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CHAPTER 6: EXERCISE, YOGA, MEDIATION AND PRAYER
YOGA
Yoga is another element in a healthy lifestyle, and an
effective way to help keep the body and mind supple. Based
on techniques that trace their roots back 5,000 years to ancient
India, yoga combines physical movements and poses with
meditation and controlled breathing. The fusion of these three
leads to a closer connection between mind and body, and
increased relaxation and awareness. Needless to say, it also
increases strength, balance, energy, flexibility and boosts the
immune system. A few minutes of yoga, performed morning
and/or evening, can have a powerful impact on physical
health and state of mind.
As with the patients who practiced meditation, I have
worked on both yoga students and yoga teachers. Many will find that they can do
some poses easily, but some are always difficult and their muscles just won't
relax to allow the pose .Others will notice that they have balance on one foot,
but not on the other. Unaware of how easily kinesiology and N.O.T. could correct
these problems, these people would persist with the poses feeling that they just
weren't masters yet, or they would modify their stance a little.
When we assessed them, however, we found they
were in fight/flight from an early injury that was still locked in the body
memory. Until the system was disarmed and reorganized, the wisdom of the body
was merely protecting itself from a potentially damaging body position by
keeping the muscles and fascia in contraction. They were unknowingly and with
good intent trying to look after their well being, not realizing that they were
putting their body into potential harm!.
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