Benefits of Relaxation. Part 2.

Yoga practice is designed for training the muscles to be able to relax. People who regularly practice yoga need less sleep and rest. When lying down, they quickly fall into a deep sleep that restores body and mind. Yogic breathing exercises take conscious efforts to enhance people’s ability to calm the mind and achieve a state of relaxation of body and mind.

Sometimes the beginners ask to be learnt to breathe correctly. But there's no single reply. The breathing technique depends on the type of asana performing at the moment. When we feel stressed, our breathing becomes rapid and choppy. When we are relaxed the whole body takes part in the respiration process, and each breath becomes calm and quiet like babies.

Although someone may breathe deeper or faster than others, when people are at ease, the breathing rhythm feels like a lullaby, so soft and calm. To develop this process, try to relax the jaw, throat, neck and chest and imagine the breath moving into the deep of the lungs as you are breathing in and out. Consciously relaxing into this wavelike, oceanic quality of the breath enhances that state of calmness and inner peace. Yoga accentuates that breathing creates peaceful and serene states of being.

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techniques for getting inner peace, teaching participants to destroy
the boundaries separating people from each other, and from their own
Inner Selves.

Benefits of Relaxation. Part 1.

A person is in a state of relaxation when his body and mind are calm and he doesn’t spend any energy, like on the picture. It is relaxation. As every human activity uses stored energy, relaxation is necessary for good health and peace of mind. Without rest and relaxation the mind becomes overloaded and exhausted.

But what does proper relaxation mean? It is much more than just lying still like a vegetable in front of the television, it is a state of awareness within the body. It is Nature's method of recharging. And yoga shows a person a right way to achieve the perfect state of relaxation.

Exercise practices promote to enhance the body's energy, but this does not get any benefit if a person keeps the body in stressful condition. Sometimes people train their muscles to be so tense that they cannot relax them even at night, keeping a constant energy tension.

Also, when people constantly take some stimulus like coffee, tea or cigarettes, their mind becomes strained and exhausted and can’t rest. When people worry they are wasting more energy than physical work, energy stores can be depleted. Mental fatigue often entails wear-and-tear of the body as well. That is why it is so significant for the mind to relax each day and recoup its energy.