Practicing Yoga is a Natural Way to Stop Smoking
Author: Rob Hawkins
*** Do Not Quit Smoking! Click Here *** So, dear reader, here is another article which promises to show you a way how to stop smoking. If you are reading this article, most likely you have already tried some methods and they did not help you. Do you know why? The reason is, most of those methods are not natural in the sense that they use some external influence instead of relying on the natural resources of our body. Yoga, on the contrary, first of all helps one to restore the inner balance. Once the balance is restored, one can easily give up smoking without any external help. We are now going to describe how that can be achieved by practicing Sahaja Yoga. But first let us give some not very well known facts about smoking in attempt to raise more awareness about this subject. Many of us heard this example in college that a drop of nicotine can kill a horse. And many also heard a typical answer that "in that case the horse should not smoke". That is, this argument does not sound very convincing. What else should we know then about the effect of nicotine? Most of us know that nicotine is very harmful for the lungs, it can cause lung cancer and other kinds of cancer. But nicotine also changes the chemical functions in the brain. That is why it creates addiction like all other drugs. Researches done in the US have shown that teen smokers are more likely to have panic attacks, anxiety disorders, and depression. Nearly half a million Americans die from smoking every year. One of every six deaths in the United States is a result of smoking tobacco, making tobacco more lethal than all other addictive drugs combined. But, apart from nicotine, there are many more harmful substances in cigarettes. Most of us don't know that, when smoking, we inhale thousands of chemicals with the cigarette smoke: In 1936 there were 120 additives used in cigarettes, in 1959 their number increased to 450, in 1968 there were 950 kinds of additives, in 1982, 3875, and today their number exceeds 4000! So, what people smoke now is not just tobacco, it is a complex mixture of various chemical components. They are added for various purposes. Some give flavors to the cigarettes, some work as preservatives, but many additives are used in fact to increase one's addiction so that it becomes much more difficult to stop smoking than it used to be, say, 50 years ago. Most of these substances have, of course, a negative effect on the human health. Light cigarettes. This is another myth created by the tobacco industries. When they first came on the market in 1970, it was believed that light cigarettes are less harmful. However later researches have shown that light cigarettes result in the same risk of illness and death as a result of smoking. So, smoking has a very diverse negative effect on the human health, and there is no way out like light cigarettes or anything. But how to stop smoking? Most common methods used are: nicotine replacement treatments, acupuncture, injections, medication. However none of these methods gives statistically proven strong effect. Besides, they may also have side effects and sometimes can be quite costly. What we suggest here is to give up smoking in an easy and natural way by practicing Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is a method of awakening the Kundalini energy discovered in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi from India. According to the Indian tradition, Kundalini is a spiritual power that lies dormant in the Sacrum bone and has to be awakened by yoga practices. Once awakened, it rises through the central energy channel in the spine and opens and enlightens the seven energy centers called chakras. When Kundalini opens the seventh chakra located in the limbic area, yoga (i.e. the inner and outer integration of our being) is said to take place. Kundalini awakening is the ultimate goal of every yoga practice, however only in Sahaja Yoga, due to Shri Mataji's discovery, it became effortless and easy to achieve. What Kundalini does is to balance the energy system, which consists of seven energy centers (chakras) and three energy channels (called nadis). When balance is established in the body, it naturally tries to preserve it and thus does not want to accept anything that is harmful. Thus all bad habits, like drinking, smoking, drug addiction drop out automatically without the need to do anything special about that. This sounds like a very strong statement but it is so. Sociological study done on 320 Sahaja Yoga practitioners showed that just after the first year of practice about 75% stop drinking, smoking and using drugs. After 5 years of practicing Sahaja Yoga less than 10% of practitioners still have some of those bad habits. One of the reasons why Sahaja Yoga is so effective against smoking is that the Kundalini energy works in the 7th chakra, that is in the limbic area. It is the limbic area that is affected by nicotine and other drugs thus giving one a sense of pleasure. But meditation on the 7th chakra gives one even stronger pleasure and at the same time does not cause any harm. As a result, one just does not feel any desire to continue smoking or taking drugs. So, we invite you to try Sahaja Yoga and see for yourself how it will help you not only to get rid of bad habits, like drinking or smoking, but in many different ways.About the Author:
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