Sunday, November 11, 2007

Yoga For Weight Loss

The first impression is the last impression. So, spruce up your appearances and take grooming seriously. For last many decades, plumpness and obesity has not been in fashion, moreover, it carries a baggage of diseases and health problems along. Yoga-the art of living has always provided with better solutions for mental concentration, staying active and positive strength for the body and mind. So does, it provides the ways for weight loss.

Obesity and plumpness has become an inevitable part of our fast-studded lives. With the increasing intake of junk food the belly’s has been increasing corresponding to depleting energies.

Adopting yoga as a tool for decreasing weights is a sheer option as it considers all aspects of obesity (mental, physical and emotional). It results in an agile, efficient and slim person and suits to any person of every age. It helps achieving control over minds and behaviors including eating habits of a person, thus, resulting in permanent with “no side-effects” results.

It is always advisable to study the reasons and symptoms of obesity before shedding sweats for loosing them. It provides an advantage, to a person, of having better understanding of his body and avoids him repeating the mistakes as he did earlier. The reasons of obesity lies in the lack of workouts corrupted eating habits (junk food, fats coated food, eating between 2 meals), psychological pressures (depression, frustration, and anxiety), and hereditary tendency and endocrine glands problems.

The common symptoms are the increasing weight along with increased food intakes, frustration, falling efficiencies and increasing emotional and mental stress.

Once getting aware of the reason for the condition, yoga can support well to the reducing obesity. It has important role to play in the treatment of obesity and its techniques effects the internal glands as well as mental conditions of a person. Just a step ahead for the techniques:

Asanas: the positions and postures of yoga are useful in reducing the fasts of various parts of the body. Forward bending, twisting, backward bending reduces the fat coats near abdomen, butts and thighs. Tree pose, hero pose, swinging lotus pose are helpful for burning fats for arms and legs.

Sun Salutations: 24 sun salutations a day, at a speed of 4 rounds in a minute, can provide benefits altogether of both asanas and exercises. Regular exercise of sun salutations is beneficial for lungs and enchanting mantras have a relaxing effect on mind.

Pranayama: it is a technique to control vital energy of life and act as a vehicle for energy management. Kapalbhati, Bhasrika and fast breathing leaves excellent effects on obese people. These improve lungs tendencies and help burning fats.
Healthy Diet: a diet comprising of leafy vegetables, fruits increase the intake of energy juices and reduces the fat composition in the body enhancing the active self of a person.

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