Treat Your Body With Yoga

You can treat your acne with yoga. It is a proven fact that by bringing some healthy life style changes you can quicken the response of medications to your acne skin.

Everything about yoga is good, but the best part of yoga is that it is a great stress reliever. If you had a proper exercise and yoga schedule, acne would have been miles away from you. Apart from the physical aspect, what is more important in yoga is that it treats your mental imbalances such as stress, anxiety and deep worries. Remember, yoga is not merely one of those tips. It has to develop as your way of living.

Yoga teaches you to life with an integrated approach. Correct living is yoga. Incorrect living is anti-yoga. The appearance of acne on the face of the teenager, apart from causing physical discomforts, leaves a deep emotional impact. That means, your mind is also disturbed or stressed. You feel bad about yourself.

Cleanliness is the entry point part of the yoga way of life. One, who is suffering from acne, needs to take extra care about this aspect of life. Wash your hands a number of times, so that you provide no ground to the bacteria to enter your body. Use mild soap and water. Always keep the hand and nails away from the face. Don’t you ever try to squeeze the pimples. By doing so, you are providing opportunities for the bacteria to spread. Skin envelops all over, it protects the entire parts of your body, and therefore, deserves excellent nourishment. Cut the unhealthy items from your food, and give it fruits and vegetables.

Even if you have a tough working schedule, give proper rest and recuperation to your body. Take plenty of water for a beautiful skin.

Having done this much, you are laying the foundations for a physically fit body.

Yoga consists of two parts “the physical aspect and the mental aspect.” You need to make a beginning with a few selected exercises. Sun salutations exercise is the most import exercise. In fact, several asanas and postures are intelligently clubbed in this yoga asana. Take proper rest between each asana.

Yoga and meditation are practices that help your body to renew itself naturally. The yoga helps to do so physically while the meditation helps to do so mentally. The satisfaction that one gets after doing a session of yoga and meditation is unparalleled. Hence people are getting slowly and slowly gravitated towards these forms of natural healing.

Yoga and meditation are nearly the only types of alternative medicine that require nothing but your body to complete them. Only a little instruction is required in the beginning and you have an asset in your life that will remain with you forever and help you with the various conditions of of ill health that you may have – physical or mental.

Now we shall discuss the effects of yoga and meditation in the treatment of panic attacks and anxiety. Yoga leads to a slow decline in the sympathetic tone of your body as does meditation by decreasing your stresses and tensions. These alone help in a great decrease in your anxiety level and the frequency of panic attacks correspondingly decreases.

The yoga and meditation also have a sort of placebo effect on the patient. As yoga is something that you do yourself, it helps in gain of self confidence. The medication and psychiatric therapy are something that a patient may or may not have confidence in, but when a person goes on to yoga and medication for treatment of panic attacks and anxiety, its usually his own choice and he goes in for it because of that very reason that he believes in yoga and that it will cure him. Hence, the placebo effect.

Thus if you are a patient of anxiety or panic attack, ideally, you should go around and search for the efficacy of yoga and meditation and only when you gain confidence in these techniques that you should go in for these. Otherwise you will not benefit from the major placebo effect of these treatments.

If you are a patient of anxiety, panic attacks, or even general stress and are tired of your medication and their side effects, start learning about yoga and meditation. These alternative therapies will surely help in decreasing your anxiety levels.

Have you ever known someone who just lights up a room? What is it that they have that attracts others? Some celebrities have ‘it’, babies are born with what seems an infinite amount of ‘it.’ It is their human energy. They are putting out an energy that is inviting to others and equally infectious. Other people may be doing the opposite, not intentionally; but other peoples negative energy does have a negative effect on you. Notice how beautiful features on a tense scowling face pushes you away. Conversely, less than perfectly formed features showing acceptance and joy with the warmth of a smile are equally contagious. I remember working with celebrities who were considered beautiful, and some became more beautiful over time, while others became downright ugly because their inner energy magnetized their outer appearance. Since the 3rd millennium, B.C., the Chinese called this vital energy, ‘Chi, stating that all matter, animate and inanimate, contains this. Chi is seen as the basis of life. Yogi’s practice manipulating this energy through breathing, physical exercise and meditation techniques. By directing focus on achieving more Chi, more energy through energy producing breathing techniques, integrated with easily attained Yoga poses, you feel an instantaneous feeling of youthful vigor.

1. Exercise

You probably know that you need to exercise, but at the end of a long day it’s hard to find the energy. A study involving over 6800 people in 70 studies found that exercise increased energy and reduced fatigue – and not just in healthy people – people who had cancer and heart disease also benefited with an energy boost. However you have to exert the energy to make it happen. There are three kinds of people in this world, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who just wander, what happened? Unfortunately, some of my patients fall into the ‘what happened’ category after years of mistreating their body. Your muscles were meant to be exercised, your brain is nourished through stimulation and your energy source is the connection of your mind, body and spirit. I just saw a patient today who had never exercised in her life. She is 54 years OLD, is on 16 medications, has had a recent heart attack, diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure. All this was preventable if she treated her body like the temple it is. Instead she is wondering ‘what happened.’

2. Nutrition

Yoga motivates you to treat your body like a temple for your soul to reside in. If you filled a Mercedes with regular fuel, how would it run? Your body is a first rate machine and needs premium fuel to run at its best. Eating excess fat is like sludge in an engine; it will slow down and stop running. Yoga’s inspirational message helps you treat your body with the respect it deserves and rewards you with more energy.

3. Empower Yourself

Yoga encourages mindfulness so you think before you eat. When this becomes a habit, you lose weight and the practice of self control becomes easier and even enjoyable because you know you are in charge of your health. When you are in charge of your health instead of your health in charge of you, a new found energy rises in your spirit.

4. Relax

Confucius said: “Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.”

In our super-busy, hectic, often frantic, overworked, overburdened world, we do not take the time to be still. Yoga offers peaceful meditation to help you boost your energy to achieve your goals. So stop and hear yourself breathing. Breathing requires one to breathe in the breath of life – to inspire is to be inspired with the gift of life and possess an extraordinary sense of well being. What a blessing.

5. Get Enough Sleep

Yoga can help alleviate anxiety and help you sleep soundly. A former client of mine, Myra, a hospital dietician and college professor stated she hadn’t slept well in 2 years, but once she practiced my yoga techniques, she finally got a long awaited and well deserved 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

6. Yes You Can

Yoga with meditation teaches gratitude and a positive attitude. A Gratitude attitude has a way of transforming your way of looking and acting in everyday life. Your gratitude speaks volumes about the direction, concerns, and qualities of your life. Yoga unites a feeling of gratitude with a physical connection to wellness in a seamless, effortless way to achieve the desired state of being appreciative while giving thanks for the natural life forces that surrounds us. Connecting with nature instills a sense of wonderment and admiration towards the universe. The more we appreciate nature, the more it rewards us by allowing us to relax, unwind and be spiritually linked to this extraordinary planet earth.

There is an emerging global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes that can be traced back to the increased number of people, crippled in the hands of obesity, or being overweight, and several other physical disorders. According to a World Health Organization fact sheet, 346 million people worldwide have diabetes. Experts now believe that diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death by the year 2030.

Studies and research conducted in various medical centers indicate yoga can help steady the blood sugar levels in diabetics. Here are some of the yogasanas people with diabetes can try. It is advisable to do these asanas only after consulting your health care specialist.

5 Useful Yoga Postures for Diabetics:

1. Sun Salutation/ Surya Namaskar: Surya Namaskar is offering salutations to the Sun. Sun Salutation has proved very effective for the people who have diabetes. Surya Namaskar follows a series of 12 poses and is effective if you follow and do the exercise correctly.

2. Sarvangasana: This is a shoulder stand-position. This posture involves lifting your legs slowly and keeping them vertical without shaking. Remember to exhale while lifting your legs. Once you attain the final posture, you can breathe in normal pattern. People having high blood pressure and heart disorders should not try this posture.

3. Bhujangasana: This is otherwise known as Cobra pose and is highly beneficial for diabetes treatment. You should lie flat on your stomach keeping your legs straight, feet together, pointing toes and palms placed directly below your shoulders. Now slowly lift your head, neck and abdomen accompanied by breathing with the help of arm support. Stay in this pose for a few seconds holding your breath. Then gradually return to the original position.

4. Dhanurasana or Bow Pose: This asana is beneficial for people with diabetes and the reason is because it helps to improve the functions of the pancreas and intestines. To do Dhanurasana, lie with your stomach on the floor. Bend your legs towards your hip. Now try to reach the hands back and get hold of the ankles. Make sure your arms are straight and your spine assumes an arch shape.

5. Paschimotasana: This is otherwise known as “forward seated bend” and helps to stimulate the functions of pancreas, liver and kidney. Practicing this Asana is very beneficial for diabetics. Extend your legs completely while seated. Now exhale and move forward to touch your toes with your fingers and then your knees with your head. This is one of the most difficult postures, but can be mastered over time with practice.