners:
Choose a quiet and secluded place for meditation.

Why Yoga therapy can help improve the health?

Human health is determined by the condition of his cell system, yoga (as the performance of asanas and pranayama) enable cells do not simply exist, but truly to live, reproduce and die only after serving the body in full. This is a guarantee that the books Iyengar called "excellent health".
Yoga therapy is called a way to influence not only on muscles, joints and bones of man (his body), but also on the physiological processes within the organism. The proper execution of asanas really has a miraculous effect on the liver, spleen, respiratory and circulatory systems of the body, pancreas and many other organs and functions.
In addition, yoga therapy can be considered as a practice of getting rid of the internal configuration of the human mind, are the causes of diseases of the soul. It is well known that the spiritual condition also significantly affects the physical and physiological.

What is meditation?

 Life - is a complicated. It is rarely recalled lying on the beach undisturbed tropical island. However, and dirty, smelling of rotten smelt docks life does not necessarily have to be similar. Really? 
You may be difficult to lift his head from the pillow in the morning?
Cryptography from each creak of the day?
Did you get close?
Beset friends?
Nervous in traffic jams and queues?
What? To get started, you need to stop and calm down. That is the main task of meditation.
As soon as he heard the word "meditation", many of you thought about the old man, which are found in films about the East. Santa sits in a sophisticated position on my mat and grunts something unintelligible. There's hardly any seem to be useful in his "chants".
Meanwhile, it is also a form of meditation. Numerous studies of scientists from different parts of the world again and again proved that meditation can help to relax the body and spirit. In addition, it helps to develop in a person the ability to concentrate on something really important.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Yoga for children as a method of physical culture

Nowadays, children are loaded affairs no less than adults. And just like adults, are subject to stress the "great life." The consequences of a tight schedule are nervousness, aggressiveness, irritability, reduced concentration and attention in school, chronic fatigue and reluctance to discuss problems with parents.
Often parents are so loaded children all sorts of extra-curricular activities that the time for physical education does not remain (other than school). A physical exercise to strengthen the health of the child and the normal development is very important. Often physical education in schools do not teach your child interest in healthy lifestyles , by contrast, students in every way try to wriggle out of these lessons. For some children, particularly girls, yoga can compensate for the lack of physical activity. In addition, yoga helps to relax after a hard day and with the ongoing exercises contribute to the overall health promotion, prevention of violations of posture.
The Secret of Yoga
Yoga can help your child restore balance, increase endurance and improve the perception of information. In general, this statement is applicable to any adequate physical activity in normal mode for the child. But many children have no interest to the standard physical education, they can inspire yoga as a modern and most popular among all ages, methods of physical culture.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wise or Yoga for the fingers

Mudra - an exercise for the fingers, by which activated reflex zones that, in turn, can influence the feel and mood of people.

Very easy to perform mudras can be practiced in any position, lying down or sitting, and even on the move. In addition, they are recommended for children, weakened, sick and elderly.

Originally there were 9 wise, which were used for meditation. To date, there are dozens of wisdom that apply to yoga , the Indian dance (which have much in common with yoga), the martial arts - judo, aikido, tai chi and so on.


Monday, July 19, 2010

Yoga to stop smoking and the nervous hunger. Relaxation techniques to deal with change.

Yoga is a discipline not only beneficial for muscles, but also for the overall welfare of the person. Yoga teaches us to maintain the correct body posture, but also to seek the 'inner energy. More than a gymnastics or philosophy, yoga is a way of life. Some engaged in sports, why strengthens and tones muscles, while others like therapy, because it helps to pass back pain. Yoga is useful for relaxing, because it helps to reduce stress. But there are those who use it for weight loss and weight loss (against the nervous hunger and hunger pangs), stop smoking, sleep better | There's a yoga for all and all is fine. Yoga can only be learned from a master. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit root "yug" which means to unite, bind together body and soul, muscle and spirit. It also means being able, through breathing, to control his emotions and will. In this sense the technique yoga can help to stop smoking or control the nervous hunger, two decisions that can lead to states of nervousness or anxiety: Yoga helps to correct bad habits with gentle relaxation techniques. A simple relaxation technique can provide the opportunity to eradicate the behavioral defects (such as smoking and nervous hunger) and implement changes important and often difficult to achieve. The ancient Indian relaxation techniques have been renamed with the name of Yoga Nidra. These techniques are also based on autogenic training, but these techniques appear more capable and also discuss other issues not only affect the relaxation's sake. They enact the experiences of waking state’s attention, awareness, and then finally hearing a deep, comparable to that of meditation. One important aspect is the "Sankalpa" (respect) to express at the right time, in connection with a change that you want to implement. 

Our life is full of attempts to change more often characterized by the failure. We must indeed understand what is happening and, in particular, how our mind to face strong enemies likes bad habits. Any attempt "went up in smoke" to stop smoking, make us weak and fragile beings in character, and this weakness is definitely impact in other aspects of our existence. Attention then attempts to implement only when you are determined enough and safe. 

But as our reasoning mind? 
The human mind is organized in patterns: good law for all the acquired habits (good and bad) and tends to defend them. Indeed consider "different habits" as enemies. E 'for this reason that sometimes we tend to despise those who make things different from us and for this reason that when we change becomes difficult. Just think of an obvious fact: when you start smoking, you have difficulties. The mindset of the moment suggests that you are doing something wrong and it is used will need even going against nature to change that pattern and start smoking. Smoking cessation should be just as energetically. But aside from smoking, this also applies to other aspects of the problem called "change." 
Indian techniques start with a discovery: the mind is relaxed when it is less reactive and can go about changing his lines of defense. This means that if a person wants to make a decisive choice (about) a change in state of deep relaxation can express more inner strength, and the change goes beyond our mental defenses. Once the purpose of change is beyond the mental defenses, the mind is required to produce a new scheme which is a part about the change, if continually reinforced door to secure implementation. Keep in mind that during the period of adjustment, the subject matter or that self-treatment may be a bit 'evil, or at least not in perfect shape. It is not difficult to understand why: it is implementing a change. 
If a person is deeply troubled by bad habits (like smoking or nervous hunger), without finding other resources to tackle them, may resort to techniques of Yoga Nidra. The practice certainly confers more benefits if performed in a suitable environment like a school of Yoga, in the eyes of a good teacher. 

The practice of yoga in this way can improve the quality of life. The number of practitioners grows continuously; yoga in Italy that has spread among men, reluctant to start practicing a discipline seemingly irrational. Today the ratio between male and female practitioners is practically equal and changed the vision you have of yoga. 
In practice, everyone is capable of discovering yoga: If you correctly, since the first time you "feel" that the movement takes place only at the physical awareness of one's breath, reached through the techniques that are taught allows you to switch from natural to mechanical movements of gesture, that provides better stability nervous index psycho-physical balance. With breathing you buy body awareness, yoga exercises, therefore the body and soul together, to achieve wellness and balance.

Yoga, jogging, music and pet therapy exercises promoted by science as well

Well-being: yoga, jogging, music and pet therapy exercises promoted by science as well Welfare practices on which the literature has so far delivered a positive verdict are yoga, jogging, music and pet therapy. Not yet classified are pilates, pranotherapy and Bach flowers. For our mental well-being is effective exercise, yoga, a good laugh, the 'listening to music, Omega 3. For science would be useless pranotherapy and aromatherapy, are still awaiting trial pilates, homeopathy and multivitamins. 

A race to 'open air or walk briskly help against anxiety, depression and panic attacks because they act on neurotransmitters’s mood: serotonin and nor epinephrine. 
Regarding the 'feeding, vitamin E as an antioxidant acts as a scavenger of toxins, characteristic of Omega 3 fatty fish instead stimulate neurogenesis brain, namely the production of new brain cells. 
For the practice of science are also being funny, pet therapy, meditation and yoga, breathing techniques, sleep environments rich in stimuli. 

Welfare can also be generated by a personal journey of inner growth and in particular by: 
- Emotional intelligence that allows us to use emotions in a positive way and to derive satisfaction and gratification 
- Critical thinking that is the virtue that enables us to see reality for what it is without becoming slaves to desires unattainable 
- Development of a coherent personality, that awareness of one's temperament (and acceptance of himself, including boundaries) and the ability to drive our character so as not to conflict with ourselves. 

Science has now put in hand for "purgatory" and waiting to study the benefits that Pilates has, however, its usefulness for welfare, even if still not found the evidence (but, as we know, science and scientific rationality are not always able to explain everything, especially when alternative therapies and practices).