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Yoga

Ayurveda

It is an antient health system that came out from India’s subcontinent. In our day it is being applied in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. China and Tibet  has had effects on the medicine system. “Ayur” means life, and “veda” means knowledge. The history of Indian medicine goes all the way back to the Indian valley civilization from 3000 B.C. Ayurvedic knowledge is believed to be based on spiritual knowledge.

Traditional Indian Medicine  ( Ayurveda )

While conventional medicine, is trying to improve medications that are trying to destroy specific reasons like microorganisms of the sickness, Ayurvedic medicine is providing the immune system of the defense mechanism to become stronger with the change of life style. Also it gains resistance to the body with herbal formulas and in a way of destroying sicknesses with a diet. According to the Ayurvedic system being healthy is formed on the balance between dosha (body type/temperament) agni (alimentary thermo), dhatu (seven body tissues: lymph, blood, muscle, fatty tissues, bone, medulla, sperm) and mala (stools, urea and other wastes).



 

• Vata is an air principle that activates the nervous system function.


• Pitta is a fire principle that organizes the digestive system.


• Kapha is a water principle that carries the nutrients to the circulatory system.

   The main concept of Ayurvedic medicine called “dosha” is separated into the body’s three main types.  These are; Vata, Pitta and Kaffa. It is accepted that one of these types of dosha’s in every human is predominate and every dosha with a genuine life style (nutrition etc) accordantly resumes their function. Ayurvedic physicians determine which dosha is dominate in the person by different diagnostic methods and they will direct that person to a suitable life style according to their dosha.



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Yoga’s history is based on close to 5000 years. It has been known substantially from 50 years until now in USA and Europe. The reason for this is, science, has only proven today the truth of the yogi’s (people that exercise yoga) statement from thousands of years ago. Yoga is not gymnastic movements that symbolize religion or intellectuality.  As much as it is a whole movement that increases physical elasticity, the main aim is for the person to become one with their self and accordingly with the universe.  Together with allot of varieties the foundation of yoga’s eight steps are these;

Yama, Provides suiting the patch – moral (ethic) rules.

Niyama, Provides core discipline.

Asana, Provides the body’s flexibility in certain positions with body exercise.

Pranayama, Provides proper use of the mind by teaching how to breathe in and out in certain rhythms. 

Pratyahara, Provides controlling emotions. 

Dharana, Provides concentrating on a certain idea.

Dhayana, Provides awareness with meditation studies. 

Samadhi, Provides reaching superior awareness with the mind and soul being awake while the body is resting as meditation is the last target to reach. 


Yoga Zen

It carries the aim of giving brightness to thoughts, renewing worldviews, keeping the person away from bad desires and deterring from selfishness. It aims at calming the person with providing control over the body. Disciplined education is done. A strong desire education; is supported with little nutrition. Especially in the early hours of the morning, in the hottest, the coldest days, it is worked on forming lasting soul and body in the educations done. It can be described as the samurai soul.



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When we are under stress, our body needs allot of oxygen. By breathing air and oxygen goes into our body. Breathing under stress is very fast, when relaxing it is slow. The aim here is to decrease breathing from fast to slow.   

A respiratory exercise example;
Sit in a comfortable position and in a position that your spine will be straight. Close your eyes just think of your breathing going in and out. When taking a breath definitely use your nose, and when exhaling use your mouth or nose. Take deep breaths from the diaphragm, Wait 3 seconds until all your breath has come out slowly. After that wait 3 seconds again and repeat this loop at least 10 times. Stand up slowly after 5 minutes, and then you can go back to what you were doing before the exercise.



   The first step for the body to stand against stress is for the respiratory to be supervised. In the Far East, it is said, “to know a person listen to their breath”. Calm and mature people breathe heavy balanced, angry and restless people often superficial, ambitious people unbalanced and disorderly. You can follow your emotional way by breath control and you can change it with your breath. After making respiratory exercise a habit, you will not need to close your eyes, or put your hands on your chest and stomach. Generally, between 40-50 deep breath exercises are enough. It should not be done one after another by racing. You need to breathe properly now and then. When you are waiting for something like a lift, appointment, red light or most importantly when you get angry at something then apply the breathing exercise. Also, if you spare 5 minutes a day to respiratory exercise then you will find yourself relaxed and relieved after 2-3 weeks. When breathing only use the nose, you repeat calming sentences. For example, “right now I’m relaxing, I’m light and free as a bird, all the stress on me is turning to steam and leaving me”



   Salkovskis and his friends applied respiratory control training by measuring the blood PCO2 level on a panic attack patients in an experiment in the year of 1986. It was seen that their panic frequency dropped down from 7 to 3 in a week and their blood PCO2 level turned normal. PCO2  like it is known is a good indication of the respiratory CO2   value.



The Benefits of Regular Respiratory Exercise :



• The lungs whole alveoli’s will open.
• The blood circulation will fasten.
• The oxygen amount will increase.
• It will help reduce and lose adrenaline.
• The person will be calm.



Relaxing Techniques :



  The aim of relaxing techniques is to take the body under control. All techniques provide relaxing with this way. The techniques are not hard. Everyone can overcome it. Together with this, whichever technique is suitable for you until automaticising then you should apply that. The techniques must come to an automatic situation so the person that wants to apply it does not need to learn it when they want tot relax. When a person reaches this level they should be able to stop the disturbance in their stomach, slow down their heartbeat, reduce their blood pressure and make themselves feel better and comfortable.  



Autogenic relaxation :
It is a technique that two German physicians named Schulz and Luthe improved. It is used in pain control clinics. It is an exercise programme that gives absolute comfort to the body and in calm situations describes the features and is created from Standard sentences.  

Progressive relaxation :
If stresses damaging effects are in allot of different ways like back, lower back, head, neck pains then these techniques can be used. In these situations if you want to use techniques then breathing exercises may not be enough. If you have progressive relaxing technique training then your job is easy. In this technique, different muscle groups are taken as a target, By giving relaxation commands it will provide those muscles to relax. It has been determined that the relaxation has severely decreased in the muscle groups with the help of EMG.



The Preliminary Guidelines in Relaxation Functions :



• The first principle is to take it seriously.
• Choose a quite dim room that you will not be disturbed in.
• Do it by sitting on a comfortable chair with the hands on the knees or by lying down with the hands and arms a little separate from the body.
• At first the eyes must be closed.
• Begin with the breathing exercise.
• Think of a calm place that you like best  (the beach, lake, forest, the sound of waves, warm sand, the sun, feel the smell of the breeze listen to the birds. Be there like it is real)
• You must repeat this everyday for 15 minutes until you learn the technique.
• Do not expect immediate success. 
• The technique application must be automaticized.


A Relaxing Session :


In relaxing sentences, it is important for the meaning not the words being the same. You need to feel what is said from the heart. Say the sentences slowly, repeat every sentence three times, leave 3 seconds between the sentences.   



• I feel calm
• I am starting to feel relaxed.
• My feet feel relaxed.
• My knees and ankles feel relaxed.
• My hips feel relaxed.
• My stomach area feels relaxed.
• My chest area feels relaxed.
• My shoulders feel relaxed.
• My neck feels relaxed.
• My chin, face muscles and forehead feel relaxed.
• My whole body feels calm, heavy, relaxed and comfortable.



Imagining sentences:

(For 3 minutes, stay in the same position, close your eyes, feel every sentence and concentrate, repeat every sentence 3 times)



• I feel life and energy flowing from the soil to my feet and legs
• I feel life and energy flowing from the soil in order to my hips, stomach and chest.
• I feel life and energy flowing from the soil to my hands and arms.
• I feel life and energy flowing from the soil to my shoulders, neck, head and face.
• Life and energy is providing me to feel light and alive.



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Meditation is common in Far East culture especially Tibet, China, India, Japan and Thailand and is a way of being aware of self-knowledge. In other words, it is to be in an audience position without intervening the mechanism called the mind that never stops and not yet knowing what it is and it being unlikely to understand and without going into its direction so without going to the past or the future only staying at the current time. In our day it has come to a case state that has been demanded highly by the western people that want tot elude from extreme stress and competitive living. The main aim of meditation that does not have a religious and belief system, even if it is to reach the level of mystic consciousness it has huge benefits to our life.

   In meditations where you are sitting in a calm place in a straight position with you eyes closed, nothing is actually being done. Therefore, It is a moment of inertia. It is the moment of a person being alone with their presence. It can also be summarized as conscious sleeping. In time, mediation can be applied to our daily work and gains awareness to the events developed around us. By increasing awareness, we will break out of mental and environmental conditions directing us and go into the position we use, as we want.  



   Meditation is an interesting circumstance. You do not need to go far away to the guru’s to learn meditation. This is a case brought from birth like everyone swimming or riding a bike. Although it is a natural circumstance, it is beneficial to apply some certain techniques in the beginning. You just try for a certain time without being lazy or bored. It is enough to apply this regularly in short periods to discover this natural circumstance of our conscious. Because a person is not use to being alone with their presence, even if at first it is boring in time it is you will clearly see the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits when applied regularly the mind will be purified from stress and the unlimited inner potential will be easier to occur.

We generally direct our concentration (of note is the energy density, just like a laser beam) outside. To us; problems are with other people or events. However, a conscious person will know that they are the one creating the problem. Therefore, it is the same person that will eliminate the problem is the same, himself. 



   In meditation, first the body then the mind and lastly the feelings are relaxed. Awareness in each one is necessary. So firstly our tense muscles need to be aware and needs to provide our organ tissues to work naturally, afterwards the thoughts that quickly cross our minds need to be aware and needs to know we are separate from them and lastly we need learn to elude from negative circumstances by being aware of the emotions that effect our lives.   


Wear loose comfortable clothes; choose dim calm places, close devises that will cause cuts like mobile phones. You should completely cut you attention with the environment. Careful the person should direct within themselves from the outer world. Eyes should be closed so concentration is not distracted and attention should be brought to now. For those who have trouble on keeping their attention to now, breath control is very beneficial.



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