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Yoga and science |
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Yoga science indicates a scientific application of Yoga as a therapy. The Sanskrit implication of the word Yoga is ‘integration’. It represents a procedure though which one discovers how to live life in the most incorporated manner. This becomes possible through a process of continuous effort for identification and eradication of all the factors, which could eventually lead to dis-integration of a person.
Yoga is a spiritual practice for personal growth that embraces both physical and mental exercises. |
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Yoga practice helps to bring about complete relaxation of the body and mind, which enables healing to occur at a deeper level of the human personality.
Yoga is a comprehensive coordination of practices to help incorporated development at all levels of human personality: physical, mental, emotional, communal and spiritual. Recent medical research suggests that accurate and regular practice of Yoga can help to prevent or cure various types of diseases “Numerous current studies drive home yoga's beneficial effects on the mind, central nervous system and immune system”, said Dr. Loren Fishman, a New York City physician who is also a yoga expert.
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"It thickens the layers of the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain associated with higher learning, and increases neuroplasticity, which helps us to learn new things and change the way we do things," said Fishman. He has also applied yoga in his medical practice to treat numerous conditions counting multiple sclerosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis and rotator cuff syndrome. |
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Further research points out that long-term yoga participants drastically gain bone density over two years' time, which Fishman attributes to the outcome of muscles working in opposition to gravity. He said. “Yoga pits one group of muscles against another, exerting many times the force of gravity, which increases the stress on the bones, and the bones react to that by thickening." |
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