What actually does the yoga give us? Very interesting answer is given on this question. The yoga doesn't give us anything at all! The yoga in ourselves opens what is already put inside. It was necessary to understand that the yoga can open in us.
The ancient doctrine of yoga says to us that huge forces are hidden in us. It turns out that practice of many types of yoga "only" realizes our potential. And potential on - the truth huge! And, from this point of view, it is possible to list long, than we are helped by yoga.
Physical health
The first what it is possible to begin transfer of the list of the benefits, this physical health with. The Hatha yoga is even called the panacea from the set of diseases. The yoga, really, can become our medicine.
The Hatha yoga can remove many problems concerning human health. The human body gets stronger at regular practice, the weakness leaves, diseases recede or their current passes much more softly.
The positive effect from occupations is obvious. But, at everything at the same time, we remember that yogi never to seek to replace with ourselves medicine. Therefore if we have any disease, then the first whom it is necessary to address, has to be the doctor. It isn't necessary to be mistaken that the yoga can replace medicine. At yoga absolutely other purposes.
Of course, many cases when the medicine was powerless are known while the effect of yoga was very strong and saved the person from his disease. But the wrong understanding shouldn't be. The yoga sets as the purpose self-knowledge, and the medicine treats.
Of course, the physical body at occupations yoga becomes stronger, but only in that necessary quantity that the body didn't interfere with the self-knowledge process. Generally, anyway, the yoga promotes strengthening of physical health.
Mental health
The following that the yoga, this mental health gives. The mentality becomes stronger through impact on the physical body. Process goes from rough to thin. And the mentality of the modern person is often loosened.
If we watch ourselves, then, as a rule, we will be able to see that quite often we behave just not adequately. Actually, already one the fact that you approached understanding of the state, already good result.
That to change something to the best, it is necessary to understand what it is necessary to work with. To the disease state our mentality is led by the life rhythm, stresses and also environmental conditions. We, practicing yoga, through the body we influence mentality. As the known saying, "a sound mind in a sound body" speaks to us.
Mental abilities
What else does the yoga give us? Practicing Hatha yoga, we, oddly enough sounds, we develop the mental abilities. Too interesting situation. We that with you are engaged in exercises at the level of the physical body, and we gain effect on I.Q.
In our understanding the image of the athlete and the image of the intellectual seldom meet in one person. Or "muscleman", or professor of philosophy. In public consciousness it is different things. And here the yoga doesn't agree with it.
In yoga it is considered that if the person gives a lot of time to physical training, at the same time forgetting about need to develop intellectually or, on the contrary, it is completely plunged into development of intellectual skills, and the body from the inactive lifestyle thus suffers diseases, then the obvious distortion is observed here.
These are such painful deviations from "golden mean", from harmony of which it is necessary to get rid. The ideal of yoga can be considered the strong person physically at whom also the intelligence is rather well developed.
It is interesting that the person who practices Hatha yoga gradually tries to obtain strengthening of the mental abilities. How it occurs absolutely not obviously, this mechanism is hidden. But, kind of it was surprising, it is the fact. We can learn about it from antiquity sources and also witness it, observing modern practicians of yoga.
Creative abilities
What else is opened in us by yoga? Here we can speak about "development" if it is so possible to be expressed, creative abilities.
In terms of yoga, here everything is prosy and banal. Just when we "not in shape", we have the shortage of vital forces, we can't support work our nervous system at such level that she was susceptible and as now speak, is creative.
The speech about the simple shortage of energy. When we practice yoga, all our systems are in good condition and we have the prana surplus, presence of free vital forces. And if such surplus is, then the person shows creative rushes.
Superabilities
Also, listing all that the yoga gives us, it is necessary to tell about disclosure of superabilities of the person. In each person there are such abilities which are even difficult for presenting.
What it can be for abilities? For example, thought-reading or ability to treat physical illnesses touch. Such abilities similarly creative, that is with the surplus of vital forces reveal.
In yoga it is considered that these abilities are already put in us, but we don't realize it yet, we aren't able to use them. The person, really, is capable of a lot of things.