Beginners to yoga must first know what it really is about and what they can get from it.
"Yoga" is an old Sanskrit term.
Sanskrit is the old tongue spoken by the Brahman caste, considered the elite in India.
The Sanskrit translation of 'yoga' means 'to yoke,' or 'to unite.
' Other translations include 'joining,' 'uniting,' 'union,' 'conjunction,' 'contemplation,' or 'absorption.
' One school of Hinduism, Jainism, defines yoga as 'the sum total of all activities - mental, verbal and physical.
' Thus, the logical interpretation of Yoga would be an integrating or unifying activity.
In this aspect, Yoga would be the way to wholeness in your life.
The goal of yoga is the unification of mind and body.
As the world "modernized," these two aspects separated and were treated particularly.
We usually hear people's comments of feeling disconnected with their bodies.
The detachment of our mind from our body can be the cause for this situation.
You get besieged by life's daily stresses that you feel about to cave in under all the pressures besetting you.
Though this is just a worst-case scenario, and there are milder instances that occur, it is all so true that the detachment of mind from body is happening all over this globalized world.
Yoga could be the way towards reconnecting your heart and mind and body.
The reintegration will provide you with the opportunity to take pleasure in your life, cope with daily pressures and value life in its every aspect.
Yoga also aspires for bridging the gap between our emotions and our rational self.
Similar to the mind-body disconnection feeling that befalls us sometimes, we usually direct ourselves to holding back our feelings that we come up having to rationalize them.
If this develops into a pattern, we're going to be faced with critical health concerns.
You must remember that emotions, in particular the negatives like frustration or anger, need to be conveyed and released.
These would then build up into stress-related problems, the outlet for their release.
Yoga's consciousness raising component is the way for the release of these feelings before they can wreak any destruction.
Yoga is really a potent instrument for the combination of our physical and psychological aspects.
Your rising awareness will lift along with it a recognition of being a component of a larger entirety.
Yoga is based on a complete philosophy and induces in the practitioner a connection with all that is around him or her.
Unity with all aspects of yourself and your environment is the bedrock of total wellness and personal development.
We don't have to wonder why yoga continues to be popular all these centuries and has become a basic part in the daily routines of people.
Yoga can definitely facilitate your development as a person.
It can help you reunite with your real feelings and stabilize your emotional self.
It can support your aim to be more complete and more authentic and less disjointed.
There would be less need for pretenses and you'd be relaxed as you simply are.
As Yoga allows you to feel with and related better to other people from your rising self-awareness and acceptance, you can anticipate better relations.