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Amazing Benefits of Yoga and Meditation for Stress

Yoga for Beginners - If you’re new to yoga, start with these 10 basic asanas. Yoga is extremely beneficial for your mental and physical wellbeing.

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Amazing Benefits of Yoga and Meditation for Stress

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  1. Yoga And Meditation

  2. Amazing Benefits of Yoga and Meditation for Stress

  3. Bringing Inner Peace Inner peace refers to a specific state of being mentally and spiritually at peace with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong during phases of stress. Bliss, happiness and contentment are the basic components of a peaceful mind which refers to a disposition free from the effects of stress. Finding inner peace is associated with Hinduism, Buddhism and self-realization. • Improving Overall Health There are various types of yoga asanas and benefits of yoga asanas are numerous. It provides us all round fitness, improves your sexual life, stamina and reduces the problems of migraines and insomnia. Migraine is a headache that affects the nerves of the head and is accompanied by sensory warning signs like flashes of light, blind spots, nausea, vomiting and increased sensitivity to light and darkness.

  4. Aiding Weight Loss It has been proven that the breathing Yoga And Meditationtechniques that are followed during yoga help strengthen our body and mind’s connection. It also aids us to deal with emotions that instigate stress and anxiety. Everyone becomes conscious and makes good choices about their health during the practice of yoga. • Boosting the Immune System Yoga boosts our immune system by enhancing the circulation of blood cells, decreasing stress hormones and stimulating the lymphatic system that aids to protect our body from the evil effects of toxins. Toxin is an antigenic poison of plant or animal origin, especially one produced by microorganisms and causing disease when present at low concentrations in the body.

  5. Improving Posture and Flexibility Yoga practice tones our body muscles and also makes them strong which helps improve our body posture when we sit, sleep, stand or walk. Stronger muscles help prevent sports injuries and other injuries caused due to overexertion. It can help us move better and felt less tired. It has been proven that people improved their flexibility up to 35% after only 8 weeks of yoga. • Improving Heart Health Yoga plays a pivotal role in protecting us from different kinds of heart diseases and also improves cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular disease refers to conditions that involve blocked blood vessels that can lead to heart attack, chest pain and stroke.

  6. Relieving Depression Depression is a mental illness that causes a constant feeling of sadness and lack of interest. It affects one’s thinking, behavior and feelings too. It is the accompanied by headache, chest pain, fatigue, irritation, restlessness, anxiety and insomnia and releases harmful free radicals that damage our immune system. Yoga And Meditation helps to release depression • Controlling Diabetes Diabetes refers to a condition in which there is too much glucose in the blood, and it damages kidneys, nerves, teeth, eyes, feet and blood vessels which can lead to heart attack and stroke. When you follow a regular yoga schedule, your body commences responding to insulin that helps immensely in the reduction of blood glucose and it is also an excellent way to fight stress.

  7. Aids in Asthma Asthma is a disorder that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow, leading to wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and coughing. A recent research proves that those who follow yoga asanas show a significant improvement in lung function and a reduction in asthma symptoms when compared with those who don’t follow the path of yoga. Yoga is really beneficial to our body as deep breathing provides oxygen to our bodies and its various organs which is essential for our survival and aids the removal of waste products and toxins from the body. Deep breathing can control and sometimes cure asthma and yoga postures help provide enough oxygen to our body.

  8. Treating Chronic Back Pain Lower back pain is considered to be chronic when it has been present for more than three months. Chronic back pain can originate from an injury, disease or stress. This type of pain can be felt as bone pain and nerve pain. Yoga stretches act magically for those whose back pain is directly related to depression. Yoga breathing techniques are really effective in the circulation of oxygen throughout the body and breathing also provides an opportunity for meditation which many people consider as the key to overcome pain. Sphinx, pigeon, two-knee twist, spine hamstring stretch, threads the needle and legs up the wall are the important postures of yoga that reduce chronic back pain. Source: http://bit.ly/2dMM6MY

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