What is Asthma?Asthma is an ancient Greek word that means "panting, gasping or short-drawn breath." It is one of the most discomforting of respiratory ailments, known to affect around 5% of the world's adult population and 10% of children. Asthmatics suffer from periodic attacks of breathlessness interspersed with bouts of complete normalcy.When normal people inhale, their air sacs fill up with air like small balloons. In exhalation they deflate...more
Yoga is known to improve health overall, with every aspect of it enhancing something, mind, body, or spirit. But, overall health aside, yoga is becoming known to be particularly helpful for relief from specific diseases. One of these diseases, Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a bit of a medical enigma, with no concrete causes and no concrete cure.The course of MS is unpredictable. The four categories used to classify the clinical course in a person...more
Learning disabilities are a common cause of frustration for children and adults. It is estimated that as high as 15 percent of Americans have some sort of learning disability. By definition, they are defined as the psychological or neurological conditions that influence a person's ability to communicate and learn efficiently.While people who have disorders such as ADHD and autism may very well also possess learning disabilities, these types of disorders don't belong in the learning disability category. Diagnoses that do belong, however, can greatly vary, ranging from reading disorders, such as dyslexia, to disorders that disallow for the comprehension of mathematics, such as dyscalculia.Those who are plagued with learning disabilities are not always of high or low intelligence, though presence on both ends of the spectrum are possible. Likewise, a person born with a learning disability wasn't necessarily born with an inability to learn. Instead, the individual simply possesses a processing impairment, such as an auditory impairment or visual impairment, that makes their ability to learn from routine ways of teaching particularly difficult.While learning disabilities can weaken a...more
From energy drinks to energy bars, energy is something sought by people each day. Everything is made up of energy. Energy is pulsation - a pulsation that moves in a wave-like rhythm flowing up and flowing down. We may think we need to grab for energy outside of us in order to have more energy inside to function. What we really need is to learn how...more
Yoga techniques act as a stress reliever. Yoga techniques help to reduce the stress that rises from our daily activities. Even during vacations people are getting attacked with the outside stressful factors, which can damage a very good vacation period. Vacation stress is somewhat an aggressive expression but it is real and it can cause serious...more
Yoga is the perfect exercise! Anyone can do it, it is easy to learn, requires no specialized equipment, and it is easy on your joints. Yoga combines stretching your muscles and improving your mental condition, along with working out your cardiovascular system. So if you are looking for the perfect exercise, yoga is it!Just what is yoga? It is an ancient discipline, more than 3,000 years old from India. It is designed to bring your body, mind and spirit together. While the exercise is very popular, it is only one component of the whole. Yoga is also a meditation that calms the mind, improves concentration and relaxes the inner person. It is one of the best stress relievers available today.You can practice yoga either by yourself, or with a group. Many gyms and YMCA's have yoga classes. There are several different styles of yoga, ranging from the gentle, slow moving exercise to a very up tempo, aggressive style and everything in between. Yoga practitioners assume the various poses and practice deep breathing exercises. This helps to clear the mind and the same time it exercises the body. By concentrating fully on the exercise and breathing, the troubles just seem to melt...more
Try Yoga Exercises Specially Tailored For ArthriticsLiving with arthritis pain is not something that anyone would like to happen to them, and the need to find arthritis pain relief is on top of most sufferers' minds. It could mean taking a pill,...more
If you're one of the 99% who doesn't meet the latest trend, you may become frustrated with your body. You may want it to be thinner, or for that matter, more robust. You want it to look younger, or more mature. You may want blonde hair instead of...more
Beauty and health are the two sides of the same coin. You cannot possess either in isolation. Indeed a healthy person is naturally beautiful and the reverse is also true. It is a fact that health and beauty go hand in hand. Health is the metabolic...more
Ayurvedic beauty care mostly is Ayurvedic lifestyle itself. However there are some additional usages of ointments and including healthy food items in your diet.Ayurvedic beauty care includes employing techniques for skin care, hair care, eye care,...more
Sirsasana meaning headstand is considered to be one of the most important yoga poses. Sirsasana is known as "the queen of poses", and the reason relates to the effect it has on the brain and mind. The inversion of this pose causes increased and...more
With yoga being as popular as it is there should be no surprise that there are many different yoga exercise styles. Some of today's yoga exercise styles have been around for hundreds of years while other yoga exercise styles have been created and...more