As modern yoga and spiritual gurus take the body to the next level, it's no longer about how you look but how you feel.
The focus now is on emotional rejuvenation and physical toning.
Just achieving body toning isn't enough. It's a cleansing without punishing the body. And you can do it at home or in open spaces, rather than in a cramped air-conditioned environment. It's a feelgood way of living.
Spiritual exercising is about the mind toning the body. It's not just about yoga. You could go for a super walk and come back energised. The focus is on grace and strength. Hardcore gymming is exhausting for everyone. The goal is to go from understanding how to control the body and mind to a higher level of consciousness. You just have to find your personal exercise formula right there in your home. It's fun, it can help you look marvelous or feel marvelous. You could be relaxing one minute and be dancing to any of ur fav songs the next. The idea is to relax and as you relax, you heal. Being at the gym is a rat-race, you're running fast, you don't relax at all. You can't heal by punishing your body, you need to surrender it to peacefulness.
Osho always believed, 'Learn to melt your body, mind, soul; find out ways when you can function as a unity'.
Fact is, modern man is stressed out physically and mentally; hence, there is no unity. He is divided. When we practice gentle meditative exercises, we begin to see extraordinary colours, smell uncommon perfumes and hear unheard of sounds. In fact, the whole chemistry of the body undergoes a sea-change. The body begins to perceive things in a different way altogether. All the electric circuits of the body change.
We sit in noisy offices and work out in noisy gyms and thus, even the worked out body feels the fatigue. From Tai Chi to Aqua Aerobics, people are discovering alternatives to the treadmill. The fatigue also exists because there's unhappiness over the gym body, which is exhausted due to muscle contractions with no stretching. The shift has to be about how we feel, not how we look. The focus should be on being mindful about what we do, which will energise us.
Don't waste your energy on the treadmill tuned into the iPod, connect with the power of feeling. Look beyond the Om and the asanas too, look inward, tone your muscle and stretch that mind. You will feel powerful physically too.
We're working out hard in offices, we're working out harder in gyms — our muscles are screaming, not relaxing. We're injuring our minds and bodies on the treadmill and not releasing the stress.
We need to learn about our bodies. The focus has to be release from stress, there's no one standalone physical therapy that works and everything is personalised for the individual body."
Breathe easy and let your mind regain control over your body!
