Yoga anyone?
By Onkarnath Pandey and Shambhu
Sharan
Special to the News Register
Happiness is in the mind, and the mind is supported
by the body – a healthy mind lives in a healthy
body. Your happiness depends on your mind and it
depends on your body. Without physical health you
can't be completely happy, and without mental happiness
you can't be completely healthy. Health is a positive
state; not just the absence of a negative one.
Yoga means “to unify.” It's the holistic
approach to all aspects of life: physical, mental
and spiritual.
Yoga views the person as a whole; as a unique combination
of body, mind and soul, and its techniques maintain
that body-mind-soul harmony.
By practicing this technique,
you can expect the following benefits:
• Increase health, longevity and resistance
to sickness
• Attain inner happiness and
stress-free environment
• Stamina, vitality, zest for life
• Clarity, concentration and memory
• Increase mental power for more
effective study
• Self-confidence and awareness
• Increase creativity and problem
solving capacity
• Love for all
Prevention is better than cure.
Nobody can deny that to prevent an illness is far
better than to have to cure one. So it's important
to live a life that prevents illness from developing,
rather than to have to deal with it afterwards.
We want to be healthy and stay that way.
Know yourself; take responsibility for your own
health; be your own doctor. I'm not saying you're
never going to need specialized medical treatment,
but at least you can minimize the chance of needing
it. What's the use of going to the doctor for something
you can cure ten times easier yourself? Or even
better, something you could have prevented yourself,
with no extra demand on your time or your finances!
Well, the good news is you can start from today!
It's not a matter of learning – just knowing
what are
the right things to do. And it's the doing that
counts.
The human body is a biological machine. There are
various glands and sub-glands which secrets different
kind of hormones to maintain the metabolism of the
body.
These hormones control the propensities of the mind.
Propensities of the mind are hatred, vanity, anger,
shyness, superiority/inferiority complex, fear,
envy, and sleeplessness.
All Asanas, various yogic postures,
have a pressurizing or depressurizing
effect on the glands and sub-glands which fine tune
and regulate the secretion of hormones.
By practicing proper Asanas and meditation
regularly, one can control the propensities of the
mind and can have better control over their day-to-
day activities.
Classes on yoga and meditation are taught free.
Students and faculty are welcome to join “NLC
Renaissance Universal Yoga-Meditation
Club.” Class is conducted in the old library,
H-200, every Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., Yoga
–
posture class, and 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Meditation
class.
Call 972-699-3838 or write:shubhany@yahoo.com if
you have any questions regarding Yoga –
Meditation classes. |
Photo by Nghia Tran
Shambhu Sharan, a
member of North Lake College's Yoga Club,
says that Yoga is the holistic approach
to all aspects of life.
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