2022 is the year as we bid adieu; the year to arrive brings hope of joy, good life, and new dreams.
This year is going to be a past, so learn from it, and the year to come is your future. So, make resolutions to get the best of life in the year 2023.
The resolution gives us the belief that the best is yet to come, this new year.
So, why not make yoga this time a ‘New Year’s Resolution’.
It will give you a ‘New Year 2023’ and a new you with a fresh start. And nothing is best to give your health a touch of wellness than yoga.
Note:
Don’t make yoga a resolution, without an action plan.
Advice:
The secret to the success of your ‘New Year Resolution’ is right in your hand.
You should give yourself at least 5 reasons to make yoga one of your ‘New Year Resolutions’.
Why?
The 5 reasons will play as an anecdote to help you continue motivating yourself the entire 2023 to not quit yoga.
Yoga:
What is yoga?
Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Yuj’. In Sanskrit ‘Yuj’ means to unite. Therefore, the main purpose of yoga is to unite your body, mind and soul in harmony.
Yoga was recorded 5000 years ago in ancient India, known as Bharat. Yoga or yogic practices finds its root in Hinduism.
In Hindu spiritual practices, yoga is foremost and necessary for the soul to alleviate to higher consciousness.
Yoga consists of breathing techniques, breathing control, meditation techniques, practicing body postures, mastering different poses, rigorously following different asanas, and a way to attain complete harmony.
Yoga is today practiced worldwide as a therapy, healthcare, fitness program, and relaxation.
Acceptance of Yoga in the Modern World:
Yoga is not only followed in India, it is today flourishing in the West and European Nations.
Many masters of yoga from India, went to America and Europe to teach yoga, and in the 21st century, it became an integral part of their life.
21st June every year is celebrated as World Yoga Day.
The United Nations declared 21st June as ‘World Yoga Day’, after recommendations by India, under the leadership of current Indian Prime Minister – Narendra Modi.
11th December 2014 was the day when yoga got an official acceptance on the international platform of ‘The United Nations’.
Benefits of Yoga:
1. Yoga is great for maintaining the flexibility of the body and improving the strength of muscles
2. Yoga helps to attain balance and harmony of mind, body, and soul
3. Yoga is great for eradicating body pains, giving relief in muscle spasms, and reducing back pain or sore muscles
4. Yoga showed great positivity in giving relief to arthritis patients
5. Yoga is a must for maintaining a healthy heart
6. Yoga is great for relaxing of tired body and brain
7. Yoga treats insomnia effectively and aids in good sleep
8. Yoga balances hormones, and efficiently aids in the secretion of glands
9. Yoga gives fitness, perfect shape to the body, and enhances the beauty
10. Yoga can be effective in the quick healing of your body and recovery from bad health
11. Yoga is a lifestyle, which promises good health, a fit body, and disease free long life
Now, as we conclude from the above statements; we find yoga is not only valuable, but it has benefits of immense proportions and can change our life for the betterment.
So, opting for yoga classes, yoga courses, online or offline yoga sessions or certified yoga learning or mastering is not a bad idea.
Before we try to inculcate yoga into our life, we must know reasons that can help us stick to the wonders of yoga throughout the ‘New Year 2023’.
Top 5 reasons to make yoga one of your New Year resolutions:
1. Pranayama: One of your first reasons to join yoga should be to learn the amazing technique of ‘pranayama’. The pranayama is basically connected to breathing techniques, control, and experience.
There are different pranayamas, and every pranayama has its own benefits and experience.
Pranayama has deep effects on the body, mind, and soul.
It cleanses your chakras; especially the third eye chakra between your eyebrows.
If you master the pranayama, it will not only keep you stuck to yoga, but it is so interesting that you can go deep into meditation.
2. Different Yogas: Learning a new subject, or new skill set is always challenging, but it becomes boring with time and sometimes the human brain wants to withdraw.
The boredom comes due to the fact that it often lacks to provide newness or new challenges that it used to do a the start.
So, it results in many people not completing the subject or skill set they desired to learn.
Yoga goes through the same rigidity. The reason is, yoga routines are strict, but if you want to make it interesting, challenging, and newness filled then you must explore.
You must learn different yogas. Yogas have many branches, and all branches have great fitness mantras to learn, mystique arts to decode, and yogic powers to achieve
So, any yogi will not suffer from boredom, will not be cursed by monotony, and at least will not get a creative block.
To make Yoga your ‘New Year Resolution’ effective and continuity, you must broaden your perspective and add new yoga poses, or join a new yoga path.
It will not help you to stop abandoning your yoga sessions, but rather make yoga fun and a learning curve every day.
3. Discover Yoga: Discovery of India, is one of the books that everyone must read to know about India. It was authored by the first Indian Prime Minister ‘Jawaharlal Nehru’.
Similarly, you must dig deep into the yoga; and stop restricting yoga to a mat.
To discover yoga, you must read about yoga every day, apart from practicing.
One of the must-read yoga books is ‘The Yoga Sutras and ‘Iyengar’s Light on Yoga.’
Read and learn about different paths of Yoga.
Make meditation a part of your yogic practices.
Introspect on different fundamentals of ‘Yama and Niyama’.
This way your yoga sessions and yoga resolution will get more vibrant colors, light of knowledge and curiosity, or will to learn something new every day.
4. Being Vegan: Challenges make your path difficult, but accepting challenges makes your life interesting.
It is always great to live life on a razor edge; rather than a dull life devoid of any adventure.
Diet transformation is really challenging, difficult, and often funny.
This year why not try being vegan?
It will not only keep you occupied to make your new diet plan a success but also push you to know more about being vegan.
Thus, transforming into a vegan will not only be a fruitful journey but will also make you healthy, more conscious, easy digestion and attain deep yogic practices
5. Start a Blog: Nothing is more engrossing, self-fulfilling, and confident than sharing one’s own experiences and mastery over a subject with the world.
You should make your yoga practice more habit-oriented and goal driven through the medium of blogging.
Start Instagram reels or videos or stories or posts on your yoga learning, poses, techniques, and fun hacks.
You can also start video blogging on popular platforms, teaching simple steps of yoga,
It will not only garner the support of known and unknown people, but you will also start to have a fanbase.
Things will become very interesting, in social media if you can believe and work hard.
Good resolution is hard to come by. So, if you think yoga can be your ‘New Year Resolution’ then just make most of it.
Remember –
Resolution is a resolution.
Put it to work and the law of attraction will do the rest.
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