Replace internal medicine with YOGA and live free

metalpalace

What would you say if you could get yourself off of all of your medication or at the very least decrease your medication significantly just from opening your mind to the enormous possibilities of Yoga? If you’re satisfied with hope packaged up nice and neat into a pill to spare you from having to exercise then move on this article isn’t for you.

Yoga as a therapy and a replacement for internal medicine is completely mind blowing. It can literally replace all of your medication or a significant portion of the stock pile you keep in your medicine cabinet. Any modality of exercise (resistance, cardio, plyo, core etc.) is beneficial but there is something truly amazing about Yoga in it’s capacity to treat and ultimately cure illness and disease; probably more effectively than internal medicine ever could in more cases than we would think.

Medical Doctor Loren Fishman says, “End Back Pain Through Yoga," prescribes downward-facing dog for osteoporosis, twisted triangle pose for piriformis syndrome, and side plank pose for scoliosis”. See what I mean about mind blowing? That isn’t even the tip of the iceberg! Here is more from the same Medical Doctor, “It calms people down, just being calm is a tremendous asset when you are in pain." Doctor Fishman believes yoga and western medicine are naturally well matched and can help patients avoid unnecessary surgery, medication, and suffering.” A possibility of trading unnecessary surgery, medication, and suffering for Yoga??? Count me in!

There are poses in yoga that will help clear artery blockages and reduce high blood pressure. Say bye bye to your high cholesterol and high blood pressure medications. There are other poses that focus more on digestion and mental focus. Yoga is also known to be highly beneficial in terminal cancer, heart problems, reduces varicose veins, improves over all blood circulation etc.

Do you suffer from arthritis? Yoga may help relieve your pain and even cure you! Yoga can even treat infertility problems, improve asthma conditions, clear and regulate bowel movements, reduce or even eliminate menstrual abdomen pain etc. The list goes on and on. This isn’t simply just shedding body fat, toning up and having more energy which is all very nice. In addition to those things yoga is very special from other forms of exercise because it is known to treat and even cure many problems that we typically take drugs for which consequently those drugs have a horrid trade off on vital organ stress.

Unfortunately most doctors in western medicine aren’t referring patients to yoga therapy for cures. Instead most patients aren’t being cured; they are being treated with drugs and most of the time this is totally unnecessary. However; the bulk of the problem here is people. Most people will not comply to exercise and changing eating habits, period, which leaves medicine as the only option. It will be up to you to seek out a local yoga therapist with proper credentials. Ask your doctor to be referred out to a yoga therapist and if he/she thinks it’s a good idea. Sometimes it may not be a good idea so it’s worth clearing that with your doctor.

Some references: http://www.yoga4beginners.org/yoga-therapy.htm
http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/Yoga-Therapy-The-Next-Wave-in-Yoga.html

I can tell you first hand that it feels wonderful to not have to be dependent on medication. If I want to take a trip somewhere I don’t have to worry about remembering to pack enough medicine to keep me going. If I want to be spontaneous there is nothing stopping me! I also have more spending money in my pockets that probably would have gone towards my medicine. I like extra spending money!

I personally have never been dependent on medicine, not even a Tylenol, so I can only imagine the relief that must be felt by those who were able to rid themselves of such things by pure wholesome nutrition and exercise. What a feeling that must be!!!

Some people genuinely need medication to control a problem brought on by genetics. Thank god advancements in medicine make many common issues completely manageable now a days when not so long ago people would suffer their whole lives. But for most of us it seems we have utterly abused the availability of these medicines purely to replace wholesome nutrition and exercise with a pill. What a facade! Medicine doesn’t replace nutrition and exercise! Medicine prolongs the inevitable, makes rich drug companies more rich, and places extra burdens on vital organs as a trade off! If you are taking a medication to treat symptoms that are brought on by physical inactivity and poor nutrition then you need to be realistic; realize that your medication is not a replacement for good nutrition. You’re destroying your vital organs and giving yourself a more probably likelihood of a pre-mature death preceded by a life time of suffering and increased risk factors for disease and illnesses. If you’re ok with that then be honest about it. If you’re on something as an attempted replacement for eating good and being physically active then enjoy yourself and don’t insist on dipping into the health care pool. We cannot afford to financially support you any longer.

Get into Yoga! If you already exercise then add Yoga to your routine! It will do things for you that other modalities of exercise simply cannot. I got my start in yoga in the deep end of the swimming pool so to speak with Yoga X; part of the p90x total fitness program. Since then I have gotten into other yoga routines and cannot imagine my life without regular yoga!

Get into Yoga, Today!

Tom

metalpalace

I know that most of you here already subscribe to good ole exercise and nutrition anyway but none the less this is exciting information and worth while sharing. I just started reading about yoga therapy a couple of weeks ago. Who knows I may even go for a yoga therapy certification course in the future because I think it's so amazing.

xStargazerx

It is absolutely true. I suffer from a herniated disc and 2 bulging disc. So when my back hurts I'll do yoga and my back gets all stretched out and the pain goes away. I wish I had the drive to do it every morning b.c it relaxes the body and the mind. I would recommend to anyone! I LOVE YOGA!!

lyla29

I will have to read this later. Looks interesting.

SaraAnne

Crazy. I just went to my first yoga class today!! And it was AMAZING!
I've been in sports pretty much every moment of my life since I was younger than 10... and therefore at the age of 20 pretty much every joint in my body hurts. Yoga seems like the cure to ALLL my injuries! Everything stays in the natural positioning that it should be in, muscle will eventually develop around those weakened areas, and hopefully, my body will start to feel better. Either way, I felt amazing when i left that class.

If you've never tried it... Give it a shot!! You'll LOVE IT! and you'll feel 400 times better about everything in your life when you finish

metalpalace

Stargazer, that is awesome! I don't have any chronic pain anywhere but I can say this. Whenever I feel an illness beginning to develop I do an hour and a half of vinyasa flow power yoga and the illness is gone. Cured! If my body is aching from a working the day before, ill do a yoga routine and my body recovers from those other vigorous workouts. Simply amazing.

Lyla, I hope this makes you psyched about yoga.

Anne, wow brand new to yoga! Sweet! What kind of yoga did you do? My first was Yoga X and I could only do a few of the poses. I can do them all now and it still makes me sweat buckets. I Never get sick anymore. I use to fall ill 3 or 4 times per year.

mnichol

After reading this i may reconsider what my gyne doc told me to do....was find a yoga class. I kind of dismissed it, he was at a loss to provide any other help to me. He said he performed yoga everyday, he's a young specialist, and suggested i try it. I'm going to look up when classes are at the center i go to and make myself go.

thanks for the info!!!

metalpalace

Let us know how that turns out! I personally applaud your doctor for recommending Yoga to you. Ask him for a specific referral if he knows of a YOGI he is really excited about. Otherwise make sure you find a really good CERTIFIED yogi. I'd hate your first yoga experience to be anything less than a stellar one and that will probably be determined by the yogi you go to.

xStargazerx

Whats really interesting is that I told my husband who is in the Army to do yoga for his back and he dismissed what I was telling him. Bu when his chiropractor told him to do yoga in between he was like omg babe you were right..lol. It really really works wonders