Hello 2019! Whatever your New Year goals and resolutions may be, I bet we can all agree that relieving unwanted stress ranks at the top of the list. In our super charged and fast paced lifestyles these days, chronic stress spawns numerous mental and physical health problems such as anxiety, depression, weight gain, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and can increase … [Read more...]
How To Relieve Stress With Fitness
I work out a lot. A lot! After losing one hundred pounds, fitness has just become a regular part of my life. Yet, despite all of my workouts, I can remember asking a personal trainer why the hardest muscle on my body seemed to be the one sitting right on top of my shoulders, at the base of my neck, instead of my glutes? I’ll never forget her response. She laughed … [Read more...]
Stress And Your Skin
While dermatologists are still debating whether stress actually causes skin disorders, they seem to agree that stress definitely triggers or aggravates skin conditions such as acne, hives,eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, warts, cold sores and blisters. And even if stress does not actually show up on your skin as one of these conditions, it … [Read more...]
Kundali Yoga to Fight Stress
It is true that positive stressors can be good for us and good for our nervous system. It is only when the stress is too extreme, too prolonged, inappropriate to the challenge or accompanied by strong negative emotions like fear that the stress load gets unmanageable. In Sanskrit the word kundalini means life force. Literally translated the word kundalini actually … [Read more...]
Yoga & Stress
Stress has been described over or lack of stimuli. Too little can lead to depression, lethargy, feelings of being devalued and lack of focus. Conversely, too much stress can lead to exhaustion "burn out" or even "nervous breakdown". Yoga, on the other hand minimizes impact of stress on the individual. Yogic science believes that the regular practice of asanas and pranayama … [Read more...]
