I. VIDEO
QUESTION: After watching Bruce Lipton's video, explain what are the main advantages of doing yoga.
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II.
AREAS OF STUDY
Body Work: working the body to affect our global functioning. It has different components:
Physical Postures
Stretching Exercises
Movement Exercises
Breathing Techniques
Relaxation Techniques
QUESTION: Which of the above areas of body work do you think you are most familiar with. Explain.
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III.
Important Terms
Self Regulation: Our ability to control our internal stress response and our emotional response. This is reflected as resilience to stress and equanimity in the face of emotions, which lead to psychological self-efficacy.
Cultivation of Mind-Body Awareness: The sense of feeling and experience what is going on with the body and to experience what is going on mentally. It is to be able to observe the flow of thought. This cultivation of mind-body awareness leads to an increased mindfulness which can change behaviors in a very positive way.
Experiencing Deeper States: These are transcendent states, even if for a short term; these are experiences you get through meditation that can be transformative to people, as they bring them to positive goals in life that improve and enhance life meaning and purpose.
QUESTION: How do you plan to actively embrace the terms explained above?
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IV.
Summary
The most important scientific principle on which yoga is based is prana
with space. We need to create that space in the body; we need to create
that space in the mind.
When one's mind in clogged with thoughts they need to be removed through meditation. Similarly, in the body, when one is doing asanas, we stretch the body to create that much needed space, which is equivalent to inter-cellular space.
When space is made, prana flows, when there is prana, there is wellness. Thus, yoga establishes connections in the body that move energy and information through channels called nati.
This energy and information is called prana and chita. The psycho-physiological effect to the practice enables people to manage their stress response.
Breath is the most available tool one has to control stress response and it can happen with every breath one takes allowing one to fully expand one's lungs. This reduces blood pressure which is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, which is a messenger of the stress response.
As one goes from one posture to another, one creates challenge that our mind has to constantly deal with, which makes one to active the pre-frontal cortex to redirect attention, one regulates one's breathing, which reflects on the sympathetic nervous system and life in general.
Therefore, yoga allows one to control the mind. The more control of the mind one has the more power one has to control one's physiology, where one is in the world, and how one connects to the world, which happens through the nervous system.
When one's mind in clogged with thoughts they need to be removed through meditation. Similarly, in the body, when one is doing asanas, we stretch the body to create that much needed space, which is equivalent to inter-cellular space.
When space is made, prana flows, when there is prana, there is wellness. Thus, yoga establishes connections in the body that move energy and information through channels called nati.
This energy and information is called prana and chita. The psycho-physiological effect to the practice enables people to manage their stress response.
Breath is the most available tool one has to control stress response and it can happen with every breath one takes allowing one to fully expand one's lungs. This reduces blood pressure which is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, which is a messenger of the stress response.
As one goes from one posture to another, one creates challenge that our mind has to constantly deal with, which makes one to active the pre-frontal cortex to redirect attention, one regulates one's breathing, which reflects on the sympathetic nervous system and life in general.
Therefore, yoga allows one to control the mind. The more control of the mind one has the more power one has to control one's physiology, where one is in the world, and how one connects to the world, which happens through the nervous system.
QUESTION: Based on what is expressed in the video, the summary above, and your own experience, write a paragraph in which you explain how stretching affects the mind-body connection.
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LINK: The Mythology Behind Vrikshasana
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