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    Benefits of Yoga For Mental Health: 2. We Get Used To Observe Our Body and Become Aware of The Information It Has For Us

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    Yoga has benefits for mental health by promoting proper functioning of the autonomic nervous system, allowing people to become aware of their body's needs and limits through different postures, and helping people learn to be present and manage thoughts by focusing on internal sensations. It improves anxiety, depression, quality of life, mood and heart and lung function similar to exercise. Yoga produces no harmful side effects and can reduce overall anxiety and depression symptoms by about 40% both on its own and with other treatments.

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    Yoga has benefits for mental health by promoting proper functioning of the autonomic nervous system, allowing people to become aware of their body's needs and limits through different postures, and helping people learn to be present and manage thoughts by focusing on internal sensations. It improves anxiety, depression, quality of life, mood and heart and lung function similar to exercise. Yoga produces no harmful side effects and can reduce overall anxiety and depression symptoms by about 40% both on its own and with other treatments.

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    Yoga has benefits for mental health by promoting proper functioning of the autonomic nervous system, allowing people to become aware of their body's needs and limits through different postures, and helping people learn to be present and manage thoughts by focusing on internal sensations. It improves anxiety, depression, quality of life, mood and heart and lung function similar to exercise. Yoga produces no harmful side effects and can reduce overall anxiety and depression symptoms by about 40% both on its own and with other treatments.

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    Yoga for better mentalmental

    health
    Benefits of Yoga

    for mental health


    Yoga is as effective as exercise in
    improving stress, quality of life, mood,
    heart rate variability and lung function.

    1. Promotes the proper functioning of

    the autonomic nervous system.


    One of the main benefits of this practice for
    mental and emotional health, studied in depth by
    renowned authors in the field of
    psychotraumatology such as Bessel A. Van Der
    Kolk (2014), is that it favors the proper
    functioning of the autonomic nervous system.
    This system is fundamental for our survival, in
    charge of reacting to the different stimuli coming
    from the environment, most of the time
    unconsciously.

    2. We get used to observe our

    body and become aware of the

    information it
    has for us.
    Through the realization of postures with a meditative

    attitude, the attention is placed on the different parts of

    the body, which means connecting with these parts and

    observing what they need and where their limit is.

    Maintaining a posture requires paying attention to the

    different parts of the body that are taking prominence,

    either by the tension of the posture or the coordination

    effort required. In addition, all parts of the body are

    worked, forcing you to become aware of each of them,

    from the feet to the crown of the head.

    Yoga improves overall anxiety and

    depression symptom scores. It does

    so by approximately 40%, both on

    its own and as an adjuvant

    treatment. It produces no harmful

    side effects.

    3. We learn to be in the present

    moment, manage thoughts and

    tolerate internal sensations.


    Stillness meditation, which often appears in yoga practices,

    helps us to quiet the mind and pay attention to what is

    happening and to our internal sensations, again promoting

    optimal regulation of the autonomic nervous system. It

    teaches us to return to the present moment when thoughts

    and sensations related to the future and the past appear, to

    manage thoughts and to tolerate internal sensations.


    References:
    Bessel A. Van Der Kolk (2014). The body keeps score: Brain, mind, and body in overcoming
    trauma.
    Stephen Cope (1999). Yoga and the Quest for the True Self.

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