First of all, what you need to understand is that experiencing occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. However, people suffering from anxiety have a constant fear and worry about everyday situations. Usually, anxiety disorders consists of repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense fear or terror that reach to its maximum limit within seconds.
There are a lot of anxiety disorders, including Social Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, and much more.
Anxiety: What Are The Symptoms?
Intense fear, worry, and terror
Avoidance of situations that make the anxiety in you pop out
Recurring uncontrollable and obsessive thoughts
Issues of sleep disorders and Insomnia
Constant dizziness and nausea
Cold and hot constant flushes
Having trouble breathing and feeling of breathlessness
Palpitations and recurring severe panic attacks
Excessive sweating and intestinal problems
How Does Yoga Help Fight Against Anxiety?
As you all know, yoga is a scientific system that was given birth to in India hundreds and thousands of years ago. The practice of yoga is often recognised as a form of exercise done for fitness, but in reality it has other numerous benefits and not just fitness. There is a whole new different life in yoga. The practice of various asanas or yoga postures and pranayamas are a great way to help people relieve anxiety.
When a person is anxious, they are constantly under stress and that results in affecting their nervous system severely. The sympathetic nervous system in human beings usually come of use in the times of emergency that includes the acceleration of the heart rate, constriction of blood vessels and raising blood pressure sending you in a fight mode. You even have mood swings due to anxiety. If you are always in fight mode, your stress hormones will increase, you will have an adrenaline rush, and the levels of cortisol circulating in your body will have very harmful effects, both physically and mentally.
Outlined below are a few ways through which yoga for anxiety will assist you.
PRANAYAMAS
Pranayama in literal sense means to control the breath. The practice of pranayama can be done by observing your breath and trying some specific breathing exercises. Starting with pranayama should be the first thing that you ought to do if you want to get rid of your troublesome anxiety because the connection between mind and breath can be very obvious in the issue of anxiety. When you are going through anxiety, your breath can become quick, rigid, held, and choppy. Yoga for anxiety helps you relax and makes you calm. And when you are calm, your breathing tends to become smooth and rhythmic, thereby reducing anxiety.
Mantra Chanting
Apart from the practice of pranayama, mantra chanting is another part of yoga that channels the flow of energy through your mind and body circuit. Chanting is known to usually normalise hormone production, that ends up balancing your moods and overall sense of being. Even balancing your nervous system, reducing unwanted stress and tension from your body is taken care of by Mantra Chanting. Chanting also stimulates your nerves through muscle movement in the mouth and sensation in the outer ear resulting in releasing anxiety from your body.
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