Provide a 7 pages analysis while answering the following question: Health Benefits of Yoga. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

Provide a 7 pages analysis while answering the following question: Health Benefits of Yoga. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Restrained physical activity causes a lot of damage to health. “Adoption of this new lifestyle has resulted in a new category of disease, termed hypokinetic diseases (diseases resulted from lack of exercise) which is directly or indirectly the result of physical inactivity and includes coronary heath disease, hypertension, obesity, anxiety and depression, and lower back problems” (Singh). Yoga has been practiced as a set of physical exercises for centuries and is known for the objectivity of its results. This paper discusses yoga and elaborates its few of its positive effects upon health.

Yoga is an umbrella term for a number of practices that date back to ancient India. Yoga is a discipline whose practices help align the individual’s mind and body so that his/her tendency to achieve the spiritual goals is enhanced. Yoga is practiced all over the world by millions of people daily with a view to deriving health benefits from this practice and treating poor health conditions. Practices included in yoga include but are not limited to postures, exercises of breathing, meditation, alterations in the lifestyle, spiritual convictions and trends. Some of the most fundamental health benefits of yoga are pain relief, improved breathing, increased flexibility and strength. What fundamentally makes yoga different from the usual exercise is the increased emphasis yoga places upon the deep breathing and the way it customizes it according to the postures. In order to gain maximum benefits from yoga, an individual must try to pay 100 percent attention to the exercise in general and the breathing in particular.

After exertion, people feel lethargic, weak and drained. Sometimes, the entire body starts to ache which makes it all the more awful. Yoga helps to overcome such feelings. Yoga not only makes an individual feel light but also inculcates strength. Continued practice of yoga for a few months improves the strength so much that an individual starts to feel twice as strong as he/she did in the start.&nbsp.