This week we’ve discussed the misconceptions of yoga, given a VERY brief history, and viewed some of its physical benefits. Now it’s time to explore its mental and spiritual benefits.
Now, whoa there! Before you go AWOL on me, I’m not talking about burning incense, chanting in a dead language, or performing transcendental medication, maximation, or mediation. You don’t have to transcend anything but your own ignorance. In other words, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
You can make yoga as mental/spiritual as you want or don’t want, but the benefits are enormous. Yoga has been proven in countless studies to improve your ability to not only get to sleep faster (no more pills) but to also improve the quality of your sleep, which of course directly affects how much you scream at your kids the next day. It improves concentration (a necessary evil in corporate staff meetings), increases emotional balance (so you don’t go postal on your co-workers), lessens mood swings (so you’re not mistaken for a PMSing adolescent) and decreases anxiety and stress (neither of which you could possibly be experiencing in such a positive and booming economy).
So now that you know yoga could prevent you from morphing into Michael Douglas from Falling Down i.e., going on a solitary rampage through O-town and I-4 traffic, tune into tomorrow as we rap up de-mystifying yoga.
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