... factors influencing the personality, which are to be taken into consideration before one begins to take physical exercise, such as strength, diet, as well as the season of the year and the physical nature of the country. One important outcome of a regular practice of appropriate physical exercise is the symmetrical development of body parts. The concept of such development was highly elaborated... non-diseased existence: the man who is well-proportioned in flesh, well-knit in figure, and firm Page 272 of sense is not likely to be overpowered by violent disease. Physical exercise brings about lightness, capacity to work, stability, immunity to ailments, elimination of morbidities as well as a good metabolism. (Charaka 7.32) At the base of Ayurveda is an important ...
... is to give a somewhat elaborate account of this relaxation, for in my experience I have noticed some special features about it. The first thing to note is this. All those who take part in physical exercise are, no doubt, already familiar, or they have to get familiar, with the truth that relaxation is not merely an end-product of exercise, it has a place in. exercise itself. Let me explain. In... vrddhasya tarunī bhāryā prānebhyo'pi garīyasi. An old man may very well fall in love with exercise much in the same way. To young people in the abundance of their youthful vitality, the need for physical exercise is not always so apparent. How the children of our Green Group shun like poison the rules and regulations of the Playground and try to shirk work is known to their captains. But for an elderly... wasting a whole day: he feels so out of sorts. But apart from the question of likes and dislikes, there is a real difference, a difference in kind, between the old and the young. To young people physical exercise is something that is easy, spontaneous and natural; in their case the bodies. execute the movements out of a natural capacity for imitation, by virtue of an instinctive reaction or habit. When ...
... physical tamas? It is quite true that physical exercise is very necessary to keep off the tamas. I am glad you have begun it and I trust you will keep it up. What should I do when I descend into physical tamas or when there is an attack of inertia? Physical tamas in its roots can be removed only by the descent and the transformation, but physical exercise and regular activity of the body can... sports and withdrawing from other things pertinent to sadhana and our spiritual endeavour is a legend and a myth and has no truth Page 781 in it. Except for the time given to her own physical exercise and, ordinarily, two hours or sometimes three in the evening on the playground, the Mother's whole day from early morning and a large part of the night also has always been devoted to her other ...
... Preface It has been universally accepted by health counsellors and health seekers that physical exercise, like hygiene, food, sleep, etc., is one of the most essential things in a man's daily life. Children, boys and girls, men and women, in fact everybody, should do some kind of physical exercise if they want to lead a life of health and happiness. It is understood that the exercise programme... any equipment. Before starting this programme it is advisable to consult a doctor to check that one does not have any serious physical or health problem that would prevent one from taking up physical exercise. One should then start slowly, doing only a few repetitions of each exercise to begin with. Then gradually one should increase the number of repetitions, until one finds that the muscles of the ...
... this deadly disease breaks out. To be able to break free from this disease one must be free from all psychological stress. One needs to bring down peace and delight into the body. While doing physical exercise one must keep this in mind. One must consciously feel this peace and delight in the body while taking part in physical culture. This is the great difference between physical culture elsewhere... keeping this spirit of invocation, then within a few days you will see how the body develops. The body becomes graceful and beautiful. Dr Datta remarked to me yesterday that while doing physical exercise the consciousness does not remain focussed on this all the time and we begin exercising mechanically.' * Page 50 ...
... But I suspect what you need is more strength in the body. It is quite true that physical exercise is very necessary to keep off the tamas. I am glad you have begun it and I trust you will keep it up. Physical tamas in its roots can be removed only by the descent and the transformation, but physical exercise and a regular activity of the body can always prevent a tamasic condition from prevailing ...
... have changed their tone. For the spirit of the nation could bear the perpetual reproach no longer, the awakening Brahman within our young men could bear it no longer. Associations grew up for physical exercise and the art of self-defence and grew into those Samitis which you have seen flourishing and recently suppressed. We were determined to wash the blemish away. If this was the blemish, to be weak... physical weakness we have a strength within us which will remove our defects. We will be a race of brave and strong men. And that we may be so, we will establish everywhere these associations for physical exercise." That, one would think, was an innocent object and had nothing in it which anyone could look upon with suspicion. In fact we never thought that we should be looked upon with suspicion. It is ...
... break up the little work I have done into half an hour here, half an hour there and half an hour nowhere. The funny thing is that I keep up a very decent appetite and am equal to any amount of physical exercise that may be demanded of me. In fact if I take care to do nothing but kasrat 1 and croquet and walking and rushing about, I keep in a grand state of health,—but an hour's work turns me again... do not know how many letters to Sarojini and my wife I have begun, written two lines and left. The other day, however, there was a promising sign. I began to write a letter to 1. Physical exercise. Page 134 you and actually managed to finish one side and a half. This has encouraged me to try again and I do believe I shall finish this letter today — the second day of writing ...
... their nefarious enterprises there under cover of intellectual conversation and that you were the receiver of the booty. And then there would be the Andamans where you would probably get more physical exercise in one week than you have done in all your life, Professor. There are other joys, Professor, the whipping triangle, handcuffs, laphsy. Is it worth while? The Professor gazes in horrified silence ...
... hand mental work requires no increase of food—that has been ascertained scientifically by experiment. Hunger may increase by other causes, but when it coincides with the taking up of play or physical exercise of a strenuous character, that is sufficient to explain it. If the [ stomach ] pains are strong, you can abstain from work for a day or two till they have subsided. Of course if you feel ...
... that is a kind of power. ( Silence ) It is a power of attracting certain very material vibrations, which has a capacity for utilisation that increases its strength—which is like the action of physical exercise, you see—it increases its strength through utilisation. For example, if you have a control over this force—it is a force which, in the vital world, has a colour varying between red, a dark ...
... mind. In addition to training the intellect through the sciences and humanities, there is an emphasis on cultivating the emotional and aesthetic faculties through the arts, and the body through physical exercise. As for spiritual growth, the Mother once observed that "this cannot be done by any external method"; therefore there are no prescribed courses or Observances, though most of the older students ...
... your usual life, without changing anything because of it. 2) Should a girl participate in her normal programme of Physical Education during her periods? Certainly if she is accustomed to physical exercise, she must not stop because of that. If one keeps the habit of leading one's normal life always, very soon one does not even notice the presence of the menses. 3) Why are some girls completely ...
... is our physical being, our body. Therefore we have to build up a body solid, healthy, enduring, skilful, agile and strong, ready for everything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercise: sports, athletics, gymnastics, and all games are the best means to develop and strengthen the body. Therefore I call you to go through the competitions beginning today, full-heartedly with ...
... student to subject himself to the processes it involves, his habit of studying only so much as he must to avoid punishment or to pass an immediate test, his resort to active habits and vigorous physical exercise. In India the disastrous effects of the system on body, mind and character are only too apparent. The first problem in a national system of education is to give an education as comprehensive as ...
... of character and personality. It has been found necessary by recent research in yogic education that students should develop a high sense of physical culture and a bodily need of daily physical exercise. Our programmes in schools and colleges should be so organised that everyday a student is able to devote at least one hour for physical education, either in the form of Yogic Asanas and allied ...
... personality. It has been found necessary by recent research in yogic education that students should develop a high sense of Page 372 physical culture and a bodily need of daily physical exercise. Our programmes in schools and colleges should be so organised that everyday a student is able to devote at least one hour for physical education, either in the form of Yogic Asanas and allied ...
... what cannot or ought not to be assimilated, this by itself is sufficient for mere maintenance, but for assuring health and strength in the body so maintained it has added the .impulse towards physical exercise and play of many kinds, ways for the expenditure and renewal of energy, the choice or the necessity of manifold action and labour. In the :new life, in its beginnings at least, it would not be ...
... strength in that frail-looking sadhu. He lost but challenged him again but once more the sadhu beat him easily. The sadhu then said: "You're familiar with the strength you can acquire through physical exercise but see how much more can be acquired through spiritual tapasya!" Shyamakanto was dumbfounded. He gave up all physical culture and became the sadhu's disciple, a sannyasi. When Mother ...
... influences the glands and vital organs and maintains their efficiency by feeding them, repairing worn tissues and by carrying away the waste and toxins they produce. In the modern system of physical exercise this is done by the action of the muscles and by giving progressive work to the heart and lungs. But in the system of asanas this is done by adopting such poses as would direct the blood to the ...
... exceptional well being. Good health produces physical fitness which is comprised of health, strength, endurance and skill. To gain maximum health, the following things are necessary : 1.Physical exercise 2.Sufficient sleep and rest. 3.Healthy and wholesome food at regular intervals. 4.Personal and environmental hygienic conditions with the help of preventive and curative disciplines ...
... life. It is also being recognised in an increasing measure that women too must equip themselves for their changing role; that they should be physically fit, strong and healthy through regular physical exercise, proper and adequate food, sufficient rest and sleep, hygienic habits, a regular life and a happy, cheerful disposition. I am giving in this pamphlet two sets of exercises especially planned ...
... to live on a sort of little sanitary island with a few proper meditations (because after all, we are "spiritualists") a little work—not too much—to be at peace with one's conscience, and some physical exercise to keep the body out of trouble. As for the rest, well, life goes on. Humans fly low, and when they decide to fly higher, they merely pierce a hole up above and smile at the angels... only to ...
... break up the little work I have done into half an hour here, half an hour there and half an hour nowhere. The funny thing is that I keep up a very decent appetite and am equal to any amount of physical exercise that may be demanded of me. In fact if I take care to do nothing but kasrat and croquet and walking and rushing about, I keep in a grand state of health,—but an hour's work turns me again into ...
... are taking part in the defence of hearth and home, never entered an akhara or handled a lathi before, and are now first realising what they ought to have realised long ago, the necessity of physical exercise and training in self-defence. With extraordinary ingenuity this imaginative Sherlock Holmes of Anglo-India has discovered that the Anti-Circular Society, the Bande Mataram Sampraday and the ...
... what cannot or ought not to be assimilated; this by itself is sufficient for mere maintenance, but for assuring health and strength in the body so maintained it has added the impulse towards physical exercise and play of many kinds, ways for the expenditure and renewal of energy, the choice or the necessity of manifold action and labour. In the new life, in its beginnings at least, it would not be ...
... permanently on sports and withdrawing from other things pertinent to sadhana and our spiritual endeavour is a legend and a myth and has no truth in it. Except for the time given to her own physical exercise and, ordinarily two hours or sometimes three in the evening on the Playground, the Mother’s whole day from early morning and a large part of the night also has always been devoted to her other ...
... presence, you know what you must do and especially what you must not do. Love from your mother. 1 February 1935 My dear child, The best thing for your headache is to take plenty of physical exercise (such as gardening for example). 25 February 1935 My sweet Mother, Fill my thoughts with you. Stay always with your little child. Give me a deep and lasting peace. Page 130 ...
... which was out of the ordinary. The urge for adventure lay dormant within him. When he was about twenty, Saint-Exupery did military service but did not like military life with its emphasis on physical exercise. It seems he felt no immediate interest in flying, but was attracted by the sheer adventurousness of the first commercial flights. Shortly after the end of the First World War the first commercial ...
... Cooperation from the mind and the vital (a long process). They are a great force. 5. The body has to be protected and taken care of by an application of the knowledge of health, hygiene, physical exercise, preventive and curative medicine. 6. Growth of the body consciousness - the special role of physical education leading to gradual control, mastery and transformation of the body ...
... further complicated by people's attitudes towards them, and was able to attack them with energy renewed by contact with Nature. For me, walking has always been a form of intellectual as well as physical exercise: it helps me to reach conclusions. Afterwards, things are different: I come back to the world of action, implementation — and routine. In the spring of 1950, routine had become wearisome. Even ...
... the while he was asking the question, Sri Aurobindo kept looking at the time because he did not understand what Champaklal was driving at by his analogy. CHAMPAKLAL: If a man goes on doing physical exercise every day and increases the hours of his exercise every day or week, he will improve his health. Can it be said that if a man meditates more and more he will get concrete results? SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... Naturally you ask how to do it. Actually there is no precise process, no hard and fast rule for learning or acquiring it. It is not like learning a mathematical problem or even a particular physical exercise which you learn by habit and culture. It is nothing mechanical. It is a natural growth. It comes automatically and spontaneously, shows itself to you and in you. You have simply to ask for it ...
... your usual life, without changing anything because of it. Should a girl participate in her normal programme of Physical Education during her periods? Certainly if she is accustomed to physical exercise, she must not stop because of that. If one keeps the habit of leading one's normal life always, very soon one does not even notice the presence of the menses. How can a girl overcome her ...
... two "malkhambs" in particular. Exercising on the "malkhamb" is terrific. I've never seen this special equipment anywhere else.' 'You know, in ancient times, the "malkhamb" was the focus of physical exercise,' Dada explained. Then he started telling him about the different types of "malkhambs" and about the various people who excelled in this in different parts of the country. Then Dada asked ...
... can then be continued on a regular daily basis. One will draw great benefit from Surya Namaskar if, side by side with its practice, one observes the health rules. They are, besides regular physical exercise, nourishing food of the right amount at regular intervals, sufficient sleep and rest, observance of personal and environmental hygienic conditions, a satisfying work and tranquil mind with a happy ...
... Cooperation from the mind and the vital (a long process). They are a great force. 5.The body has to be protected and taken care of by an application of the knowledge of health, hygiene, physical exercise, preventive and curative medicine. 6.Growth of the body consciousness - the special role of physical education leading to gradual control, mastery and transformation of the body. 7 ...
... health and organic functioning. 13 The regimen will include the building up of "nerves of steel" and muscular power, and this will involve regularity and common sense in sleep, food, physical exercise, work, and all other activities. It is not quantification that is important but how it is done, be it sleep, food, games, work or relaxation. On this question human needs differ widely, and ...
... for some years at least, I had done a lot of exercises, dumbbells etc. and some asanas. There is also certain temperamental disinclination. Do not be anxious—there is no necessity of doing physical exercise for realising the supramental! To explain in details what is happening now would take too much time—but one thing is certain: each one must follow his own line irrespective of what the others ...
... your usual life, without changing anything because of it. Should a girl participate in her normal programme of Physical Education during her period? Certainly if she is accustomed to physical exercise, she must not stop because of that. If one keeps the habit of leading one’s normal life always, very soon one does not even notice the presence of the menses. Why are some girls completely ...
... uncle, a mirror of the house, a mat and a couple of skipping-ropes. We took to exercising with great enthusiasm. The role of the group's instructor fell on me and I began working in earnest in order to improve the health and physical fitness of the group as well as my own. I was taken up with physical fitness, the body's strength and its education right from my childhood. My real initiation... teaching me boxing. Then I became a member of the Ballygunj School of Physical Culture, a club run by Biren Chunder. There I started learning boxing, wrestling, freehand, barbell, train ing on parallel bars, tumbling, drills, parades, volleyball, asanas and some Bratachari or folk-dances. The enthusiasm of our physical exercising spread from the Bhattacharya house to the Bhattacharya locality.... never disappointed them. Our club then was growing extremely well. The boys' health continued to improve. The equipment for exercise too began to come. The whole town of Berhampur was appreciative about the club and its activities. One day, Beni-babu, the Physical Education organiser for the districts of Nadia and Murshidabad at that time, came to visit our club and he was very happy to see our ...
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