How Yoga and Meditation Affect The Body

Author: Umer Raza

Yoga and Meditation are getting popular all over the world due to physical and psychological benefits. Current research proves that Yoga and meditation can boost all over the immune system of our body which includes resilience of stress as well. Yoga and Meditation may have positive effect on central nervous system and it may improve individuals' well-being. The purpose of yoga and meditation is to build strength, awareness and harmony in both mind and body. These simple exercises are also highly efficient stress relieving activities.

"The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest blessing you to give yourself in this lifetime"

Yoga and Meditation has both physical and mental benefits. Following are the physical benefits of Yoga and Meditation:

  • Muscle Strength and tone
  • Flexibility
  • Weight balance
  • Maintains respiration and energy
  • Balances metabolism
  • Improves athletic performance
  • Protects from injury

Apart from physical benefits, there are mental benefits as well which helps a person to manage Stress. Stress can reveal in many ways includes sleeping problems, body pain, drug abuse, difficulty in concentration. Yoga and Meditation can be effective in developing skills and reaching a positive outlook on life. Following are the mental benefits of Yoga and Meditation:

  • Removes Negative emotions
  • Tames the Minds a million thoughts
  • Improves Mental clarity
  • Boost to face problem solving abilities
  • Stress Relief
  • Promotes Productivity

"He who has health, has had hope, and he who hope has everything"

Yoga and Meditation has ability to erase stress and improves relaxation. Research shows that women perceived themselves as emotionally distressed. After three months of Yoga and Meditation practice, women had significantly lowered levels of cortisol, lower stress level, fatigue, anxiety and depression.

Benefits of Yoga and Meditation on our body.

Yoga and Meditation when practiced together boost the connection between mind and body, improves health and well-being. There are several positions of yoga which merge meditation with physical routine, which controls breathing throughout poses of yoga. Clearing the mind and concentrating on controlled breathing, one can meditate without yoga as well. Yoga and Meditation have health benefits. If practiced regularly, here are some of significant benefits of Yoga and Meditation:

  • Flexibility and Fitness

Office worker have to sit for the whole day on office seat that leads to muscle mass, flexibility and Fitness. Office work raises neck and shoulder strain form bending over in front of computer all day. The poses of yoga focus on stretching the muscles. It increases the muscle's flexibility that helps your daily movements such as bending and lifting. Many athletes prefer yoga to their workout to maintain flexibility.

  • Fight from Diabetes

Regular Yoga and Meditation practice can help to decrease the level of sugar in the blood and maintains the weight. This exercise may reduce the symptoms and slows the progression of diabetes as well as the reducing of further complications.

The Stress is the one of the main reason of diabetes like for most lifestyle diseases. It raises the secretion of glucagon hormones and increases glucose level in our blood.

  • Prevent Anxiety

If you want to feel relaxed, it's harder in busy life's unforeseen events to stress you out. Do practice of yoga and meditation daily. This will help you to prepare for meditation and stretch out the kinks for sleep. Slow poses that stretch out the body will erase any stress that is stuck inside your body. Anxiety likes to sit within the hip crease, so you stretch them out and release unwanted stress for body.

  • Prevent Stress

When you are at extreme pressure, it may pass but it will manifest in our body. During yoga and meditation, breathing will helps to release stress for shoulders, back and neck. You should make a practice to breathe deep throughout the day long. This is your body doing something involuntary de-stressing.

"Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles; it takes away Today's Peace".

  • Well-Being

Yoga and Meditation can help improves the focus of mind and give sense of Well-being. Meditation offers an emotional improvement through deep relaxation and it can be practiced by taking 30 minutes meditation break right after the office desk.

Yoga and Meditation decrease blood pressure through circular and oxygenation. It lowers pulse rate which indicates that your heart is strong enough to pump more blood with fewer beats. Transporting nutrients and oxygen throughout your body, Yoga and meditation provides healthier organs, brain and skin. Yoga and meditation massages internal organs, helping the body from diseases. Gastrointestinal functions may improves and stimulates healthy organs. Apart from this choose a healthy diet that best suited your lifestyle and you will see how these simple activities will bring a positive change in your health.