- Mukti Gautam
YOGA TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION
Yoga is one of the best ways to lighten your mood and keep depression at bay.
Depression can be overcome with the help of yoga as yoga is a physical exercise that involves different body poses, breathing techniques and meditation which also benefits our body spiritually and enlightens our mind.
Yoga benefits our body from head to toe and helps us in improving focus and attention on how to manage our stress and anxiety level and how to overcome our depression. Yoga poses increases the blood circulation to the brain and enables the production of the mood-elevating hormones.
BENEFITS OF YOGA:
Helps with anxiety and depression
Improves energy
Helps in concentration
Anger-management
Helps in reducing weight
Increase the flexibility
WHAT IS DEPRESSION?
Depression occurs when the person feels that they our hopeless and thinks they are not worthy enough and feel empty inside and they are not able to tell someone or there is no one trust worthy around them to share their feelings. When these feelings aggravate and become intense, it leads to a medical condition called clinical depression.
People dealing with this problem should try to overcome as soon as they can as later on these neglected feelings affect one’s mental health.
Mental health should be taken very seriously as it is spreading fast and the only cure of taking care of your mental health is to surround yourself with those people who genuinely care for you and those people who literally have your back.
6 EFFECTIVE POSES TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION
BALASANA (child pose)

Benefits of balasana:
Calm the brain
Helps in relieving stress
Relieves back and neck pain
Eases anxiety
Stimulates digestion and elimination
Promotes blood circulation throughout body
Highly recommended when you are fatigued
HALASANA (plow pose)

Benefits of halasana:
Regulates metabolism
Helps in weight loss
Improves digestion and regulates appetite
Reduce stress and fatigue
Helps to calm the brain
Aids insomnia, headaches
Calms the sympathetic nervous system
Helps in reliving hypertension
BADH KONASANA (bound angle pose)

Benefits of badh kona asana:
Relives mild depression, anxiety and fatigue
Helps in reliving the symptoms of menopause
Soothes menstrual discomfort and sciatica
The consistency of this asana may help in easing the child birth process
It is also therapeutic for flat feet, high blood pressure, asthma
Improves blood circulation
It is believed that this asana destroys disease and gets rid of fatigue
ARDHA PINCHA MAYURASANA(dolphin pose)

Benefits of mayor pincha asana:
Calms the brain
Relives stress and depression
Strengthen arms and legs
Improves digestion
Prevents osteoporosis
Soothe headaches, insomnia, fatigue and back pain
PARASARITA PADOTTAN ASANA (wide angle standing forward bend)

Benefits of prasarita padottan asana:
Calms jittery nerves and combats fatigue
Improves joint flexibility
Strengthens feet
Improves posture
Provides rest to the heart
UTTANA SHISHOSANA (extended puppy pose)

Benefits of uttana shishosana:
This asana induces sleep and thus helps people with insomnia
Calms the mind
Invigorates the mind
Soothes chronic stress, tension
Stretches spine and shoulder
Strengthens arms, hips and upper back
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