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Yoga Promotes A Healtheir Life
from: Sintilia MiecevoleWhat goes on in the body when you are doing your asanas? Most of
us realize that yoga increases and maintains flexibility,
strengthens muscles and increases one's stamina. All forms of
yoga invite the participant to attend to their breath and notice
the inward quieting. Most individuals who participate sense a
uniqueness in this movement form. Many of us are satisfied with
just sensing this, leaving an explanation of how it affects our
bodies and spirit to the realm of the mystical.
Those who seek to understand how things work ask:
What effect does yoga have on one's physicality? When one
assumes and holds a yoga posture, this act of stretching and
bending at the joints facilitates feedback to the central
nervous system. This is done by means of beds of proprioceptive
nerve endings located within the joints and muscles.
Proprioceptors provide information about position, direction and
rate of movement as well as the amount of muscle tension in a
locality.
Yoga causes the central nervous system to respond with
appropriate self-regulatory measures by promoting proper bio-
mechanical use.
Self-regulation and self-healing are the physiological responses
of the living body. The central nervous system takes the input
from the proprioceptive nerve endings and by relaxing and
tightening muscles in an organized fashion allows one to hold
that posture. Changing balance of any one portion of the spine
requires compensatory adjustments throughout it. Muscles respond
automatically to stimuli from the nervous system which controls
and integrates the activity of the whole body.
Flexibility is the proper and full range of motion within the
joints of the body. This is brought about by the coordination of
muscle tension and muscle relaxation via the nervous ystem.
Slowly moving into a proper postural stance and holding it
provides for proprioceptive feedback that allows the nervous
system to coordinate muscle action. Stretching slowly protects
muscle fibers and their tendons from strain while resistance set
up by holding the posture increases muscle strength. Improved
muscle strength and stretch provides stability, flexibility and
protection to the joints.
Stimulating the proprioceptive system or massaging the nervous
system is but one of yoga's benefits. The encouragement and
development of proper structural alignment reduces strain on
muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Proper alignment allows for
better functioning of the organ systems.
Structure determines function. If body cavities are distorted,
so too are the contents within. Distortion caused by poor
posture changes the relationship of tissues within organs,
leading to the dysfunctioning of the system. Stress, a product
of the distortion, reduces circulation throughout the area.
By improving posture, yoga supports the proper functioning of
internal organs by maintaining structural integrity of these
systems. Proper position and relaxation of tension improves
circulation. Nutrition to the whole system is encouraged by the
fluctuating internal pressures generated by the different
asanas. This fluctuation in pressure enhances cellular diffusion
and osmosis.
Simply, motion is life! By moving us through bio-mechanically
sound postures, yoga promotes a healthier life. To say that yoga
only affects us physically would be denying the larger reality
of our existence. However, it is the profound effect that it has
on our physicality which frees us to experience the depths of
our existence.
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