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Yoga for Stress Relief — Achieve Your Goals Faster

October 22nd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Want to achieve your goals fast? Yoga can help. It’s not just an exercise program: it’s a way of creating the life you want.

You can choose any goals you wish. Perhaps you want to lose weight, or create more abundance in your life. Perhaps your relationships aren’t as happy as you wish they were… whatever you want to achieve, will help you to achieve them.

Why? Because yoga relieves stress, and when you’re relaxed, you can see many more opportunities and possibilities. Yoga also gives you energy.

Here are three ways in which you can achieve your goals faster with yoga.

1. Yoga Helps You to Focus on What’s Really Important to You

You know what’s important to you: it’s your loved ones. It’s also building the life you want. When you complete a yoga session, whether it’s taken you five minutes or an hour, you’re refreshed. The kinks are ironed out of your body and mind.

Solutions to challenges will be evident to you.

2. Take the Focus You Achieve in Yoga Into Everyday Life

Yoga helps you to focus. This is a learned skill. You’ll find that the longer you practice yoga, the more the relaxed concentration skills you learn on the mat spill over into everyday life.

This means that you’re more productive at work. At home, you enjoy your family more. Irritation vanishes from your life. You sleep better too, and when you wake in the morning you’re truly refreshed and raring to go.

3. Use Yoga Meditation to See Yourself Achieving Your Goals

Visualization is part of yoga meditation. You’ll find that visualization is handy when it comes to achieving any goal you set. You can see yourself as the person you want to be, and the steps to becoming that person will become plain to you.

Yoga is a wonderful way to relieve stress, but it can also help you to achieve your goals. Set some goals today.

Enrich your life with yoga today

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Yoga meditation for stress relief - total relaxation

December 5th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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When you’re stressed, spending just ten minutes in yoga meditation can bring you back to yourself.

In “Yoga and Meditation (Dhyana)” meditation teacher George Feuerstein presents this quote:

The Mahabharata (13.294.16) characterizes the meditating yogin in the following pertinent way: “He does not hear; he does not smell. Neither does he taste or see, or experience touch. Likewise his mind ceases to imagine. He desires nothing, and like a log he does not think. Then the sages call him ‘yoked’ (yukta), ‘one who has reached Nature’ (prakritim apannam).”

If you’ve ever tried yoga meditation, achieving such a state can seem impossible. The more you “try” to meditate, the more your mind jitters with a thousand thoughts a minute, your legs hurt, your nose itches - you’re much too aware to even believe that the yoga meditation state is possible for you.

However, even trying to still your mind - just trying to let go - puts you well on the path to this state.

If you approach your yoga meditation sessions without any preconceptions at all, and just let yourself be exactly as you are, you will achieve this state.

Long before you reach this state, the ten minutes you spend with yourself each day relieve stress, and will make a wonderful difference in your life.

Try it - and try yoga exercises too.

Natural Stress Relief - breathe and laugh

November 15th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

With family, career, bills and a hundred other daily worries, it’s only natural to get stressed.  But stress is bad for your health, which can lead to more expenses and worries for you, in turn creating more stress. 

You can feel caught in a vicious cycle; but you don’t have to be.  There are many things you can do to get lasting stress relief.  So as not to stress you out even more than you already are, this article will concentrate on natural stress relief remedies rather than medications that may worry you.

Breathe

The easiest, quickest and most inexpensive natural stress relief you can get is to take a deep breath.  A series of deep breaths not only relaxes your body, but brings more oxygen to your brain, which may help your thinking abilities.  Check yourself when you are really stressed – you start to pant or hyperventilate which tenses your body up and lowers your oxygen.

Just how deep is a deep breath?  Inhale to the count of five, hold it for a count of five, and then exhale to the count of five.  As your body relaxes, you can gradually lengthen these counts to seven or even ten.  You only need to do it for a minute or two in order to give your body a time-out.  That’s all there is to it.

If you don’t get enough sleep, you will be stressed.  Without enough sleep, it can very difficult to make decisions or put anything into a proper perspective.  Check with your doctor to see if there’s any help he or she can give you for your sleep problems.  While you wait for your appointment, here are a few things you can do to help promote better sleep.

Cut back on caffeinated drinks at least three hours before bedtime. Darken the windows, even if you have to nail a dark colored towel over it.  Sounds silly, but this helps a lot of people. Use scents that promote deep breathing and relaxation.  Essential oils are best, even the smell of chamomile tea can soothe.  Each person reacts differently to each essential oil, but lavender and frankincense are generally proven to promote deep breathing, relaxation and a feeling of serenity.  Find the scent that helps relax and comfort you. 

Smile and relieve stress

Another easy and inexpensive natural stress relief remedy is to laugh.  Go ahead; laugh out loud now for no reason at all.  Feel better, don’t you?  And you probably made passersby laugh, too, helping them to de-stress.  That’s the best natural stress relief of all.

Exercise for stress relief

When you exercise, you get rid of stress hormones which can damage your body over time. One of the best exercises is yoga. When you do a few simple yoga stretches, you bring your body and mind into balance.

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