Whatever the case it sits at the top of the head in the cranium and it needs a regular supply of oxygen for optimal functioning, it also needs sugar.
Working from that principle I would say that if we give our brain plenty of oxygen and maybe some healthy sugar, in the form of fruit sugar then it will work better. But maybe that's too simple?
Well why shouldn't it be simple?
It makes me laugh that most people think nothing of taking over the counter medications for all sorts of minor things, i.e. cold remedies, upset stomach remedies, hay fever remedies, etc, ad nausea-um. But if you suggest that something like YOGA may actually help them they look at you as if you have three heads. That is proper brainwashing for you. The next time you go to a chemist look at how many different types of cold symptom relievers there are. Mental!!! But totally accepted as normal.
Is it possible that we have everything we need inside of us to take care of ourselves? It would seem so because if we didn't have chemical receptor sites for these synthetic chemicals they wouldn't work, would they?!
I am not a doctor so maybe I 'should' not mention this stuff, but all I am trying to say here is why is it that yoga should be thought of as something that is a 'bit weird' ?
Anyway I digress. The brain and nervous system controls our body more or less. As I have stated elsewhere the body will respond to fear whether real or imagined by releasing powerful chemicals into the bloodstream, creating a physical reaction to something from the mind. So please don't worry about a thing, ha! easier said than done right? Well no not really, I think that it is actually so simple that we just can't see it. Our minds have become so befuddled with over complicated dramatic interpretations of health and disease that it just can't see the wood for the trees.
The answer is rather simple to me - by breathing deeper we improve the oxygen supply to the brain. By stretching and/or lengthening our muscles we release some of the chronic tension held in the joints and organs. We generally think tension only affects our poor old shoulders or lower back, but chronic tension affects all of the organs of the body.
Well I know it's no big deal we have always had to deal with stress. I mean how stressful must it have been living in the dark ages with no medicines or even in victorian London with poor sanitation etc. Or for that matter being chased by a sabre toothed tiger while we're out picking a few berries.
The difference between now then I think is that possibly we would have burned allot of the tension off through harder physical activities. They had no washing machines, baths or lovely flushing toilets, and life was more physically demanding.
As we sit in front of the telly worrying about the recession or global warming or finding the mortgage money and whatever else there is, those lovely old hormones are coursing through our brains and bodies. The 'sympathetic nervous system and the 'fight or flight response' (google) becomes chronically over active and we find 'we just can't switch off'. Oh dear better pop off to the doctors. But yoga, no way they're all a bit weird. 'I'll stick to my drugs and a few beers I'll be alright, is there any more of that bacon flavoured ice cream dear?'
By breathing and doing some Asana's we will improve brain function and we will wake up. We will wake up and act according to the natural rhythm's of our body/mind. We have an inherent intelligence that is being overpowered everyday by the 'small mind'.
We need more of the para-sympthetic nervous system functions to counter balance the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. We can do that by practising Asana and pranayama.
Oh yes we can!!
Yes .
Ommmmmmmm
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