SCIENTIFIC REASON FOR YOGA

HEALTH BENEFITS OF YOGA

Yoga is the only exercise which addressed the complete human being—in terms of body mind and spirit.

Yoga is NOT a physical exercise alone.

Yes Yoga does wonders for the body . But its effect on mind and spirit is far greater.

No other physical form of exercise does so much for the BODY as yoga

Blood has a pump called heart. The lymph fluid does NOT have a pump. Yoga drives this invisible pump..

The western world of medicine and surgery, has come to know about the human body's lymph node system only 60 years ago.   Ayurveda has documented it 6200 years ago .

Yoga is NOT about twisting yourself like a pretzel to stretch and limber up.  It had the amazing capability to boost your immunity to almost all diseases, and to help you to recover fast from existing ones.  This works like magic, as it has everything to do with your body's lymph system.  No other exercise on this planet addresses the lymph node system.    

In the West , due to the type of hormone injected non vegetarian food they eat, women suffer needlessly from breast tumours and uterus problems. This category must pay special attention to this post .Main stream science and medicine has NOT caught up yet with the Lymphatic system.

The lymphatic system in your body is a series of connected nodes, ducts and organs that play a vital part in your immune system.

The lymphatic system has vessels just like our circulatory system, but DOES NOT HAVE A PUMP LIKE THE HEART  for the circulatory system .    In order to clear the “lymph” (the clear extracellular fluid that is collected by the lymphatic vessels and filtered by the lymph nodes), the lymphatic system must be pumped manually. 

Lymph nodes are the filters along the lymphatic system.  Their job is to filter out and trap bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, and other unwanted substances, and to make sure they are safely eliminated from the body.

Each cell is nourished by the nutrients, oxygen and proteins that flow across the walls of capillaries into the interstitial fluid. There is a dynamic balance between the forces that help those nutrients to first exit the capillaries, and then get reabsorbed back into the blood stream.

The lymphatic system, because of its physical proximity to many tissues of the body, is responsible for carrying cancerous cells between the various parts of the body in a process called metastasis. The intervening lymph nodes can trap the cancer cells. If they are not successful in destroying the cancer cells the nodes may become sites of secondary tumors.

Lymphatic blockages can result in a swelling at the lymphatic node junctions. This condition results in providing a breeding ground for viruses and pathogenic material.   The lymph system acts as a reservoir of infection, churning out billions of infected immune-system cells that eventually spill into the blood stream, where they travel to other parts of the body.  

Up to ten times as much virus may reside in the lymph system as in the blood.

Lymph nodes lie in specific locations along the lymphatic vessels and perform vital functions for the body's immune system. 6000 years ago, Ayurveda and Yoga  realized that many lymph nodes are situated near the region around the joints.   Humans have approximately 500-700 lymph nodes distributed throughout the body, with clusters found in the underarms, groin, neck, chest, and abdomen.

The movements of the limbs and positions held during Yoga , help to act as a pump to move the lymph through the system. They are located in clusters around the knee, groin, elbows, shoulders and neck. Lymph nodes are also found in the central abdominal and chest area to assist with lymph drainage around the vital organs.

The Ayurvedic lymphatic drainage massage works with the filtering and cleaning of the lymph nodes, starting at the arms and legs and moving towards the lymph nodes.  The lymph nodes are gently stimulated, encouraging them to discharge their contents throughout the lymphatic network, facilitating the removal of lymphatic waste from the body.

Approximately 70% are superficial lymphatic capillaries located  just under, the skin. The remaining 30%, which are known as deep lymphatic capillaries, surround most of the body’s organs.

THE DEEP ONES CAN ONLY BE STIMULATED BY YOGA – NOT EVEN BY MASSAGE

Lymphatic drainage massage ( use sesame or virgin coconut oil ) has a positive effect on the following conditions:--

Fluid retention – puffy ankles, legs, eyes, and abdomen.

Arthritis and rheumatism.

Assistance for migraine, headaches, and MS

Constipation and digestive disorders.

Sinusitis and hayfever.

Hormonal imbalance.

Recurring infections – colds, flu, ear or chest.

Skin disorders – acne, scleroderma, eczema and psoriasis.

Wearing a tight compression garment during yoga exercise also provides resistance to further stimulate the lymph flow.  This acts like wringing a wet towel.  Like body inversions and head stand exercises, twists offer your body new ways to remove toxins and flush important lymph around the entire torso.

Yogic asanas to aid lymph flow includes neck rotation, shoulder shrugs, ankle pumps, leg slides, shoulder blade squeezes etc.  Yoga diaphragmatic breathing and many yoga positions open up the chest cavity, while poses like shoulder stands, enlist gravity to help lymph fluid get where it is supposed to go.

Surya namaskar is done for deep Lymph node drainage.  Surya namaskar can increase lymph flow 20 fold.  Two-thirds of the lymph is produces in the liver and intestines.

Yoga asanasas help to shift lymph fluids around your body in ways that you would not ordinarily be able to achieve in daily life .

Inverted yoga poses are particularly beneficial to the white collar office workers who have occupations that require prolonged sitting still . These work positions increase the occurrence of fluid build up in the blood vessels and lymphatic channels of the legs. 

With light yoga inversions, swelling, discomfort and other chronic conditions can be alleviated. Finally surface lymph drainage massage and yoga asana deep lymph fluid channeling if done properly can cause obese people to lose weight and dimpled cellulite--it is more or less a miracle. .

SUN GAZING:

This gland can be activated by activated by sunlight ( sun gazing ) , and also by sound resonance ( mantra chanting ) during Surya Namaskar. .  It controls the various biorhythms of the body.The pineal gland calcifies with age and melatonin production correspondingly decreases.

When the pineal gland does not receive sunlight, it secretes Melatonin, which induces sleep, increases blood sugar, craze for food, leading to obesity, fears

Stop gazing directly at the sun when you feel uncomfortable and resume when you feel you can look again.  This timing must be built up day by day.   When you do Surya Namaskar, you must be bare footed and  if possible be bare chested.  Being bare chested increases the sex hormones.  

Stillness or steadiness of the eyes is not required, and so you can blink .  Do not wear any lenses or glasses while sungazing.  Have the firm belief that the sunrays in our eyes are of immense benefit and will not harm you .  As the days pass and you are able to look at the sun for more time, you will find find that you don’t eat too much . 

Physical and mental diseases will start getting cured.  Each day more energy blockages will be dissolved.  70 to 80% of the energy synthesized from food is taken by the brain and is used up in fueling tensions and worries.  With a lack of mental stress, the brain does not require the same amount of energy as before. 

As you proceed in sun gazing and as your tensions decrease the need for food intake goes down.  Hunger comes because of energy requirements of the body, which is a must for its existence.  Food is not a necessity for the body to function, only energy is.

You develop a corona of energy around you. As this energy field becomes stronger, diseases don't harm you. The sun is the force of all life, and staring at it can infuse the body with large amounts of energy. Sun gazing also has the added advantage of getting vitamin A and D during the 1-hour safe period window.

When sunlight enters the brain, through your eyes , your good qualities come into appearance replacing negative ones.  Eyes receive the entire spectrum of the sunlight while sungazing, which is distributed to the different parts of the body by the brain on a need per basis.  Sungazing causes the secretion of “feel good” hormones serotonin beta-endorphins, and dopamine.

Hunger comes because of energy requirements of the body, which is a must for its existence. Food is not a necessity for the body to function, only energy is. . For many people, eating seems like a good solution when there's nothing better to do.

Surya Namaskar:

The rays of the sun with seven VIBGYOR colors have a cure for all kinds of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,  obesity,  arthritis,  osteoporosis, cancer and others. 

During surya Namaskar, the pineal secretes not only DMT, but other peptides as well that have psychoactive effects.  Vitamin D directly from the sun, is an excellent healing agent.

Surya namaskar needs the rising sun at low altitude with a grateful frame of mind.  

In Kerala some stupid evangelists started Jesus Namaskar doing the same physical asana with Jesus Christ’s photo in front sans breathing and sans the mental mantras .  

A dalit Christian convert, a darling of the Italian waitress  and a member of the National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education  John Dayal spAke  “Yoga, as it is currently practiced in India, is not merely a physical exercise.  It has a strong component of faith to it. Some of the exercises, such as surya namaskar, have a strong religious overtone. … It is not possible to purge religious tones from yoga” 

Pranayama:

Pranayama— where you exhale twice as long as inhale  — IS MORE ABOUT DUMPING OLD EXPERIENCES, RATHER THAN MERE OXYGENATION OF BLOOD.

It is always starts with the left nostril for right handers – for left handers it is vice versa ( no book on pranayama talks about this ) .. Left handed people have their sub-conscious in the left lobe of the brain.

  

Breathe in the new , breathe out the old. Pranayama—inhale and exhale with awareness— long exhales with the sound of MMMMMMMMMMMM. 

Humming boosts level of nitric oxide—this in turn ups the oxygen intake by 98%, the biggest secret . 

Ordinary breath is a mere 4%.

It is amazing Nitric oxide was discovered by Indian yogis 11000 years ago.  For re-inventing this a Nobel prize was given 2 decades ago. nitric oxide is necessary for-

1. Destruction of viruses, parasitic organisms, and malignant cells in the airways and lungs by inactivating their respiratory chain enzymes.

2. Regulation of binding - release of O2 to hemoglobin.

3. Vasodilation of arteries and arterioles (regulation of blood flow or perfusion of tissues).

4. Inhibitory effects of inflammation in blood vessels.

5. Hormonal effects. Nitric oxide influences secretion of hormones from several glands (adrenaline, pancreatic enzymes, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone)

6. Neurotransmission. Memory, sleeping, learning, feeling pain, and many other processes are possible only with NO present (for transmission of neuronal signals).

Obviously, during mouth breathing it is not possible to utilize one's own nitric oxide which is produced in the sinuses. The mouth, was created by Nature for eating, drinking, and speaking. At all other times, your trap should be shut. When there is lack of oxygen in your blood , you living to a small percentage of your potential.

  

Endurance exercise can increase oxygen utilization from 10 to 20 times over the resting state. This greatly also  increases the generation of free radicals, which can cause cancer.

Metabolism, or, more accurately the metabolic rate of the cells, sets the demand for oxygen. At rest, a human consumes about 250 millilitres of oxygen each minute. With exercise this rate can be increased more than 10-fold in a normal healthy individual, but a highly trained athlete may achieve a more than 20-fold increase..

Muscle can do more work, but beyond the aerobic scope they must revert to anaerobic metabolism, which results in waste products, mainly lactic acid. Various mental processes in old people are also found to be improved by breathing oxygen. Any slowed induction of protein synthesis, as from lower oxygen intake, with age is a factor in the deficits of learning and memory of old people.

70% of toxins in your body are released by exhalation— rest by sweat, defecation and urine— surprised? The mind is intimately connected to your breathing. Deep breathing triggers the lymph, your body’s sewage system which will give your cells more efficiency. It keeps the blood fully oxygenated. 

Breathe in the ratio 1/4/2.

Because oxygen is vital to life, the body and brain are extremely sensitive to even very small reductions . This is why exercise must be done at least ONE hour after a meal or oxygen required for digestion is used by muscles leading to indigestion and cramps. 

Stress, fear and anxiety causes muscles to contract and blood vessels to constrict. When blood cannot be transported freely through the body to provide oxygen, and antibodies and to carry away and dispose toxic wastes, illness sets in.

Pranayama was created by the vedic sages who lived on the banks of the river Saraswati in 9000 BC.

Sage Agastya had taught Surya namaskar to Lord Rama just before his fight with Ravana in 4300BC. asically you are greeting a new day with a grateful heart. It is done in open air.

The benefits are:--

1)  You raise your consciousness

2)  Develop inner peace

3)  Rekindle your drooping spirit

4)  Detoxification of body and mind

5)  Your face glows --balance of mind, body and spirit.

6)  Mental clarity and concentration

7)  Raise your immunity

8)  Reduces biological age.

9)  Centring yourself and stoking your inner flame

10)  Gratitude and communion with self

11)  Awakening at cellular level, improves metabolism, burns fat

12)  Expansion of perception

13)  Physical exercise , stretching, flexing of spine. Removes stiffness of joints and ligaments.

14) Destress.

15) Good sleep at night.

16) Miraculous delivery from disease -physical and mental.

17) Your skin is cleansed by sunlight and you have less BO. Clears eyesight too.

18) Improves body posture.

19) Drives away phobias. 

At the end of Surya Namaskar you must do Shavasana.  

Lying down thinking of peaceful nature, to get into the Alpha brainwave mode.

Ashtanga Yoga stimulates the Vagus nerve and the Amygdala to cure many disorders conveniently branded as genetic disorders by modern medicine—just because they do NOT have a clue. 

T Krishmacharya the guru of Pattabhi Jois, stimulated his Vagus nerve and Amygdala to stop his heart beat and control involuntary muscles. 

Different postures that are adopted during Ashtanga yoga exercise helps in releasing pressure from the delicate nerve fibers. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) activates anti-inflammatory pathways that work in the digestive tract. 

VNS to be a possible treatment for chronic depression in people that didn't respond to any other treatments . Defects in the normal functioning of Vagus nerve may impair the normal control mechanisms that modulate the gastric acid secretion. 

By deep breathing, you activate the vagus nerve and bring balance between your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system rn, nausea and weight loss.

All this was known to Ayurveda more than 6000 years ago.  The 108 marma points of  Kalari and Ayurveda were mostly to stimulate the Vagus nerve and the Amydgala..  Pranayama affects the amygdala.

Meditation is an exercise of the mind and is a part of yoga .  What physical exercise is to the body, meditation is to the mind. 

Don't wear earplugs .  Wear loose clothing  and be bare feet. Sit with your back and head held straight. You may sit on the floor or in a chair. Keep your eyes closed. If you must move, notice how and why you are moving.

  

BETWEEN YOGA AND CANNABIS MEDICAL EXTRACT ( NO NOT SMOKE IT ) EVERY MENTAL DISEASE AND GENETIC DISORDER CAN BE CURED.

Shirsasana the "king of all asanas" because of its positive effects on your body, mind and spirit.  Freshly oxygenated blood stimulates your pituitary and pineal glands to calm and revitalize your mind. Sirsasana  strengthens your lungs and helps relieve colds, cough, sinusitis, sore throat and asthma. 

This upside-down pose aids digestion, especially if you are suffering from constipation.  You can lengthen your spine and ease pressure on your lower back. Sirsasana deepens and calms your breathing because of the increased pressure on your diaphragm.   

It causes  the breath to slow down, the blood absorbs more oxygen, which benefits your brain and inner organs as it nourishes cells and tissues.

Shirsasana brings your attention to alignment and balance.  By rooting firmly in your foundation, the crown of your head, you can lengthen your spine and ease pressure on your lower back.  Engage your neck muscles to relax your jaw and vocal muscles.  As a heating pose, shirsasana prepares you for back bends.

Asanas should be practiced slowly and held for a certain period of time in order to affect the glandular secretions of the endocrine system .. 

Without yogic intervention, the thymus tends to shrink as we age.

Yoga reduces the effects of traumatic experiences. Many white soldiers come to India during vacations to use spirituality and  surgically remove negativity inherited from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 

Patients who suffer from this mental illness frequently experience nightmares and flashbacks, to name a few of the symptoms. They are unable to have proper REM sleep.   

HYPER VENTILATION shortens your life span .