Rupa & Co/New Delhi/India; 1st edition (September 1, 2008)
Edition
Hardcover
Book description
Back To Health Through Yoga looks upon Yoga as a precious tool in the mind-body medicine.It aims at corrrecting the faults in lifestyle resposnible for diseases,and thereby creating the best conditions for reversal of the process which led to the illness.It is now known that the body has powerful self-healing mechanisms,which include a well-organised in-built pharmacy.However,self-healing is favoured by right conditions,and yoga is the finest way to create such conditions.The postures,diet and sleep ( called physical culture in yoga),meditation (as first aid for stress),and the yogic attitude (for sustained relief from stress) are all,a part of yoga,and all these have a place in mind-body medicine. This book is meant for the intelligent and inquisitive reader who may use it to discover the roots of health and disease.Also included are reasoned and reasonable guidelines for a healthy lifestyle based on yoga.Stress management has been discussed on the basis of Maharshi Patanjali's enumeration of the sources of klesas.The major lifestyle disorders have also been discussed individually,bringing together at one place,our current understanding of these diseases and the management using an integrated approach that dissolves the barrier between modern science and ancient wisdom. The book is meant for the intelligent and inquisitve reader who will use it to discover the roots of health and disease.Streess management has been discussed on the basis of patanjali's enumeration of the sources of klesas.
