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Destress With Yoga: How Yoga Helps Reduce Stress & Improve Wellbeing

As Yoga inspires lives across the world, we explore how it could prove helpful in reducing stress and leading more fulfilling lives.

The practice of yoga is probably one of the oldest physical disciplines known to mankind. It originated in India, where saints and sages would engage in the practice to aid them with spiritual ascension. Regular practitioners, or yogis, were considered people who had mastered control over their physical bodies, and were highly respected. Over the past few decades, the practice has gained worldwide traction from people of different walks of life. Many have often spoken about its physical and mental benefits, and most use it as an effective way to cope with their day to day stress, and help them retain the balance in their lives. Yoga has been widely recommended by physical and mental health professionals for the benefits it offers towards reducing stress and providing mental peace and stability. So, let’s explore how Yoga could help a person manage stress and lead more fulfilling lives.

 

Mental Relaxation
Breathing is essential in the practice and is monitored initially through meditation. This consciousness is then maintained as one transitions through various postures of yoga. Yoga involves a slow progression of physical movements along with the sustained monitoring of one’s breathing which enables a person to become more present and in-tune with their own mind and bodies. This combination of mental and physical focus is a powerful tool to release any pent-up mental stress that one might be carrying.

 

Physical Relaxation
These days, life has become rather sedentary and involves us sitting at desks for long hours. This leads to excessive tension being built up in various areas of the body. The stretches and aasanas involved in the practice of yoga allows the muscles to release blocked tension and makes the body more limbre and agile.

 

Emotional Release
Yoga pronounces that our mind and body are intricately interconnected and one affects the other to great extents. This could explain why emotional pain often translates into physical ailments and why psychological stress often results in aching body parts. Meditation is known for its positive effects on mental and emotional health. It is a key ingredient to the practice, and as you transition through each movement, you will find yourself releasing negative emotional baggages which you had been carrying, and would feel serene, positive, and centred as a result.

The world today is highly demanding and in the midst of it our mental health gets left behind. It is crucial now more than ever that we allow ourselves the time we need to tune ourselves into our minds and bodies. Mental and physical health bear a deep brunt of the current lifestyles we live and yoga could be a very effective way of undoing some of the damage that may have caused. Finding even a brief period to centre our minds, check-in with our body’s needs through yoga and meditation, and indulging in simple acts of self-care and self-love such as eating healthy and regular meals and keeping ourselves hydrated could go a long way into forming us into healthier and happier individuals.

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