Special Spiritual Benefits (Of Yoga) - Times Of India

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Special Spiritual Benefits

Times Of India

 

Practising yoga regularly imparts great benefits, which are:

 

Basic spiritual benefits

Improved Concentration

Regulated Breath

Clarity in Mind

 

Advanced spiritual benefits

Thought Control (Clear and one-pointed thought)

Mind Control (Firm Will power)

Psychic control (like telepathy, clairvoyance etc.)

 

Ultimate spiritual benefit - The realisation that you and every other

being in the universe are one! So you = me and me = you .

Healing of the body, psyche and soul is one of the basic directions

in the yogic activity and serves the whole psychobiological and

spiritual restoration. Purifying, healing and rejuvenating yogic

exercises can restore health, life force, joy and also lengthen the

life span. Laya Yoga practices serve liberation, salvation of the

soul and its reconciliation with God.

 

Discover your breath - A major and important benefit you may notice

with yoga practice is that you are more in touch with your breathing.

Yoga poses are practiced in harmony with the breath. One of the

residues of this constant concentration on breath is that students

tend to pay more attention to their breath outside of class. Most

students' report they are surprised to learn that they find

themselves holding their breath frequently during the day in response

to stress. By learning to notice their breath holding they can begin

to break the habit. When one breathes easily throughout the day, less

tension will accumulate in the body.

 

Free your thoughts - One of the most important things you can learn

from a yoga class is that your thoughts have the ability to affect

your overall contentment and health. During the deep relaxation pose

( savasana ), one systematically relaxes every part of the body, even

suggesting that the brain itself is 'relaxed'. During conscious

relaxation, thoughts are experienced more as energy, which is

associated with the brain than as the sum total of who we are.

 

We have thoughts, but those thoughts no longer take over our bodies

and minds at large - triggering tension, anxiety or other responses.

Yoga teaches us that consciousness and thoughts are not the same

thing.

 

During relaxation we are able to let the thoughts flow through us

without dancing away with them to the past or the future. We remain

conscious, allowing the thoughts to come through us, but we learn not

to interact with them. We can say to ourselves, " Oh, there's another

thought of dinner, or of person 'X' or of fear about tomorrow's

meeting. " Then we can let go of that thought and return to the

relaxation at hand. This is a meditative practice, which gradually

over time allows us to 'dis-identify' with our thoughts.

 

When thoughts are experienced just as thoughts, not as reality

itself, then the path to freedom which yoga promises begins to unfold

naturally. And that path is as sweet as a perfectly ripe mango.

 

Special Spiritual Benefits

Times Of India

 

http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1951455393.cms