| The Yoga system of wellness is a culture that's been | | | | prolongation of lifespan), but to build up his own latent |
| used by the yogis in India for 1000s of years. It has | | | | abilities, physical, mental, and spiritual, to their fullest |
| roots hidden deep in the past, but its message is | | | | possible extent. |
| addressed no less surely to the people nowadays, | | | | The lifespan of the ordinary individual, and by that I |
| living in the ungratified atmosphere of the | | | | mean the majority, is a biological span that he inherits |
| contemporary world. Yoga lays emphasis on physical | | | | from his parents and grandparents, but numerous |
| and mental balance and brings about a calmness of | | | | people, by paying insufficient attention to the basic |
| spirit that's most advantageous to the entire nervous | | | | principles of living, literally fail to get the most out of life, |
| system. It educates the pupil in the fundamental | | | | and expire before the closing of their genetic life span. |
| principles of wellness, and produces a genuine placidity | | | | Yoga, will demonstrate how the longest lifespan can |
| of nature that allows for large intensity of activity of | | | | be achieved. Yoga builds staying power, not strength, |
| both mind and body, when such activity is needed. The | | | | and asks for temperance in eating, drinking of alcoholic |
| question is whether the Western world requires Yoga | | | | beverages, and particularly in smoking, and most |
| and is prepared to attach to it the significance the East | | | | importantly calls for a happily balanced state of mind. |
| attaches. | | | | Statistics reveal that long-lasting folks are those of |
| The Westerner must acknowledge that the | | | | contented mind, because the mind doesn't grow old |
| contemporary world is one of unrest and nervous | | | | with the physical structure if the correct precautions |
| tension. Does he get along satisfactorily or does he | | | | are adopted and if the blood supply to the brain is |
| merely 'muddle through'? Lifetime expectancy has | | | | maintained. |
| certainly risen in the last 100 years, but this hasn't been | | | | This is common knowledge to all doctors, and the |
| due to an inherent growth of resistance to disease, | | | | Yoga system of rules allows for this and has |
| merely rather to the growth in medical knowledge. One | | | | exercises for keeping the brain provided with blood. |
| million weeks of working people's time are lost annually | | | | There's nothing strange or unnatural in this. In the dim |
| because of nervous disorders alone. The call for Yoga | | | | and distant past, when the progenitor of man trotted |
| therapy, which deals so thoroughly with nerves and | | | | about employing his hands as supports, very much like |
| their consequences, is therefore considered to be very | | | | apes do, his head was lower than his heart, and |
| real, for ill-nourished and uncontrolled nerves sap the | | | | gravitational force sent the blood speeding to the brain |
| energy of a country, and impact its physical condition | | | | with comfortable ease, and kept it fit and responsive |
| and its intellectual mindset. Yoga isn't preached to | | | | during the process of evolution. Walking upright, as we |
| teach the Western metropolis inhabitant the Indian | | | | do now, gravity doesn't transport this blood to the brain, |
| rope-trick or any additional abnormal practice (and | | | | and the heart pumps up a reduced amount through |
| among these fake ideas must be included the | | | | the carotid arteries. |
| employment of Yoga to bring about indefinite | | | | |