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Stress Management - Using Yoga to Deal with Stress

One of the most sought-after benefits of yoga today is stress management. Many people are searching for the ability to handle the stresses of life with calm confidence and mental strength.

Many of us have lives that are so filled with responsibilities and demands that we feel exhausted and unable to cope. Life can sometimes feel overwhelming.

Stress has been scientifically proven to detriment health. Stress reduces the capacity of our immune system to fight disease and is thought to contribute to many illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, skin diseases, digestive problems and diabetes.

Stress has three main components:

1. The stressor – an object, person, event or experience that stresses us.
2. The stress response – our reaction or response to the stressful event, in which our sympathetic nervous system gives us a boost of the energy we need to either fight the stressor, or to run away from it. We either resolve the situation or we put it on hold to deal with it another time.
3. The recuperative phase – in which we need to deeply relax and rest in order to get the energy to face more stressful situations as they arise.

Yogic techniques are some of the most powerful tools we have for stress management. They improve both the stress response and our ability to rest. They improve our general health, our mental health and quality of life in a holistic way.

Yoga relaxation techniques support recuperation from exhaustion and restore mental peace. Yoga Nidra, for example, is one of the most powerful methods to calm our entire nervous system. The rest derived from Yoga Nidra can be more effective than hours of sleep.

Meditation techniques help us to still our minds so that we make better decisions and recuperate from the difficulties of life more effectively.  Yogic breathing techniques have the power to inject energy into the nervous system.

Yoga and meditation help us to restore calmness and vitality so that we can face each day and each moment with energy and stillness. Rather than being swamped by the challenges that come our way, yoga helps us to manage stress with a more stable, broader and joyful perspective.

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