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To keep us healthy and to keep us away from all health related issues mainly stress.
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People may practise yoga for remedies for body pain, relief from stress, peace of mind, attaining divine connection, weight loss, fitnese, active and healthy mind and body. Yoga increases life span and immunity is increased for attaining a long life. Yoga cure many diseases related to high blood pressure,...
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People may practise yoga for remedies for body pain, relief from stress, peace of mind, attaining divine connection, weight loss, fitnese, active and healthy mind and body. Yoga increases life span and immunity is increased for attaining a long life. Yoga cure many diseases related to high blood pressure, high sugar, heart diseases, PCOD, depression, anxiety, thyroid, etc. read less
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People practice yoga thinking it is a solution to everything . And it can be true if you practice it for a long time consistently. But only yoga can't change your life. If you don't change your habits and thought process. For example : you do yoga in the morning then keep lying on bed for many hours...
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People practice yoga thinking it is a solution to everything . And it can be true if you practice it for a long time consistently. But only yoga can't change your life. If you don't change your habits and thought process. For example : you do yoga in the morning then keep lying on bed for many hours then your mind and body is going to be full of tamas i.e. laziness. And laziness is the root cause of all the problems. read less
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People practice yoga to get rid of diseases and mental ailments and also to prevent all those diseases. Yoga also helps you to live a more organised and peaceful life.
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People practice yoga for health benefits like general fitness like weight reduction, arthritis, allergy, Diabetes,BP etc and peace of mind .Very few for spiritual sadhana.
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These days people generally follow sedentary lifestyle, have stress or anxiety and other disorders because of there fast moving lifestyle, so yoga is best to maintain your overall health.
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People practising yoga because they realised that it's the way to health and moksha.
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