5 reasons why doing yoga is essential

Lifestyle Saturday 13/May/2017 20:19 PM
By: Times News Service
5 reasons why doing yoga is essential

The practice of yoga has grown a lot in recent years and what started in India is now gaining popularity worldwide. From simple meditation to practising the higher forms of yoga exercises, corporate yoga too is being highly recommended for a healthy and stable life. Know about the five main reasons why it is essential to practice yoga on a daily basis.

1. Stress buster: No stress is unbearable and lasts long. Squeezing the employees of the work, stress is always escalating; it then comes down to one’s ability to maintain their stability of mind. Yoga helps to understand the mind and body matrix strengthening the muscles and relaxing the minds.

2. Therapeutic motives: Yoga when done on a regular basis helps to keep your body free from illness. Secreting anti-oxidising enzymes protects the body from the effects of exposure to the environmental pollutants and the metabolic by-products that follow. Coupled with maintaining well-balanced levels of BP, diabetes, hypertension, and distance from depression as well.

3. Curing Addiction: Dopamine is released while doing yoga, which is responsible for giving contentment to the mind. This prevents the minds from the desires to have alcohol, drugs or any other cravings are well under the control. Addiction levels are dropped severely in regular practice of yoga.

4. Expanding Minds: The regular yoga practitioners are found to have more gray matter (brain cells) than to those of non-practitioners while conducting MRI scans. Certain areas of brains were found to get enlarged on regular practice of yoga. This develops the mental mapping of the brain, leading to better analyzing, attentiveness, and controlling the minds in case of sudden shock.

5. Live the moment: Yoga improves the attentiveness, leading to have more awareness towards the present moment by parting the negative thoughts. Life is about learning from the past, living the present and planning the future. Most of the time there is no stability, hence the present moment’s work fall apart. Yoga develops the ability to be in the present moment.