Get Your Work-Life Balance Back With Yoga
Stressful work environments and harried schedules cause difficulty to many people trying to balance their busy lives. More and more, people who have trouble keeping their work and personal lives balanced are discovering yoga exercises. Yoga helps them achieve peace of mind and helps them reach that ideal work-life balance.
The mind-body connection is piquing interest in this ancient practice, and research shows that it can indeed reduce blood pressure and stress, improve your work performance, and even make you age more slowly.
Even though the focus of yoga might vary depending on the environment, its central premise is to relax your body and keep your mind alert and focused. For example, when you do yoga, you focus on body movement, breath, sound or even an object. When your mind wanders, as it inevitably will, you bring your attention back and start again.
The age-old art of yoga gained new interest in the 60’s as part of the consciousness raising activities of the period. But after this, yoga started to decline in popularity. This might be because yoga isn’t quite the same as many other kinds of exercise.
For starters, patience is essential in order to achieve maximum benefits. It offers steady but slow results. This contrasts starkly with the frenzied pace and fast results of aerobics.
Lots of people hurry out to exercise energetically during their lunch break, and then dash back to their workplace. No doubt there are physical benefits, but nevertheless it increases the pressure of an already busy life. In contrast, yoga offers a less stressful and competitive workout, and at the same time imparts a sense of just “being.”
One of the major reasons yoga is making a comeback is because it can be so healing as an activity. The intense focus on fitness created by workout routines such as weight lifting, running and aerobics has led to an increase in injury, particularly strained knees and back and neck pain.
These days, it’s not uncommon for the mainstream medical profession, including orthopedic surgeons, neurologists and chiropractors, to recommend yoga to their patients.
As a matter of fact, it’s becoming more and more mainstream all the time. Many business and hospitals are now offering yoga classes; books on yoga are on the bestseller list, and internet discussion groups on the topic abound.
Surprisingly, perhaps, even the Army has gotten in on the act. It has asked the National Academy of Sciences to study New Age techniques such as meditation to see if soldiers’ performance can be enhanced in this way.
Also, yoga has become popular among those who weight train, run or do aerobics because of its stress reducing benefits.
Around 60 to 90 percent of visits to the doctor in the U.S. are tied to stress. Cost effective and safe, a mind-body approach is an ideal treatment for this condition that doesn’t involve surgery or drugs. Among people who use these techniques, 34% of patients who are infertile get pregnant within six months, while 70% of those who have trouble sleeping or even have medically defined insomnia become regular sleepers. As well, a decrease of 36 percent is seen in the number of people suffering from pain and making regular visits to the doctor.
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