Golden Yoga poses for boosting your Mental Health
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Golden Yoga poses for boosting your Mental Health

With the rise in mental issues like anxiety, depression, and stress; researcher and doctors all tends towards the non-medicated harmless spiritual treatment: Yoga. Yoga is a traditional discipline implemented for centuries, especially to seek out physical, philosophical, and spiritual growth.

Apart from physical gain, Yoga’s competency is known best for improving mental health, ranging from enhancing mood, sharping focus, reducing stress and anxiety, and creating a positive atmosphere around suppressing all the negative thoughts and emotions. They are best to keep you blissfully vibrant and clear with associating any extreme expense or side-effect.

 Yoga and Mental Peace

There is nothing more productive and relaxing than the blissfully peaceful yoga session; if you are a first-timer, you can feel the incredibly positive energy around uplifting your mood and increasing your mental well-being.

Ideally, there are numerous yoga postures counted for greater mental health; some of these poses listed can be trusted for reducing stress, tackling depression and anxiety, calming the mind, and other soothing therapy.


Vajrasana-

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Another easiest yoga poses with the greatest benefits, specifically to your mood, patience, and digestion. Vajrasana requires you to sit on your knees, stretching your ankle outwards by bringing your thighs and calves together. Place your palms on your knees and take deep breaths in and out for 30 to 45 seconds.

Benefits- Vajrasana is best for bringing clarity to heart and mind, removing pent-up emotion in your chest, and conquering calmness, and patience with the greatest concentration growth.

 

Padmasana-

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Padmasana is probably the trickiest of all; however, it has the greatest benefits over digestion and spinal strength. It requires you to sit cross-legged and lift one ankle above your opposite thigh closest to your hip (remember above, not tucked). Do the same with your other ankle and rest your palms on your knees, keeping your back straight.

Benefits- Padmasana is the hardest one, but it is remarkably fruitful in improving your mood, enhancing your calmness and patience along getting rid of anxiety and depression.

 

Savasana-

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The iconic savasana is popular among all; it's the most gentle, easy, and comfortable yoga pose you have ever experienced. This requires lying down flat on your back and resting your arm on the ground a little away from your body. Open and face your palm upside and keep breathing for a few minutes.

Benefits- Savasana, also called the corpse or dead body pose is mastered best for mind control, relieving stress, anxiety, depression, and lastly, bringing clarity and peaceful consistency to your thoughts.

 

Chakrasana-

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Chakrasana is another common asana that requires forming a half arc. This can be done while standing by placing your arms high above your head and bending backward while keeping your back straight. Slowly reach your palm to the floor behind you without strain over your back, forming a half-circle. This increases the blood flow in your brain and deals with clarity.

Benefits- Chakrasana is also known as a circle pose, and it's proven best for embracing mental clarity and improving calmness and focus with the greatest energy.

 

Sukhasana

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The easiest classic position Sukhasana is ultimatum against agony and panic, warding depression; This requires you to sit on the floor with crossed legs (left leg tucked inside the right thigh and right leg tucked inside the left thigh and an absolute straight spine. Relax your shoulder and rest your palm on the knees.

Benefits- Sukhasana is also referred to as a Happy pose which provides you strength to deal with the anxiety, depression, stress and ultimately sadness, along with enhancing your clarity and confidence.


Balasana-

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Balasana is another most comforting yoga pose, which states you being totally grounded establishes a solid connection with the earth. This requires you to kneel on your mat with your toes touching one another and knees wider than your hips. Bend forwards and strengthen your arms, resting your hand on the ground above your head.

Benefit-Balasana is also called a child’s pose because of its ease, and it plays a major in releasing tension in the spine and calming your nerves. The posture has a degree in providing emotional control as well.

 

Vrikshasana -

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The Vrikshasana is the basic and balancing asana centered on improving your sense of self. It can be performed while standing straight with ankles flat on the ground. Lift one leg and place the ankle on the inner side of the opposite thigh. Balance and connect your palm together, stretching your hand above your head

Benefits- Vrikshasana is also called Tree pose, In which Keeping your body straight and stretched provides physical and emotional stability and this guarantee better balance and approach over your mind and body.

 

Salamba Sarvangasana -

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Salamba Sarvangasana is the perfect yoga posture for the person with high anxiety trouble; It requires you to lie down on a yoga mat with your arm outstretched alongside your body. And then bend your knees, raising your leg towards your chest. Place your hand on the floor and raise your bent leg overhead. Slowly move your hand to the back to support raised leg straightening. Keep your palm at the back as support to hold half body long in the air.

Benefits-Salamba Sarvangasana is also referred to as shoulder stand yoga pose, which is excellent for reducing anxiety and depression; it is also great for mental clarity, regulating emotion, and releasing negative thoughts.

 

As you move forward practicing these yoga poses, you are definite to experience the positive and spiritual growth growing up with every session. Doing this can calm your stress and help you stay peaceful and relaxed during the many life’s challenging moments.

 

Wish you all the best on your positively psychological and spiritual growth journey!
Ashraf Hamzehbeiky

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