FITNESS & BEAUTY · MAY 2018
YOGA FOR
THE BRAIN
W
hat we think and do has
a dynamic impact on
our brain's health which
impacts our attitude, and
ultimately our reality.
Most people can agree that the brain
functions as a primary receiver, organizer,
and distributor of vital information for our
body. It is made up of a right hemisphere
and a left hemisphere. Colloquial wisdom
says one side of the brain is usually more
dominant than the other side of the brain.
The right side of the brain is associated
with cognitive skills. These skills a re
directly connected to our creativity,
emotions, and intuition. Right-brain
dominant people are usually the artists,
innovators, the free-spirited people in
the world. Conversely, if you’re mostly
analytical and methodical in nature, you’re
said to be left-brained.
The most common method of keeping the
brain healthy is by eating greens, which
contain vast amounts of chlorophyll, a
direct natural medicine that is essential
for a healthy brain.
Another method of improving or
maintaining proper brain development
is through the practice of yoga. Yoga,
although an ancient practice, has grown
in popularity in recent years. This
practice connects the body and the
mind – meaning, it brings you to a higher
awareness that your body can do anything
you desire it to do. In some known cases,
people have said they’ve been able to
fly or levitate for brief periods of time
(seconds in most cases.). For these
reasons and many others, when the
terms “mind, body, and spirit” is often
mentioned within this context, connecting
the spirit simply means transcending
the mind to its highest form, which is
described as your “God Self” or the divine
inner you. Having the mind, or brain, if
you will, be the centerpiece between the
body and the spirit, arguably can say that
the mind is the most valuable part of the
body. It controls both the physical and
spiritual selves.
Have you ever heard the saying “mind
Positive word affirmations are also a great
over matter’? Mentally, if you tell yourself
way to strengthen your brain. The act of
you can do something, you will yield those
speaking aloud with powerful words invites
results in the physical world, or you will
you to reflect self-empowerment and self-
become whatever it is you’d set your mind
love.
to becoming. This is considered the “Law
of Attraction”. This Law
Crowned Emperor of
of Attraction is essentially
Ethiopia, crowned King
PROVERBS 23:7:
a commonsense practice
of All Kings of the world,
“AS A MAN
that dictates that we invite
Haile Selassie I states,
into the world what we set
“Discipline of the mind is a
THINKETH IN
out to achieve and what we
basic ingredient of genuine
HIS HEART,
allow ourselves to desire
morality and therefore
fully. This practice has
of spiritual strength." If
SO IS HE.”
been used for thousands
humanity puts their mind
of years.
into reviving the natural
way of living, restoring unconditional love,
Yoga, in practice, transcends the physical. It
and empowering mother nature; a healing
taps into the mental state of being. Within
on earth would be not just inevitable, but
meditation, you are consciously bringing
also magical. As Emperor Haile Selassie also
your thoughts to happy places, inviting
mentions, "It is only when the human mind
them into happy moments, embracing love,
is guided by religion and morality that man
success, or whatever brings you joy.
can acquire the necessary vision to put all
his ingenuous inventions and contrivances to
really useful and beneficial purposes."
By Fabienne Claude
32 HEALTHY MAGAZINE