Tag: Relaxation

Do you often experience situations where it seems that things are falling out of place and all of a sudden stress and anxiety become...

Preventing digestive disorders is key. Eat foods with protein (encourages tissue growth), vit C (fights infections), iron (replenishes hemoglobin after excessive bleeding), omega-3s (avoids depression), and calcium. Eat foods (soups, porridges, ghee) that bring your vata dosha to normal levels. Keep your perineal area clean. Indulge in yoga, warm oil massages, and low-intensity workouts.

When you're under stress, your heart rate speeds up, your muscles tighten, your blood pressure rises, you start to sweat, and your breathing quickens. Biofeedback (audio and/or visual feedback on these parameters) helps you make self-corrective changes to improve your health. As you learn to read and adapt to external signals, you also become better at recognizing and using internal cues.

Keep a check on your diet and eliminate processed and junk food to keep your mood swings from fluctuating. Exercise regularly to keep negative thoughts at bay and for better sleep. Mingle with people, join a support group, try volunteering to boost your confidence. Practice meditation, deep breathing exercises and yoga to relieve stress and anxiousness.

Relaxation is the state of being free from tension and anxiety. Common everyday stressors disturb our peace of mind. Breathing and mindfulness can help achieve ultimate solace and bring balance and peace back to the inner self. Creative activities like drawing or writing, talking to friends, a stroll in nature, can give you fulfilment and keep anxiety and stress at bay.

Learn to harness relaxation within intense activity by focusing on simple cues like keeping your face relaxed. Meditation can help you recover better and expand your fitness limits. Engage your will power with simple incremental goals. Let your mind ruminate on positive words like "strength", before a workout or after meditating.

Matcha tea is considered better than green tea because of its higher antioxidant levels, chlorophyll, and other amino acids. It’s smoother and tastes softer due to absence of stems and veins. Studies at Tufts University used ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) method to discover that Matcha possesses an amazing 20x more oxygen than pomegranates or blueberries.

Progressive muscle relaxation is a systematic technique for managing stress.Start by getting into a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Place the feet flat on the floor, legs uncrossed and your hands resting comfortably at your side or on your lap. Begin by noticing your breathing, noticing your abdomen rise and fall with each breath.

Acupressure points are places on the skin that are especially sensitive to bioelectrical impulses in the body and conduct those impulses readily.Two acupressure points that are very effective for stress and and promoting relaxation are the third eye acupressure point and the sea of tranquility acupressure point. Also, a new set of techniques for promoting relaxation are referred to as Energy Psychology techniques and ‘meridian therapies’ since they work with the qi that flows through the body’s meridians.

Meditation consists of several styles and techniques. Here are two easy methods for beginners. Grounding: Sit comfortably on a chair with your feet flat on the ground, place palms on your lap and close eyes. Focus on a particular point, inhale and as you exhale mentally let go of anything that is causing stress. Benson's Technique: This involves the repetition of a word or phrase tagged with passively disregarding thoughts that come to you during the process.

Breathing is a powerful trigger to relaxation. These 3 simple breathing exercises will help you relax better. Belly Breathing: Lay down, place one palm on your chest, the other on your waistline. Slowly inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. Counting Breaths: Lay down, inhale through the nose, hold your breath for 6 or more seconds and exhale from the mouth. Qigong exercises: Sit straight, bring palms towards chin as you inhale and push them towards the ground when you exhale.

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