Why Yoga? ⎢Inspirational Video
of all the things in the world
of all the things that
a human being can do
why yoga
western science is beginning to find
evidence and catch up with a lot of what
this eastern philosophy has known for a
really long time
there’s actually something very powerful
in what’s going on in here
and that’s worth investigating
the more control we have in our mind
the more power we have in our life
yoga has really the capacity to change your brain
the most important thing that i see
in terms of yoga on a physical level is
to establish connections in the body and
the connections come through the
channels in that in our body which
in yoga they call nadis
and what moves through these
channels is energy and information which in yoga
they call prana and chitta
but physically these channels are
blood vessels, nerves,
lymphatic vessels, acupuncture meridians
just to name the main ones
and prana is things like heat,
electromagnetic, electrochemical energy
flooding through the different channels of the body
and also energy carrying molecules like glucose, atp
then of course information or chitta is
the information that might flow through
nerves and also electromagnetic energy that
flows through the body carrying information
and also information-carrying molecules
such as hormones, neurotransmitters, immunotransmitters and so
physically and energetically we have
energy and information flowing through the body
and to enhance the flow of energy
and information through these channels in the body
that’s the most important thing to make
yoga happen in the body
so yoga it strengthens
the power of the mind
and the more control we have in our mind
in a sense of the conscious mind
covering or actually controlling
subconscious programs that take us off track
the more power we have in that mind
the more power we have in our life to control
to control not just our physiology but where we are
in the world
and how we connect with the rest of the world
because it’s all through the nervous
and we’ve been looking at genes as the issue it turns out only one percent of illness is related to genes
percent of illness is related to genes 90 percent
of illness is related to stress and what’s stress
it’s the mind over working in a sense of fear
and just being lost in the world
of so many things going on
and yoga brings it into a focus
breath is the most powerful tool that
everyone has within their reach
to bring their stress response right under their control
yoga is not just a hobby not just
something that you practice on the side
you’re really changing the
activity of neurons in the brain
you’re changing function within the body
at the cellular and even the molecular level
so it’s very exciting and this research
is really exploding at this point in time
so it’s very exciting to see this validation of what
we’ve experienced on the behavioral level
now manifested in the scientific research
today there is substantial
medical and scientific evidence
to show that the very fundamentals
of the activity of your brain your
chemistry
even your genetic content can be changed
by practicing different systems of yoga
this needed no confirmation because
we’ve always witnessed this
but today there is scientific data to prove this
yoga means
moving from compulsiveness to consciousness
yoga is aligning the body to the cosmic geometry
Yoga is the most adventurous thing I’ve done
I’ve traveled to find myself
yoga is not just an idea to build
a fan club in today’s context
not as a philosophy
not as a belief system
not as a religion
but as a science
so this is not an expression of who you are
this is about
determining the nature of you wish to be
changing the fundamental ingredients
which has made you who you are
