Leucorrhea
It is a condition in which a milky white vaginal discharge is experienced in many women. It is due to devitalised and toxic condition of the bodily system. Chronic constipation too adds to this trouble.
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This is a condition in which growth of fluid and swelling takes place in the testicles. Sometimes it is due to some knock at the organ, or then the toxic system.
Its treatment requires tapping of fluid, but that gives temporary relief and is no end to the trouble. Nature-cure is the only alternative.
Now let us come down from the philosophical to the practical. Yoga, as popularly understood, is of the physical body and is very much a technical subject. We have to study the anatomy of the body in relation to the mind in its psychological terms.
The three states of mind, as described in the last paragraph, are the qualities of the mind that influence it. Here, in HATHA YOGA, or yoga in practice, we deal with the three elements of the body, its three main channels, the NADIS, or the nerves, known as the IDA, the PINGALA and the SUSHUMNA.
Yoga, the ancient science of India, has a wide perspective, which includes not only the concept of achieving physical and mental fitness through different yoga exercises, but also establishing a tranquility of mind by their means, so as to realise man’s union with the supreme self, that is attainment of God-consciousness.
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Dhyana Yoga is the concluding stage of the yoga practice of Hatha Yoga. It is the realisation of a mental conception of mind’s union with the Supreme self—a state of God-consciousness.
While the yoga asanas influence your hormonal system and the pranayama controls your ‘prana-shakti’. It is the Dhyana Yoga that lends you the consiousness factor of your spiritual energy, awakening in you the power of intuition (the jiva-shakti).
Pranayama is the exercise of the breath, to bring it under the control of the mind, for physical and mental benefits. The Yoga Shastra describes pranayama as a means to control not only the pranas, but also the chitta, the thought potential.
The importance of yoga and its exercises, the asanas, has increased in the present world of stress and strain. Work-load for man has increased so much that he cannot spare time even for a good walk, much less for a game or a sport.
Sit down, bending your legs at the knees and placing your heals under your hips, such that the toes are brought together. Keeping the amis straight, place your hands on the knees.
Keep this pose as long as convenient. This asana is generally advised to be performed after the meals, when it helps in the digestion of the meals. It also removes fatigue. This can be done while reading even, or to replace padmasana for the practice of pranayama.
Place your left foot on the joint of your right thigh. Place the right foot on the joint of your left thigh, such that both the heals touch each other below the navel. Straighten the back-bone and the neck.
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Before describing the details of yoga asanas and their applications for particular diseases, it seems necessary to equip the seekers with some general directions to be followed in the practice of the asanas.
In practising asanas, one should practise moderation, to make each asana have a light and enjoyable effect. It is being particularly said, because some asanas are hard to begin with.
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