Question

yoga a way to healthy life

Answer 1

Yoga and mindfulness practices help to calm and organize the nervous system.  Our autonomic nervous system is divided into two branches. The sympathetic nervous system revs up the body, empowering us to respond quickly to stress and threats through the fight, flight or freeze response. The parasympathetic system is directed towards relaxation, reflection and repair. We function at our best when we balance these two systems. Most of the children receiving therapeutic intervention, whether it is occupational, physical, or speech therapy, are working with a compromised and disorganized nervous system. Children with special needs are have a sympathetic nervous system bias, leaving this branch of the autonomic nervous system turned ON continually. When this happens, the learning centers of the brain are actually tuned out and shut down. Our primary goal as a human being is to stay alive and take care of any imminent threats. That is why our fight, flight and freeze response is so important to innately have. However, when this switch is ON all the time, little learning can happen. It is when our body and mind are in a relaxed state, when the parasympathetic system can activate, that we have the best potential for learning and and retaining information. Yoga tools help individuals control their own nervous system.