Yoga is a very popular form of exercise and spiritual balance, but it is also very often understand a lot of people. It's almost inevitable when you consider the incredible popularity of yoga as a discipline and a lot of different threads which Yoga is. Quite often people have experience with one of the types of yoga, but not the other, and as such they would build their overall impression of Yoga that they saw. This is how people, basing them on the Germans the impression on the most famous German they know-Adolf Hitler, or more recently an image of George Bush at the international level as the only example of an American who knows. The truth is that yoga can be very different depending on who you learn from it and how they perceive yoga. This article discusses some of the common misconceptions.
Fallacy number one: Yoga is a form of exercise.
Well yes it is but so goes. I can walk from my couch on my desk, and I hardly can claim to do my exercise for the day. However, this is only the beginning is that Yoga exercises. It's closer to a combination of exercise, physical therapy, psychology and spirituality. As you come to the master of yoga, you will need to become more and more mentally strong and disciplined. If you can discipline yourself to do regular yoga and discipline to do each pose for the prescribed time, and do it properly, then you'll naturally become very disciplined and organized person. For some people it goes on a spiritual level, because they are so effective and clear their thoughts during meditation.
Mistake number two: Yoga is for hippies.
As already mentioned, that yoga can be a very spiritual experience, if you become good enough to clear your thoughts and concentration during exercise. But you definitely should not start with any spiritual faith. Yoga believes in the alignment of the body and mind and spirit through the achievement of internal balance. What that means to you, probably, will depend entirely upon your beliefs already. For some people it will be spiritually freeing experience, for others, it will be an effective way of achieving the level of anxiety and calm thought. Still others will argue that these things are one and the same.
Mistake number three: Yoga is a fad.
Recently there have been some very hyped up yoga courses, making big claims about yoga can be achieved. It's easy to associate with other exercise crazes, fashion. But Yoga is not something new and is based on documents that are hundreds of years old, that describe the exercises and postures, which were probably for generations before. Individual style of Yoga may come and go, but as long as people continue to stretch before playing football then Yoga will still be used.
Mistake number four: Yoga is too slow to help me lose tons of weight gain, etc.
This one is way off the mark, but we were somewhat prepared industry weight loss, weight loss and toning our body is all about hours in the gym and great influence of physical exercises. It's just not true. Yoga can help with weight loss and toning in particular for a number of reasons. In the first exercise, while low impact and static or slowly-are still exercises. While you are using them, you're using your muscles, and in many cases, you use muscles and muscle groups that ignore regular exercise program. The second way that yoga can be helpful in weight loss program is that it will increase your mental strength and allow you to be more disciplined with food consumption. When it comes down to it, being overweight is the result of excess food and not enough exercise to burn off those calories. Have you ever noticed how some people can eat a donut after donut and not put on any weight at all? This seems unfair, but this is a natural result of their bodies. Usually these people are quite sinewy muscle and this allows them to metabolise food faster. This is the third advantage of yoga in weight loss as your muscles develop your body will actually become more efficient in consumption of products and their processing in the nutrients and waste products.
We hope that we have already gone some way to explaining away various myths associated with yoga. This is such a broad topic, that it is very much a case of Yoga is that you do it.
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