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2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：阅读理解 1.You may have heard about the HYPERLINK / \o Yoga gets women with chronic, back pain \t _blankmany benefits of yoga, but a recent New York Times story, has stirred up HYPERLINK / \o Response to NYT Article – How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body \t _blankmore than a little controversy in the yoga community. HYPERLINK / \l comments \o How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body \t _blankHow Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, by science writer William J. Broad, quotes a long-time yoga teacher who ...has come to believe that the vast majority of people should give up yoga altogether. Its simply too likely to cause harm. He goes on to describe a number of cases where people have been injured doing yoga, including himself. The research in the article isnt groundbreaking: doing any form of exercise you could potentially hurt yourself. If you look at the HYPERLINK / \o Most Hazardous Sports \t _blankinjury rates of other physical activities, the number of injuries sustained from yoga would pale in comparison. Practicing yoga is just like anything in life: You have to push yourself in order to grow. But you also have to know your limits and when youre breaking them. If you stick to your comfort zone, youll never be able to increase your flexibility. If you push to the point where youre not only uncomfortable, but in real pain, youll likely injure yourself. The reasons that yoga causes serious injury”, according to the Times story, range from students physical weaknesses to inexperienced teachers pushing too hard to the growing number of inflexible urbanites who sit in chairs all day trying hard to twist themselves into difficult postures. Yoga is called a practice for a reason. You dont have to be perfect. You dont have to tackle every pose. It doesnt  HYPERLINK / matter if you can touch the floor with your palms during your first forward bend or your thousandth, or if you never get there. We go to the mat to learn to better listen to what our bodies are telling us,