5 ways yoga can improve your quality of life
There are many ways that yoga makes an incredible difference for people all over the planet, but to narrow the benefits down to just a few, the following is a list of 5 ways that yoga can improve your quality of life:
- Yoga helps to restore youth and vitality no matter what your age. The reason yoga practitioners seem much younger than they are, is because physiologically, they have stopped or slowed the age markers which usually cause people to look and feel old. With consistent practice, yoga regulates every system of the body and brings it back in to balance. It strengthens the muscles and makes them more supple and plaint. It helps the joints and bones stay strong and healthy. The cardiovascular and nervous systems are greatly benefited as well as every single endocrine gland and the corresponding hormonal balance sustained by a highly functioning set of endocrine glands. Moreover, yoga helps eyesight, hearing and even brain functioning. It is about as wonderful as Juan Ponce de Leon finding the Fountain of Youth, only the effects of practicing yoga are very real and not the subject of a traveler’s tales.
- Yoga helps to calm the mind and decreases depression, anxiety and overall feelings of dis-ease. Clinically proven, yoga helps to change the brain wave patterns so that they more closely match those of a ‘happy’ person. When you practice yoga you feel happier more often.
- Yoga helps to heal injuries, both new and old. Yoga has a way of breaking apart scar tissue, healing degenerated tissue and cartilage, rebuilding bones and muscles and sending elevated levels of life force energy, called Prana, into every cell of the body. It is due to these benefits, that yoga is not only a great way to heal yourself from an existing injury, but prevent them in the first place.
- Yoga can be done anytime, anywhere with nothing but a few feet of space. Even if you don’t have a yoga mat, you can practice yoga anywhere – in an airport, at a family reunion, in a bathroom stall, or at your office. There is no place that you cannot practice yoga – even if it is just sitting quietly and practicing Dhyanan or Pranayama. You can always practice yoga. It is your constant companion if you want it to be.
- Yoga is for people of all ages, socio-economic backgrounds, social status, rich, poor, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Indian, any religion, any gender, any sexual preference. It does not discriminate in its truest form. You can practice yoga without special equipment, high-priced gym fees, personal trainers or even a video. If you learn one or two yoga poses, you can build your practice from that and continue on. It is a universal practice that has touched people all over the world and will continue to be available as long as people who are experienced in the practice of yoga continue to share their wisdom. Yoga is for everyone.
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