Main Features of Yoga TherapyThe world is actually suffering from over-drugging. Can man escape drugs? Yoga can prove to be a great savior of mankind if its practice is popularized in the length and breadth of the world, because yoga has the capacity to keep the body free from most types of sickness and thus to make the unnecessary use of drugs. It is easy to find thousands of allopathic doctors themselves who have lost faith in allopathic drugs. Yoga not only advises to avoid drugs but it also helps an individual to get rid of drugs. Another plus point of yoga is that it operates not only on the physical level but also on the mental and spiritual planes. So far as the malfunctioning of glands is concerned, no medical system has really achieved any breakthrough. Here also, it is yoga which can restore the normal functioning of glands by corrective yogic practices. At the same time it is the best preventive system, the regular practitioner of which can escape the agony of illness. This system comprises three types of activities or exercises: the yogasanas, the mudras and the pranayama. While the yogasanas invigorate our internal organs, the mudras ensure healthy functioning of the glands and the pranayama, besides purifying our blood, soothens our nervous system. So, this trinity of yoga system is capable of restoring and ensuring normal health for us without the necessity of drugs. |