Yoga and Your Heart

A study of women with heart disease shows those practicing yoga improved blood pressure and insulin levels.

Yoga is good for your heart. A study of 103 heart patients showed that those practicing yoga in addition to standard medical therapies experienced a small but significant decrease in blood pressure and similar small decreases in insulin and glucose levels. This news was reported on June 12, by Associated Press writer Carla Johnson.

Though the yoga method tested was Transcendental Meditation, which funds much medical research, I believe the meditation techniques you and I can easily do are likely to have the same effect. Why? Meditation takes us within, to a place of calm, peace, love, and connection to our source energy.

A human being's natural state is healthy; I know it doesn't seem that way with our dependence on medications, but studies such as this are showing us that natural therapies improve health.

When we are optimistic, positive in our thinking, focused on peaceful, calm, loving behaviors and feelings, we are healthy. Try it.