The healing power of YOGA

I started doing yoga about a year ago. My mother, my sister and I had always wanted to join a yoga class. But, due to multiple reasons, we weren't able to do so. Finally, our chance arrived, not on a silver platter, but in the form of a call from a colleague of my mother's, that there was a yoga class near her place. She said that the teacher was a very sweet woman and that she taught,not only yoga, but also aerobics. So, from that day on we have been going to yoga everyday and we haven't regretted it ever since.

Contrary to popular belief, people don't just do yoga to lose weight. Yoga basically means " awareness of mind, body and soul". There are many things to yoga and not just some sort of fancy stretching, as most people think.

Yoga involves five different parts of a person. The Sanskrit words will prove to be a challenge for most readers and so, I will just explain the basics. The first part is the physical part-our body. The second, our mind - the conscious part. The third is our surroundings. The fourth, our sub-conscious and unconscious mind. The fifth, is that higher power that guides us - the universal power.

Around these five parts are all the asanas ( physical exercises) and the pranayama ( breathing techniques) built. Yoga is truly a healing force. It not only gives our body extreme flexibility, it also gives us a lot of energy. Cosmic Energy.

Yoga strengthens all our muscles and inturn heals the injured parts. Doctors advice people with all sorts of problems to do yoga. The breathing techniques help in removing all the harmful toxins, thereby making our body healthier. It also increases our lung capacity.

It is believed, that the more good things we have done in our past life - KARMA - the sooner will we get to do yoga. Therefore, if we get to practice yoga at a very early age, then we were very good people in our previous life. The concept works the other way too.

Yoga has really influenced my life. I used to be very depressed and short-tempered and pessimistic before I started practising yoga. But now, I'm always happy, optimistic and open. True, you could say that I'm a little biased, because I love yoga. But hey, when something you wanted to try out just for fun, becomes the most important and happy part of your day, then there must be some truth to all of this.

Right??

B's for boring

Being a business school student is hard work. True, all disciplines have their own sticky spots, but, being a part of a B-school, definitely asks for a lot on your part. I mean, for one thing, you need to be up-to-date with all business-related news. But what do you do, if you're the kind of person who can never be friends with the business segment of the newspaper?

I know, ha ha!!! Yeah, keep laughing. But you know what, I really have nothing to counteract this with. It's true. I absolutely detest reading the business column of the paper and I have an intense dislike of all talk shows that involve business. The reason - BORING!!!!!

I know you're probably asking yourself right now, "Hey, if you hate it so much, then what are you doing in a business school?" Well see, here's the thing. The reason I joined a B-school was so I could use my gift to gabble and put it to the ultimate test. Talk about the thing I really disliked and actually be good at it.

The funny thing is, I'm actually doing very well at my B-school. Be it in the form of academics, or inter-collegiate competitions, I am working my way to the top. The only thing that's pulling me down, is my self imposed abstinence from acquiring business-related news.

I know. I have to stop acting like a spoilt, willful child and atleast attempt to learn something. If I can be this good without knowing things about the business world, then just imagine how good I can be if I did know its juicy tit-bits.......................yes, this is what I ought to say to myself. But, do you know what i do say to myself?

"God!! Business sucks!!"

Ha ha.......toodles.

AGNI

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