Health for Life – PPZ3O-A Unit 1
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Lesson 1: The Health Triangle
Key Questions:
1. Exercise is an essential variable that contributes to our daily lives and health. However, some people may not have time to incorporate exercise into their life styles due to work or even taking care of their children. An alternative for such an individual would be to try to incorporate some sort of physical activities in parallel with their daily routines.
There are many ways to stay active during the day without even realizing that it is in fact a form of exercise. Examples of this would be taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Light walking …show more content…
Yoga Therapy
Yoga is a system of techniques that can be used for a number of goals, from simply managing stress better, learning to relax, and increasing limberness all the way to becoming more self-aware and acquiring the deepest knowledge of one’s own self. The core of Yoga’s philosophy is that everything is supplied from within the individual. Thus, there is no dependence on an external figure, either in the sense of a person or god figure, or a religious organization.
No one knows exactly when Yoga began, but it certainly predates written history. Stone carvings depicting figures in Yoga positions have been found in archeological sites in the Indus Valley dating back 5,000 years or more
There is a common belief that Yoga derives from Hinduism yet others see this as a misconception. It is argued that Yoga actually predates Hinduism by many centuries. Ancient seals unearthed in the Indus Valley provide clear evidence of widespread Yoga practice earlier than 3,000 B.C.E.
The techniques of Yoga have been adopted by Hinduism as well as by other world religions. Yoga is a system of techniques that can be used for a number of goals, from simply managing stress better, learning to relax, and increasing limberness all the way to becoming more self-aware and acquiring the deepest knowledge of one’s own