...Yoga is known to improve health overall, with every aspect of it enhancing something, mind, body, or spirit. But, overall health aside, yoga is becoming known to be particularly helpful for relief from specific diseases. One of these diseases, Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a bit of a medical enigma, with no concrete causes and no concrete cure.

The course of MS is unpredictable. The four categories used to classify the clinical course in a person with MS are: Relapsing - remitting, Primary-progressive, Secondary-progressive, and progressive-relapsing. In the absence of a resolution, several treatment options must step in to relieve the burden MS places on so many lives. Physical activity is extremely important for individuals with MS, and yoga is now recognized as an excellent means of MS management.

What is MS?

MS is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defensive immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue, the myelin surrounding nerves in the brain and spinal cord. These myelin sheaths perform the same function as insulation around an electrical wire. Without the myelin insulation, nerve impulses from brain to body can short out and become confused, misdirected, or be completely blocked. Symptoms can include numbness and/or tingling in the extremities, weakness, lack of coordination and/or balance, gait difficulties, slurring of speech, blurred or double vision, bowel and bladder dysfunction, vertigo, and heat intolerance.

While no one knows for certain why some people get MS, there is some speculation to its cause. Because those who have family members with MS are at a slightly increased risk, there is speculation that it may be somewhat genetic. There also seems to be a link between where a person lived as a child and getting the disease as an adult. Those who grew up in colder climates, farther from the equator than other geographical locations are more l...more

Reduce Your Stress with Yoga Breathing Exercises

... flow into your lungs will help fight off flues and colds. By using proper yoga breathing exercises, you can increase the oxygen to your lungs and help remove toxins and improve your health. Proper yoga breathing techniques can change your metabolic rate and improve your emotions by releasing endorphins and internal chemical reactions. It will greatly reduce the stress in your life and help eliminate the effects of stress.

Yoga breathing exercises improve your mental health. A healthy mind will help generate a healthy body. A healthy bod...more

Sacred Love- Yoga and the Mystery of Real Life Love

... basis of who helps me live my dreams? The most potent secret to long lasting relationships is dream matching. So, knowing the difference between a goal and a dream is a vital awareness for sustainable attraction. Goals are achievable outcomes, once achieved, they no longer count. Many people are attracted because they feel the pull of a magnificent goal, but then, they achieve the goal and suffer deeply. My experience working with clients is that this one key is the cause of nearly 99% of relationship failure.

In my book, Sacred Love, I have included a vision quest for lovers. A do it yourself, 6 week stay at home process for vision quest.

Key 5. Love is a lifestyle. Life is a hierarchy of choices, priorities and decisions. Like any yoga practice, we need a teacher to guide us through those choices with consciousness. In life, love is the guru. And where love does not exist, life cannot exist. Love therefore, is a lifestyle. A way of living that prioritizes the first four steps over the ego, emotion and short term choices. Love is a way of turning up, making sure the past is not driving the future, for surely, any person who is running from the past, will run into it in t...more

The Good Things You Get From Bikram Yoga

...nd make the toes and ankles to have a better range of motion. It will improve the look of the quadriceps and the deltoid muscles.

4. Standing Bow Pose - This pose will improve the circulation of the blood to the heart and the lungs. It will also make the spine stretch more and that in turn will help with any pain in the lower part of the back. It will also open the diaphragm and the lungs.

5. Triangle Pose - This pose is a great thing for the kidneys. It will help to balance out any chemical problems and this will help to get rid of a hard stool, colitis, spondilitis, female menstrual problems, hip pain, and back pain. This pose will also help you to improve the heart and the cardio system. The blood circulation, immune system, muscle system, digestion, and reproduction are also helped by this pose.

6. Tre...more

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