Yoga for mental health!

I need a break……I need a vacation, how will I manage to take leave from my office?I need to take some time out for myself….I am sure these conversations must have been a part of your life now. Everyone around us is moving in a vicious cycle of routine life. We are so engrossed in living as per our daily routines that we often transform into becoming mere machinery.

The monotony seeping in and the loss of spontaneity asks for a revival which is possible through ‘spiritual awakening.’ Spiritual awakening is not just all about sadhus, sannyasi and religion but beyond the physical ability of life. Spirituality can have a universe full of meanings, it is a broad concept and can have many explanation and interpretations depending on different individuals. On a whole, the concept exists to satisfy the deeper human thirst for peace, mystery and truth on this planet.

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For some, it can mean attaining peace of mind and soul by vouching for meditation and yoga gaining spiritual awakening. For others, spirituality can be attained religiously.

Spiritual Yoga poses that you can begin with:-

Mental alertness can have you survive but mental awareness fastens the process of spirituality in your life. To attain spirituality one can indulge into these Yoga poses.

Anjali Mudra

This posture is takenfrom greeting culture of Hindus ‘Namaste.’ The mudra involves a prayer position where one has to fold palms and create a very narrow space in between them to channel positive energies. This helps in relieving stress, clams one's mind and helps improve focus, besides many more benefits that helps one get closer to inner peace!

Cobra Pose

Cobra pose is related to the shedding of the cobra’s skin and the renewal of the fresh skin. This pose engages your back to lift your heart without any help as cobra does by the use of its spine to lift its head. Its believed to have helped many not only strengthening the spine but helps relieve immense stress and any sort of fatigue!

Tree pose

The tree pose also known as Vrksasana helps you to align and channelize your life with the beauty and wisdom of nature. The beauty of the pose is that it requires your legs to be rooted strongly just like a tree while the dispersion of energy in the environment demands one to be both steady and flexible. Besides strengthening one's legs, it also helps alertness and concentration levels, which further helps in getting rid of any unnecessary negative thoughts!

Mountain Pose

This is a standing pose known as Tadasana. In this pose you stand with your feet grounded and can vision yourself as a rock solid mountain manifesting steadiness and expansiveness! In the later stage you can actually vision your view with the bird eye angle and see everything from the above. Everything seems possible when you practise this pose daily.

Anjaneyasan

This is a posture of acceptance where you stretch your arms towards the source of all creation, and release all the negativities by accepting all the experience you had and learning from it. With the back bending over your back leg you open your heart to the potential divine connection. Not only strengthens one's muscles, but also helps open up chest and shoulders and to the flexibility of body, mind and soul!

Happy baby pose

The Ananda Balasana is a joyful posture resembling an image of when we were little. The pose is the return to the innocent stage of being born when holding your own feet was a delightful feeling. This brings in teaching of appreciating little things in life. As the name suggests, it helps ease any sort of stress and anxiety, if done regularly.

If you can feel that you are calmer and feel better after exercising this treasure of yoga poses, you can level up with more extensive yoga practices for attaining inner peace.

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As the name suggests, it helps ease any sort of stress and anxiety, if done regularly.