Our physical and mental health are tied together in more ways than many people can imagine. An anxious mind and a body stuck in fight or flight can have trouble finding a sense of calm.
Higher health yoga is an idea that by practicing the principles taught within yoga, we can find a greater sense of calm in our mind and body, which can help our body naturally remain in a state of health.
Many people believe that we can heal our bodies using our minds. Although that is still a heavily debated topic, it is no secret that by creating a more relaxed and healthy inner atmosphere, our body can keep potential sicknesses at bay more easily.
Whenever you meditate, you are participating in a mindfulness practice that naturally leads your body towards healing. According to this article published by Healthline.com, meditation is scientifically proven to help lower blood pressure, decrease cortisol, and reduce inflammation.
Yoga is a form of healing meditation with the added benefit of movement, which helps create strength, flexibility, body awareness, and calmness. Yoga teaches us to become aware, focused, and relaxed while engaging ourselves physically. As a result, yoga shares a lot of the same attributes of meditation.
For these reasons, we can generously refer to a gentle yoga sequence as higher health yoga. By achieving a greater sense of homeostasis in the body, you can allow yourself to heal and maintain better health naturally.
Yoga and The Body
Yoga has three major components: physical, mental, and spiritual. The physicality of yoga contains countless benefits on top of the few we have already discussed. Many people practice yoga solely for the purposes of strength, flexibility, and mobility. And that is totally fine. Whenever you practice yoga, your body responds positively when more space and movement are created within its ecosystem.
Inducing greater blood flow, flexibility, and awareness are things that our bodies crave. Even if you pay no attention to yoga's mental or spiritual aspects, feeling stronger and more flexible is enough of a reason to practice yoga in itself.
Yoga and The Mind
By focusing on the controlled breath and holding your attention during challenging poses, you can find ways to become more calm and centered. Often, during everyday life, we are faced with uncomfortable situations that cause our subconscious minds to want to run.
You strengthen your mind when you practice a challenging pose and continue to hold through the pain, and remain relaxed and focused. This is just one way to benefit mentally from yoga and achieve a greater sense of overall health.
There are numerous other mental benefits of yoga including, reduced brain fog, increased grey matter, and greater self-awareness.
However, there is another aspect to yoga that can aid in increasing your overall vitality and health. The spiritual side of yoga can allow you to go deep within and uncover nuances about yourself and your world that you may have been previously unaware of.
Yoga and Spirituality
Yoga and spirituality go hand in hand. Although many people practice yoga solely for the physical benefits, there are also drastic mental and spiritual benefits. One of the nice things about yoga for today is that even if you're not as spiritually interested in the practice, you can still noticeably experience the physical benefits.
When practicing yoga from a spiritual standpoint, you find a way to become more connected to the source of our universe. Gentle yoga sequences contain movements and salutations that have origins in divine connectivity.
While a relaxed pose may feel fantastic for the body, on the spiritual side, it has a purpose and a meaning behind it, even if you don't realize it. The beautiful thing about yoga is that you can benefit from physical, mental, and spiritual components all at the same time. Or, you can focus merely on what is most important to you.
Divine Clarity
During your yoga practice or meditation, have you ever felt a sense of deep calm? A feeling that you are connected to something greater and more powerful than you? Sometimes, when we go deep within our minds, we can achieve a level of stillness and calmness that is difficult to imagine during everyday life. Some may refer to this as "divine clarity."
This means that as you strip away anxieties and worries from your life, you move closer to your core and what truly matters. It is much easier to focus on being grateful for what we already have in a state of relaxation and awareness, instead of being worried about not getting what we think we need.
Achieving this state of consciousness teaches your mind and body that it has everything necessary for happiness and relaxation without external substances. Once you realize this, it is much easier to allow small stresses throughout the day to roll off your back. You can always find your way into a calm state if you choose to.
In that state of calm, you can find equilibrium for your body where it can maintain and achieve greater levels of health.
No matter what you focus on with your yoga practice, you will experience higher health through yoga simply by participating consistently. Even if you only practice for 10 to 20-minutes a day a few times a week, it is enough for your body to feel the connectedness with your breath, increased strength, improved circulation, and flexibility. All of which contribute to a body and mind that is more aligned with the principles of better health.
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