To
have positive effects in everyday life: this is the first benefit
deriving from Yoga techniques.
If you are unable to have
favorable effects in everyday life, what other effects, most profound
and difficult to obtain, may you think could be possible to acquire
later on?
I mean, initially, practicing Yoga, everybody should be
able to feel the effects in their daily lives, in their usual and
normal life.
And even if afterwards you will wish, because is
become interesting, to have some other benefits going beyond the
everyday life, then it will be upon you to continue with a broader
range of practices and research how to obtain achievements that could
lead you beyond the demands of everyday life.
In this post I
would like, for now, to give a brief summary of benefits inherent
everyday life, life in which everyone is involved every day.
I
should, however, point out a first assumption.
The practice of
Yoga today is done in various ways .... and every result (for
anything) depends on the quality that is used to achieve it, that is
.... "tell me what you do and I'll tell you which result you'll
have".
So I would divide the effects and results in
TWO
POSSIBILITIES:
FIRST
if
Yoga practices are mainly oriented as gymnastics, contortions, such
as those taught by Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois with the Ashtanga Yoga, the
Yogi Bhajan with the so called Kundalini Yoga; or if simplistic
systems as practiced by Ravi Shankar with Yoga in Daily Life; or the
Hot Yoga teached by Bikram; or even the Power Yoga or the Grace Yoga
or the Beauty Yoga; or by lesson given from some persons not deeply
expert in the topic, however proposing themselves as teachers ...; or
even if Yoga is teached in courses connected to Yoga Alliance, where
mainly all is based primarily on the number of hours of teaching but
without taking care care about the quality level or the
contents.
SECOND
if
Yoga is practiced in a holistic concept, as in RAM (Rishi Ancient
Methods) for Yoga, taught by "Yoga in Your Life", which is
connected with the original methods for acquiring the Yoga state,
which requires application, in the same exercise, in many different characteristic and
levels of the human being, that means not only physical
level.
EFFECTS IN THE FIRST POSSIBILITY:
*** Stretching of
muscles and joints; but ..... sometimes using excessive forcefulness
or pushing methods, to achieve fast results
- Effects: sometimes
damage the joints or may bring, more advanced in years, disturbances
in muscles and joints.
*** Increasing competitiveness towards the
result you want to achieve, because .... you would like to make
exercises more challenging than others.
Would you like to become a Fakir?
- Effects: it brings you always
feel in competition with the outside world or feel incapable (if you
can not immediately reach the desired result), this method is going to
forge internal qualities and so you will also live with the daily
reality of these types of stress within, without realizing that could be also coming fron these kind of training, given to you in this way
***
Get in competitiveness even with themselves
Striving to do ......
what currently is not easy for the body to do.
- Effects: this
leads to acquire the tendency to stress, which, without realizing how,
you will also maintain the habit at work, in relationships, in moments of
leisure; it will be done, at the same way, also with yourself, in a more or
less intense forcing manner.
*** Follow the rhythms of the
teacher, perform as indicated without processing by themselves,
follow guided relaxation and mental exercises, etc. etc.
Passive
participation ....
- Effects: it maintains or creates an
addiction to what is told by others to do; leads to being more prone to do what is suggested to you and not what is thought by you; guided relaxation
forms a pleasant condition at that time but gives little results in the
ability to be calm and not stressed in everyday life; mental states
induced by guyided suggestions give little autonomy in cognitive
abilities.
EFFECTS IN THE SECOND POSSIBILITY:
*** Physical
conditions
- Acquisition:
balanced body that has no muscles or
joints too much loose; the musculature is not rigid and not too
highlighted, but it is proportional to the weight of the body and
adequately developed in every smallest part of the body.
-
Effects: the posture is absolutely correct and positive, the
circulation becomes optimal, the internal organs are adequately
perfused and work at best; so you feel good and appreciate more every
thing you do.
*** Energy conditions
- Acquisition:
when the
structure has been formed in a perfectly balanced manner; so the
energy flow is not blocked by stiff or overdeveloped muscles; and so
the energy is not dispersed outside in case of joints or muscles too
flexible. The subtle energy centers, the Chakra, have the possibility
to receive Kundalini more easily.
- Effects: the entire body
receives adequate vitality in all parts and organs may work better,
you feel more energized throughout the day and so you are able to do
things better.
*** Psychic and emotional conditions:
- Acquisition:
having
formed all characteristics of the positive position, as in
correlation also to psycho-somatic concepts, you get a continuous
positive psychic state; applying the ancient yoga practices properly
you get used to forge mental balanced states (no rush / no slowness,
no force / no laziness, no stress / no inertia, no exhibitionism / no
fear of failure, etc.).
- Effects: inner balanced states, that is
that you do not go to excess, consequently form a wise condition (...
this is the first stage of wisdom that is acquired with the systems
for Yoga ...) giving proportion to the commitments and things to do,
meaning the ability to do what is necessary without never suffering
consequences or negative feelings.
*** Character conditions:
-
Acquisition:
no tendency to narcissism or self-centeredness, as
everyone has to do in proportion to its practical features of the
moment; there is no competition with others or with themselves
because everyone is concerned with practices for Yoga making quality
(...and not quantity ...); you get used to self-management of the
relaxation
-effects: it forms the conditions for having a
character that allows not to get into conflict with themselves and
with the others; so your daily activities are managed at best,
without clashes and battles internal / external; you become
accustomed to manage relaxation in standing and sitting positions, so
as to avoid tensions as well as unnecessarily use of muscles that, if
we could sum the waste of energy resulting, we can realize how much
power has been spent unnecessarily and how much more fatigue instead
usually is created without this knowledge.
*** Mental conditions:
-
Acquisition: every practice for Yoga requires that thought has to be
deeply conscious about themselves; the mind gets used to being
permanently stopped on what you are doing at that moment.
- Effects:
the mind gets used to being deep and not superficial, active and not
passive, even computing and not just only executive; it is much
easier, in your daily work or activities for personal pleasure to be
creative and have a sharp mind, capable of making things with more
immediacy; studying and learning are facilitated.
I stop here, to mental effects, as effects after these are derived only
from the specific personal desire to study and understand more.
I
hope it is understood that in the explanations that I have given, I
had to give very general indications, which are not as thorough as
you can have in the courses RAM, but may be sufficient as an idea to
understand how intense and important may be what you could be able to
obtain practicing the original methods for Yoga ... and how much can
realistically change your life and live better!
I would like
to emphasize again that the effects of the possibility B) can only be
achieved if are followed the practices of training that take care of
all (.. so not only one, that physical...) characteristics and levels
of the human being. It is possible for everybody to be able, during
the practice, to identify when are going to be formed inside these
conditions and how much effectively each one of these points of view
are growing in a balanced and positive way.
Everyone, during
practice, is a witness of how each exercise can work within himself
and be aware that all of these features are trained simultaneously,
at the same time.
So .... these are just not only nice words ....
these assumptions are not just only promises .... these are not
written only something repeated of things written in the books .....
but practical facts that each one can test directly during the
practices for Yoga!
But ..... the practice of Yoga should be done
with the characteristics that form these elaborations! Why?
Because ..... without adequate training pulses, nothing can grow!
So, who
would like to learn more and maybe learn the ancient methods that
contain these potentials or even wants to become a teacher of RAM
(Rishi Ancient Methods) for Yoga, visit my website
www.allthebestinyourlife.com and open in the menu, the section of
School "Yoga in Your Life".
If there are any doubts
or questions, do not hesitate to contact me!
I'll wait you for my
next Post, which will focus on: - Would you like to worsen your life?
Practice "Stress Yoga"! -
