The Five Principles of Yoga

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THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF YOGA

Release the tension in your muscles, letting go of fears and worries and put your entire body at rest. Revitalize your nervous system and achieve inner peace, refreshed and rejuvenated. This relaxed, centered feeling, manifest into all of our activities, helps conserve our energy. This is Proper Relaxation. The physical body is meant to move and exercise. Postures work on all parts of the body, stretching and toning muscles, enhancing the flexibility and strength of the spine and improving circulation. The body is a vehicle for the soul on its journey towards perfection. Postures develop not only the body but broaden the mental and spiritual capacities. Movement is guided by breath; breath and body are one. This is Proper Exercise. Breath full, deep, slow and rhythmically, making use of all the parts of your lungs to increase your oxygen intake. Regulate the length, depth and duration of your breathing, retaining the air within your lungs before exhaling. Breathing recharges the body and regulates the flow of the life force. Control of the subtle energy within the vital breath leads to control of the mind. This is Proper Breathing. What we eat directly affects our body and our mind. Food nourishes the body, increases mental efficiency and opens spiritual awareness. Food intake should be well balanced, based on natural, energy dense foods and eaten in moderation. Eating a diet rich in milk, cheese, beans, nuts and vegetables, devoid of flesh, keeps the body light, the nervous system energized, the immune system strong and the mind calm. This is Proper Diet. Positive thinking and meditation remove negative thoughts and contribute to vibrant health and a joyful mind. To achieve lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, turning our concentration inward upon the self, we can deepen our connection with the greater consciousness. When the surface of the lake is still, you can see the bottom very clearly. When the mind is very still, with no thoughts or desires, you can see the self. This is called yoga. This is Proper Meditation.

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New Age meditations are often influenced by Eastern philosophy and mysticism such as Yoga, Hinduism and Buddhism, yet may contain some degree of Western influence. In the west meditation found its mainstream roots through the hippie- counterculture social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s when many of the youth of the day rebelled against traditional belief systems. [26]

[edit] Sikhism Main article: Nām Japō

In Sikhism, the practices of simran and Nām Japō encourage quiet meditation. This is focusing one's attention on the attributes of God. Sikhs believe that there are 10 'gates' to the body; 'gates' is another word for 'chakras' or energy centres. The top most energy level is the called the tenth gate or dasam dwar. It is said[attribution needed] that when one reaches this stage through continuous practice meditation becomes a habit that continues whilst walking, talking, eating, awake and even sleeping. There is a distinct taste or flavour when a meditator reaches this lofty stage of meditation, as one experiences absolute peace and tranquility inside and outside the body.

Followers of the Sikh religion also believe that love comes through meditation on the lord's name since meditation only conjures up positive emotions in oneself which are portrayed through our actions. The first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev Ji preached the equality of all humankind and stressed the importance of living a householder's life instead of wandering around jungles meditating, the latter of which being a popular practice at the time. The Guru preached that we can obtain liberation from life and death by living a totally normal family life and by spreading love amongst every human being regardless of religion.

Taoism includes a number of meditative and contemplative traditions. Originally said to have their principles described in the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu and Tao Tsang among other texts; the multitude of schools relating to Qigong, Neigong, Daoyin and Zhan zhuang are a large, diverse array of breath training practises in aid of meditation with much influence from later Chinese Buddhism and with much influence on traditional Chinese medicine and the Chinese as well as some Japanese martial arts. The Chinese martial art T'ai Chi Ch'uan is named after the well-known focus for Taoist and Neo-Confucian meditation, the T'ai Chi T'u, and is often referred to as "meditation in motion".

Often Taoist Internal martial arts, especially Tai Chi Chuan are thought of as moving meditation. A common phrase being, "movement in stillness" referring to energetic movement in passive Qigong and seated Taoist meditation; with the converse being "stillness in movement", a state of mental calm and meditation in the tai chi form.