Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Yoga, calm your mind and refresh body

Yoga, calm your mind and refresh body

Indian yoga is a sport that is so popular in Indonesia. Originally also created to improve your breathing technique and maintaining mental health. Because with a series of yoga techniques, you will gain peace of mind and gain spiritual strength.

Apart from the spiritual aspect, has been a lot of research that describes the physiological benefits of yoga. Reporting from healthmeup.com, here are the benefits of doing yoga regularly.

Lowering stress
When your body is stressed or depressed, then your body release the hormone cortisol, which makes you always be vigilant but your body is still functioning properly. While yoga will help you in reducing the production of the hormone cortisol that will keep your stress level down and you become calmer.

Antioxidant enzymes
Exposure to harmful substances in the body contribute to the formation of dangerous diseases such as cancer and accelerate the aging process in the body. To counteract the bad things, the human body needs a strong internal defense system. One of them is the antioxidant enzymes will increase because you do yoga.

Stimulates the nervous system
Yoga will stimulate the production of the parasympathetic nervous system. The nervous system serves to calm the body and restore balance to the body, especially after stress. When the nervous system is working, the blood will flow to the endocrine, digestive organs, and other organs which reduces the heart rate and lowers blood pressure.

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