Yoga Health Secrets: Relaxation, Stress-relief, Health And Inner Peace

Yoga Health and happiness Happiness is in the mind, and the mind is supported by the body – a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Your happiness depends on your mind and it depends on your body. Without physical health you can't be completely happy, and without mental happiness you can't be completely healthy. Health is a positive state; not just the absence of a negative one. It's not only the absence of disease. For too long now traditional Western medicine has treated illness as only a disease: an enemy that attacks you and needs to be counter-attacked; but in reality it's nothing more than an imbalance in the natural harmony of body and mind. True healing means restoring that balance, and true health means keeping it. Yoga means to unify. It's the holistic approach to all aspects of life: physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga views the person as a whole; as a unique combination of body, mind and soul, and its techniques maintain that body-mind-soul harmony. In the ebook Yoga Health Secrets we'll look into all the techniques for attaining and maintaining that body-mind-soul harmony for true health and happiness:  Physical health, relaxation  Stress relief  Stamina, vitality, zest for life  Clarity, concentration, memory  Motivation, willpower  Self-confidence and awareness  Creative insight  Love for all  Inner peace and happiness Before we go on, allow me to introduce myself:   My name is Acharya Gunamuktananda Avt. I attended the University of Otago School of Medicine in New Zealand for five years before training in meditation, yoga and natural health sciences in Australia, the Philippines and India. I've now been a qualified meditation teacher and yoga therapist since 1995, and am currently consulting and teaching in East Asia. Let's go on now to see how the simple and effective techniques of Yoga Health Secrets will change your life for the better. Nature cures, so said Hippocrates There's a story about two doctors who were arguing over which one had cured a particular patient. They were in the garden of a hospital, standing under an apple tree. Suddenly an apple fell from the tree, hit the first doctor on the head, bounced and hit the second. They both realized that, although they may have helped, it was really Mother Nature that had cured the patient. Nature is the physician of all diseases – also from Hippocrates. He understood that no medicine matches the body's own capacity to revitalize itself. Treatment of any kind just helps that process. Prevention is better than cure Nobody can deny that to prevent an illness is far better than to have to cure one. So it's important to live a life that prevents illness from developing, rather than to have to deal with it afterwards. We want to be healthy and stay that way. How? There are 3 important points: 1. Cleanliness I remember seeing one of the old spaghetti Westerns when I was a young boy. The main character had just arrived in a small town after having been pulled around the desert on a stretcher by his trusty steed. The first thing he did was get a bath. The scene shows him sitting in a soap-sudded bathtub with a cigar in his mouth. Then he gets out of the bath, picks up his still dust-covered clothes, and proceeds to put them all back on again. Well, it was funny seeing the movie, but that little anecdote brings up an important concept: there are two aspects to cleanliness: internal as well as external. We're usually preoccupied with the way we look on the outside, but we don't pay any attention to our inside. We may bathe every day and keep our body relatively clean on the outside, but meanwhile we stuff so much garbage down our throats that our intestines start to resemble a clogged-up sewer pipe. Sorry to tell you such a horror story, but I'm not making anything up here. Germs in the body don't cause disease; they're a sign of it. They're scavengers – they feed on dirt. It's the dirt, toxins and dead matter in the body which cause the disease in the first place, including the vast majority of major diseases in the Western world. Why should you not look after the inside of your body as much as you do the inside of your house or car? And a house or car is something you can actually replace! There's a saying that if you lose money you've lost nothing; if you lose your health you've lost something; and if you lose your peace of mind you've lost everything. Health is wealth. You can't be healthy without inner cleanliness. On the other hand, if you're clean internally, you won't even catch a cold. 2. Vitality Vitality comes from the body's energy resources. We gain energy from the environment: from the sun, our food and water, and the air we breathe. That energy becomes vital energy in the body; the vitality that keeps us alive. The more vitality you have, the stronger you are, the greater your physical well-being, and the more inspired you'll feel. 3. Resistance Resistance to disease