Feb 08
Psychological benefits are also to be gained by practicing yoga. Through meditation poses you tap into your subconscious mind and spiritual energies. Meditation quiets the mind and eliminates repeated negative messages by focusing the mind on positive thoughts and images. As you concentrate on total awareness of energy and how it flows through the body, you become aware of how body and mind work together. As you make slow deliberate movements and hold poses, you gain a heightened sense of self-control and self-confidence. The result is being able to meet pessimistic thoughts with a positive outlook, which can undoubtedly be beneficial to anyone.
The physical, emotional and psychological benefits of yoga are unmistakable. Although the practice of yoga dates back hundreds of years, only recently have the many uses in connection with modern day maladies been researched. It is anyone’s guess what the future may hold as far as linking yoga with improved overall health.
Feb 07
When you hear the words “poetry of the body” or “physical art”, you may be surprised to know that these words refer to the practice of yoga. Contrary to what some believe, yoga is more than just a lot of strange poses used to increase flexibility. The benefits of yoga are physical as well as psychological and emotional.
As a person fits a regular yoga routine into their schedule, physical changes begin to occur inside and out. Through a series of poses done regularly, the muscles become strengthened and toned. From the strengthening comes improved balance and posture. The stretching that results from these poses relaxes the muscles, relieves tension, and adds increased flexibility. In addition to releasing molecule-damaging free radicals from the lungs, the deep breathing techniques used in yoga increase the burning of fat cells (oxidation) due to increased oxygen intake. Circulation is improved through out the body and blood alkalinity levels, which are harmful if too high, even out. Clearly yoga does the body good.
In addition, yoga does your emotional state good. Stress is a major contributing factor to problems such as impaired immune system disorders, cancer, herpes, chronic headaches, joint pain and insomnia, to name a few. It is a proven fact that regular exercise can greatly reduce stress levels, and yoga can help. Following a daily yoga routine can also lessen anxiety and depression, which usually go hand in hand with stress. An immediate boost in morale can be gained due to a sense of well-being as a result of doing something good for yourself. Utilizing the relaxation techniques found in yoga can help you sleep better during the night, allowing you to wake up feeling rested and in a generally better state of mind. The benefits to ones mentality are evident.
Feb 06
It was the ancient times when mankind started to decorate body. It has been done for ages
in many different cultures for example tatoos has been already known in ancient Egipt.
At/In many societies body is decorated like it was done many centuries ago. Inhabitants of Sudan or Newzeland_people cover their bodys with colorful patterns or beautiful tatoos.
Many African people are famouse for scars on face and entirebody, which can be call ornaments. Warriors who live in Kenia and Tazmania of Masay people covre their hair with strange mixtures to achieve certain hairdress and color.
Egzamples of decorating body do not have to be looked for in egzotic cultures or past ages, what else is make up done by milions of women in western civilisation.
Why do we decorate our body?
There is a few reasons why people decorate their bodys. First of all it is the way of confirming of membership to particular group. Ihabitants of Arnhema land in the north of Australia during the some of the ceremonies cover their bodys with symbols characterize clan which they come from.
Another thing is some signs and sybmols are supposed to attract opposite sex this kind of persuasion is used by Fulan_tribe from Africa.
Decorating body can be also done to satisfy aestethic needs and way of express likings.
In the western world decorating body is connecting with fashion, ethnographs claims that basic reasons that make us tatoo our bodys are the same as those which make people of other cultures tatoo theirs.
Women who do make up follow those trends which are lately on the top to be more attractive or show their own style, it is a kind of artistic expression. In case of western society decorating body does not contains any ritual aspect.
Jan 24
Exercise is a major important part of children's lives today. Unfortunately, this needed exercise does not occur as much as it should. Computer games are radically transforming the way kids play, reducing their outdoor play and turning them indoors. Children need to exercise to burn off energy and fat and to keep their muscles healthy. If no exercise occurs then the sugars in the children's diets are not burnt off and are stored as fat. This fat builds up and this is why so many kids are overweight.
All of these factors add to children being overweight and/or eating an unhealthy diet. So if children eat a lot of junk foods or fast foods then they have more risk of having health problems later in life or being overweight. Where as a child with a healthy diet will have reduced the heath risk by a significant amount and is more likely to live a healthy old age. Therefore, in my opinion, "you are what you eat."
Jan 22
Twenty or so years ago, children always used to eat a healthy home-cooked meal every night for dinner and maybe occasionally on a Friday night, got a handful of mixed lollies. But today's children are getting fatter, eating fatty greasy foods and exercising less. Children eating habits today are at a crisis.
Fast food is so appealing to children because it is a lot cheaper than healthy foods and far more convenient. Children these days are more likely to choose the fast foods over healthy foods mainly because of the price. Eating greasy, fatty foods while children can lead to extremely serious health problems later in life. Who wants to die at the age 35 from a stroke? I'm sure not too many people would raise their hands. Alarming figures have come from the latest Heart Foundation survey and the results show that 30% of 9-15year olds are overweight and 50% of this same age group have high cholesterol levels. This is mainly due to the way children spend their pocket money, lifestyle changes, and the different roles of play and exercise. These figures can decrease if small changes are made to the eating habits of children. The after-school period can be a dangerous time for hungry children looking for snacks to eat. It is recommended that instead of lollies or sweet treats, simple, healthier foods be eaten. For example, crumpets with cheese, fruit, crispbread with vegemite. Any of these foods can be eaten and they are still quite tasty and will reduce the risks of health problems dramatically.