Importance of Yoga in Our Daily Life
Yoga is not a religion; it is a journey of living that aims towards a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Yoga is a way of life. And if we incorporate yoga in our lives slowly and make it an integral part of our life, we would be in a peaceful state in our everyday life. We would be able to raise the above petty issues and will be able to view everything in a balanced way. We would be able to make decisions without getting clouded by our emotions. We would think and act with complete attention, focus, and awareness.
Maintaining a balance between oneself and the environment is necessary for every human. Despite nowadays greater emotional as well as physical needs are given more priority. This is a reason why people suffer more stress, anxiety, and also insomnia which is mainly due to improper lifestyle and physical exercise. Therefore, we need methods and techniques for the attainment of health and harmony; in this respect, yoga acts as an aid to one’s health.
Why is it necessary to have yoga in our daily life?
According to the Bhagavad Gita “A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with the Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.”
Yoga at the physical level comprises several postures or asanas to keep the body healthy. The mental techniques in Yoga include breathing exercises or pranayama and meditation to discipline the mind.
· Practicing yoga develops physical health.
· It develops mental health.
· It develops social health.
· It develops spiritual health.
· It helps in our self-realization, etc.
Benefits of Yoga
The art of practicing yoga helps in controlling an individual’s mind, body and soul. It brings together physical and mental disciplines to achieve a peaceful body and mind; it helps manage stress and anxiety and keeps you relaxing. It also helps in increasing flexibility, muscle strength, and body tone. It improves respiration, energy, and vitality. Practicing yoga might seem like just stretching, but it can do much more for your body from the way you feel, look and move.
Listed following are some benefits of daily yoga practice:
· Attainment of perfect equilibrium and harmony
· Promotes self-healing.
· Removes negative blocks from the mind and toxins from the body
· Enhances personal power
· Yoga to live with greater awareness
· Removes toxins from the body and negative blocks from the mind.
· Yoga increases self-awareness.
· Increases personal power.
· Boost immunity.
· Helps in attention, focus, and concentration, especially important for children
· Reduces stress and tension in the physical body by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.
· It helps in the attainment of perfect equilibrium and harmony.
· It helps in weight loss.
· It increases flexibility and muscle strength.
· It improves the function of the brain.
· Lowers the blood pressure.
· Improves lung capacity.
· Improves a sense of balance.
· Make bones stronger.
· Lowers the risk of heart diseases.
· Maintain a healthy weight.
· It also helps in fighting depression.
· Stimulation of organs.
· Also, help in the improvement in gastrointestinal health.
· Increases Metabolism.
· Improves sleep.
· It also helps in building self-control.
· Yoga helps for inner peace.
· Yoga increases energy in the body..etc.
In such a busy life full of responsibilities, long working, and busy schedules, we mostly forget to be happy. Sometimes to maintain a balance between work life and personal life also becomes difficult and indirectly affects health and life. It is necessary to spare some time for exercise, yoga, etc. So, it is important to include yoga in daily life as it helps in controlling a person’s body, mind, and soul. And together it brings the physical and mental discipline which is better for the body and mind.
In the end, Yoga makes us understand about the life, meaning of existence, it is relative in method but absolute in the objective. Yoga poses a positive impact on life and also has numerous physical and mental benefits.
