In my first two lessons I introduced you to the benefits that learning and practising Yoga has for your body. By now you know why Yoga is in some parts of the world also regarded as science.
By that I mean that results (such as making your immune system stronger, sleeping better, reducing hurt in your muscles and body joints,... ) can be measured in scientific, objective way.
This time I will write how Yoga can help you achieve other important things as well. This can be anything from feeling happy and good with yourself to achieving certain goal that you have in your life, such as losing weight or stop smoking for instance. Yoga can help you with that too, you know.
Here is how Yoga can help you be more positive by simly making you aware of what is good for you and what is not. If you are familiar with western psychologists such as Freud and Jung, then this should make sense for you. But even if you are not, I will try to explain it as simple as I can.
Whenever you as a human being make a decision or set yourself a certain goal, something inside of you activates itself (some people call it will, others call it awareness).
In that very same moment this awareness (or will if you want) starts to monitor the negative thoughts that are floating constantly through your mind. But instead of eliminating this negative thoughts one by one, Yoga rather suggest you to just observe the floating that is going on.
This is because through observing, the struggle will become exposed and therefore no longer nourished by your unconscious, unobserving mind. That will further on result in the diminishing of those negative thoughts that you have been previously struggling with. They will no longer bother you, so to speak.
As you continue to just observe your negative thoughts (rather than attacking them directly) you also lower your overall level of internal negativity. And when you lower your overall internal level of negativity, you lower your external negative behaviours!
At that point it is much easier for you to drop habits that all not contributing to your overall well-begin, such as excessive drinking, emotional overeating or smoking. This is simply because you get the perspective that you need to realise that something is actually make you feel bad and not opposite.
And that is where the real happiness and healthy lifestyle begins! Stay with me, subscribe and most importantly: stay happy! : )
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