Prove: Yoga Maintains our Bodies Young!

I'm sure that you have seen videos with the guru (real guru) of yoga that demonstrate their puples what is possible to do with our bodies. There are videos of Iyengar, Krisnamacharya and others.

This video is very special not for the exercices that is able to do Swami Yogananda at 101 years. It is amazing but we expect something like this from our precious Teachers.

What is really Marvelous? Do you know? Watch this video once more. Pay attention on the state of the skin of Swami Yogananda. He is very thin, yes, but look at his muskles. Specially those under the arms. We have it flabby just at about 40 -45 years, no? And his neck?

Well, you got the idea. Yoga helps us to have young skin till advanced age. To have the skin of the neck young, too. Is it not the dream of every woman?

Depression and the Lack of the Essentials

Depression is a very hard desease. I think, you will agree with this definition. Therer is not a reason to feel bad but the life becomes impossible. You can't do anything, you don't find a place where you can forget about this state, you "sleep" all the day and don't sleep in the night. Your body shows the signs of the bad state, too. Your hairs fall like the leaves in autumn, your nails go to pieces...

Some researches proved that all this depend from the ...lack of the Vitamin D.

The problem is that it's not enough to assume vitamins in tabs. We need half an hour (at least) of exposure to the sun every day. The right form of Vit.D can be created only by sun in our bodies. We can eat handfuls of tabs every day but they don't work without sun. Unfortunatelly. 

A study of 1282 elderly residents in the Netherlands found increased depression among people whose serum levels of vitamin D were below 25 (OH), with severity of depression dramatically increased as D levels decreased.

According to the Vitamin D Council several factors impact how much D is produced: 

• Angle of sun’s rays.  If your shadow is longer than you are tall, little vitamin D is being made.
• Skin color.  People with fair skin have less melanin to protect against sun damage and need only 15 minutes of exposure, while those with dark skin need up to six times longer.
• Amount of skin exposed.  Forty percent of a body’s surface should be exposed.  Torso exposure produces the most D; legs and arms a little; hands and face almost none.
• Age slows production, taking four times longer for people over 60 and under 20.
• Sunscreens as low as 8 block up to 95% of vitamin D production.
• Cloud cover and air pollution can reflect or absorb UVB.
• Glass blocks all UVB.

The way to combine sun and an other remedy to cure depression, physical exercises, is to walk at least 30 minutes every day. Specially, it's valid for aged and obese persons.

Than. There are Omega 3 fats. Those are essential for our brains, too. I don't want to repeat the things you know just. I want only to tell you about the new researches' results.

Magnetic resonance imaging has shown depressed people have stiffer cell membranes

And this essential substance we can find in natural products like Fish Oils. These do not work without sun exposion, too.
(quotes are from the books of Gracelyn Guyol  sent me in a mail by her promoter probably)

Raja Yoga Meditation for positive thinking

As you know, I'm very interested now to find a receipe for happy life.
Not becase I'm so unhappy, I'm unhappy in the same way as all of us.
I want to find this receipe because I see too many negativities around me.
To give you the most evident example I remember you the persons that take a gun and shoot their family, friends. I ask you: can a happy person do it? Can this state of soul be created from one day to other? No.

We spoke about positive thinking too (see Related posts on the bottom of this).

We said, positive thinking is something very hard to reach and maintain.
But it's unpossible to live without it.

Why does positive thinking not work in many cases?
Because we point on mistaken aims. We have not to begin with "I'm milioner". This is not the root of our problem. You have to post many "Why's" to find the root.

Here I want to tell you about Raja Yoga Meditation site's advises for the morning. Note the difference .
Technique:
every morning when you wake up repeat

I am a peaceful soul,
my aim today is to radiate peace
to every person that I come into contact with.

And then for 15 minutes this text

(Try to experience the stillness of mind of being a peaceful soul as other thoughts emerge in the mind do not judge or focus on them but repeat)
............ I am a peaceful soul
............. I am a peaceful soul
............ My mind is filled with peace
.............. I radiate peace to the world
............... I feel the gentle waves of peace flowing across my mind
........... As these peaceful thoughts emerge in my mind
I feel the stillness and silence envelopes my mind
................. I am the peaceful soul
...... I am a peaceful loving soul
............ My mind feels light and free from worries
........... I realize my real nature is peace
.......... Peaceful thoughts flow through the mind and I feel the self becoming light
...................... I am a being of light shining like a star
....................... I radiate peace and light to the world
...................... The light and peace envelopes me and the waves of peace
and light shine like a lighthouse

I did this practice too. For 40 days I repeated the thoughts of positive thinking according to my state of soul. I can confirm: it works.

Related links:
Where to find joy in the modern life
About happyness and positive thinking
"Positive thinking" or "joy of the life"
Emotional mistreatment -"bad" chief, parents, friends
How to do?-Everyday meditation for everybody and disrespect and emotional mistreatment
these 2 last posts contain explanations of the technique described here as Raja Yoga Meditation but seen by other schools

Influence your thoughts -exercises for stressed period in the life

As I said you befor, I had a hard period this summer and am very stressed and tense now.
I tryed with different practices and relaxation, but feel not better, sincerely. I have to prepare myself for ritrit in october, but don't go forward without real relaxation.

The main problem are my inconscious thoughts, I understood. But I have not effective mode to influence them.

One friend said, we have to "collect" some practices of relaxation that work good for us. It's true. From many exercises explaned by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and those we studied from "Heart drops of Dharmakaya" there are 3-5 that I use usually because they work right away for me. I think others use other exercises. Everybody needs own ways.

Today I met a new friend in MyBlogLog and found some important exercises in his (her?) blog The Secret. Maybe it will help me to domate my unconscious thoughts...

Here you can find entire articles if you want to read them: Law of Attraction 03
And I want to fix here the main lines.

1/ observe thoughts that pass through the head during the day and write the list. after a while it becomes natural and automatic.
2/ observe how our primary thoughts begin to expand and manifest themselves in our lives
begin eliminating those thoughts that were not empowering by switching in thoughts that were positive and/or pleasant to us.
observe the number of thoughts that really don't have anything to do with empowing you and moving you closer to where you wish to be in your life.
3/ Learn to embrace that feeling ( to feel uncomfortable outside of our comfort zone). Only by getting out of your comfort zone can you progress to a higher level of understanding and being.
the only time we can influence our thoughts is right now. That's why it's so important to always try and be in the moment.
by Michael Manjin

Facial yoga poses -young "forever"

I read many times that TV-stars use special exercises to have very young face. I didn't know it's a special desipline, facial yoga, face exercises based on yoga tradition.

It's the latest craze in many countries from USA till India. You can look younger (even 10 years! younger), to erase fine lines and wrinkles, to reduce sagging skin, to restore a radiant, youthful look,to reduce the neurological impulses associated with stress and you don't need surgical interventions. And than it's cheaper!
More about benefits in this article.

All this because the facial yoga will tone 57 muscles of our face and neck.

Here I begin to collect facial yoga poses. As usual, there are not much information about a discipline like this, but I hope to be successful.

First exercise, "Lion" with a little description I found here
or you can see it in this photo posted in the article
Face Yoga: Fountain of Youth?Here you see
Leta Koontz-Stuyvesant of Schoolhouse Yoga demonstrates some of Suzanne Kahley's Fresh Face exercises: Lion, smiling Buddha, sleeping yogi and wide eyes. (Andy Starnes, Post-Gazette)


Other exercise is "Merilin's kisses"
then "blowing up of balloons"
more exercises we can find in "Yoga Facial Exercises

Here in italian some new exercises:

• Per combattere il cedimento dei muscoli: posizionate sulla parte bassa del viso le mani inumidite di acqua fredda, colpite le basi dei palmi l’una contro l’altra e lasciate rimbalzare le punte delle dita su tutto il viso.
• Per tonificare l’ovale e il contorno del viso: con il dorso della mano o delle dita (che devono essere distese) date dei leggeri schiaffetti secchi e ripetuti sotto il mento.
• Per preparare il viso alla crema da giorno: pizzicate la pelle asciutta in senso perpendicolare alle rughe, fino a quando non avrete fatto arrossare il solco.
• Per prevenire e attenuare le rughe del collo: eseguite tutti i giorni un auto-massaggio circolare usando tutte le dita della mano, dall’alto verso il basso (ogni mano accarezzerà il lato opposto del collo).
  

New photos from Forget Botox, try facial yoga


That's all for this time. Now, try to become youger, mmm...?

Video-explanation of "Sun Salutation"

I like this clear explanation of this exercise. This is not my preferite training,but I like it too and do sometimes but I had never find a video so good as this.



Sun Salutation you can find in many sites.Here for example, in this page, you find the same sequence but in photos, and it says about:

"Often considered the core of hatha yoga practice" and precise that "are practiced in a row of 2-6 times and traditionally practiced at sun rise".

What will I never do...

Here you see the dream I'm sure I coud never reach, but I admire this Yogi from Kijev,Ukraina and this is the site where I found this photo "Хатха Йога в Киеве"
An other Yogi to envy. The site "Freedom Vidja" I like too.

Other sites and videos you can find in categorie Yoga on "Interesting links I found"-page