Here is part 2 on Suffering from Asthma, bronchitis, and hay fever.
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Many things in the environment can trigger an attack, including air pollution, secondhand smoke, and pollen. While there are no asthma-free cities, some are more challenging than others for people living with asthma.
Now for our some more solutions:
Here is a four part series on combating asthma, bronchitis, and hay fever by doing these simple exercises, try them you will be amazed with the results.
Part one of four.
The Headstand or Sirshasana has not been called ‘The King of Asanas’ for nothing.
It is difficult for the beginner to master and I want you to limber up with some easier exercises before attempting to balance on your head. I place the ‘King of Asanas’ in this article on disorders of the respiratory tract because in the relief and cure of such ailments as asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, nose troubles, and sinus troubles it has no equal.
Sinusitis, and allied complaints, often produce severe head-aches and acute discomfort in the cavities of the nose and face. It is difficult for doctors to reach these sinuses except by painful and unpleasant means and nasal sprays are of little use as the openings of the cavities are on the upper side and can only be drained when the body is inverted. This is where Yoga, and particularly the Headstand, is of great help.
This is the final in this series on yoga, and what a better way than find some info on the origin of yoga.
So have a quick read and hopefully you will get a pretty good idea of what yoga is all about and wether it will help you or not.
Yoga in my view is definitly a great way to help you on your way to living the good life and certainly helped me in my business dealings and working along and with other people.
I will write another post on how yoga helped me in business, in the meantime enjoy the origin of yoga.
Images of a meditating yogi from the Indus Valley Civilization are thought to be 6 to 7 thousand years old. The earliest written accounts of yoga appear in the Rig Veda, which began to be codified between 1500 and 1200 BC. It is difficult to establish the date of yoga from this as the Rig Veda was orally transmitted for at least a millennium.
The first Yoga text dates to around the 2nd century BC by Patanjali, and prescribes adherence to “eight limbs”
(the sum of which constitute “Ashtanga Yoga”) to quiet one’s mind and merge with the infinite.
I often wondered will this yoga work for me and what the heck is Hatha Yoga?
Yoga
Well if you have read the previous two posts you should be starting to get the idea, so have a read and tell me what you think.
Over the last century the term yoga has come to be especially associated with the postures (Sanskrit asanas) of hatha yoga (”Forced Yoga”).
Hatha yoga has gained wide popularity outside of India and traditional yoga-practicing religions, and the postures are sometimes presented as entirely secular or non-spiritual in nature.
Traditional Hatha Yoga is a complete yogic path, including moral disciplines, physical exercises (e.g., postures and breath control), and meditation, and encompasses far more than the yoga of postures and exercises practiced in the West as physical culture. The seminal work on Hatha Yoga is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, written by Swami Svatmarama.
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