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Simple Yoga Techniques for Stress Relief
Many of us in modern life today are under stress all the time. However, we still have to stay in control. If this goes on for a long time, we can react to stress with unhealthy eating habits, release of more stress hormones, and even by manifesting cardiac risk factors. However, there is a way to reduce these risk factors and even reverse them without turning to prescription drugs. All it takes is some discipline and to develop some habits over your lifetime that will work in tandem with your ordinary diet and exercise programs.
Yoga is one of these; it can help you relearn the state of peace and harmony that you want your mind and body to be in. It will help you relax. Read the rest of this entry »
Yoga exercises to reduce high blood pressure
Hypertension is the clinical name for “high blood pressure”. There are two effective yoga exercises that helps lower the blood pressure:
1. Inverted Yoga.
Inverted yoga reverses the action of gravity on the body. In inverted poses, legs and abdomen are placed higher than the heart. In inverted poses, gravity causes the blood to flow easily back through the veins and this brings the blood pressure in the feet to a minimum. This in effect gives skeletal muscles a chance to rest. In Inverted poses, drainage of blood and waste from the lower body back to the heart is increased and disorders such as varicose veins and swollen ankles are relieved.
2. Rhythmic Breathing.
It’s time to learn about breathing, because inhaling and exhaling has the power to nourish the body and calm the mind. If you’re like most people, you take shallow breaths, pull in your stomach when you inhale and never empty your lungs of carbon dioxide when you exhale. Here’s the physiological explanation: Long, slow breaths are more efficient than short, fast ones. Read the rest of this entry »