Simple Health Cures

   Time and again we hear the word yoga. Often people think it is some sort of exercise with funny poses, right? The left leg stretches upwards and the hand goes behind the body to hold the leg, no? But yoga is not just about stretching, maintaining a posture, breathing or even merely a form of exercise. It is much more than just that. It is a spiritual practice but not a religious one that helps you to maintain a fine balance between work and a healthy mind.

   Not to worry, you are not the only one who doubts this. Many people have questioned how something like this could help them to maintain a balance between work and a healthy mind or even establish a healthy, lively and balanced approach to life. And to understand this better and to know how yoga actually works, you need to get a better understanding of what yoga is all about.

   Yoga originates from the language Sanskrit and it means “union” or “merger”. And the essential purpose of it is to achieve a stable balance between the mind and the body and to achieve a stable balance between the mind and the body and to also to achieve self-enlightenment. And to accomplish this, yoga applies movement, breathing, pose, relief and meditation as various means of maintaining a healthy, lively and balanced approach to life.

   Yoga is believed to be a physcial exercise that is the oldest still being practiced. Thus, yoga signifies stability in every area of life. In earlier times, the logic behind yoga practice was to achieve constancy and relaxation so one could get ready for the severity of meditation, thatis, to stay sat still and remain alert for a long period of time. From today’s perspective too, yoga has a cruial role in achieving a fine equilibrium between work and a healthy mind.

   Even though yoga is a systemic philosophical approach, yoga is not a religion, being more about attaining a spiritual balance than any code of beliefs.

   And yoga is not solely about staring at candles and breathing incense or for flexible young people just to lie around relaxing either. Anyone, irrespective of body type, age, experience or physical abilities can practice yoga.

    People have different motivations for eating a vegetarian diet. For many people, it’s a health issue. They need to reduce their weight, bring down their blood pressure and cholesterol, manage their blood sugars. a vegetarian diet helps them do this.

   For others, it’s also moral and ethical decision not to eat animal products. Through the centuries, we’ve became accustomed to thinking of a man as superior to all other animals on the planet. We use animals for food, clothing, shoes, belts or other accessories. We use them for scientific experiments. We discount their place on the earth and consider that animals are here to serve us and our needs.

  PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and is an organization devoted to changing that mindset among humans. They are against using animals for food or for clothing, especially for what they consider the needless or particularly inhumane use of animals, such as killing or trapping them for their fur.

   They are passionate about their cause. In their own words, PETA believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their best interest taken into consideration, regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives, therefore, they are not ours to use, for food, clothing, enterainment, experimentation, or any other reason.

   We are supposedly an evolved society. But how evolved can a society be that thrives on the suffering of animals? In his excellant book, When elephants weep, author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotional lives of animals and presents compelling evidence for it. As a species, we must begin to re-evaluate our place on this earth and where we fit in relation to every other creature that inhabits it. PETA believes this as well and is a passionate advocate for the rights of animals.

   How do you feel spiritually when you eat a meal that contains meat? You’ve probably never given it any thought, but that may because spiritually you feel nothing after eating a meal of meat except tired and sluggish. A diet of meat makes our bodies less functional, and we think of nourishing our bodies in terms of our organs and blood, but we don’t often think about how what  we eat can impact the most important organ in  our body, the brain.

   When you eat a vegetarian diet, you begin to feel physically lighter and fit. When your body is fit, your mind is also lightened. Most culturtes that focus more on spirituality and enlightenment are also vegetarian cultures. From the begining of recorded history we can see that vegetables have been the natural food of human beings. Early Greek and Hebrew myths all spoke of people originally eating fruit. Ancient Egyptian priests never ate meat. Many great Greek philosophers such as Plato, Diogenes, and Socrates all advocated vegetarianism.

   In India, Shakyamuni Buddha empasized the importance of Ahimsa, the principle of not harming any living things. He warned hid disciples not to eat meat, or else other living beings would became frightened of them. Buddha made the following observations, ” Meat eating is just an acquired habit”. In the beginning we were not born with a desire for it a’Flesh eating people cut off their inner seed of great mercy”. “Flesh eating people kill each other and eat each other this life I eat you, and next life you eat me,and it always continues in this way. How can they ever get out of the Three Realms (of Illusion)”?

   Theses are cultures that are considered more enlightened and focused more on spirituality than is Western culture. If we are to evolve into more spiritual beings, then we must begin to manage our physical lives in a way that will enhance our spirituality, and this means taking the path of vegetarianism as a path to enlightenment.