Menstruation Problem due to Obesity- Seek Yoga Help
November 13, 2008 by Admin
Filed under Dieting, Fitness, Meditation
The regular cycle of women get disturbed due to the menace obesity. The obese women have to face prolonged or scanty periods. This may cause hirsutism, blotting, laziness and other such disorders. This may cause harm even in conceiving a pregnancy.
This can be well sorted with the help of yoga. Yoga has solution to almost all the disorders of the human body. So it is good to teach yoga to young girls, so that they can get benefits from it and lead healthy and energetic life.
It is believed that young girls should not practice inverted yogic exercises while their monthly cycle. This is true that because it adheres the flow of menstrual blood. This inversion should be carefully hindered to avoid any problem in near future.
Practicing Yoga:
However, practicing yoga is good during menstruation, as this will help you to regulate the flow of blood. But special care is to be taken when you actually start practicing yoga while your monthly cycle.
There is a common observation that women are disturbed when they just reach to their menstrual bleeding. This is because the process make them disturbed internally that it comes out anyhow. So to avoid such disturbance you must plan the routine of yoga asana which will support the menstruation. This is really helpful and beneficial for women of all ages as this makes them free from disturbed state of mind.
The yoga will also help the women to attain the maximum health of internal organs. These organs need strength for the whole life. You can strengthen the health of internal organs by just adding exercises that tone your abdominal and hip muscles. So you must practice postures such as cat, cobra and fish. These postures are very effective as far as strength of abdomen is considered.
The period cramps and premenstrual syndrome are also well sorted with the help of yoga to utmost extent. This is simply by adding simple postures like cat and fish.
The irritation of mood during menstruation can also be well sorted with the help of yoga. It makes mood light and healthy, so young girls often like to learn yoga practicing.
The helpful thing yoga do is that it will create comfort and easiness for young girls. This is what make them comfortable in such a painful and irritated days. This is you can get the fair result just in time if you start yoga when you are just enter the teenage, this will help you in each and every phase of life such as puberty, pregnancy, feeding your baby etc.
This is said to young girls eat well and do yoga. This really means that you should be good enough in practicing yoga for rest of your life. This little effort of learning yoga at younger age will appear to be fruitful for rest of your life. This effort will be give you its benefits throughout your life. So learn simple yoga postures like fish, cat and cobra right now!
A Step towards Healthy Life
November 13, 2008 by Admin
Filed under Dieting, Fitness, Meditation
What is Exercise? Exercise is a physical activity. A particular kind of movement that works your body at a greater intensity
There are two types of exercise:
1. Anaerobic:
It means “without oxygen.” These are exercises such as slow walking, bowling or weight lifting etc.
2. Aerobic:
Aerobic mean “with oxygen.” It is that kind of exercise in which you get necessary amount of oxygen such as cycling, jogging in garden, ruining, stepping etc.
Benefits of Anaerobic exercise:
As a matter of fact, exercise is very important for one’s health and body as it creates positive affects on one’s health, body and mind. The most important advantage of exercising is that it aid one to prevent him/herself from the cardiovascular diseases. It prevents one from developing high blood pressure. It reduces cholesterol levels. It strengthens one’s blood vessels. It toughens one’s muscle and is responsible for making one’s bones flexible and strong. It increase the rate of blood circulation of one’s body and this very helpful for those people who want their hair and skin beautiful. It helps in maintaining the weight of ones body and aid in reducing the fat of body.
It plays a vital role in reducing the risk of the development of colon and breast cancer. Exercising helps in lessening the anxiety and depression. It improves the health of brain. It reduces the elements of laziness. When we do exercise our body precipitate, in this way many dangerous toxins get expelled out of our body. So in this way exercise also removes toxins from our body. It increases the strength of muscles and in this way it will aid you to prevent yourself form the back pain.
Benefits of Aerobic exercise:
Aerobic exercises are very important in this regard that they provide one’s body with maximum amount of oxygen. When body get right amount of oxygen it improves the texture of the skin and beautifies one’s body and face. Other than this it provides muscle with maximum amount of oxygen and increases their efficiency. It lessens the body fats and improves the weight of the body.
Here are many ways through which you can exercise such as walking with high intensity, jogging, swimming, skipping, etc.
How to start exercising? If you have not been active for a long period of time then get started. But wait you should start your workout with low intensity. So first start with walking, And do some dance; it will create fun in your life as well as health.
If you can’t buy exercising equipments or cannot join health club or Gym then plays with your kids. It will all be a fun and will be a good start to a healthy life. If you don’t have time try to do a little, because something is better then nothing.
And the most important thing that you should keep in your mind is that while you keep on exercising you should take balanced diet otherwise you will not get achieve the perfect result of your exercise.
Sweet Dreams
November 13, 2008 by Admin
Filed under Fitness, Health Misc., Meditation
What is sleep? Sleep is a mental relaxing condition in which one become nearly inactive and unaware of what is happening near him/her. It is actually a partial aloofness from the world. While sleeping most of the external stimuli are blocked from the senses. It has been observed that brain is active even while sleeping. Human brain does never reduce inactivity.
There are two kinds of sleep:
1. NREM (Non-rapid eye movement):
Our body starts sleep cycle. There are various stages in sleep cycles. And NREM includes first four stages of this cycle. In first two stages sleep is very light and one can be awakened with ease and the contraction of his/her body muscle can be seen but in the next two stages (3rd and 4th) person enter in deep sleep and in this condition it is very difficult to awake him/her . In these last two stages of NREM eye-movement and the contraction of muscle cannot be seen.
2. REM (Rapid Eye Movement):
REM includes the fifth stage of the life cycle. Person enters in this stage usually after 90 minutes of the sleep. In this stage one start dreaming and rapid eye movement starts. And you cannot see any other muscle moving.
And this cycle of NREM and REM keep on repeating while person is sleeping.
Why do we need sleep? Most of the people consider sleep as useless but, as a matter of fact, it is not. It is very important to sleep because it enables the mind and body to revitalize, regain strength and restore. Sleeping perform the housekeeping task such as regulate long-term memory, putting together new information and repairing and regenerating tissues. Sleep let one to arrange his past, present and future actions and thoughts. It is very important for the emotional and person’s physical well being. People who do not care for sleeping cannot perform even very easy task rightly.
Sleeplessness causes laziness and fatigue. It has been observed that people who do not take enough sleep suffer from depression and the feel loneliness. Sleeplessness can cause mood swings and due to these factors one can get far from his/her family and friends. So sleeplessness can affect the socializing of any person. If one take very healthy diet and exercise but do not care for the his/her sleep will not ever get physically and mentally fit.
How much sleeps do one need? It is very important factor to know. It is been recommended by the doctors that one should take 6-8 hours sleep. Especially for the growing children it has been suggested that they should take maximum and minimum 8 hours of sleep because it help in the growth of one’s body. It prevents one from drowsiness and keeps one’s mind fresh.
Now, here we come to the sleep disorders. Sleep disorders (somnipathy) is actually a medical disorder of sleep patterns. And there are different kinds of sleep disorders which leaves great impact on the health of the person.
- Night Terror:
2. Wake syndrome
3. Parasomnias
4. Bruxism
5. Delayed sleep phase syndrome
6. Sleep paralysis
7. Sleepwalking
8. Rapid Eye Movement behavior Disorder
9. Restless legs Syndrome
10. Hyperpnoea
How these disorders can be treated? There are four kinds of treatments for the sleep disorders.
Behavioral/ psychototherspeutic treatments
Medications
Rehabilitation/Management
Other Somatic treatments
To cure some sleep disturbances meditation and somatic treatments will do good. But some disorders like narcolepsy can be treated by pharmacology. But some like chronic and primary disorders would be more easily cured by behavioral interventions. But for some acute sleeping disorders special equipments will be required.


