Thursday, July 24, 2003


reduce your asthma, bag the medication

yup, i'm talking about yoga. the not-always-trustworthy consumer reports offers a story on the medical benefits of yoga.

the one that caught my eye the most: "several other trials have found that yoga may help control high blood pressure almost as effectively as medication would."

forget your too-expensive designer drugs -- try standing on your head 5-6 times a week!

a dear friend of mine suffers from asthma. and the story reports that some clinical trials indicate that yoga could also lessen asthma.

personally, i find yoga lessens stress, anxiety, grief. i feel less separated, more connected, with my loved one after yoga. it offers solace.

not only does a vigorous regular yoga practice give you the famed "yoga butt," shaped legs, a trim waist, toned tummy, and broad shoulders, more importantly it offers the value of meditative presence.

after a challenging set of fast-paced sun salutations, standing poses, and inversions, the more inward forward bends and savasana allow you to lose one-by-one all the bits o' baggage weighing you down.

as erich schiffmann says, "love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need." once you feel that, you're in ted lingle land.

by which i mean -- dispense your love freely. as scaa head lingle has told me more than once, "you only get to keep what you give away."

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