Summary

Yoga is presented as a holistic approach to enhancing happiness and immunity through simple exercises like laughing, clapping, and blowing.

Abstract

The article emphasizes the importance of yoga as a means to achieve mental and physical well-being, suggesting that it is not necessary to perform complex yoga poses to reap its benefits. It introduces three simple exercises designed to improve happiness and boost the immune system: the laughing exercise, which promotes emotional well-being and increases lung power; the clapping exercise, which acts as a nerve tonic and improves blood circulation; and the blowing exercise, which strengthens the lungs and provides a booster dose to the immunity system. The author, Nirmala, highlights that regular practice of these exercises, along with sitting in a meditative pose like the half Padam Asana, can lead to a calm and happy state of mind, akin to the joy experienced in group dances across India. The article concludes by stressing the simplicity of yoga and its effectiveness as a mood enhancer that brings peace and tranquility, suggesting that daily practice is key to keeping the body and mind healthy.

Opinions

The author believes that yoga is an effective way to balance the mind and body, and that inner happiness can reflect positively on one's exterior.
Group activities like laughing and clapping are seen as beneficial for lifting spirits and fostering happiness, especially during times of isolation such as the Covid 19 lockdown.
The author suggests that the clapping exercise can lead to improved sleep and a happier disposition at work.
Regular practice of the blowing exercise is opinioned to significantly boost immunity and lung power.
Yoga is considered a simple yet powerful tool for health, comparable to the proverbial "apple a day" in its preventative benefits.
The article conveys that yoga should be practiced daily and with regularity to achieve the best results for health and mood enhancement.

Yoga The Way To Happiness And Good Health

Build your immunity

Author’s own picture! Picture credit Nirmala

Yoga is a balance of mind and body. You cannot separate your inner self from your outer self.

There are two ways to do it. Laugh aloud till your insides begin to feel happy. Alternatively, think and make your inside peaceful, calm, and happy and it begins to reflect your exterior.

Three simple exercises to make you happy and boost your immunity

The laughing exercise, the clapping exercise and the blowing exercise.

The Laughing Exercise:

In the parks, if you take an early morning walk, you sometimes see a group of people laughing loudly together, They smile and then they begin to laugh and in the next moment, their laugh is even louder.

What does this laughing session imply?

In yoga, we say that this is a group activity where when we are together we lift our spirits and there is happiness.

During the Covid 19 lockdown and spread of the virus people could not do this group activity. The people who continued this activity in isolation as well could feel the balance in their minds.

This exercise increases your lung power which was so required as the deadly coronavirus affected the lungs.

It also keeps your spirits high and gives you emotional well being.

The Clapping exercise.

The clapping exercise is simply to clap clap and clap your way alone or in a group.

Clapping improves our blood circulation. It is a nerve tonic. once are irritated nerves are calmed, we are relieved, we smile and we are happy. We begin to sleep well and do our work happily.

After the two simple exercises sit quietly smiling like my pose in the picture above. With practice, you will be able to sit like me in the half Padam Asana.

This is an easy posture but people do not find it easy at first. Note that one leg is on top of the other thigh. Those who practice yoga can sit in this pose as well as in the full Padam asana pose for a long time.

You will automatically be calm and happy once you laugh and clap. We have a lot of group dances in India from Punjab, Gujerat, South India, Assam, and in all the dances, there is happiness with the beating of the Indian drums through clapping and laughing.

Now I want to explain another simple exercise in yoga for boosting your immunity. To keep away from coronavirus, it is important to boost your immunity and increase your lung power.

The blowing exercise:

Author’s own photo. Picture credit: Nirmala

All of us blow a candle when on our birthday or anniversary or an auspicious occasion cut a cake and friends ask us to blow out the candles.

Moreover, at birthday parties and other occasions, we all like balloons and blow into them to see them getting bigger and bigger. This exercise is quite similar.

Take a deep breath in

Now slowly blow out exhaling as long as you can.

Do this every day and your immunity system gets a booster dose. Your lungs also improve their power.

The major takeaways are the following:

#1. Yoga is simple and sweet and gives very good results. Yoga need not always have difficult poses to master. There are several levels of difficulty and you can choose what suits you.

#2. Exercises like laughing are very good for people who are prone to depression. This exercise helps people to regain their confidence. Since it is a group activity it is a socializing process for people who live alone or have no one to care for them.

#3. The clapping exercise gives a feeling of exhilaration and happiness since you clap on occasions when people do well or win something and you celebrate the occasion.

#4. Blowing out is also removing your tensions by breathing out slowly until you have completely exhausted your full breath.

To conclude,

Yoga gives you happiness and boosts your immunity. It is a tonic for your health. It is like one apple a day keeps the doctor away. It certainly improves your health. The only catch situation is that it has to be practiced every day with regularity and without fail to get the best results. It is also a mood enhancer by bringing peace and tranquility in your life.