Health Benefits Of Yoga and Meditation

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Health Benefits Of Yoga Meditation

• Benefits Of Yoga and Meditation When Practiced
  Together
• Many individuals who practice meditation need to
  ground themselves in their bodies. Yoga
  practitioners are often engrossed with their
  bodies, with the physical and fitness aspect.
  Sometimes when they return home after their Yoga
  class, they can easily feel uptight and
  irritated, again losing their inner balance.
• Meditation helps to get to the core, to open the
  heart and build up a more stable, balanced and
  more settled personality. Yoga was initially
  intended to help the practice of meditation since
  it makes sitting practice more relaxed and
  balanced. It is said to decontaminate and purify
  the body, calm the nervous system and balance the
  hormones.

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• Both yoga and meditation, when practiced
  together, make a strength between mind and body,
  thus helps in improving overall fitness and
  wellbeing. Many forms of yoga combine meditation
  with the physical sequences, which use controlled
  breathing all through the yoga poses.
• One can meditate without practicing yoga by
  simply relaxing, clearing the psyche and focusing
  on controlled breathing. By regular practicing of
  both yoga and meditation have a few proven health
  benefits. They are as follows
• Stress Management
• Regular yoga practice helps in relieving stress
  from the body. Decreasing the fiery reaction to
  stressors on your body will help lessen your
  opportunity of stress-related conditions such as
  high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
  Similarly, meditation is an effective way to
  reduce the stress that is used to help reduce
  anxiety, panic disorders and agoraphobia, which
  is an anxiety disorder.

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• Improved Flexibility
• Todays society is afflicted by inactive jobs
  where workers sit throughout the day, leading to
  weakened muscle mass, fitness, and flexibility.
  Furthermore, office work puts more strain on the
  neck and shoulder from hunching over in front of
  a computer throughout the day. Yoga poses focus
  on stretching and lengthening the muscles to
  improve flexibility and help you with daily
  activities such as lifting and bending. Many
  sports person include yoga into their workout
  schedules to improve or maintain flexibility.
• Provide Emotional Boost
• Both yoga and meditation improve psychological
  focus and deliver a general feeling of wellbeing.
  Many yoga disciplines are based around an upbeat
  theme. Some yoga philosophy looks for the
  positive qualities in every way and is made for
  an uplifting experience focused on the
  celebration of the heart. Studies have found that
  yoga participants are cheerful, peaceful and
  optimistic in contrast to the control group who
  experienced a decrease in general wellbeing.

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• Meditation provides an emotional boost by
  concentrated relaxation, and it can be done
  anywhere. You can provide yourself an emotional
  boost by taking a 10-minute meditation break
  right at your desk by simply closing your eyes,
  focusing on relaxing your muscles and practicing
  deep breathing.
• Improved Diet
• Studies suggest that practicing yoga leads to
  better eating habits by improving fitness and
  body awareness. This, in turn, leads to increased
  self-esteem and the desire to deal with your
  body. Practicing meditation or yoga is a behavior
  modification technique that can enable you to
  improve your overall fitness.
• Improved Health
• Reducing your stress level, eating healthier and
  getting more exercise can obviously lead to
  better health. Modern life is full of stressful
  situations, fatigue from long hours and little
  sleep, allergies, anxiety disorders and a long
  list of stress-related diseases. By adding yoga
  or meditation to your life you will improve the
  quality and possibly the length of your life. It
  also means you can participate in more physical
  activities and simply feel better in the things
  you do every day.

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In combining yoga and meditation, you will learn
how to relax not only the body but also about
undoing the knots in your heart and mind. If you
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