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Tuesday 26 January 2016

Hatha Yoga - The Path to Attention and Concentration

Some surveys claim that two thirds of the adult population in North America, has never practiced any form of Yoga.  Although yoga is generally more popular than ever, it is still difficult to get the vast majority of adults, to understand the many benefits of deeper regular practice.


Apart from India, the vast majority of Yoga for public exhibition in health clubs.  Due to the exposure of yoga as a "fitness system," the main focus becomes a form of low-impact weight loss.  It is true that the fluid forms of yoga can be summarized in a workout with low impact, but what a shame to miss the deeper many benefits, the longest existing holistic health maintenance system has to offer.

Many physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits occur when practicing yoga.  To list a few subtle advantages - it does not take long for a yoga practitioner to achieve improvements in self-esteem, happiness, concentration, stress management, anger management, memory, learning ability, and wellbeing.

The list could go on, but we will focus our attention on the benefits of focus and concentration.  We live in an attention deficit society.  At every turn, something new is competing with something else, in the attempt to capture your attention.

Here is a paradox of our society: competition breeds success.  Competition is achieving goals, but competition also creates unreasonable delays that lead to excessive stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, heart problems and premature death.



Therefore, the term "rat race" is entirely appropriate when competition takes full control of our lives.  One of the ironies of heavy competition is that the competitors are fighting each other so much, that reality has changed and the main objective can be forgotten.  This competitive spirit can occur in organizations, where departments are struggling with each other; and they often forget that they are "on the same team."

However, focused thought, revealed in meditation and higher forms of  Hatha Yoga Courses, also achieves success.  Meditation sessions are considered useless by the overly competitive personality.  Still, the time taken to meditate, brings us to mentally regroup and look at the situation from a new perspective.



The mind focused not to forget the main objective.  Meditation allows the mind time to get rid of all distractions from reality.  In the higher forms of Hatha Yoga Ttc India, any student who invests time in the regular practice comes to a point where the concentration of power is exploited.

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