The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga by Joan Budilovsky, Eve Adamson

By Joan Budilovsky, Eve Adamson

This e-book is for a person drawn to health and wellbeing, health, or the therapeutic arts. It teaches you the fundamentals of stretching, respiring, and meditation, with routines designed that will help you chill out, develop into extra versatile, extra efficient, and extra self-satisfied.

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It isn’t a perpetual motion machine. If you don’t learn how to calm and still your mind, it’s bound to need some loving care and maintenance. ). What we’re saying is that a neglected mind is one that doesn’t work as well as it could. Meditation is mental maintenance. Teaching yourself how to relax your mind and release it from the stress of thought for a short period each day keeps it clear and clean. You’ll think better. You’ll see more accurately and with more insight. You’ll be able to concentrate and focus on things like never before.

It doesn’t matter: No matter Chapter 4 ➤ Yoga Mind Power: Go with the Flow who you are, no matter what has happened to you in your life, you have the capacity for joy. Deep inside you, bliss waits for you to find it. Yoga will ferret out that joy with relentless persistence. Through yoga, you can find that joy and release it. But make no mistake: It isn’t easy to release your inner delight. A body that’s undisciplined, weak, and lazy saps all your inner energy to keep it maintained. A mind fraught with chaotic thought is too absorbed on the surface level to delve deep enough to find inner joy.

Relations with others. Be aware that the following italicized statements about your body are not true: ➤ Your body is without consciousness, and your mind is separate from your body. Not so. Many of your organs and tissues have properties similar to your brain, sending out messages, receiving information, reacting accordingly, and letting you know when you’re being abusive or kind to your body. Your entire body is awake, alive, and aware. ➤ You can’t change your body. Of course you can! Not only can you change your body profoundly through your actions and thoughts, but your body continuously changes itself: All your cells are replaced every five years.

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