Yoga, Ayurveda, and Stress

STRESS is a non specific, conventional ,phylogenetic basic response pattern of a body
                             Dr.Selye, Dr.Levi.

Stress responses in the body can be described at two levels - psychological and physical.

At psychological level, is an alertness of our mind and body towards any demanding, and potentially dangerous situations.
At physical level, there is an increase in the heart rate and blood pressure, increase in the breathing rate, increase of tone in our muscle (such as stiffness), changes in our digestive system (like butterflies in      stomach, irritable bowels, etc), increased sweating, and uncontrolable rapid movements of our eyeballs.                      


Causes of Stress: The factors that mainly influence basic response of stress to physically threatening manifestations are:
- prolonged, unchanged postures
- cribbing, or mulling over a thought continuously
- emotional disturbances of various kinds
- constantly under one emotional pressure or the other
- overdoing of any work.

Science behind stress:

Physiological Aspects of Stress

there is emotional centre near the hypothalamus, which also plays a role in starting the response.
yopu can check out "FIGHT AND FLIGHT " REACTION OF THE BODY for futhure understanding of the cycle,because the adrenaline which are secreted from the adrenal glandsof kidney play a mojor role in this reaction.

How to manage Stress:
Firstly, one needs to accept that stress is an everyday phenomenon and our lifestyles add to it. With that acceptance, these basic, regular observances can certainly help us manage stress in our day-to-day life.

• Regulating one's diet - have food on time, eat healthy. One heavy meal should not be compensated by next meal fasting.
• Regular exercises - some loosening and breathing exercises, Pranayama.
• Abhyanga (full body ayurvedic massage) and steam bath - during weekends, and regularly.
• Lagu sankaprakshalana (cleansing the digestive tract) - twice a month
• Ayurvedic Shirodhara - once in six months.

Full Body Ayurvedic Massage

Shirodhara

What does Yoga do?

Yoga helps to calm down our mind. Slowing down is the trick of yoga,yoga helps to gain mastery over our mind thus helping us to control and regulate our thought process,it bring about equnimity,stability,hormony,equipoise and balance within ourself.

YogaSutra 1.2 says yogah citta vritti nirodhah -  yoga is 'gaining control over the mind.'

                Healthy Body and Healthy Mind for a Happy Living.

Yoga for Spondylosis and Muscular Spasm

Common Bone Related Issues - Spondylosis and Muscle related issues like muscular spasm and spasticity.

Everyone of us once in their lifetime must have heard about or experienced these conditions.
Cervical Spondylosis

Lumbar Spondylosis
Frozen shoulder [medically referred to as adhesive capsuliti]
Fibromyalgia
Muscular spasm of neck and lower back, and more.

These are the new generation disease, which have sprouted out because of  :        
*our incapability to overcome stress,work pressure
*no time for us to relax
*nuclear family,where everybody is busy in their own work,no time to sit and share things
*ready and instant food article which takes long time to digest(no ghar ka khana)
*untimely food habbit,which leads to lot of gas accumulation in our abdomen.
*we sit and work for a long time in a same postures.

what are the symptoms we suffer are:

#  stiffness in our body parts
#  rigidity in any part of our body
#  pain allover or some parts of our body
#  flcuating pains in the body
#  mood variation,irritation even withsmall issues
#  you may have constipation or loose or frequent  bowel moements
#  reduced hunger

how do we overcome:

#  check your food habits (timely and healthy food)
#  recognise and realise your capacity to complete a task(donot overdo things)
#  try to relax in between the work hour for minute or two (techniques like IRT,QRT)
#  go for a weekened ayuvedic full body massage
#  do some regular breathing excercices in the morning before your day starts


techniques:

Yoga helps to slow down the breathing rate thus which in turn relaxes  the muscles,thus helps to overcome the pain,stiffness.thus healing the body.

IRT - tightening of the whole body in a single breath in,and with a breathout realise the whole body ,go for normal brething for a while.

QRT - Just observe you abdomen movements up and down for  5 rounds,then observe your breathing at the tip of the nose 5 counts,then syncronise the movement of breath with the abdomen movement 5 count nad just relax the same way,and continue till your breathing rate slow down.

Chanting OM- a deep breath in and when breathing out chanting om also helps to relax the body.