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Relaxation:

Relaxation is not as simple as it sounds! It involves mind and body both. It helps in all walks of life! But what does it mean what we have to do to achieve that?

Is it really as simple as going down to a beach and having bath and some change in physical activities? Or is it adventurous like going to mountain and trekking? Is it like sleeping till noon?

All these may be a parts of your relaxation program, these activities might give you idea what relaxation can do to our body- mind complex. Still it is not all. We are actually managing health related problem which is free from all commonly known conditions. Irrespective of economic class and country we face this dreadful situation which is so common and can recur though we take proper treatment. 

Mind-body complex is responsible to create a disease or vice a verse. In my practice what I find is when we are running against time in situation like completing some report in a few minutes or achieving sales target in so many days or something like that. This gives tremendous stress on the mind and our normal rhythm gets affected. No doubt stress is essential part of life to keep it moving, just like friction. If friction is not there, movement will not take place! But when stress is overwhelmed the body-mind complex is burdened and show signs of fatigue. It reacts through minor complaints like aches and acidity. When those early signs are ignored we may come across complaints like headache, constipation, disturbance in sleep, etc.

Many a times body is affected due to mental causes it is also termed as psycho-somatic disease.  At this stage both, body and psychology are to be treated with proper care. Otherwise physical problems are not solved correctly. Yoga takes care of mind and body both. Yoga helps to relax mind and vitalize body.

Mind loses its normal strength when it is entangled in various afflictions[1] like wants and greed. Our varied interests and daily routine do not match and produce lot of irregularities in natural rhythm of the body which over period of time turn in to toxins. Some changes at physiological level bring about changes in behavior pattern and body functions. So we need remedy which act on both the levels.

This needs further elaboration. Ashtanga Yoga explained by Sage Patanjali will give us knowledge about controlling mind. This will take us to unravel the technique to attend difficult and recurring problems like constipation.

In next we will elaborate on how yoga helps mind to have its balance back....

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[1]  Right knowledge, indiscrimination, inference, verbal delusion, sleep and memory – Patanjali Yogasutras