Balance Yoga

Quitting Smoking with the ancient discipline of Yoga

To put together Yoga and smoking at the beginning came very hard for me.


I admit I was a great skeptic regarding Yoga, I was a great skeptic regarding many things.



This wouldn't be so hard to believe if you knew my personal history and my family ones. From my grandmother till my relatives all of them are extremely hard and difficult people who always look on everything with a great skepticism and the lack of faith.



Thankfully, I have met many people in my life with different cultures, lifestyles, religions and they have really opened my eyes, I sincerely thank each and all of them.


Without them I probably would have never get out my personal hell, in which I was stuck in, and today my life would be dramatically different.



First time I tried Yoga I was in one of my crisis, so I have decided to try this very new method of exercising, off course at 23:34 pm.


As I said it was one of my crisis and I had virtually no expectations from this method and even I knew that many people were using Yoga daily, I didn't had much faith it will bring me any difference.



So, I put myself on my computer, I opened a Yoga video, that I got from a very delightful Krishna follower, I waited for the beginning and... an hour and a half later I was captured!


I have never felt so good in my life, all my muscles were tense, all my body felt tonic, my mind was clear and I was breathing without tossing for the first time in a long time.



What can I say, I became a believer that was born with a very skeptic mind, and all of my prejudice about Yoga had finally vanished...I was liberated!


In my journey to get to know Yoga I have found many interesting and thrilling aspects of it, many different types of Yoga, a new breathing method.



I have also discovered that Yoga can bring you many benefits in helping you quit smoking, like the capacity to do Pranayama, which is yoga breathing exercise, that helps you bring the life force or prana into your body and it is a worthwhile challenge to undertake from the perspective of Yoga.



As the purpose of Yoga is to set you free from attachments it makes you change your attitude regarding smoking because smoking is not aligned with true nature of Yoga and yours.



I loved Yoga and its techniques because they brought me a lot of other benefits together with quitting smoking.



One of the best techniques I have used is the Kundalini Yoga breathing exercise, which is very helpful in breaking any bad habit.


This technique seems to be an easy and simple technique, but it has one golden rule that says: “never over strain and always build up your capacity slowly over time”.



The benefits you will soon feel are peace and tranquility, increased capacity to deal with anxiety attacks and panic in a much better way, releasing of stress, gives you the power and straight to overcome your addictions and habits, develops your respiratory system and lung capacity, strengthens your nervous system and helps you establish a good lifestyle.



These Yoga techniques gives you a lot more than just help you to quit smoking.


One of the most recommended techniques to develop will power is to use the Kundalini, Yoga's Stretch Pose, because the developing of the will power helps you greatly to break your habits.



Mindset is the answer and so...Will power is the answer.



Adding to the will power the consciousness, we are ready to begin our life without all the nasty habits or addictions that has kept us slaves for so long.


When ever you feel that you are dropping down and falling back it is crucial that you become aware of all that is going on inside of you, all the thoughts, feelings, actions.



Realizing what is going on is enough to break up the pattern that was set in yourself, your mind and your body long time ago, and doing so it will fade away.



Yoga is an art of self realization.



These techniques are very effective to train your subconscious mind and give you a new positive way of life.



To explore these very interesting techniques can take you a while, but this give you a new awareness and straight to overcome all the fears, stress and bad habits that have run your life for long enough.



Practicing Yoga, you will benefit in so many fields of your life, from your personal growth to becoming a healthy free person.



We were born to be free!



Choose freedom...



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