Yoga For Success: Do this Neck Exercise Daily for Success

Learn from a yogi, mystic – Sadhguru, how to be successful in his own words.

To be successful in life, the two fundamental qualities that you must be able to harness are – The prowess of your mind and your body.

If you want to harness the mind, one most important quality is that you must know how to be equanimous. Equanimity gives you access to different dimensions of your mind. If there is no equanimity, in a skewed sense of mind, your ability to use the mind is greatly reduced.

Another dimension that is pertinent for you to achieve is on the level of your energy. You should be exuberant – both physiologically and internally. Only when your energies are exuberant within you, you have the ability to tide over various obstacles that you are expected face in your day-to-day activity as you move towards your goals.

If these two dimensions are brought into your mind and body, that you’re equanimous and you’re exuberant, success will come to you more easily.

But beyond this, to be successful, one needs:

1. Insight,
2. Inspiration and
3. Integrity.

Insight means, you pay attention to life around you in such a way that you are able to see something that most people cannot see.

Inspiration: Another dimension is to be constantly inspired. So it’s very important to be aware of the reason why you are doing what you are doing, to look at the larger dimension or the contribution that you are making through your simple act of whatever you may be doing in your life.

Every action that every human being performs in their life is a contribution of some dimension to this world. Somebody, somewhere will get benefited by whatever you may be doing. So, be conscious of the contribution that you are making. It will keep you constantly inspired.

Integrity is important because when you want to function in this world, how much trust you have generated with all the people that you deal with on a daily basis will determine how easy or how hard your daily efforts are going to be.

If there is an atmosphere of truthfulness, your ability to work will be greatly, greatly enhanced simply because everybody will pave the way for you, rather than setting up impediments for you.

At the end of the day, how successful you are in life just depends on how well you can use your mind and body.

“If you want to be successful, don’t seek success – seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.” – Sadhguru

Benefits of doing Neck Exercise Every Day

If you practice these simple neck exercise every day, it will keep your spine healthy and active and can do many wonders in your yoga practice and daily life which you can’t even imagine. Let’s have a look on some benefits.

• Daily five minutes of neck exercise can help you to release tension, tightness, and stiffness of the neck and shoulders.
• It helps to relieve pain, thereby increases flexibility of the neck.
• It also helps to prevent cervical spine injuries.
• Improve the alertness of mind.
• By relieving the tension in the neck, head and shoulder area, it helps to breathe in fresh energy into the body.
• It helps us to become better oriented towards our goal by enhancing our concentration power.

Best Time to Do Neck Exercise

• Neck practices should be done at the very beginning of your yoga regime.
• It can also be done during office hours to relieve stiffness caused due to sitting in one position for a prolonged period.
• You can do this practice before doing Pranayama and Meditation.

Get the Best out of the Neck Exercises

So before we got into the Neck Exercise, here are a few guidelines that will set optimal conditions and greatly enhance your receptivity of the practices.

• Please ensure cell phones are either in silent mode or switched off.
• It is advisable not to sit for the program with a full stomach or immediately after a meal.
• Please sit with your spine comfortably erect, hands uncrossed and palms open.
• These practices are very safe and simple and can be done by anybody.
• The practices can be done by anyone ages 7 years and above.
• If you wear glasses, while doing the yoga practices, please remove them and keep them aside.

Neck Practice for Success Infographic:

Sources:

• Sadhguru – Isha Foundation
• Sadhguru Channel