| Yoga is basically a tool to keep the body fit and | | | | the different parts of our minds and bodies in perfect |
| prepare the mind for uplift of the spiritual aspect. The | | | | condition (without any replacements). |
| fact is that yoga therapy was never intended as a | | | | But, the fact remains that more often than not we do |
| means to check ailments. It works as a strengthening | | | | not pay adequate attention to many of these critically |
| tool for the entire mind and body. Let's see how it | | | | important portions of our body. We keep them |
| functions: | | | | functioning since the time we take shape within our |
| Our body is like any other machine and needs | | | | mothers' wombs to the day we bid farewell to the |
| overhauling and also rest. The best instance would be | | | | world. But, we rarely initiate the deliberate steps to |
| that of a car. Over stretching or overheating or even | | | | strengthen them or give them the much needed rest. |
| over-cooling of the machine will naturally enough lead | | | | Only when the different functioning parts including the |
| to its breakdown. | | | | brain (mind), each of the internal organs, the external |
| The primary difference is that while the car needs | | | | manifestations called limbs and the joints are |
| external forces to keep it running in smooth condition, | | | | exercised. The sad aspect is that we either |
| we have the power (the mind including the will-power | | | | overstretch them or keep them idle; in other words we |
| and our determination) and the paraphernalia (yoga | | | | take them for granted. In the process, they get either |
| therapy and other exercise procedures) to constantly | | | | over strained or become 'rusted'! |
| tune up our body. | | | | And, that's precisely the time we get afflicted by |
| Yoga is the ultimate tool that encompasses the | | | | various ailments. Yoga therapy is the means to give |
| therapy to refurbish both the power and the | | | | rest to this machine constituted by the body (the |
| paraphernalia. | | | | machine and the outward element) and the mind (akin |
| Another basic difference between the car and our | | | | to the battery and the fuel injection paraphernalia in a |
| selves is that many parts of the former need | | | | car). Yoga therapy exercises even those organs |
| replacements (partial or total) after a certain fixed time | | | | located in the most internal portion within our body and |
| gestation during which these parts are constantly used. | | | | those limbs located in areas we cannot usually reach. |
| However, yoga therapy provides the means to keep | | | | |