Count on Yoga - 30 reasons to do yoga

29. Healing Hope

In much of conventional medicine, most patients are passive recipients of care. In yoga, it's what you do for yourself that matters. Yoga provides you with the tools to help you create change, and you might start to feel better the first time you try practising . You may also notice that the more you commit to practice, the more you benefit. This results in three things: You get involved in your own care, you discover that your involvement gives you the power to effect change and seeing that you can effect change gives you hope. And hope itself can be profoundly healing.