How Yoga Can Support Your Mental Health
How yoga can support your mental health
Yoga has numerous obvious physical benefits, and we are now more than ever aware of its importance in mental wellness.
Yoga is an ancient technique that combines positions with breathing and focus to improve strength, awareness, and body-mind harmony. Yoga has many obvious physical benefits — flexibility, stamina, and cardiovascular health, to mention a few – and we now understand its importance in our mental wellness more than ever.
Self-care is a big topic, which is good, because with life speeding up all around us, we need to calm down and examine our own mental health.
Yoga benefits our mental health in the following ways:
Anxiety reduction
Depression reduction
Improving sleep quality
Defeating exhaustion
Stress reduction
Increasing attention
Tolerance building
The wide neurological benefits of meditation up the ante. It has been shown in studies to improve focus and concentration while also lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Anxiety, stress, and depression are frequently associated with one another. They appear in a variety of ways, making each person's experience of mental illness unique, including:
Physical ailment
Breathing problems
Outbursts of emotion
Low mood
Sleep deprivation
Aches and pains in the body
Addictions and other coping mechanisms
Yoga and meditation help people relax.
Relaxation is promoted by yoga and meditation, which is the polar opposite of anxiety, tension, and depression. They help us keep centered, which is important for stress management. The mind is diverted away from the trigger by pausing to breathe, meditate, or stretch, and a physiologic response of soothing begins.
Our vagus nerve, which is engaged in our parasympathetic nervous system - our rest and digest response – is stimulated by specific yoga and meditation techniques.
These basic routines heighten awareness of what's going on in our bodies, allowing us to spot changes and early indicators of mental illness. How? One technique is to teach us to focus on the current moment rather than worrying about the past or what might happen in the future.
Furthermore, exercise boosts the flow of serotonin, also known as the "happy hormone." As a result, moving and relaxing our bodies helps to calm the mind, and improving our mental health has a favourable impact on our physical health.
A home yoga practise can boost your self-love.