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Yoga Health and Happiness Secrets

Health and Happiness

Happiness is in the mind, and the mind is supported by the body – a healthy mind lives in a healthy body.

Your happiness depends on your mind and it depends on your body. Without physical health you can’t be completely happy, and without mental happiness you can’t be completely healthy.

Health is a positive state; not just the absence of a negative one. It’s not only the absence of disease. For too long now traditional Western medicine has treated illness as only a disease: an enemy that attacks you and needs to be counter-attacked; but in reality it’s nothing more than an imbalance in the natural harmony of body and mind. True healing means restoring that balance, and true health means keeping it.

Yoga means “to unify.” It’s the holistic approach to all aspects of life: physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga views the person as a whole; as a unique combination of body, mind and soul, and its techniques maintain that body-mind-soul harmony.

In the ebook Yoga Health Secrets we’ll look into all the techniques for attaining and maintaining that body-mind-soul harmony for true health and happiness:

Physical health, relaxation

Stress relief

Stamina, vitality, zest for life

Clarity, concentration, memory

Motivation, willpower

Self-confidence and awareness

Creative insight

Love for all

Inner peace and happiness

A Complete Guide To Yogic Techniques For Happiness And Good Health.
Yoga Health and Happiness Secrets

Stop making excuses for not doing yoga…

“At Last! You Can do Yoga from home, the beach, the park or anywhere you want with the correct poses”

Long-Lost Manuscript Resurfaces with the secrets to the perfect yoga poses along with other interesting facts about yoga.

Perfect Yoga Poses.

One of the best books for practicing Yoga Poses.

A step-by-step guide on the correct practice of Yoga Postures, illustrated with rich and vibrant images that simplify the art of learning Yoga.

With Yoga For Anyone your yoga journey begins very much like that of students who attend classes at a yoga studio. Each asana (posture) is explained through easy-to-understand step-by-step instructions, accompanied by beautifully framed images. This ensures that you will be able to perform each asana correctly, thus reaping its maximum benefits. You will also learn the significance of each asana and the benefits it offers your body.

It includes some suggestions to improve your practice as well as some cautionary measures if you have a pre-existing medical condition. The goal of this book is to give personalized instructions to let you know exactly what you are doing and to help you do it well. Each page contains a wealth of information and practical knowledge to practicing the art of Yoga… more details here Yoga For Anyone

Space and Motion are complementary forms of the same thing.

Space as Emptyness is that which cannot be measured by the thinking mind; it is the All~Presence that is always available; it expresses itself as welcoming. Its expression is space; its expressing is motion.

The key to the understanding that space and motion are complementary forms of the same thing is to understand relationship. And the clearest way to understand relationship is to understand a couple that appears as separate individuals that are not separate in truth.

In this light ‘what is’ is relationship that is not limited to any definition of relating or relations. it is simultaneously definite and infinite, ephemeral and perpetual.

Awareness is the agent and the actor – it is the effect and the cause.

The best way to understand what Yoga Nidra is to understand who is practicing it.

The one who practices Yoga Nidra is a yogi and the clearest definition of what a yogi is comes from the Bagavad Gita 4:18 as follows: “One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, he is a yogi  and has accomplished everything (he is in the transcendental position although engaged in all sorts of activities).”

This definition evokes the obvious questions, “What does inaction in action and action in inaction mean?”

Inaction in action and action in inaction means that your very being is doing . For example in deep sleep you are not consciously active yet there is no discontinuity to life.

The practice of Yoga Nidra approximates deep sleep. In the practice ‘you’ are inactive yet you are awake, alert and active as your true nature – thus you experientially understand ‘inaction in action’, ‘action in inaction’ and you also then know what it means to be a yogi who has accomplished everything.

In this light Yoga Nidra is the practice of inaction is action and action in inaction.

Yoga Nidra is a yoga practice and it is the result of that practice such that the journey is the destination.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 1.2 states ‘Yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind’. This sutra denotes both the process of dissolving mental modifications (i.e. modes of perception, sensations, psycho-emotional states, etc.) into the ‘mind-field’ (citta) and the result as mental treanquility wherein Awareness is pure and unmodified.

In this light it is clear that the practice of Yoga Nidra is Yoga as the union that is Presence when the ‘doer’ is relaxed-absent. In other words the mind is silent yet nothing has been lost; instead there is a clarity as seeing without the distortions or modifications that come from seeing through the lens of knowledge, memory and experience.

Thus Yoga Nidra is the practice of ‘yogic sleep’ as a means of being awake as your true nature.