“Health is Wealth”

The idiom stands true to its core, now more than ever. 

Today, shaken by the pandemic, our mental and physical health has gone for a toss. Thus, it is imperative to find ways to keep sane and well-balanced.

Want to know how you can sail through the Covid-laden mental and physical block? 

By practising Yoga and Meditation!

Being an ancient form of exercise, yoga and meditation help you connect deep within yourself, contributing to your overall health and well-being. 

It comprises asanas and stretching the body through hand and leg movement. The various postures or poses focus on core strength-building, improved breathing, and flexibility. It also includes meditation which helps calm the mind, gives you inner peace by relieving you of all the stress and anxieties.

Therefore, practising yoga and meditation greatly influences and revives the body and mind. Together, they rekindle you, clear your mind and body of all the toxins and negative thoughts, thereby improving the quality of life. 

Want to dive deep into the tranquillity of meditation and yoga to alleviate your anxieties, pain and worries? Want to learn the benefits yoga and meditation hold in store for you?

Then read them along.

Benefits of Yoga and Meditation

1. Provides Flexibility Yoga involves stretching the body to form postures. It includes soft, easy-paced poses and movements and weight-bearing postures that help strengthen bones. 

So, practising asanas like Bikram and Iyengar yoga help to relieve chronic body and back pain, improve spinal flexibility, and benefit the movement of joints and muscles.

2. Sound Sleep

Yoga helps to overcome the problem of lack of sleep. If you have insomnia, you can benefit from meditation and yoga techniques. Regular yoga practice improves your sleep pattern, clears your thoughts, reduces stress and anxiety, and allows you to have a sound sleep.

3. Instill Happiness

 When you regularly practise Yoga and Meditation, it makes you more contented. Mediation helps you have clarity of thoughts and to control your mind better. It gives you inner peace to calm your anxieties and stress. Performing Yoga brings you joy, as you feel positive and peaceful, and relieves of prevailing tension at home, work and life. When you feel happy from within, it reflects on your skin as well.

4. Improve Breathing

Practising Pranayama, the breath control yoga asana, helps alleviate breathing problems, like mild to moderate asthma. It helps to synchronize the breath. It involves a simple breathing technique, i.e., inhaling and exhaling simultaneously with one nostril covered, thereby allowing a profound flow of oxygen into the lungs resulting in improved breathing. 

Thus, yoga and meditation work wonders for people suffering from breathing problems.

5. Good Heart Health

Yoga and meditation make it easy to maintain good heart health. Practising specific yoga asanas like Ardha Matsyendrasana (Sitting Half Spinal Twist) provide cardiovascular benefits, like managing heart rate, lowering cholesterol levels, and increased blood circulation. In addition, meditating for nearly 10 minutes a day helps control the blood pressure and reduce stress-enabling hormones, allowing for better blood flow throughout the body. 

Thus together, they improve heart health, meaning a lower risk of hypertension, heart diseases, and stroke. 

Bottomline

It is essential to take time out for yourself- practice Yoga and Meditation to combat the ongoing pandemic stress and the terrifying demands and challenges of the competitive, mean world. They help you endure stress and make you a better person- physically, mentally and emotionally.

Thus, incorporate them into your daily life, practice the varied yoga asanas to gain the benefits, and keep your body, mind and soul healthy.

Wisdom Words: Stay Indoors, Stay Safe, Stay Calm and Above All Stay Physically And Mentally Healthy