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One of the most profound benefits of yoga is stress management. Imagine a stressful day at work or at home. The fast-paced environment requires you to be constantly worrying about the next thing. With yoga, you can benefit from relaxed breathing with a reasonable degree of control. Such activity allows your body and muscles to relax and think about peaceful thoughts, diverting your focus on stress. Even flexing activities could help a stressed person by loosening the tight muscles. Often when someone is stressed, the muscles are as well.

Like stress, yoga can help with confronting anxiety. anxiety often leads individuals to think about their fears or concerns. Since Yoga helps you to focus, individuals can learn to turn their minds away from the anxiety and focus their thoughts on more tranquil images.

One practice of Yoga, called Anuloma Viloma, is breathing through one nostril to calm the mind and the nervous system. Studies have shown that alternating between nostrils help the connection from one side to the opposite side of ...more

Calm Comes Full Circle - How Meditation Enhances Yoga, and Vice Versa

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