The Spiritual Health

This type of routine is planned for beginners. It is basically for the person who is planning to start simple practice to build strength and flexibility. It also helps in promoting weight loss.

Now say ‘NO’ to your straining eyes with yoga exercises and look fresh and younger.

You are happy when you get work in a reputed company… you are happy that you are working on the latest of technology. You regularly work for hours on your laptop or personal computers for hours to complete a task or two to meet the deadlines or even dating online, playing computer games etc. And already have chances of having eyeglasses… Does the antiglare specs really do wonder to your eye strain?

In such a lost state of minds, you tend to gaze at the computer screen for hours… you can’t afford to divert your attention from the task and the hence from the lit screen of your computer. Computer screen radiate despite low intensities or calibrations. Alike your arms and fingers, neck and shoulders, your eyes too get tired due to constant look intently towards the screen and the keyboards.

This is common with the employees of the IT companies or editors or accountants and writers who work for hours staring at the computer screen. Though the technology is getting advanced day by day, the scientists yet haven’t found concrete solution to this problem. Even with high quality and costly LCD screens emitting low light, does not solve the problems of itchy eyes.

Symptoms of eye strain:

1. You feel tired and so the eyes due to continuous gazing at the screen
2. Skin starts developing dark circles under the eyes
3. Due to strain you get red and itchy eyes.

You are beauty conscious or not, it is your prime duty to maintain your health and your eyes too.

And we are sure you will do it when it comes to you free of cost. It is human.

The following Yoga will certainly benefit you:

1. Just be seated up-straight on the chair or where you are already sitting.
2. Relax for two minutes
3. Now rub your two palms together. This will generate heat and warm up your palms. Do not wash your face.
4. Close your eyes now or you can even close your eyes while you are rubbing the palms.
5. Now cup your eyes with these palms and count 10 breathing deep in and out.
6. Repeat as necessary

Also you can be seated as you are… and now look straight for a few seconds, relaxed. Then to your right and then to left… now up to the ceiling and then on to floor…

Slowly move your eye balls like this… and repeat. This will provide the much needed exercise to your strained eye balls and relax.

We are sure, this article on healing your ailing arms due to computer stress with exercises for arms, fingers and wrists. In our previous yoga article, we stressed on the yoga for puffed up abs due to stress by working on computers.

While you work on keyboards and mice in a computer environment at home or office, the foremost parts of your body that worn out first or affected the most are arms, fingers, and wrists.

Both of your wrists and arms are almost hanging and rarely rested on the desk or arm rest of the chair you sit. Due to continual typing on key board and odd resting of the wrists of both the arms are injured internally due to stiffening of the carpel tunnel and thus start paining.

The straining of your fingers is called keyboard strain.

Though common exercises for arms like stretching, pushups can strengthen your knuckles and arms, yoga for arms can tone your arms from within.

• One of the best yoga for keyboard strain involves the steps as below:

1. Sit straight on the chair you are already sitting in front of your computer or just put your laptop aside.
2. Now bring your hands in front of you and interlace your fingers of both the arms.
3. Maintaining this, now push your left palm with right one. Apply bit of pressure with palm and interlaced fingers.
4. Hold the arms for the count of ten and breathe in and release slowly.
5. Repeat as required.
6. Relax

Performing this yoga on daily basis can surely do wonders to keep your fingers and wrist intact.

• One of the exercises for arms helpful to cure the computer stress is finger bender. And certainly you can take out 20 seconds daily for it and relaxing fingers, wrist and arms.

1. Sit up straight whether on a chair or on the carpet on the floor.
2. Bring you right arm close to your chest. With left arm bend your right fingers only (no thumb) backwards in right direction. Hold for ten counts with deep breathes.
3. Done with right fingers and arm, it is time for the left ones.
4. Repeat as per the need
5. Relax.

After yoga or arm exercises, it is a must to relax.

Whether you are an IT professional, a graphic designer or just a computer geek who loves to spend a considerable amount of time on your Mac, PC or Laptop, this piece is just for you.

In fact you may find a teaser of articles on our site, all related to your health, healing of the ailing body part due to computer stress.

Begin with yoga for abs; it is important to understand how you can work out on abs especially when you are habitually following a stressed and irregular routine among the computers.

If you heard about gateway to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then you must know that a gateway to everyone’s ailing is through stomach, too.

As you spend more and more time on computers with less or no movement of body, the first thing you may notice is that your abs is getting puffed up. One reason is abs needs no time to get inflated when you are religiously following an irregular routine. All problems start with stomach and when a digestive system is on stake.

To have a flatten tummy or taut abs that look sexy, you need hot yoga.

1. Forget the late nights and irregular schedules of working and diet. Take out 5 min daily without fail as you are done with your computers.
2. Get into comfortable yoga wear. Lie down on your back with hands on the side by your trunk and legs together stretched.
3. Now holding your breaths to count of 10 lift the legs without disturbing your rest body. Support it with arms on placed on the side.
4. You will feel pressure on your inner calf, abs and arms.
5. Now hold slowly go to the start position by lowering the legs and release breath.
6. Repeat it for 5-10 times suiting your requirements.
7. Relax
8. You will certainly start sweating at the abs portion.
9. Follow this regime and you will have a taut abs to flaunt.
10. Your computer stress is removed too.

Positively, you were benefitted from the earlier articles on yoga and computer stress. This piece is all about how can computers make you really worry and stressful with the stiff neck and shoulders that are distressing. The neck pain generates a need an improvement on your working condition, sitting arrangement and primarily your bad posture.

Sitting continuously with an uncomfortable and incorrect posture in front of a computer can cause pain in the neck. You gape for hours at your computer screen with little space to move and time to be flexible. This causes neck pain. This may cost you your job or money.

To solve this health issue of computer stress, yoga has a remedy that shall cure your troubles of neck pain, stiff neck and posture. The following yoga may benefit you:

1. Yoga for a tight shoulder

1. Nothing simple like this. Be seated straight on a mat on the floor.
2. Relax by taking 2-3 deep breathes
3. Now place your each palms on your respective thigh.
4. Now squeeze your both the shoulder blades backwards, together.
5. Repeat it 4-5 times as necessary.
6. Relax.

This yoga shall help you release the tight shoulder leaving you with smile on your face for comfort.

2. Yoga for a stiff neck

Stretching can help you cure your stiff neck. Follow these simple steps of yoga and forget the worries of neck pain. While turning your head sideways,

1. Stretch your neck forward slowly and delicately.
2. Now push it backwards again.

Caution: Do not over do these exercises. Do it with proper care and tenderly.

3. Yoga for a tight shoulder

While you tried for the first yoga for tight shoulders, you may also resort to the steps of exercise for cure a tight shoulder due to computer stress and relax.

1. Stand with 3-4 feet apart from each other.
2. Clutch your both your palms together behind you below your butts
3. Inhale
4. Lift your chest and together squeeze the clasped palms and count to 10
5. Exhale

Tip:  Perform this yoga in much relaxed state of mind as this helps you open up your shoulders and chest muscles. Practice daily before bed time.

He is from the Mars; she from the Venus and then there is the Tantra and Kundalini in between them.

Tantra is finding and realizing harmony between the two in a couple through controlling of the sexual energies or the animal instincts hidden within. Considered to be amalgamation of other yoga, it is yet divisive form of yoga. To the roots of Tantra Yoga lies the purest form of relationship between man and his woman or a woman and her man. Thus becomes very vital for human relationship between couple to search for togetherness all the time though they both are primarily distinct. And if you thought this to be the master key to your grappling relationship or newly formed relationship for success and longevity then it might just be one, but the ultimate secret.

Enjoying togetherness for each moment is the very base of every marital relationship and this is the penultimate Tantra. You may call it respecting each other’s space with valuing your own space first with the surroundings and people around. You may call it ‘connecting’ with each other and others as well. Many times you experience that thousands of people keep on jabbering, but rarely few can connect.

Right! Tantra Yoga is all about getting connected and tuned to each other and everyone for an unknown period of time in future, or may be for the time one will breathe for the last time.

Considered to be the ultimate and holistic form of yoga, it allows one knowing the universe keeping oneself in the perspective. Like the many romantic movies with the happy ending, we all want the tag “they lived happily ever after”.

Do we really put our efforts in achieving this? Do we really try to overcome our shortcomings or ignore it in anyways? Do we ignore our partner like they do? Do we ignore the vices of our partner while we are as it is? Why do we feel the need to bring a change in our partner? These all questions sprout because every human being seeks “importance”. From the romantic Romeo to the heartless Hitler, every one strives to achieve it by some or other means. It becomes more important that everyone is every ready to have ‘importance” but rarely anyone is concerned about giving “importance”. Whether your colleague at work place or your own spouse, how often we give importance to the very “other”? Certainly a very few can do this. This means majority of us are scared of making the other person feel important, while we all constantly feel ignored.

To negate or overcome this feeling and behavior, Tantra Yoga is very helpful. If you are a religious performer of this yoga through various ‘asana’ or positions (even the sex), you can turn the hell into a heaven abode to live in. This is possible because the Tantra Yoga helps you generate the very lacking responsiveness in yourself and your partner or just anyone in your surroundings.

Benefits:

1. Tantra yoga keeps you fit
2. Makes oneself responsive with the spouse and other people
3. Helps you bond with your spouse for better longevity and long married life

You are working continuously on a computer for hours. This is means you are in one posture for this amount of time. As an educated person, you sit straight with a good posture in the beginning that is quite okay for a sitting condition in front of computer or laptop.

With the time, slowly you slouch forward making a curve in the lumbar spine. This causes you a back pain due to excessive bending forward and disturbing the natural structuring of your spine. This is due to computer stress.  Bending forward makes your lower back pay more loads on itself and thus you may find the growing of extra fat sideways that is called Love Handles.

Though called as Love Handles, they are not so lovely or anything thing you would like to love.

A couple of back exercises can certainly you give bit of relief instantly.

1. Yoga for lumbar spine:

1. Sit down on a mat.
2. Relax by breathing deep in and out a couple of times.
3. Now with hands on your hips, extend your one foot with toes in forward direction.
4. Keep the other foot backwards at a distance behind, toes turned at 45-degrees.
5. Now turn your hips in forward direction. Breathe deep and count 5.
6. Fold them as you exhale
7. Keep your back erect.

viii.  Now inhale and rise.

1. Repeat 4-5 times as necessary
2. Switch sides

2. Tips:

1. Do not use or remove the conventional computer chairs that are causing back pain and thus the computer stress. Replace it with more easy chairs that are hydraulic in making and more cushioned for an improved posture.
2. Do not sit for long on any chair in one posture. Take a break and walk along for 3-4 minutes in the corridor or just do some exercises for your eyes or fingers. Walking a few steps will relax your lumbar spine
3. It shall help restoring your natural restructuring of the spine with more cushioning.
4. This shall ultimately give you relief from back pain and provide you with the comfort of working.

Kundalini yoga is a meditative and physical yoga methodology, made up of a set of systems that involve the use of body, mind and senses to create a help the “mind” and the “body” communicate with each other. Kundalini – a concentrated form of life force or to say “prana”, lies dormant in the body. It is believed to be present in the chakras. It is visualized as a ‘kundalini’which, in Sanskrit, means a “Coiled Serpent”. The role of spine and the endocrine system receive a special consideration in the understanding of yogic awakening in the field of Kundalini yoga. It focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body’s potential for maturation.

The serpent of Kundalini yoga is considered to be female. It is believed that the sperpent coils up about three and a half times, with its mouth engulfing the base of the Sushumna nadi.

In the classical literature of Kashmir Shaivism kundalini is described in three different manifestations. The first of these is as the universal energy or para-kundalini. The second of these is as the energizing function of the body-mind complex or prana-kundalini. The third of these is as consciousness or shakti-kundalini which simultaneously subsumes and intermediates between these two. Ultimately these three forms are the same but understanding these three different forms will help to understand the different manifestations of kundalini.

The Kundalini Yoga eBook we are providing here is a definitive guide to Kundalini Yoga. This book has been written by Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji – Also known as Yogi Bhajan an expert of Kundalini Yoga. The teachings in this ebook on Kundalini Yoga are entirely his gift. We are happy to present you this wonderful collection of guidances in the form of the Kundalini Yoga ebook that we have recieved through Yogiji.

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The flabs on the tummies are something that we all hate, but sadly, in this highly sedentary world, where most of the people have gone push button, we all, without an option are loaded with tummy fats. Abdominal area, is one of the most difficult areas to get the fat off. We have come up with a series of videos that we are going to publish to help you get the best of health. Here is a small video to get you started.

Now internet facility is available everywhere so gain some knowledge about yoga from there. Do a little bit of research both through the net and paying visits to the yoga classes around your residence. Choose the yoga that suits you. The next step is to find a class whose yoga trainer can give you proper and useful guidance in this matter. A good trainer can only teach and guide you proper methods of yoga. When you join any class be sure what to bring to the class and about the sitting arrangement.

While attending the yoga class or practicing yoga make sure you stay away from

• Big meal just prior to the class,
• Drinking water when the class is going on or when the yoga proceedings are going on,
• Wearing socks or shoes when the class is on.

Wearing uncomfortable garments.