You may have heard someone to say that they can’t or can’t relax. And this must have a somewhat pedantic phrase of effect.
For try to really relax: stay five or ten minutes in one position, quiet, trying to observe what is happening in various parts of your body; That done, try to focus on something that can eventually mitigate the fluctuations of the mind, the incessant flow of thoughts-breathing, for example.
Difficult, right?
Well, not so much after you start. This is yoga, or meditation, two things that are actually one, even if someone can associate this “ancient technology Indian to reassure the mind,” as yoga professor Danilo Forghieri says, stretching (the “Stretching” to use the term adopted in California on priscas Eras).
(By way of what the corporate world would call Disclosure, Danilo is a yoga professor of this columnist at Cepeusp, the University of São Paulo Sports Practice Center.)
All yoga postures, the Asanas, some in fact stretching, other twists, other contractions, other equilibrium positions, plus breathing stimuli and so many other internal systems, form no more than a prelude to the catch-up that it is this time for us, stop, stable, quiet, trying to mitigate such fluctuations from the mind.
It is worth it: constant and regular practice can lead you to an increase in mental and eventually cardiovascular health.
“Today we have evidence of benefits from yoga regular practice especially in the field of mental health. It helps to combat depression, anxiety, stress, panic syndrome. But it also helps in treating hypertension and cardiovascular problems,” says Danilo.
It is well known that the regular practice of other physical activities also attacks and possibly prevents these very serious problems, but yoga has perhaps higher pretensions.
Patânjali, the subject to whom the consolidation of the millennial knowledge of yoga is attributed, had made it clear that the main purpose of practice, if I understood well, was to create the conditions so that at some point in our lives we can do nothing, we can do nothing, so that we can get out of such a wheel of suffering (or, go there, affections).
From our perspective, the goal does not seem feasible and, more than that, does not seem desirable. But the long way to this “annihilation of all conditions of existence”, a phrase I read as one of the possible definitions of yoga on a Wikipedia page, involves this work of trying to mitigate, perhaps ceasing, the fluctuations of the mind.
And this work, these regular minutes of practice, will do you more. “In yoga, we focus on mental health, and body health comes from toast,” says Danilo.
As I write this, I hear drivers at an incessantly honking, such as complaining the speed of the front companion, so that they can finally walk 20 or 30 meters and cross the cross – further a cross of perhaps hundreds.
The horn, they know, does not have the ability to change the programming of traffic light.
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