If you’re looking for a way to calm down, relax, and find some peace in your life, yoga is a great place to start.
Yoga’s benefits include improved flexibility, but it also offers something else: the ability to help you become more centered and focused. When you’re able to focus on your body and breath while performing a series of poses (asana), it helps you feel more connected with yourself.
Yoga can also improve your mental health. Studies have shown that yoga-based treatments on depressive symptoms overwhelmingly concluded that yoga can now be considered an effective alternative treatment for MDD.
There are a number of various anxiety disorders, such as generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, and even specific phobias are considered anxiety disorders. Chronic stress can also sometimes be categorized as an anxiety disorder. Yoga nidra; a type of yoga, which is a body scan/guided meditation, has been shown to reduce symptoms of anxiety in it’s participants.
There is research which indicates that yogic breathing may actually influence the brain’s cardiorespiratory center to improve functioning
And meditation? That’s another way to achieve inner peace. Meditation gives you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit both your emotional well-being and your overall health. It helps you deal with stress, anxiety and difficult situations, which makes you happier and feel better—all of which leads back to feeling like yourself again!
