shiningarticlelist.com shiningarticlelist.com
Home >> About Us >> Add Your Link >> Privacy Policy >> ToS >> Submit Article
Search:   
Add Url
 

Property & Agents

Companies & Business

Cooking & Drinking

Software & Networking

Healthcare & Medicine

Finance & Banking

Hotels & Travel

Self Healing

Recreation

Hygiene & Health

Home Family & Garden

People & Communities

Automotive

Adventure & Sports

Indoor Games

News & Media

Education & Learning

Teens & Kids

Creative Arts

Policies & Law

Jobs & Employment

Shopping & Auction

Relationship & Lifestyle

Technology & Science

 

Home » Hygiene & Health » Yoga Practice
 

Learning Focus and Concentration Through Yoga

 
Author: Keith Edwin Renninson

For many of us today, focus and concentration arent difficult by virtue of necessity, for others however, it is an unbearable task to achieve either.

Ancient, and modern day yogis, taught yoga as a way to gain focus and become one with yourself and the universe. Being grounded is a major goal of many westerners because, to them, it is so illusive.

Occupations, family, avocations, addiction to multi-tasking and caffeine, goal achievement, and cultural pressures are among the reasons that people in the west suffer from the lack of a focused and grounded mentality.

Yoga offers a solution that few programs can.

Whether performed in a class at a studio or quietly in your living room, yogas meditative quality causes your level of focus and concentration to heighten and strengthen with each session.

Here's why; our brain functions at four levels of brainwave CPS Cycles Per Second) activity:

1. Beta 13-40 CPS: Fully active, alert, thinking and engaged with your life at that moment.

2. Alpha 7-12 CPS: A much slower rate of cycles per second; that dreamy state just before you fall asleep, the creative and thoughtful level.

3. Theta 4-7 CPS: Elusive meditative floating state before deep sleep.

4. Delta 0-4 CPS: Unconscious deep sleep.

Performing yoga enables you to decrease your brains activity from Beta to Alpha, to focus on the poses and your breathing. The Alpha state by its very nature is quiet, calm and concentrative. Your body reacts to the poses more efficiently; stretching properly and slowly revealing your inner, grounded self for confidence and strength.

In the end, isnt that what we are all after? To discover our positive and confident inner self, to become focused, to calm the chaos, gain overall strength, balance and poise.

Concentration and focus are just two of the benefits of yoga which will come quickly to the dedicated novice, and they will become even more enhanced for the seasoned veteran. You gradually notice the advantages of a calm and focused mind in virtually everything you do at work, at home or at play. Enjoy.

Author Bio:

Keith Edwin Renninson

Keith E. Renninson is a native of Colorado. After a tour of duty in Viet Nam, he returned home and spent 30 years as a financial planner and insurance agent. He was a two-term President of the Mile-Hi Association of Life Underwriters and four-term President of the Kipling Sun Homeowners Association. He is the Chairman of the 2006 Tour de Cure bicycle ride for the American Diabetes Association in Colorado. Keith is also the current Vice-President of COBRAS (Colorado Organization of Bicycle Racing Seniors).

In 1995, he self-published his first book, ?The Pain & Joy of Love: A Collection of Poetry, Black and White Photography and Short Stories.? In 2003, Keith was the Editor of the Arapahoe Community College Art and Literary Magazine ?The Progenitor,? and in 2004-2005 the Editor of the Arapahoe Observer newspaper.

During eight years of the 1990's, Keith wrote his column, "Philosophically Speaking" for the Downtown Denver News.

In August 2004, Keith's essay "Compassion at Death's Door" was published by The American Legion Magazine and received worldwide acclaim.

When neighbor Michael Conrad Kelley offered they work together on his manuscript ?Zooch the Pooch,? Keith was excited and honored to be involved in such a worthy project. An illustrated children's book and parenting tool, Zooch was published in November of 2005 and is available on their website or at Amazon.com.

Mike and Keith are also professional speakers presenting their inspirational talk & seminar "Seven Simple Steps to a More Fulfilling Life." They can be contacted directly for radio, TV and print interviews.

In December 2006, one of Keith's latest essays, "To Achieve Clarity in Life Make Meditation Part of Your Day" will appear in a new book "101 Ways to Improve Your Life" alongside notable authors such as Mark Victor Hansen of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" fame.

Keith formed Golden Years Videos, LLC with business partner Jeff Forman which produces exercise videos for senior citizens, and those unable to perform standing exercises. Always the exercise enthusiast Keith, wanted to provide a series of videos which would assist those in need of conditioning. You can see more about this at the Golden Years Videos website listed above.

In his leisure time, Keith studies philosophy, competes in American Cycling Association bicycle races around Colorado, loves to downhill ski, practices yoga, writes and climbs the Fourteener?s of Colorado?s Rockies.

You can search for this article using: yoga poses, yoga positions, hatha yoga, free online yoga, ashtanga yoga, kundalini yoga, yoga techniques
 
 
 

Related Articles

 
Heart Disease: The Dangers Of Coronary Heart Attack And How To Avoid It
 
A Guide to Omega 3 Capsules
 
Exercise Cellulite Away
 
Win the Weight Loss Battle with Your Mind
 
Liquid Nutritional Supplements
 
Insomnia - What Is Insomnia And What Kind Do I Have?
 
Close Kept Secrets to Weight Loss Lesson #7
 
Fitness Over 40
 
Practice Yoga with the Best of Intentions
 
Easing the Discomfort of Hemorrhoids
 
 
 
   Home >> Privacy Policy >> ToS
© 2008 www.shiningarticlelist.com All Rights Reserved.