Yoga And Its Benefits

The aim of any true spiritual path is to raise our consciousness to allow us to directly perceive the spiritual dimension. However, we cannot benefit from yoga if we do not engage in its practice on a regular basis. Hypnosis has proven to be extremely helpful in keeping us motivated for any form of exercise, including yoga.

The aim of any true spiritual path is to raise our consciousness to allow us to directly perceive the spiritual dimension. Being spiritual means to recognize one’s own spirituality and practically see the transcendental essence of all others. It also means to see that we are all connected to God and to respect each other in that regard. That is one of the objectives of Yoga. But how can we be convinced that there even is a God?

This comes through a reawakening of our higher consciousness and the perception of our spiritual identity. It is through the practice of yoga and the pathway of Sanatana-dharma that we can reach this higher consciousness and understand exactly who we are. The Yoga-sutras of Patanjali comprise the essence of yoga practice. However, yoga itself is a deep and serious discipline, and there are multiple types of yoga that can be performed. There are four main types of yoga with varying yoga positions. There is:

Jnana-yoga is the pathway of intellectual development and understanding the nature of reality.

Karma-yoga is the pathway of right action, detachment from the fruits of one’s labor, and dedicating our activities to a higher, spiritual purpose. Raja-yoga or Astanga is the pathway of inward meditation and the achievement of higher states of consciousness through various practices. Bhakti-yoga is the pathway of raising consciousness, and developing our love and devotion for God and decreasing our attraction for aspects of the temporary material world.

There are additional types of yoga, but they are usually considered branches of these four pathways.

However, in the earliest stages, yoga is, essentially, for controlling the flickering nature of the mind, and for developing one’s finer qualities and expanding one’s consciousness from material to spiritual consciousness. It is taught that Yoga is the process of calming the activities of the mind, which include memory, imagination, sleep, perceived knowledge, and misconception. When these are stabilized, then it is called yoga, which provides the opportunity for the seer to become established in his own essential and fundamental nature. Yoga is the attempt to realign our individual Selves with the Supreme Self, God.

When you progress in yoga you can feel the undesirable burdens of the mind melt away, such as discontent, anger, hate, greed, anxiety, envy, etc. Then other qualities like blissfulness, contentment, peacefulness, and tranquility will be experienced. These are qualities sought by all and are some of the many things that can be accomplished with yoga, at least on the elementary level. As you continue to progress, you may enter into the deeper levels of awareness and transcending the mind and eventually progress so far as to realize your own spiritual identity and what your relationship is with the Absolute. Becoming free from material life and regaining one’s spiritual identity is the aim of all types of yoga.

But despite all of these benefits, many people find it quite difficult to follow this path. This is only because they lack the motivation to exercise. Once you start practicing Yoga on a regular basis, it will itself keep you motivated. The benefit of motivation from Yoga practice is what makes Yoga unique among health maintenance systems. Yoga can become a part of your everyday life because there is no pain or discomfort involved.

Why do so many diets fail? Why do so many exercisers quit? Lack of motivation is the reason for diet and exercise failure. People already know they ought to eat better, drink more water, exercise, and walk more, but they need to maintain their level of motivation without “burning out.”

In Yoga, positive energy is all around the classroom. Positive energy creates exercise motivation and creates moving visions of success. The next step is to believe in the powerful visions of success, which you see. Some people have a fear of success. Maybe they inherently feel a lack of self-worth, but Yoga also works on boosting one’s self-esteem. It is normal for people to feel apprehensive about change, but change is often one of the gateways to success.

So we can say that consistency is essential as far as the benefits of yoga are concerned while we have to take care of the yoga positions. We cannot benefit from yoga if we are not consistent with our routine. If we fail to do so, then it is hard to get the positive results and yoga cannot be blamed for it. To stay motivated, a beneficial technology is motivational hypnosis.

Hypnosis therapy has proven to be extremely helpful in getting and keeping us motivated. Self hypnosis is based on the formula of visual imagery and auto suggestion, and it works on deeper unconscious levels than one can imagine. Motivational hypnosis therapy engages with your unconscious mind, and compels it to positively alter your sense of self-image and self-perception.

Unknown to us, our unconscious is largely responsible for how we think and react; if we train it to think along different lines, your accompanying behaviors will change too. You will feel motivated to understand the incredible potential that lies within all of us, and by using hypnotherapy techniques you can tap into that potential. Through gentle affirmations such as “I can do it” along with positive visual imagery, motivational hypnotherapy can recondition your mind into believing that anything is possible, and nothing is impossible. This simply means that yoga combined with hypnosis can help us to move towards success more quickly.

Alan B. Densky, CH established his hypnotherapy practice in 1978. He offers a wide range of hypnosis CDs for all aspects of self improvement, including hypnotherapy for exercise motivation.

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