Yoga For Your Mental Health Wellness
balasana pose
3 Yoga poses to help our mental health
Busy lifestyles lead to stress, anxiety and nervousness. Yoga is an Indian spiritual discipline that contains a series of body postures that have the goal of balancing the mind and body of the individual.
Yoga can be practiced by anyone, as this discipline is divided into several levels ranging from beginners to advanced practitioners.
If you feel overwhelmed by all the obligations you have to fulfill daily, Yoga can help you recover your mental harmony. It offers various poses that will balance you internally. If you want to improve your mental health, choose a place in your home where you can be quiet and place a mat on the floor so you can practice the following 3 Yoga poses.
1-Child’s Posture (Balasana)
The Child’s Pose is ideal for beginners, as it is very easy to do. This pose is intended to eliminate mental stress. You must kneel on the mat, then lean forward stretching your arms and keep your hands flat on the floor.
Then bend your trunk until your abdomen touches your knees and your forehead touches the mat. You can keep your arms forward or place them at your sides. Hold this position for one minute or until you feel relaxed.
2-Downward Dog Pose (Adho Mukha)
The Downward Facing Dog Pose is one of the most important postures in the practice of Yoga. This posture serves to relieve mental fatigue after a long day of work.
You must stand in front of your mat, breathe in deeply and raise your arms upwards. When you exhale you must bend your hips until you reach the floor with your hands. From that position, take a step backwards to achieve the inverted V pose. Stay in this position for a few seconds until you feel mental relief.
3-Corpse posture (Savasana)
The Corpse Pose is one of the most powerful postures to achieve MENTAL calmness.
This pose manifests surrender, relaxation and deep inner peace. To practice it you must lie on your back on the mat and allow your legs to relax naturally without doing anything special. The arms are placed slightly open around your body and the palms of the hand are placed facing upwards. You just lie there relaxing, controlling your breathing all the time.
Let your thoughts flow through your mind without focusing on any one thought. Try not to fall asleep.
Stay in this posture for about three minutes until you feel a deep peace.
