Health (as we understand) can be...

- The food that we eat: our dietetic habits.

- Physical training. Aerobic exercises practiced regularly.

- Enough rest: when we sleep our body produces fresh life energy and does regenerate.

- The attitude of our mind: our acceptance of others and ourselves, happiness, contentment, silence and peace.

- The body balance reflected in our body symmetry: our internal and external beauty.

Health mainly is the result of our life style and our relation with environment, that is why our health depends a lot on us.

What is health for yoga?

If health is the result of our life habits: the food we eat, the physical exercise we do and the rest we give to ourselves, then most of the diseases that afflict human being are caused by our everyday actions.

It may be heatlh the more valuable belonging that a person has. Great part of our life worries will be around and about our state of health.

For many people happiness is having an acceptably good health.

Human beings take too long time in realizing the influence of his life habits and his actions in the organism.

Normally during the childhood and youth we acquired a style, a way of living that is difficult to modify in the rest of our life. A percentage from the illness that a person suffers is originated from those habits maintained along the years. Even if we are being conscious of its wrong influence in us we sometimes are incapable of changing it.

But in a specific moment in life all the people search sincerely improving their style of life.

Yoga is only a valid instrument of improvement in two determined situations: on one hand has a preventive character, that is to say, teach us how live more healthily; and on the other hand presents a corrective character, so that allows us to try the change of that erroneous habits.

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