5 Reasons for doing Yoga and Meditation Everyday

In dearth of motivation for rolling out that mat and get started with yoga and meditation? The five hundred thousand years old oriental discipline holds relevance and awe for generations even of the current times. A range of great benefits starting from enhanced concentration of the mind, bodily flexibility, developed immunity, and overall health is endowed generously upon the practitioner as the days of learning extends. But starting out in the right spirit and motivation is probably the hardest part. Feast your sense of rationale with the 5 points about yoga and meditation that we have singled out to push you to the yoga mat:

Improves Flexibility and Builds Muscle Strength

One of the most immediate result of yoga that you will start feeling in your body is an enhanced degree of flexibility. Around the beginning classes you will hardly be able to touch your toes, forget bending all the way back to the ground but the key is to hold on to the practice and bit by bit everyday your joints will loosen up. At the onset, these is also a huge chance that your body adjustment-alignment will be poor, result—taut hamstrings, a wooden spine, and acute back pain. Fight through the initial bout of mild pain and keep on doing your poses with doubled up concentration of the mind. With every movement in the sway, meditate on the breath and utter internally your mantra for peace. Only yoga and meditation in integration can bring you the coveted result.

Picks Up the Posture

You must often be wondering what it takes to assume the suave posture of a swan or the freeness of a deer in the wild—well, it’s all about realizing that freeness in your mind and bring your body to fall into such shape. Beside the glamour and charm of strong, erect postures, there is also less chance that your muscles will strain easily if the right posture could be maintained throughout. You will be minimizing back and neck tension, general pattern of getting tired through the day, and chances of degenerative arthritis with yoga and meditation on a daily basis.

Enhances Presence of Mind

The human mind is like a big pool overflowing with a thousand strands of thoughts often opposing and conflicting. Torn between impulses and compulsions of the mind, it often becomes hard to have peace. Yoga with its holistic approach of shaping the body and mind helps individuals to focus on the present. Studies show that those who have had yoga and

meditation teacher training enjoy better coordination, reaction period, memory, and IQ.

Boosts Your Immunity

Mediation receives the strongest scientific support in the area of alternative lifestyles for providing beneficial effect on the functioning of the immune system. Boosting the system by raising antibodies through the pranayamic aspect of yogasana practice when needed and lowering the functions of the immune system through the same means when due to an auto-immune disease it shoots off unchecked, is possible through regular practice.

Founds a Healthy Lifestyle

The formulae to a healthy lifestyle are to move more and eating less and yoga helps on both fronts. An everyday practice will get you up and moving and going. Calories burnt and blood circulation boosted, you will feel fitter and energetic throughout while on a note of spiritual wellbeing, you can take charge of yourself and address your eating habit and weight issues at a deeper. With your heart into it, yoga and meditation will surely help you become a conscious eater.

The Author is a passionate Yogi, traveler and Yoga Teacher in India. He loves writing and reading the books related to yoga, health, nature and the Himalayas.