Meditation for Anxiety – Yoga With Adriene
Meditation for Anxiety
One of the most common reasons why people get engaged with meditation is stress. It’s like when you hear the word meditation, stress handling will come next. There is a review concluded that meditation lives up to its reputation as a stress reducer.
If you are stressed, be it mental and physical, it will have a bad effect on our health. Stress hormone cortisol will produce illness in our body for when it’s active it’s releasing an inflammatory chemical called cytokines.
These effects can upset sleep and will also promote depression and anxiety. It can also lead to high blood pressure, and add to fatigue and cloudy thinking.
If you are worried about your health due to stress, maybe it’s about time to start engaging in meditation.
Below are the benefits you can get from meditating.
· Helps lessen anxiety
Meditation is very effective in reducing stress levels, and then leads to anxiety control.
· Promotes healthy emotional state
Meditating can also lead to a positive outlook in life; it could improve your way of thinking that leads to a more self love.
· Improve self-awareness
Like yoga, meditation can help you become more aware of yourself; your strengths will be improved. It’s clearly trying to help you develop a better perspective of yourself and how you relate to those around you. Meditation can make you grow as a more creative person and could help you improve your problem-solving skill.
· Extends your attention span
Meditation increases the strength and endurance of your concentration.
Even just a short period of meditating each day may benefit you. Study found that meditating for just a few minutes’ daily enhanced attention and memory.
Watch this video by Adriene and practice it daily and notice the improvement with yourself and how you could manage your anxiety in a very smooth way. Remember, you have to do it on a regular basis in order to get the benefits of meditation for it would not be effective enough if you will just do it once or just twice and think that you are already master of your own thought, and be consistent to get long term benefits.
Adriene Mishler is an actress, a writer, an international yoga teacher and entrepreneur. She has been recognized by Google as the most searched workout of 2015, and was recognized by The Wall Street Journal. She was also awarded a Streamy in Health and Wellness in 2016.
She has a mission to make tools for mental, emotional, and
physical health accessible for all and you can read about it on her own website and see for yourself how fortunate you are for
having her as your yoga teacher.
You can find more about her Yoga in her social media accounts.