Why You Should Be Practicing Yoga

Why is Yoga the panacea of all ills?

For everyone, be it seniors or youngsters, life has become fast paced, more stressful and challenging than ever. Because of this, stress and tension have increased and people are inflicted with obesity, back pain, high blood pressure, diabetes, mental problems like depression and more. That is the reason why people have turned to yoga, keeping aside reliance on doctors and medicines.

As seniors the weakness starts with the legs. You’re unable to run or jog as you used to when you were young and hence need an exercise that can help ease the pressure. The benefits of yoga are countless; it starts with the mind, goes on to heal physical problems including backache and revives one’s soul. Here’re some extensive ways yoga can heal us, and few reasons why yoga is referred to as the ‘panacea of all ills’:

1. Stress buster

One the most recognized benefits of yoga is the calming effect on our stress levels. Yoga not only encourages relaxation of the mind and body but each asana (position/posture) brings a control in yourself, which in turn keeps your stress level in check.

2. Pain relief

Daily exercise of yoga can help ease the aches and pains of the body. Many people with severe lower backache have reported less pain after daily exercise like asanas or meditation.

3. Better breathing

No matter how much cardio exercise you do, yoga is by far the easiest and most effective practice to learn better breathing. The deeper, slower breaths that play a key role in every asana in yoga help you increase lung function. Breathing right helps the body to relax and increase its capacity to respond, which are the most potent benefits of yoga.

4. Increased flexibility

Yoga practitioners always tend to notice an unmatched level of flexibility that gets their body into the rhythm for any range of motion. Most of us have serious doubts about even touching one’s toes, but yoga exercises strengthen the muscles and ligaments, hence, giving us back our good old flexible selves.

5. Increased strength

Yoga asanas are a systematic way to make our muscles pull up their socks and boost the body’s strength level. Yoga exercises strengthen muscles around our bones which helps to support our skeletal systems.

6. Manages weight

The reason yoga has endured as an ancient fitness practice is because of the amazing weight management power it gives us. The routine yoga exercises reduce cortisol levels in our body and this helps in losing weight and burning fat.

7. Peace inside and out

The primary reason why yoga is most talked about, apart from its physical benefits, is that it heals from the inside out. Inner peace is not only the most important benefit of yoga but also is the easiest one to attain.

No single exercise can give the many benefits of yoga. If you are skeptical about how a simple routine can change your life, maybe it’s time you tried yoga and experienced it for yourself.

Author bio- Joel Newman is a yoga practitioner who likes to share his experiences with fellow bloggers.  Presently he is into research on human growth hormone.