Mountain Pose helps calm the nervous system and makes you feel good.
Is lockdown and the stressful environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic talking a toll on your mental health? Several studies have indicated a steep rise in mental health problems around the world post the outbreak of this deadly disease.
The sudden change in your normal routine, all that negative news about the pandemic making the headlines, financial uncertainty, fear of infection all these can leave you feeling extremely low.
As exercise is known to lift the mood, many people are trying out different forms of exercise at home during the lockdown. If you're looking for the best exercises to boost your mood, we suggest you try yoga.
Yoga can be beneficial for people with mental health disorders like depression, panic disorders, stress, generalised anxiety disorder and schizophrenia - reveals a new study.
The research team found that people who practiced yoga for 20 and 90 minutes daily for two and a half months experienced less symptoms of disorders like depression. The more they practiced yoga, the more it helped ease symptoms, the researchers added.
"Yoga may provide an additional or alternative strategy to engage people experiencing depression in meaningful physical activity," noted the study, which was published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Performing yoga is known to awaken parts of the brain that influences a sense of calmness, making feel you more relaxed and stress free. Now get started with these 3 most effective feel-good yoga poses to elevate your mood -
This simple yoga pose helps calm the nervous system and control your fight or flight response, and thus makes you feel good. As you perform this asana, you connect to your deep, conscious breathing. This enhances your ability to be mindful and present, which is key for boosting your mood.
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This yoga pose helps strengthen the legs and lower abdomen while calming the mind and releasing negative emotions. Your hips will also become more flexible with regular practice of this asana.
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Downward Dog Pose, Downward-facing Dog Pose is an inversion asana that offers a great full-body stretch as well as helps relieve stress and mild depression.
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