| What determines how happy and healthy you are? | | | | getting your health stable and then your immune |
| For the most part, it's you. You are in control of all the | | | | system will grow strong, keeping you healthy for as |
| factors that determine how happy and how healthy | | | | long as possible and healing wounds faster. |
| you live. There will be diseases, accidents and things | | | | The main focus for Yoga is healing and not curing. |
| out of our control, but that impacts our lives far less | | | | Yoga will help you look at deeper causes for issues, |
| than the factors that we have control of. People such | | | | instead of simply covering up the problem and moving |
| as physicians, therapists and other third parties can | | | | on. Quite often the causes to these problems occur in |
| help you through major events, but you are responsible | | | | your mind, with the way you live and the way you |
| for your day to day health and happiness. Yoga can | | | | think. This is why it's so important to understand |
| help you build an inner strength that can teach you to | | | | yourself and how you think. Most people will wait until |
| live wisely and create happiness for yourself. | | | | they experience pain or illness and then get medicine |
| If you asked someone on the street what health | | | | to fix the problem. Yoga encourages people to stop |
| means, they would probably say that health means to | | | | the problem before it happens. Take the initiative to |
| not have disease, so the opposite of disease. Yoga | | | | prevent the injury or illness before it happens. You will |
| teaches that health is not just an absence of disease | | | | stay much healthier this way and happier. For example, |
| but also a completely specific state of being, a positive | | | | you may need to have an operation or take |
| state of being. Having a healthy body is not all it takes | | | | medication for a pinched nerve, but if you had only |
| to have health. Yoga says that being connected to | | | | changed the way you spent your time, not sitting at a |
| your social and physical environment is vital. Essentially, | | | | computer or in front of the TV for so many hours |
| being happy is also part of being healthy. | | | | without getting up and moving around, you would have |
| Life is crazy. Everything is constantly moving and | | | | avoided the issue altogether. We are far too passive |
| fluxing. Your health will also go up and down, as does | | | | when it comes to our health and taking the initiative to |
| life. It's harder these days to keep healthy because the | | | | fix these problems before they occur will increase our |
| environment is so toxic. You should expect that your | | | | health. |
| health will eventually take dips, as even something as | | | | Yoga provides a way to happiness and health, we just |
| small as taking a fall and getting a bruise will upset that | | | | have to listen. Everything you need comes from within |
| balance. Your body will react to that bruise and use | | | | yourself. You just need to harness that power and |
| everything it has to heal it. Yoga helps create the best | | | | use it to embrace life in all the different ways it exists. |
| conditions for healing that it can. You work towards | | | | |