The Power of Yoga for Health

Yoga is profoundly powerful for your overall health. There is no argument that it can change you down to the cellular level and even into your DNA structure. As B.K.S. Iyengar said, “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” Anyone of any age or fitness level can start yoga practice, and if it is maintained the results can be astounding. Many teachers of yoga have personally witnessed transformation of their students’ health. It can cure cancer, unfreeze a frozen shoulder, help patients going through chemotherapy, reverse high blood pressure, and decrease the amount of insulin Diabetes patients have to take, sometimes eradicating the disease altogether. It can cure Asthma, Scoliosis, and Migraine Headaches. It may seem like some secret elixir of life and youth, like a magic pill, but it is truly, very powerful.

If you are a dedicated student of yoga you can cure almost anything – including mental afflictions. Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois said that “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” If you learn the theory of yoga and practice it daily, then you can improve your health in miraculous ways. Other benefits of yoga include:

• Yoga improves circulation and respiratory health.
• Yoga improves the condition of the heart.
• Yoga makes you stronger and more flexible.
• Yoga improves your endurance.
• It massages internal organs to aid them in eliminating toxins form the body and practicing their daily functions to keep you healthy and vital.
• Yoga increases the vital capacity of your lungs.
• Gastrointestinal issues subside with the practice of yoga.
• People who practice yoga have a higher tolerance for pain.
• People who practice yoga concentrate more easily and for longer periods of time.
• People who practice yoga suffer from fewer mental disorders including clinical and mild depression, anxiety and disorders caused by consistent anxious feelings.
• People who practice yoga consistently have calmer brain wave patterns than those who don’t.
• People who practice yoga have shown to be more efficient in their work.
• Yoga can increase your IQ.
• Yoga helps with detoxification, and the less toxic you are the healthier all your body systems are, and the longer you live.
• Yoga increases life expectancy.
• Yoga helps to maintain an appropriate body weight. It helps you gain weight if you are under weight and lose it if you are overweight.
• Yoga helps to cure insomnia and helps people to sleep more soundly.
• Yoga can improve your sexual relations, including fertility and premature ejaculation issues.
• Yoga creates more endorphins and ‘happy hormones’ like Serotonin and Melatonin while reducing ‘stress’ hormones like Cortisol and Norepenephrine.
• Yoga helps to cure ulcers.
• Yoga boosts the immune system.
• Yoga elevates feelings of well-being.
• Yoga regulates the endocrine system.
• Yoga helps to circulate positive life force, called Prana or Chi through every cell in the body.
• Yoga balances the subtle energy in the chakras and nadis, the subtle energetic currents of Prana in the body.
• Yoga practice can lead to highly meditative states and even enlightenment.

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