Health Yoga is probably the best exercise you can do for yourself. In addition to that, it helps to strengthen your immune system, allowing you to fight off disease, illness, lethargy, deterioration from the natural aging process and a host of other benefits.

There are so many diseases and medications in our day and age that it’s only normal for people who care about their body to search for natural ways to improve their health. With health yoga, we are able to heal our body in a physical, emotional and spiritual way that actually works. Living in the Western world, we are offered various treatments for the illnesses, some of which have horrific side effects. So it is always a good idea to look towards nature and within our own body to cure ailments.

Stress and trauma are the top causes of various health conditions involving the heart and body. For instance, stress can cause soft tissue in the body to contract and become hard to help protect the body. But when too much stress is placed on the body or the individual is traumatized from physical or mental injury, the body will try to limit its movement to prevent further damage. Over time this then causes the individual to become more rigid, stiff and less agile.

In other cases, trauma and stress can cause problems for your mental well-being as well. Emotional stress can create problems for the mind, body and soul, causing them to narrow and compress. Over time, this compressing begins to constrict the emotional and physical state. So those of you who are feeling heartache and a “pain in your side” or feeling uneasy, it could be due to stress or trauma.

To make more sense, when your mind, body and soul are restricted, you become slower and your health goes downhill. Your body won’t be able to process nutrients, oxygen or even calmness. Now, your body and mind have to overwork, causing you to become ill, fatigued or even depressed and angry.

With health yoga, you are able to relieve your mind, body and soul of its torment from stress and trauma. By practicing postures, or in yoga terms, Asanas and pranayamas (your control of subtle life forces through breathing techniques), you will be able to protect your mind, body and soul’s health and endurance. Health yoga can help to reestablish your emotional, physical and spiritual self back to its normal state and balance. Being in sync with all aspects of yourself allows you to become a better person overall. Other techniques I find useful are mudras, which are hand gestures and positions, as well as bandhas, which are yoga locks that hold in pranayama (the life force).

So all in all, if you’re looking to try to better your mind, body, soul and health, try health yoga. Research these terms on the internet and follow through by practicing the movements and getting in sync with your better self.

Self improvement is the reason people are increasingly moving towards the wellness philosophy. Self improvement involves the intent to make ones life better in one or more ways. The same goes with wellness. But the main difference between the two terms is that wellness is a more defined philosophy, whereas self improvement is a very general term to use. So I will discuss wellness so you can get a handle on self improvement and integrate it into your life.

For the purposes of this discussion, when I say wellness, you may want to think self improvement if that makes it easier for you. The major foundation of wellness is self responsibility. We are by and large responsible for creating our world. So aside from unforeseen and genetic circumstances, our world is the result of actions or inactions by us for our entire lives, for better and for worse.

There are those who would argue that even genetic traits and unfortunate circumstances of birth are of our own making, and that they are either carryovers (Karma) from our past lives and/or that we have asked to be born in a particular way or under a particular set of circumstances. But that discussion is best had on another day. Suffice it to say that if I do not like something about my life, I need to take responsibility for it and change it.

Wellness can best be seen on a scale, a wellness scale. On one extreme of the scale is disease and death, and on the other extreme, wellness, health, Nirvana, perfection or some other ideal that we strive towards. We are somewhere on the wellness scale in every aspect of our lives and are either moving towards disease and death or towards health and perfection.

While on this earth, we will never reach Nirvana or perfection, but it is something to strive towards. Unfortunately, we will all die, but the journey between birth and death is largely of our own making.

Another aspect of wellness is that every aspect of our lives can be measured on the wellness scale. Any aspect of your life, including love, finance, exercise, stress, career, assertiveness, etc., can be measured on this scale.

The good news and bad news is that when you move up or down in any aspect of your lifestyle, other aspects of your lifestyle are either pulled up or pushed down as well. For instance, if you start exercising regularly, chances are that you will also take a look at and improve your diet and nutrition. And since exercise makes you think more clearly, you will probably be able to look at other aspects of your lifestyle and move towards wellness in those areas as well.

There are also byproducts of improving in one area of your life. If we look at the exercise example, you would experience a reduction is your stress levels, improve your immune system, become more confident, and a host of other positive side effects.

On the other hand, if you develop a drinking habit, then your career, love life, relationships with others, health and other aspects of your lifestyle will probably suffer and move down the wellness scale towards disease and death.

So the name of the game in self improvement is to take responsibility for your life, diagnose and evaluate your lifestyle and choose the most effective way to improve your life in the most common sense order for you. But the main point is to do something. Anything! And to any degree. Just improve something, in some area of your life, to some degree, to start to move towards wellness, and you will see a magnificent ripple effect in all aspects of your lifestyle eventually. Good luck!

Thai Healing

Thai healing techniques are becoming more popular people becoming disenchanted with western drug-based medicine. There is a global movement towards a more holistic, more natural approach to healing.

Perceived one time as the hobby of the fringe, activities such as Yoga, meditation, Reiki and Pranic Healing are now becoming increasingly mainstream. Herbal medicine and natural healing have also remerged as alternatives to what many see as impersonal and drug-driven western medicine.

Thailand, unknown to many, has an entire branch of traditional medicine equally as sophisticated as that of Chinese medicine. It has become is a natural draw for practitioners of alternative approaches. Over the last few years, Thailand has become the ideal place for a visitor to explore the alternative approaches currently available.

Centers for specialty focus can be found for:

• Natural Healing
• Integrated Medicine
• Detoxification and Spiritual Centers

From Phuket to Bangkok, many centers are now set up to accommodate visitors from around the world.

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