In this fast-paced era, humans are encircled with various responsibilities and juggles with numerous things at a time; be it career, relationships, studies, responsibilities towards family and kids and a lot more. All our plans to lead a peaceful life is falling flat owing to countless anxieties, tensions, and other negative emotions and it won’t be an exaggeration to say that our life is caught between the devil and deep blue sea.
In the rush to get it all done, people forget to realize the fact that they are losing their productivity at every sphere and increasing their stress level. This stress further zaps our concentration and makes us frustrated, depressed and irritable. Stress not only gives us unnerving and harrowing experiences but also harm our relationships at professional and personal front.
However, the key to bring balance in our life and decrease the amount of stress level is “yoga and Meditation”. You must have noticed that when someone feels happy his/her sitting posture is different, and when someone feels sad, the sitting posture gets different, you sometimes even manage to analyze the person’s mood by theirs sitting posture.
Similarly, while performing yoga, your postures play a very vital role. By consciously getting your body into a particular posture, you can indeed elevate your consciousness and can transform the way you feel, think and experience life.
This is a well-known fact that your thoughts have incredible power to either ruin your life or make it wonderful heaven. The world is projection of our own mind; the external environment is the reflection of the environment in our selves. As our emotions, mind and nature are all in synch; a perfect balance is most required. We lost our control due to stress, tensions, etc. which leads us to negative thoughts, and we look for the solution in outer environment believing that nothing is well around us. Above everything else, we first need to clear our inner environment which is polluted with stress, negative emotions, negative thoughts, tensions, frustrations, etc.
Hence, the key to reinforcing our inner balance and harmonize or tune our outer world is yogic science.
Cleaning the inner environment with Yoga
By devoting few minutes in yoga or meditation, our emotions and mind become more subtle and refined. Our thinking process and our outlook towards day to day incidents and life get transformed.
Simply sitting in a posture with calm mind and focusing on breath can give astonishing results to the beginners who do not have the know-how of yoga, On the other hand; stretching your body in a right posture increases the amount of flexibility and reduces rigidity in body which directly reflects in your behavior, mind and soul.
Power of food and yogic diet
The food we consume daily shapes our thinking process as like other organs, our brain too is nourished by the food we take. Impure food brings forth negative thinking in the mind, on the contrary pure and healthy diets that include fruits and vegetables foster positive thinking. It becomes essential to adopt good eating habits if we want to derive maximum out of yoga. The benefits of practicing yoga and vegetarian diet has been known to Indian sages and sneers since ages and now modern-day scientists has attested to the fact that yoga and vegetarian diet is not only essential for healthy mind but can also ward off life-threatening diseases. Practicing yoga and vegetarian diet fosters good mental as well as physical health. By bringing yoga into our life, we bring precious relaxation for our body, and good food compliments it and makes our state of mind more relaxing and contented.
Yoga practitioners should always prefer vegetarian diet as it helps improves health, increases vitality and gives calm state of mind and healthy body. Wheat, barley, milk, cereals, almonds, honey, tomatoes, cheese, butter, good amount of food and sugar candy – all the wholesome and natural products of pure environment.
Ishwara Pranidhana
Those who set about practicing Ishwara Pranidhana consider themselves as toys in the hands of God or feel like children lying in the lap of universal mother. In that case, we go unperturbed by what happens to us as we bestow our trust in the divine who knows the whys and wherefores of everything and understand what we need better than us. Once we surrender ourselves to the will of almighty, our worldly desire to amass wealth or put ourselves in strife and struggles cease to exist for we know that God will provide us everything we actually need. Our old pattern of thinking that is modeled on our doubts, fears and insecurities no longer exist instead new positive shoots of acceptance and hope emerge and bloom into beautiful flowers of compassion and love for our fellow travelers.
