Meditation and yoga are ancient Indian philosophies that enhance personal growth and well-being. It is also a big part of Ayurveda infertility treatment.
Although it is a systemic philosophical approach, yoga (and meditation) is not a religion, but complementary with most spiritual paths. The physical aspect of yoga - or hatha yoga - uses poses and focused breathing, requiring concentration and discipline.
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The result is a greater union of mind, body and spirit. Anyone, regardless of body type, age, experience or physical abilities, can practise yoga.
WHAT DOES YOGA (AND MEDITATION) DO FOR FERTILITY?
Yoga and meditation bring the emotional strength that is needed for becoming parents. Without this emotional strength, it is nearly impossible to just "get pregnant". Emotional power is everything!
Let me emphasize right now - when I talk about emotional strengthening, I am not talking about "positive thinking" or "just relaxing". I think it's almost impossible for a stressed-out couple, who've been through years of frustration due to failed attempts to get pregnant, to calmly sit and make a conscious decision to "just relax". No one has that amount of self-control! The techniques I'm going to cover here, while they require a bit of time (about half an hour a day), do not require you to do the impossible.
In order to understand about emotional strengthening, you first need to understand a bit about how the brain works. You're probably aware that our brains work across a range of different levels or brainwave frequencies. While the range is actually continuous, it is divided for convenience into four categories: beta, alpha, theta and delta.
As adults, we spend most of our waking time in the beta area. As we become more relaxed (e.g. as we fall asleep at night) our brain waves slow measurably and we move into what is known as a theta state or sleep. Beta is where we do our logical thinking and rationalizing. Alpha, on the other hand, while still an "awake" state, is that relaxed, daydreamy state that you can go into when you are doing something creative (e.g. painting, sewing) or something repetitive (e.g. jogging, driving long distance on open roads). It's the time when your mind just wanders freely and time just seems to fly by. So you're wondering what this has to do with falling pregnant, right? Well EVERYTHING in fact!
You see, in your alpha or sub-conscious state, everything is about feelings and emotions. If you are going to do any emotional strengthening, you need to work in the alpha state (which is where your feelings and emtions happen) rather than the beta state (which is where rational thinking happens).
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Now here's another important piece of the puzzle: besides containing your feelings and emotions, your alpha (sub-conscious) state also contains your "self-beliefs". Your self-beliefs are the subconscious view you have of yourself, they drive your behavior at a subconscious level. They are similar to the programs you have on your computer, they work what you have written into the program.
So if, for example you have a self-belief that says "I am a smoker", the behavior that results is that you smoke (it's not rocket science, folks). If you have a self-belief that says "I'm always 10 pounds overweight and I find it impossible to lose that last few pounds", then guess what? It will not happen. To find out more, you can check out Yoga For Infertility.
