The following are the benefits of practicing yoga. Be patient; yoga takes time to show results. Within a few weeks, you will feel calmer and more focused. After a few months, rejuvenation of organs and glands will begin.
1. Increased vitality, from yoga's effects on the brain and glands.
2. Youthful appearance and mood: Yoga reduces facial wrinkles, producing a natural "facelift" effect. This is mainly due to inversions. Our usual upright posture causes gravity to pull muscles downwards. Over time, facial muscles sag. Inverting for a few minutes daily reverses the effects of gravity, making it a rejuvenating force, preventing facial muscles from sagging, reducing wrinkles, and naturally smoothing the skin.
Yoga inversions often restore the original color of gray hair and delay graying. This is because inversions increase blood flow to the hair follicles in the scalp. This posture increases neck flexibility, relieves pressure on neck blood vessels and nerves, and allows more blood to flow to the scalp muscles. In other words, hair follicles receive more nutrients, resulting in richer, healthier hair.
3. Longer Life: Yoga influences all the conditions for longevity: the brain, glands, spine, and internal organs.
4. Increased Disease Resistance: Yoga cultivates a robust physique and increases immunity. This enhanced resistance can combat a range of serious illnesses, from the common cold to cancer.
5. Improved Vision and Hearing: Normal vision and hearing depend primarily on good blood circulation and nerve transmission to the eyes and ears. The nerves and blood vessels supplying the eyes and ears must pass through the neck. As we age, the neck, like other parts of the spine, loses elasticity, and nerves and blood vessels may encounter stagnation as they pass through. This hinders the supply of nerves and blood to the eyes and ears, thus affecting their function. Yoga postures and neck exercises can improve neck condition, thereby strengthening vision and hearing.
6. Improved Mental and Emotional State: Because yoga rejuvenates the glandular and nervous systems, including the brain, a positive mental and emotional state naturally results. It makes people more confident, more enthusiastic, and more optimistic. Daily life also becomes more creative.
