THE BENEFITS "YOGA" OF INVERTED POSTURES

It is quite common to see children in playgrounds jumping, falling, hanging upside down and doing somersaults. This makes them healthy and energetic, as their blood circulation, co-ordination and balance are constantily moved about and challenged.

As we grow older, we tend to be less active, which is a common contributing factor to poorer blood circulation, reducing energy levels and losing youth. Yoga offers one way to keep turning, bending and investing your body and exercising your heart and all other muscles in your body.

The Investested posture is part of an indispensable yoga practice. They affect the functioning of the body in various ways: The benefits experienced at the physiological, mental and spiritual levels, and these postures revitalize the entire system. They can help ease tiredness, insomnia, headaches, varicose veins, digestive problems and excess tension and anxiety, for example. Some Practitioners have so far to describe this invested attitude, especially one that, as a panacea for all who practice.

The upside-down therapy has been known since 400 BC, by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, he treated some of his patients using this therapy. In the world of Yoga, this pose is called by the name of Sirsasana which is also known as King of Asanas, the king of all yoga postures. So called because the benefits obtained by doing this pose is most complete when compared to other postures / asanas. So what are the benefits to our health by doing this pose? Let's check it out!  

When the body is in the upside position - with the head below - the body and its contents momentarily free of weight and gravity of the earth. Positive effects are felt in almost the entire body. Doing this pose can improve blood circulation throughout the body and affect the improvement of some body functions.  

When a person does this reversed position, the oxygen-rich blood stream is directed from the lower body to the heart, thereby improving heart function, it also makes the task of heart pumping blood to the brain more easily.  

The brain although only weighs 3% of our total weight, but the brain is the largest oxygen consumption when compared to other organs of about 25% of the intake of oxygen for the whole body. If the brain does not get enough capillary blood supply, the brain cells become undeveloped and useless. This position increases oxygen flow to the brain, the effect is to strengthen memory, improve intelligence, improve concentration, dispel headaches, migraines, tension, and panic and can prevent senility in the elderly. And more importantly, this pose can have a relaxing effect and relieve stress, which is the root of all human disease. It is also mentioned that with increased blood circulation to the head through this reversed pose, it can brighten the skin tone, increase the sense of awareness and also improve the hearing and vision function.

This pose is also at the same time increase the blood supply to the face, so it is useful to refresh the skin tissue, preventing wrinkles, and tighten the skin. Food supply is abundant in the skin of the head also affect the hair, inhibit the growth of gray hair, prevent hair loss, and keep hair shiny healthy. With the increase of blood flow to the brain it will stimulate the pituitary gland (often called the master of the endocrine glands) to control all the adrenal, thyroid, ovarian and testicular endocrine glands in which all these glands are responsible for all body metabolism, growth, blood pressure, sexuality, and many other functions that are important for the body. This pose can also help the respiratory function. Because at the time of doing this position, the upper and lower lungs are supplied with oxygen so that in turn can be useful for reducing respiratory disorders such as bronchitis, asthma, nose and throat infections. This pose is also good for those who suffer from indigestion and constipation. 

Another benefit of this pose is to improve mood and reduce depression, muscle tension is also reduced 35%, anxiety and difficulty sleeping can be treated with this therapy. This pose can improve sexual function, due to increased supply of fresh blood and rich in reproductive nutrition, so it can improve sexual function, treat impotence and also good for women who want to get pregnant. It also helps the blood cleansing process and is good for women who often experience pain when it comes to months. For athletes often experience muscle pain after exercise, this is because the body produces large quantities of lactic acid and other waste debris, with these pose substances waste substances will be cleaned faster so that the pain in the muscle more quickly disappear . Doing this upside pose can stimulate the lymphatic system of the body to be more active. The lymphatic system cleans toxins from the tissues and plays an important role in the immune system. The body's lymphatic system works to boost the immune system to destroy pathogens and filter out the body's waste materials. This system works to clean dead blood cells, body waste material, cancer cells and toxins / toxins from the body to be discarded. The lymphatic system also works with the body's circulatory system to deliver nutrients, oxygen and hormones from the blood into the cells of the body.

To get the benefits mentioned earlier, do this pose every day between 5-15 minutes. For beginners do as much as they used to. Practice a pose of sirsasana if you do not have the Inversion tables tool. For those who are too heavy to pose sirsasana, it can be replaced with a pose that is often called sarvangasana queen of yoga poses, because the benefits are relatively similar. Although this reverse pose has many benefits for our health, but not everyone can do this pose. The following are NOT recommended conditions for inversion: Women who are menstruating, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, pregnant women, weak back, middle ear infections, glaucoma, excess obesity, spinal cord injuries, problems retinal and hiatal hernia patients. 

Immune system
In physiological levers, inverted posture enhances the functioning of the immune system. Many people suffer from poor blood circulation, which results in body tissue not being adequately maintained and revitalized. Investing your posture improves blood circulation throughout the body, helping to enrich less tissue and tone the enfocrine system.
The inverted posture also gives the digestive system a good rest, allowing the abdominal muscles and innards to regain their tone. Thus, by rolling the body, the internal organs that may have become sluggish are activated. Rolling over also provides a decent break, in an anti gravity position, to the heart. 

Reduces tension
Reversed posture helps to counteract and reduce body tension. Stressing excess tension in the body can limit blood circulation. In an anti gravity position, the entire body can easily find a state of relaxation.
This posture also helps counteract the gravitational pull in the aging process. By helping keep the spine extended and elastic, they allow spinal fluid and spinal nerves from the spine to continue to flow or communicate freely and therefore easily fatten and energize the whole body well into old age.
Increased blood supply to the facial tissue also helps reduce or even prevent wrinkles on the face. 

Meremajakan otak
Peningkatan pasokan darah ke otak dapat meremajakan sel-sel organ dan meningkatkan semua fakultas mental, termasuk memori dan keterampilan motorik. Selain itu, investasikan sikap meningkatkan konsentrasi dan mengembangkan kemauan praktisi, sehingga meningkatkan praktik meditasi.

Kelenjar Pineal dan hipofisis
Pada tingkat halus, menginvestasikan postur pekerjaan terutama di pusat energi crown. Pusat energi ini dikaitkan dengan kelenjar pineal, terletak di kepala. Kelenjar ini disebut sebagai mata ketiga dan dikaitkan dengan negara - negara yang lebih tinggi kesadaran atau axeseness.
Kelenjar shuttary dipelihara dalam diinvestasikan postur-hal ini dikenal sebagai 'kelenjar master' karena mengatur fungsi semua kelenjar dalam tubuh.
Jika kepala berdiri, penerima utama adalah pineal dan kelenjar hipofisis. Di bahu berdiri, pasokan darah dan makanan difokuskan pada kelenjar tiroid di daerah tenggorokan, yang mengatur metabolisme.