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... only in America but in Europe and other continents as well, Yoga is increasingly becoming popular as stress reducer.

Yoga curbs stress by bringing tranquility and peace of mind. Your mind experiences complete rejuvenation with yoga exercises. There are certain yoga asanas (postures) that are specifically meant to provide relaxation to mind and greatly contribute to stress reduction. For example, corpse posture of Shavasana. Other relaxation providing yoga poses equally contribute to mental peace.

An aggravated stress could be effectively cured yoga dhyana or meditation. meditation offers a long term solution to people who are prone to stressful situations. In today's life you can't avoid stress, so stress management becomes a prerequisite. That's when Yoga proves it's efficacy as stress management tool with its wider range of exercise practices.

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Hatha Yoga for Increased Life Expectancy

...Could Yoga help you to live a longer, healthier, and happier life? Of course, Yoga can do all of these things. Yoga has a proven track record, at a time when some countries could afford to be more pro-active about healthcare.

The Washington Post recently ran a story about how the United States has fallen to 42nd place in life expectancy. Many reasons are given to explain away a country, which spends so much on medical care, falling to 42nd place.

Of course, obesity was named as a factor. According to the Washington Post, "The U.S. has the resources that allow people to get fat and lazy," said Paul Terry, an assistant p...more

Why I Do Yoga

...Most people do yoga to be flexible and strong. Some do it to be in shape, some do it to firm their bodies or simply slim down. Some do it as a 'springboard' to change their lives in a positive way.

My Story: I stumbled upon doing hatha yoga in a college gym many years ago. It was in the mid 1970s.

The Yoga session consisted of half an hour of unfamiliar postures and me trying to flex, move and hold as instructed. I just followed the instructor and as was suggested by him, pushed myself reasonably hard (but not too hard) to align to the postures. I was a little uncomfortable, but not too much. I suppose it seemed a little strange, but I liked it.

The end of the Yoga session. As the thirty minute session concluded, the lights were dimmed and we closed by laying on our backs in the corpse pose or `savasana for 10 delicious minutes of a guided `letting go. At the very end we were gently prompted to arise to a sitting position where we s...more

Hatha Yoga - The Path to Focus and Concentration

...aradox of our society: competition breeds success. competition does achieve goals, but competition also creates unreasonable deadlines, which lead to excessive stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, heart problems, and premature death.

Hence, the term "rat race" is quite fitting, when competition takes total control of our lives. One of the ironies of heavy competition is that, competitors fight with each other so much, that reality has changed and the main objective can be forgotten. This competitive mind-set can occur in organizations, where departments struggle with each other; and they often forget they are "on the same team....more