I can hear a lots of people saying that they don't have time to exercise. It often makes me wonder on how they are not able to spend some time for themselves... and only themselves. It is we who have to do it, no one else can do it for us.
No gift is greater than the gift of knowledge. The knowledge of practice of yoga is perhaps the greatest of them all. It is not at all difficult to acquire at the level you and I can practice. Once we have this knowledge we will not find it a bed of nails, but a bed of roses, a source of radiant joy and of scintillating health.
First of all, we need to be ready for changes and accept them in our life. Sticking on to our old belief system will not help us realize our higher self.
Now I'm going to reveal the greatest secret about the importance of exercising...
The real reason behind why we need to exercise is that it helps us erase the bad imprints in our genes. As we all know, we have in our genes, the imprints of all the living beings, that with a single sense (touch) like plants, two senses (touch and taste) like worms, three senses (touch, taste and smell) like ants, four senses (touch, taste, smell and sight) like snake, five senses (touch, taste, smell,sight and hearing) like elephant. Man evolved with all five senses and additionally with the reasoning capacity as the sixth sense. If we note carefully, we can find that we have in our genes the characteristics of all the organisms and depending upon the environment and the situation, one character shows up. We are sometimes calm like an elephant, sometimes ferocious like a tiger, sometimes cunning like a fox, sometimes creepy like a snake and so on. We do deeds driven by the imprints in our cells. The more the bad imprints, the more we do bad deeds.
We are repeatedly and unconsciously recording bad imprints in our cells through our bad actions. What are bad actions? all the actions that are carried out in an emotional state, causing physical or mental pain to others and ourselves either in the present or future are bad. They create bad imprints in our cells and the imprints prompt the actions when the situation comes. Even when we think of changing them, we are not succeeding, because they are rooted deep into each and every cell of our body. In a particular situation, the cells prompt us to carry out the kind of actions that we are used to. For example, if you are used to take a coffee right in the morning as you wake up from the bed, every morning your cells will prompt you to take coffee immediately after waking up. Similarly if you are used to bang up on somebody when they go wrong, you will be triggered by even a small mistake committed by them.
Bad imprints affect our physical and mental well being. The body gets various diseases and the mind is always distracted. Not only that, they are also transferred to the children through the genes, the children start with a bad credit.
Exercise brings in a positive rhythm in the cells and the body is rejuvenated. By being consistent, slowly we can get rid of all the bad imprints in the cells. Then the body comes under the control of mind. Diseases are cured and prevented.
