Static exercise and its therapeutic effect

This blog is an extension of the blog on the power of static exercises. In the modern days, many people approach yoga for its powerful therapeutic benefits. Yoga cures almost all the modern lifestyle diseases like diabetes, arthritis, back pain & migraine etc. Predominantly for most of the lifestyle diseases, the source of the problem stays at the mental or/and emotional dimensions. Yoga has the ability to bring balance to both the mental and emotional faculties.

The therapeutic effect is due to the role that yoga plays in the physiological as well as the psychics of the practitioner.

Physiological aspects:  To get the maximum therapeutic benefits, one needs to consider the three main aspects of the static exercises in the physiological plane. These are

·         Each posture has the effect of pooling the blood to certain parts of the body. Say, for example in the bow posture, the blood pools to the abdomen. The practitioner should be aware of the posture as well as the energy centring point corresponding to the posture.

·         The awareness of the body sensation at the energy centre point. The therapeutic effect is proportional to the level of this awareness.

·         Nice oxygenation by means of deep breathing. The oxygenated blood moves naturally to the part where the blood pools in and it rejuvenates the particular internal organs.

The keywords for these three aspects are Circulation, attention & oxygenation respectively. As a process, the effected internal organs get revitalised by means of nice oxygenation and the posture aids in pooling the blood to that particular body part and the attention plays a crucial role in feeling the sensation of the body.

Psychic aspects: At a deeper level, we are just a form of energy even though we appear to have a solid body at the gross level. The internal organ functionality is affected mainly due to the blockage of such life force. There should be a clean flow of energy throughout all the parts of the body to keep our health at the optimal level. The strength of the attention faculty plays a major role in opening up the energy channel in the blocked area.

So, we need to train ourselves into a state of expanded level of awareness or a simply a meditative state in the static posture to get the maximum therapeutic benefit.

Considering the above physical as well as the psychic aspects of the static postures, it has become quite recognizable that the attention plays a crucial role in getting a quick result. This is just one simple reason which explains why that some practitioners get the results so quickly while others struggle to achieve the desired result.

Now, I ask you a simple question. In case, if you are not getting the desired result then ask yourself where you miss the link in the above said four aspects while practicing static exercises?