Yoga - Find your happy medium.

In Buddhism, the application of theoretical concepts into practice is called the Way.

I want to start a discussion with the practice long ago I heard stories about the man who in his youth was an outstanding swimmer and in old age began to look for themselves the same exciting experience, how in his youth he had to swim. He decided to become a monk, thinking that subdue the wave of his mind as a young man conquered the ocean waves. He found a teacher, which have respect, took the vows and began to practice what it taught him a spiritual mentor. As often happens, meditation was not given to him easily, and he went for advice to the teacher. Wanting to watch him practice, the teacher invited the student to sit and meditate. Few watch, he noticed that an elderly swimmer tries too hard and asked him to relax. But it turned out that the swimmer was difficult to perform even this simple instruction. When he tried to relax his mind and body are inactive settled. If he tried to concentrate his mind and body were too tense.

Breathing exercises from allergies

Allergic reactions are from an overabundance of the hormone in the body of histamine. Did you know that there is a breathing exercise helps restore a balanced hormone production? However, you need to know that the results will appear immediately, the body needs time to reorganize its work. Exercise is very useful, since besides the therapeutic effect, it calms the nerves, increases vitality. But as soon as it starts to fall manifestations of allergy, depending on the severity of the disease, so be patient.

For the exercise time needed is not great, but make it possible in any conditions. Performing this exercise it.

Sit or stand up straight, ignoring the pressing affairs and concerns and focus on your breathing. Make a soft, quiet breath on a count of four. Imagine that the inhaled air goes to the navel. Now hold your breath while counting to 16.

If you have a long hard breath-holding, start from the account 8 and gradually over several weeks, and if necessary, or even months, increase to 16.

Exhale 8 counts, representing that the air goes out about 20 inches from the nose.

Morning Exercises - Physical exercises

A quarter of an hour you will need to in the morning, barely awake, with easy set of physical exercises to shake off sleepiness, lethargy, and quickly, without swinging, involved in the usual rhythm of work. These are simple, well-known to us from childhood physical exercise.

1. Legs apart, hands to shoulders. Raise your hands up, well-stretched - inhale, down to the shoulders - exhale.

2. Feet together, hands in front of chest, fingers linked "to the castle." Clenched fingers, straighten arms to the left, turn to their right hands up. Repeat this exercise in another direction. Breathing is arbitrary.

3. Feet shoulder width apart, hands at sides. Getting a circular motion extending his arms, simultaneously with the force of opening and closing his fingers. Breathing is arbitrary.

Open your heart with meditation

Meditation is a word that is also used in advertising. People meditate, meditate ... Meditation is often confused with ideology, became a Buddhist yogi, a Christian, Muslim. Meditation, in fact, takes it as a tool to be them, to feel the perception of our whole approach to physical, emotional, mental. Stop the mind, activate the deep awareness, in that space of silence ... follows a movie...

Director of the Holistic. Medical expert and researcher in neuropsychological in psychosomatic states of consciousness.

Teaches holistic medicine at the Center for Research on Natural Medicine, University of Milan, associated to the WHO. Developing human potential teaches at the University of Siena. President of the Club of Budapest Italy.

He lived for three years in India and Nepal to study medicine sacred yogic, Tactic and Tibetan, and experience states of deep meditation. For three years he lived in the U.S. to explore the techniques of a psychosomatic regression, emotional release and group therapy.

Meditation - CONTROLLED BREATHING

Anapana sati literally means breathing meditation, ana means inhalation and Apana breath. Breathing meditation leads quickly to focus the mind on one point or single mental object. At the end of this process you can achieve the mental state of deep inner eye that can lead, in turn, to the condition of Arahat and Bodhisattvas.

The Buddha practiced meditation on the breath for a long time before attaining enlightenment.
Ventilate the room light a little incense put an order in the place where you decided to meditate are small gestures that facilitate the merger.
Roll out the carpet next to a wall of meditation for beginners this is a prudent practice. The look should converge to the east. Sit close to the wall with his legs crossed and your torso erect, his eyes partially tilted. The eyes may be closed or just closed.

How can we do yoga?

Yoga - is not only popular but also very useful. Yoga to help strengthen health, cure illnesses, finds peace of mind. But the question arises - is it really so?

I propose to look into this together. To get started find out how you can not do yoga, and what precautions should be observed.

Firstly, one way or another, yoga - a definite load, so before you begin to exercise, you should consult with your doctor, especially if you know that you have a chronic illness.

Yoga and Cancer Diagnosis

American scientists studying the problem of portability of patient chemotherapy and radiotherapy (appointed in oncology), found that regular exercise of yoga helps them to endure this painful treatment, which is usually accompanied by a mass of side effects.

First of all, yoga is somewhat reduces fatigue, fatigue patients, improves sleep, it was confirmed in a study conducted by a group of American scientists. Interest in this issue did not arise by chance - in recent years the number of people interested in yoga, is growing rapidly. This must be some explanation, not only in terms of improved well-being of relatively healthy people, but also in terms of assistance to the chronically ill.