The health benefits of yoga The following are the benefits after practicing yoga. Be patient. Yoga needs time to show its effect. After a few weeks, you will feel calmer and more focused than before. In a few months, the regeneration of organs and glands will begin. First, the increase of vitality, the effect of yoga on the brain and glands. Second, young appearance and mood: Yoga reduces facial wrinkles and produces a natural "face lifting" effect. This is mainly because of handstand. Our usual upright posture urges gravity to pull the muscles down. Over time, facial muscles are expelled from the phenomenon of collapse. Standing upside down for a few minutes every day, we can reverse the effect of gravity and make it a boost to our rejuvenation, so that facial muscles will not relax, it will reduce wrinkles and naturally flatten the skin. Yoga handstand posture can often restore the original color of white hair and delay the discovery of white hair. This is because handstand increases the blood flow to scalp hair follicles. This posture increases the elasticity of muscles, eliminates the pressure of blood vessels and nerves in muscles, and makes more blood flow to scalp muscles. In other words, hair follicles get more nutrition and produce more healthy hair. Third, longevity: Yoga affects all the conditions of longevity: brain, glands, spine and internal organs. Fourth, increase the ability of disease resistance: yoga exercises to strengthen the body and increase immune function. This enhanced resistance can cope with all kinds of serious diseases, from colds to cancer. Fifth, improve vision and hearing: Normal vision and hearing mainly depend on good blood circulation and nerve transmission in eyes and ears. The nerves and blood vessels that supply the eyes and ears must pass through the muscles. With age, muscles lose their elasticity just like other parts of the spine, and nerves and blood vessels may encounter difficulties when passing through the neck. This change hinders the nerve and blood supply of eyes and ears, thus affecting their operation. Yoga posture and yoga neck movement can improve the neck condition, and then strengthen vision and hearing. Sixth, the improvement of mental mood: Because yoga has the effect of rejuvenating the glandular nervous system, including the brain, mental mood will naturally show a positive state. It makes you more confident, enthusiastic and optimistic. Daily life will also become more creative. When you start to feel good, look young, and develop your full potential, these positive mental and emotional States will naturally come out. What general rules should you pay attention to when practicing yoga? After eating a full meal, wait at least three or four hours before practicing yoga posture, and after drinking fluids, practice for fifteen to thirty minutes. However, some yoga postures can also be practiced immediately or soon after eating and drinking, such as yoga meditation sitting posture and less laborious standing posture, without the need to go forward, backward, sideways or upside down. In fact, there are many poses in yoga that can be done quickly after a meal without any harm. Different foods need different digestion time. The size of appetite is also an important factor. Generally speaking, if someone has a moderate appetite and mainly eats fruits, vegetables, grains or starch, you can do most yoga postures after two or three hours when your stomach is no longer full. Don't practice these postures unless you feel uncomfortable. The main point to remember is that when your stomach is still full, you shouldn't do yoga posture upside down or squeeze your stomach. If you eat less dinner, you can do some yoga postures shortly after eating. If it's a big banquet, it's obviously going to take a long time to make these gestures. Everyone should use common sense to judge for themselves. The same applies to drinking all kinds of fluids. If you drink less, just wait for 50 minutes to practice. It takes a long time to practice after drinking too much. Remember, there are many yoga postures that can be done immediately after eating. Before eating, it is the best time to practice yoga postures, especially handstands, which have a squeezing effect on the stomach. At this time, practicing posture will help to stimulate appetite and digestion and eliminate gas in the gastrointestinal tract. Breathe through your nostrils, not your mouth, unless otherwise specified. Unless otherwise specified, each exercise should be completed slowly and clearly. Don't worry, even if you are practicing yoga posture at a faster speed. Before practicing a yoga pose. Let's first see if there is a "warning" behind that skill. If there are six words, you must read them in advance. When practicing posture, you may hear or feel the "click" sound from the joints. Don't worry, it's a sign that your body has become relaxed and soft. If you feel a sharp pain somewhere inside your body during the exercise, stop the exercise immediately. However, sometimes, due to physical stiffness and so on, you should expect some uncomfortable feelings. ; It is best to practice yoga asana in a quiet place with fresh air. Whether indoors or outdoors. You should wear loose clothes. You should also throw away all the clothes that hinder your acrobatic movements. Yoga postures can be done by one person or by a group of people. If possible, go to urinate first, so that the bladder is not loaded before practicing. Unless otherwise specified) when doing most exercises, practitioners should open their eyes, or partially open their eyes. People with serious physical problems should not think that they can practice yoga postures and neglect to seek real treatment. Practitioners should always read the instructions of a posture carefully before trying to practice it, and the most important thing is to follow the instructions carefully.