Wednesday, July 15, 2009

change your life from yoga

Author : Nitin Soni

Yoga is the best risk-free solution against diseases. It gives you an active and healthy lifestyle. It can change your entire life completely. Those who practice yoga regularly have a peace of mind and can feel their inside beauty. All the benefits of yoga ensure a strong, skinny body, and active lifestyle.

Being overweight can be related to heredity factor, reaction from medical treatments, or unhealthy food habits. Doing yoga can be useless if you consume unnecessary fats, sugar, and food that contains calories in excess. The most dangerous fat is around the belly. Stretching the posterior muscles around the abdomen can help a lot in reducing it.

Here are a few tips for losing weight. If you follow these carefully and truthfully, you are sure to become slim and healthy with time.
• Drink at least 8-10 glasses of water daily as it detoxifies your body.
• Eat more than 25 grams of fiber per day. Foods like beans, cereals, and broccoli will help you
consume fewer calories as they will make you feel full.
• Have dried fruits, fruit juices, and processed sugar.
• Consume protein rich food such as eggs, fish, cottage cheese, low yogurt and soy
products. This speeds up fat burning process.
• Have a nutritious breakfast, as it will help you avoid hunger pans throughout the day. It will
also increase your metabolism.
• Don't skip your meals. Instead, have small fiber rich meals every few hours.
• Don't eliminate your favorite food from your diet completely. Try to gradually decrease its
quantity so that you don't miss it. • Avoid processed foods as it easily gets stored in your body.

Yoga involves a combination of asanas and mudras. Start with easy ones, and then, move on to stronger ones. Choose the ones you feel are appropriate with your energy levels. While exercising, breathe slowly through your nose. Lift your body as you inhale and reduce as you exhale. Those who practice yoga and meditation at least thrice a week, can reduce their blood pressure and their risk of heart diseases. It also lowers bad cholesterol if practiced regularly. Anger is a complex emotion which involves feelings and thoughts. You can also combat anger through yoga. Various problems of ladies like not being able to conceive, menstrual problems and uterine fibroids can be cured through yoga. Yoga prepares a mother for childbirth as well as motherhood. It also improves memory and concentration. Laughter yoga or Hasya Yoga is a fun way to reduce stress. It can provide many other health benefits.

If you wake up 30 minutes early, your scheduled time, yoga can have synchronous effects on you life. Yoga is a fine art. It helps retain balance and ease in your body. Be consistent with your yoga exercises to attain its full benefits. They can be performed gently as well as vigorously. It does not require a lot of time. Yoga can be performed by anybody, anywhere in the world.