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Learn the Basics of Yoga
Before becoming a regular practitioner of Yoga, before
gearing up your spirit to receive the massive amount of qualities that Yoga is
likely to pass on, you ought to know its basic lessons. So here comes the
question ?what is Yoga??One has to travel back a giant distance of some 3000
years to trace the origin of Yoga. Yoga had its first cry in the India. ?Yoga?
owes its origin to the Sanskrit word ?yuj? which means to bind, attach, join or
yoke. It is also interpreted as ?union, to direct and concentrate one?s
attention on, to use and apply?. Didn?t get it yet? In the simplest sense, Yoga
is all about establishing a bond between your soul and God, by means of
constant concentrating procedures. Indian mythologies say that one?s inner self
or individual spirit- ?jivaathma? is a part and parcel of the eternal supreme
universal spirit- ?paramaathma? (simply what we call God!). Once born into this
world, we are likely to get unplugged from that master spirit. What Yoga does
is balancing our mind, soul and emotions and thereby disciplining our ?selves?
so that we can regain that lost communion. Yoga effectively channelizes the
flow of our energy for constructive purposes. An individual who follows the
teachings of yoga is known as a ?yogi?.
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