What are the criteria for having a good physical health ? Is it a muscular body or a lean & flexible body ? My answer is a big NO, because both of these conditions cannot ensure good health in physical level.
There are people who think, absence of ailments in bodily level alone as physical health. But, this is also a peripheral view. If we look this idea in a wider perspective, we can understand that absence of illness along with high endurance limit of the body and smooth functioning of internal & external organs in varieties of altered environmental conditions such and unfavourable climatic & contaminated conditions and immunity against pathogens altogether can be termed as good physical health.
How, one can achieve these kind of physical state. The best possible and easily accessible answer is the practice of YOGA. Yoga practice will ensure the strength, endurance and smooth functioning of its systems and the whole body in all desirable and undesirable conditions. Let’s see one by one.
Yogic kriyas (cleansing techniques) are suitable for eliminating the waste deposition on the body and time to time cleansing of internal organs especially digestive and urinary system. These practices also ensure the proper digestion and digestibility is consider as the base of healthy body as per Ayurveda.
Yogic Asanas ( stretches) along with conscious breath will provide strength and high endurance limit to muscles & body. Along with this, it will increase the lungs capacity and smoothen the functions of internal organs. Eventually this will result in high oxygenation and energy level in the body.
SukshmaVyayama (Subtle Exercise), Pranayama (Breathing Regulation) and Dhyana (Meditation) will ensure the integrated function of nervous system. Proper nerval communication between brain and body parts are the functional base of body-mind system.
The above mentioned practices and other unmentioned yogic practices altogether can enhance ones physical capacity to it’s saturation. So it is mandate that, include all these in your practice to reach a desirable physical enhancement.
Not only physical health but mental health is also working complimentary to each other. One can not sustain better physical capacity without a good mental capacity. This topic can be discussed on another day.
Similar to yoga there are other traditional practices like KALARI (Indian martial arts) and TAI-CHI (Chinese martial arts) are also can be utilized to achieve favourable healthy body. They also follows similar principles like yoga in their practices. So a desirable aspirant should follow traditional rules and regulations of yoga to reach good physical health.
“Amodagiri Yoga Sanctuary is the best of the best Centre who imparts Yoga TTC in Kerala.”
Yogi Rijo George
