End Your Stress With Yoga Getting Started
Would you like a few yoga techniques to end your stress with yoga; after a long day at work? The first de-stressing technique or Asana is called the Nishpandabhava. The Sanskrit word, Nishpandabhava comes from Nishpanda meaning passive and bhava meaning stance. Put your favorite piece of relaxing music to start.
Then just let go of your hands, legs, feet; loosen all the muscles and sit reclined against the wall. This activity regulates your breathing and steadies the mind. The music will absorb all your attention, synchronizing you breathing to the beat of the music. When you are breathing deeply, focus your attention on your third eye.
Stay in this pose for 10 minutes. This posture helps reduce blood pressure as a result of reduced heart beat. This asana takes your mind into the alpha state of meditation due to reduction of stress hormones in your blood and relaxation of muscles. The next pose, the Shavasana is similar but relaxes the back, too.
The word Shava, meaning a corpse and asana, meaning a pose is to focus on the breath and slowly relaxing your muscles. Lie with your on a floor-mat. Taking a deep breaths focusing on relaxing your toes, the chest, shoulders, neck, chin, jaws, mouth, tip of your nose, space between your brows, forehead then the mind.
Yogendra Pranayam is of paramount importance. Breath or Vayu is called Prana and the usage is called Ayam. Hence, Pranayam means the correct usage of breath by the body. This technique ensures that all the cells in the body receive oxygen in proper amounts.
Lie flat on your back and bend the knees such that the feet lie at the shoulder’s width; this helps the muscles of the abdomen, chest and back to relax. Place one of your hands on the navel to help you focus attention on your breathing. Do not bloat your stomach but feel your abdomen rise with the deep inhalation. Now exhale and feel your stomach return to its relaxed state.
Now just contract your stomach muscles, taking care that you do not contract the chest. These series of movements help relax the abdomen, promotes circulation and massages the organs held within. Practice this asana in cycles of 10 seconds. All the above Asanas help discipline the mind, give clarity of thought, steady the breathing and cultivate an attitude of being a spectator of the world. These steps will help end your stress with Yoga.
If you want to release your stress with yoga, then start today. Stop putting this off till tomorrow, it will never come.
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