💆🏻‍♀️Practice Shavasana for Stress Relief💆🏻‍♀️ #shorts
Channel: Nirvana - Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta
Date: 2023-06-19

Yoga recognises excess stress as an indicator of the speed at which our body-mind complex is working.

Ayurveda recognises excess stress as a Vata vitiating factor.

This gives a great insight into how to tackle the stress more effectively.

Usually vacation (traveling), partying (weekend culture) & intense exercises (like cardio & weights) are the go-to options for “stress release”. While it feels relaxing superficially, deep within the strain on the body & mind will only have increased because they did not get time to recuperate from all that constant physiological reaction to stress. Wondering why?! Because even those activities are causing the same reactions (stress response) in your body:
* Ayurveda says traveling is known to aggravate Vata.
* Exercise is about voluntarily stressing your cardiovascular & musculoskeletal system.
* I don’t have to explain what happens in the parties😉

You might ask - is it so bad to exercise & travel (I’m intentionally ignoring ‘party’) for stress release? Well, of course not! They are not bad by themselves. But they shouldn’t be the 1st choice, is what I’m saying. 1st & foremost is you need to practice some form of intentional relaxation for the body & mind on a daily basis (as the stress encounter happens on a daily basis!). Then these could give you added benefit with much more scope to enjoy your time & health.

One of the ways you can achieve intentional relaxation is by practicing Shavasana.

Hope that helps🥰 Let me know your questions in the comments 🙌🏻🌺