to the following points:
•Blood Pressure
High blood pressure or hypertension can be prevented and also treated by regular practice of yoga.
The exercise and relaxation that yoga offers to human body plays an important part in curing high blood pressure.
Decrement in respiratory rate and increment in respiratory efficiency is one of the chief features of yoga for the prevention of the High Blood Pressure.
Yogic breathing in combination with biofeedback and other techniques of yoga help in lowering the blood pressure and reduces the necessity for medication for high blood pressure.
•Pulse Rate
Regular practicing of yoga drastically lowers down the pulse rate and brings them under control.
There are three main components of yoga: Asanas, Pranayama, and meditation, which contribute directly in maintaining a stability between respiratory system and its organs. This in turn helps in attaining a co-ordination between different organ systems and reducing the pulse rate.
•Circulation
Yoga helps to improve circulation by efficiently moving oxygenated blood to the body’s cells. Yoga also provides ideal kind of sleeping pattern and normalizes body weight.
This also helps in improving the circulation system of human body and reducing the necessity for any kind of medication.
Anxiety is termed to be one of the chief reason for unstable circulation system and the art of yoga directly acts as a preventive tool against anxiety thereby creating high grounds where circulation is well taken care of.
•Organs
Yoga comprises of gentle exercises that are designed in such a manner so as to provide complete relief from the dangerous effects of stress on proper functioning of the organs within the body.
Different asanas allow stimulation of the different organ and glands.
Yoga allows great exposure of the interior experience to the individuals and therefore co-ordination and functioning between the different systems is very smooth.
•Immunity
Yoga makes stronger the immunity system of the human body and therefore creates a strong defensive wall against ill effects of some of the most threatening diseases in life.
Yoga improves the immunity in human body by the process of gate-regulating mechanism and increases the secretion of white blood cells that are important for a good health.
•Metabolism
Yoga also helps in breaking down of glucose and fatty acids and thus stabilizes the process of metabolism.
There are some asanas that helps to stimulate the performance of few of the inactive or sluggish glands. This allows enormous level of optimum hormonal output.
The primary aim of yoga is to improve the functioning of thyroid glands as it is highly powerful in attaining proper mechanism for metabolism.
The mechanism of metabolism is stabilized during the process of yoga as most number of calories is burnt during the process.
•Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal region of the body (stomach) is also benefited through regular exercising of yoga. Usual exercises of yoga benefit both men and women in improvement of gastrointestinal areas.
Yoga is an efficient tool that brings about the co-ordination between proper mental health and efficient functioning of gastrointestinal areas.
Mental health and gastrointestinal functioning are interconnected and yoga helps in bridging the gaps between the two.
•Cardiovascular Endurance
Yoga plays an important role in lowering the heart rate and therefore improving the level of oxygenation in the human body.
An idyllic combination of lowered heart rate and improved oxygenation results in higher cardiovascular endurance.
•Respiratory – Improved Breathing
Lower respiratory rate is accomplished if the lungs are working to their best efficiency. This is in particular achieved through regular exercising of yoga and better fitness.
Yoga includes breathing practices known as pranayama, which can be effective for reducing our stress response, improving lung function, and encouraging relaxation.
Many pranayamas emphasize slowing down and deepening the breath, which activates the body’s parasympathetic system, or relaxation response.
One thing that I noticed with yoga was that when I changed my pattern of breathing, it significantly affected my body’s experience and its response to stress. This may be one of the most profound lessons I learned from yoga practice.
•Stress Relief
I managed to reduce the physical effects of stress on my body by practicing yoga. When the body responds to stress through a fight-or-flight response, it releases Cortisol – the stress hormone from the adrenal glands.
People measure stress response through Cortisol on most occasions. Yoga practice reduces the levels of Cortisol. Also, most yoga classes end with savasana, a relaxation pose, which further reduces the experience of stress.
•Pain Relief
Yoga can ease pain. Studies have shown that practicing yoga asanas (postures), meditation, or a combination of the two, reduced pain for people with conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diseases and hypertension as well as arthritis, back and neck pain and other chronic conditions.
•Flexibility
Yoga can improve flexibility and mobility and increase range of motion. Over time, the ligaments, tendons, and muscles lengthen, increasing elasticity.
•Increased Strength
Yoga asanas use every muscle in the body, increasing strength literally from head to toe. Regular yoga practice can also relieve muscular tension throughout the whole body.
•Weight Loss
While most of the evidence for the effects of yoga on weight loss is anecdotal or experiential, yoga teachers, students, and practitioners across the country find that yoga helps to support weight loss.
Many teachers specialize in yoga programs to promote weight management, and find that even gentle yoga practices help support weight loss. People don’t have to practice the most vigorous forms of yoga to lose weight. Yoga encourages development of a positive self-image with more attention paid to nutrition and the body as a whole.
•Cardiovascular Conditioning
Even gentle yoga practice can provide cardiovascular benefits by lowering resting heart rate, increasing endurance, and improving oxygen uptake during exercise.
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