Three Ways Yoga Reduces Stress and Anxiety
Here is a guest post for you to enjoy. It is written by one of my online friends, Maria Rainer. I took yoga classes for approximately two years and can tell you that yoga really does help a lot with one's anxiety level.
Yoga does more than help your balance, core fitness and flexibility - it helps to reduce anxiety and relieve stress. With the hustle and bustle of today’s society, it’s normal for people to stress about life, money, work, family and whatever else causes daily anxiety. Yoga relieves and reduces stress in three ways:
1. Through regulated inhaling and exhaling breaths. As you inhale, you're sending more oxygen to the brain, which stimulates your nervous system. Exhaling helps regulate this process and releases toxins from your bloodstream, helping your body relax. The double leg raise and certain yoga breaths like alternative nostril breathing are great ways to send oxygen to the brain and circulation to your body thus reducing stress levels.
2. Meditation and relaxation helps you find your center and focus, while using your regulated breaths to relax the mind. Once the mind is relaxed, you're able to transfer your relaxation to the rest of your body while meditating and focusing on this process. Meditation helps you focus on quieting the mind and finding your inner strength when stressful situations arise.
3. Through regulated breathing and meditation, you're able to focus and block out outside noises while focusing on your inner self and your inner strength. This aspect of yoga is also vital for focusing on your breathing and meditation. This may be one of the harder aspects of yoga to grasp – being able to focus and not become distracted with inner thoughts and outside noise. Focus and lack thereof is a major contributor to daily stress; with so much going on, we can struggle to focus on accomplishing one task before we can complete another.
Once you've mastered the aspects of breathing, meditation and focusing through yoga, you're able to calm your nervous system, relax your mind and block out outside noises, which are all contributors of stress.
Bio: Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education, researching various online degree programs and blogging about student life. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.
Categories: stress, ozzieblackcat, anxiety, mental health, His and Hers
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Yes, unless one learns to de-stress in today's rat race society, one will never know that stress is causing vibration inside our body. Our brain and body are connected and and long-term manifestation of emotional stress leads to chemical imbalance. That when the body is unsettled and usually triggers insomnia which is the start of depressive moods.
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I couldn't agree with you more Yoga is great but I have found running gives great relief.
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Hi, The topic that you have discussed in the post is really amazing, I think now I have a strong hold over the topic after going through the post. I will surely come back for more information.
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Yoga is the oldest defined practice of self development. The methods of classical yoga include ethical disciplines, physical postures, breathing control and meditation.Yoga can be very helpful for our overall health. It has been found to be a good way to reduce stress, something that seems to affect the vast majority of us more than ever. Practicing this form of yoga on a regular basis can help lift the spirits of your entire being, while improving and strengthening the nervous system.
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Yoga is a great way to relieve stress and promote good mental health. Never thought of that before. Good read!
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Yoga has long been known to be a great antidote to stress. Yoga combines many popular stress-reducing techniques, including exercise and learning to control the breath, clear the mind, and relax the body.
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Very true! Makes a change to see semoone spell it out like that.
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Stress always can be defeated through exercise and yoga is best for it.
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I've been doing yoga for about 2 years now and love how it helps me with keeping my stress levels low and the flexibility it gives me through the exercise moves we do in each class. If you haven't already tried it give it a chance!
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I believe that looking young start in mind, So I make my self free-spirited and open-minded. I’ve never had to cope, conform or complete. Why do I have to live for others? I am stress-free, except about my term papers and my business, which I consider my sports.
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