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B.K.S. Iyengar

Ten Good Reasons to Practice Yoga

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▶ Minding your mental fitness

Seeking emotional balance, awareness, and insight

Your journey of discovery in the world of Yoga is not only exciting but also immensely rewarding. In this chapter, we give you ten excellent reasons to begin that journey now and persist in it.

The effects of regular Yoga practice are pervasive and astonishing, and you can see good results very quickly. If you practice Hatha Yoga (the form of Yoga that deals specifically with the body), you may first notice an improvement in your flexibility, muscle tone, and overall fitness. Certainly, expect to feel better. Other wonderful benefits manifest as you continue to practice regularly and go deeper into Yoga. You have every reason to proceed with confidence!

Yoga Helps You Maintain, Recover, or Improve Your Health

Yoga is an amazing stress-buster. When you consider that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to the doctor are related to stress, Yoga's holistic approach is a prudent first choice for fostering well-being. Through its relaxation, postural, breathing, and meditation exercises as well as dietary rules, Yoga can effectively lower your level of tension and anxiety. Thus, yogic practice boosts your immune system, which helps keep illness at bay and facilitates the physicalhealing process if you're already sick. Research demonstrates that Yoga is a very effective way of dealing with a variety of health problems from hypertension, adult-onset diabetes, and respiratory illnesses (such as asthma) to sleep

Part V: The Part of Tens disturbance, chronic headache, and lower back pain. Yoga can help improve your cardiovascular functions, digestion, and eyesight and even enable you to control pain. You can practice Yoga as both remedial and preventive medicine.

You can't find a cheaper health and life insurance policy! Moreover, Yoga is pain-free. In fact, Yoga helps overcome all forms of suffering (see Chapter 20).

Yoga Makes You Fit and Energetic Yoga relaxes your body and mind, thereby enabling you to mobilize all the energy you need in order to deal efficiently with the many challenges at home and at work. Yoga can greatly promote your body's flexibility, fitness, strength, and stamina. In addition, Yoga may even help you shed surplus pounds.

Yoga Balances Your Mind

Yoga not only assists you in maintaining or recovering your physical well-being (see the earlier section “Yoga Helps You Maintain, Recover, or Improve Your Health”) but also has a profound influence on your mind. The mind is the source of many of your troubles-sooner or later, the body reflects wrong attitudes, negative thoughts, and emotional imbalance that your mind holds. Yoga is a powerful tool for clearing your mind and freeing you from mood swings. Yogic practice supports greater results than any tranquilizer and without the undesirable side effects of drugs. It balances you without dulling your mind. Through Yoga, you can stay alert but relaxed.

Yoga Is a Powerful Aid for Personal Growth Yoga can help you discover the body's hidden potential. Your body is a marvelous instrument, but you need to play it properly to produce beautiful, harmonious melodies. Yoga also can guide you safely into the exploration of the hidden aspects of the mind, especially higher states of consciousness (such as ecstasy and enlightenment, which we explain in Chapter 21). It progressively peels away misconceptions about yourself and about life in general and reveals your true nature, which is uncomplicated and blissful.

Yoga Is Truly Comprehensive and Empowering

Yoga offers you a sensible, growth-oriented lifestyle that covers all aspects of life from cradle to grave. Its repertoire includes techniques for optimal physical and mental health, for dealing creatively with the challenges of modern life, for transforming your sexual life, and even for making creative use of your dream life through the art of lucid dreaming (discussed in Chapter 20).

Yoga makes you feel comfortable with your body, improves your self-image and self-esteem, and enhances your power of concentration and memory.

Ultimately, Yoga empowers you to discover your spiritual essence and to live free from fear and other limiting emotions and thoughts.

Yoga Helps You Harmonize

Your Social Relationships

By giving you a new outlook on life, Yoga can help you improve your relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and others. It gives you the means to develop patience, tolerance, compassion, and forgiveness. Through the techniques of Yoga, you can gain control of your mind and liberate yourself from obsessions and undesirable habits, which can stand in the way of satisfying relationships. Yoga also shows you how to live at peace with the world and attuned to your essential nature, the spirit or Self. It provides you with all you need to harmonize and beautify your life.

Yoga Enhances Your Awareness

Yoga enables you to greatly intensify your awareness, as we discuss in

Thus, yogic practice empowers you to approach all life situations, even crises, with clarity and serenity. In addition, Yoga makes you more sen- sitive to your bodily rhythms, heightens your five senses, and even develops your intuitive faculty (the so-called sixth sense). Most significantly, Yoga puts you in touch with the spiritual reality that is the source of your everyday mind and awareness.

Yoga Combines Well with Other Disciplines

Although Yoga is complete in itself, you can easily combine it with any kind of sports or physical workout, including aerobics and weightlifting. You also can practice Yoga in conjunction with any existing mental discipline, including mnemonics (memorization) and chess. Not only is Yoga compatible in all cases, but it's also bound to improve your performance.

Yoga Is Easy and Convenient

Yoga doesn't require you to work up a sweat (unless you're practicing some modern aerobic-type Yoga). You can always look pretty cool! You can practice Yoga in the comfort of your own home-or, in fact, anywhere. Although you don't need to spend time traveling from place to place, beginners in particular should consider joining a Yoga class even your trip there and back offers opportunities for a Yoga experience. Yoga creates rather than consumes time - a major benefit in the busy and stressed lives of Westerners!

Yoga Is Liberating

Yoga can put you more in touch with your true nature, giving you a sense of fulfillment, inner worth, and confidence. By assisting you in reducing egotism and negative thoughts and emotions, Yoga has the power to bring you closer to lasting happiness. It builds your willpower and puts you in charge of your own life.