Yoga for stomach problems, kidney pains, and liver problems part 5
Yoga for stomach problems, kidney pains, and liver problems
In addition to the benefits to the lower organs already outlined the Kneeling Bridge posture limbers and stretches the neck, larynx and trachea and thus improves the speaking and the singing voice. It also tones up four important glands, the adrenals, the pituitary, the thyroid and the pineal so altogether it is one of the most valuable Yoga asanas and should never be omitted from any practice schedule.
I must warn my readers who suffer from heart disease, hernia, and uterine disorders that this exercise is not suitable for them.
A word here about gallstones, an ailment which is becoming increasingly prevalent in this day of synthetic foods and refrigerators. It is well known to those who practise Yoga that there is a thirty-three and a third per cent chance of a complete cure from gallstones by careful dieting, and without surgery.
The worst offenders in this complaint are animal fats, ice-cold drinks, and ice-cream. The substances of which gallstones are made are produced when the body is unable to cope adequately with the amount of fat consumed. To avoid gallstones drink plenty of pure, fresh water, at least nine or ten glasses a day. Take it hot if you wish, with flavouring added, but never, never drink it ice cold. Avoid all foods and drinks straight from the refrigerator, avoid all fried food, animal fats, salad cream, and oils. Plenty of fruit is the order of the day and if you like fresh vegetable juices, so much the better. In this way you will not only avoid gallstones but liver and kidney diseases as well. And remember that animal fats include lard, butter, liver and egg yolk, these so-called saturated fats being high in cholesterol which substance builds up in the arteries and causes untimely aging.
If you must eat fats then take the so-named unsaturated ones which include the vegetable oils-sunflower seed oil, corn oil, olive oil, soya bean oil, and sesame seed oil, but even then it is not advisable to over indulge in these. If you have trouble with your pancreas, liver, spleen or kidneys be sure to master and keep practising the ABDOMINAL LIFT which I described in chapter five. It is impossible to over-emphasize the far-reaching benefits of this exercise.
Sufferers from all stomach and internal complaints would do well to practise the art of clean eating. Eat only what is pure and wholesome. Study all I have written in the chapter on diet and do not eat anything which has been refined or preserved. Above all, read again chapter five and practise the exercises therein every day from now on. Free yourself from ‘the mother of all diseases’ and you will be well on the Yoga path to perfect health and everlasting youth, the Yoga path to Self-Realization and Inner Peace.
If the way of Hatha Yoga seems rocky and fraught with difficulties, so that your steps falter and you wonder where all this hard work leads, let the immortal words of the Bhagavad Gita, the ancient Hindu Song of God, inspire you to further efforts.
‘With the sword of the understanding of thyself thou shall rend asunder in thy heart every doubt arising from ignorance, and thou shalt achieve thy permanence in Yoga.’
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admin | November 8, 2007