We all know how powerful headstand is. It awaken sahasrara chakra and therefore considered the greatest of all asanas. It revitalizes the entire body and mind. It relieves anxiety and other psychological disturbances which form the root cause of many disorders such as asthma, hay fever, diabetes and menopausal imbalance. It also helps to rectify many forms of nervous and glandular disorders, especially the ones related to the reproductive system.
This pose reverse the effect of gravity on the body. Strain on the back is thus alleviated and the reversed flow of blood in the legs and visceral region aids tissue regeneration. The weight of the abdominal organs on the diaphragm encourages deep exhalation so that larger amounts of carbon dioxide are removed from the lungs
But the big question is, how to stay still when you are up-side down, the reverse position of the one we are comfortable with?
It is hard enough to get up there, staying in balance. It is even harder to stay focus to remain in the position, while it seems like it is much easier just to let gravity do its job - pulling you
back to the mother earth. Up there, every direction leads to falling: either moving right or left, up or down. There is only this invisible thin fine line where your mind should be so your body can stay up straight.
How do you find that fine line and stay there? Which skill do you need? Is it flexibility? Is it concentration? Is it muscle strength? All of them are necessary. But what really needed? It one thing call DETERMINATION.
Your crown which touches the floor surface is not flat. When being up there, nothing is stable, everything keep moving until your mind determine the one point to sustain the weight of the whole body, and from that one point, you form your balance. Once the point is found, your mind needs to determine the fine line starting from that point upward which is to fit our body in. Right there, you are standing on our head, foot pointing up to the sky. Your headstand will not happen, if your mind do not determine that the whole body has to fit in to that thin fine line...
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