Balancing asanas in Yoga have a much deeper relevance. Balancing postures get your focus & attention working just right to get you in the moment and prevent the fall. From this perspective, the balancing asanas are one of the most focus-intensive set of asanas that you cannot perform without mindful awareness.
While standing on one foot, anything high on your mind automatically takes a second priority. To be in a balancing posture for even a few seconds can be intense yet deeply calming. You are just there in the moment without letting your mind waver. Thus, balancing asanas train not just the body for balance but mind for strong focus & concentration too.
However, even better than that, the balancing asanas are deeply grounding as your natural balance adjusts itself to align with the universal balance that brings in stillness, calm and a sense of being, not doing! In balancing postures you can only attain and maintain the balance when your center of gravity aligns with the Earth's gravitational force to come to a state of complete equilibrium. This metaphysical aspect of balancing postures is about oneness with the universal forces. With that oneness comes stillness, balance, connection with the higher self and being fulfilled in that moment.
Another aspect of balancing asanas is keeping the balance on to hold & stay in the posture. Thus, a sense of stillness automatically gets imbibed because without stillness you cannot hold & stay.
From the physical perspective, this attempt to constantly maintain the balance represents a strong synergy between the mind and the body with the typical characteristics of two coming together with consciousness to hold you where you are. Thoughts, feelings, attention, bones, muscles, limbs, nerve impulses, all become one to attain one single goal of balance in such postures.
When all your resources work in one single direction, the energy flows one side without any distraction and thus you attain a state of your best potential in that moment of balancing asana. That's the beauty of balancing postures.
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