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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a major cause of stress and anxiety worldwide. Due to global lockdown, work, employment, businesses, and the economic climate have been severely affected. It has generated stress among people from all sections of society, especially to workers who have been assigned to cater to healthcare services or those constrained to secure daily essential items.
It is widely perceived that the elderly or those affected by diabetes, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases (CVD’s) are prone to COVID-19.
Life is often stressful. For starters, we have a busy schedule for our college, gym, office, studying late in the dark for tests, juggling sports practice, homework, and breakfast. it is a lot to balance.
Everyday issues can add emotional stress, too such as counseling a lover through a breakup, regretting a disagreement with a parent, weighing a crucial decision, or stressing over whether you'll make final cuts for the varsity team. With lots on your mind, it is easy to feel stressed.
There are many various ways to deal with stress. Talking with friends, exercising, and seeing a faculty counselor are just a couple of. Yoga can help reduce stress because it promotes relaxation, which is the natural opposite of stress. Yoga can benefit three aspects of ourselves that are often suffering from stress: our body, mind, and breathing.
You don't need to wait to feel stressed to try to do yoga, and you shouldn't! People that do a little bit of yoga every day often find they're better ready to handle things when life gets a touch crazy. Practicing yoga builds your ability to calm, focus, balance, and relax.
Lots of people think of yoga as stretching or twisting the body into various impossible-looking pretzel shapes. But yoga is easier than it looks. There are simple poses as well as complicated ones, so there's something for every ability. Yoga requires no special equipment, so you can do it almost anywhere.
Yoga poses are good exercise and can help loosen up the tense muscles in your body. The areas of the body that tend to carry the most stress are the neck, shoulders, and back. But other parts of the body (like the face, jaw, fingers, or wrists) also can benefit from simple yoga stretches.
1. Easy Pose (Sukhasana)
Sit in Easy Pose, shins crossed with your right shin in front. Come into a slight forward bend. Stay for 5 breaths, then put the other shin in front. Put your hands on the floor, then straighten both legs into a Standing Forward Bend.
2. Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana)
When in Standing Forward Bend, use your front thigh muscles to actively pull your kneecaps up toward your hips. With your fingers interlaced and your arms behind your back, lift your arms any amount away from your back. Hold for 5 breaths, then change the interlace by putting the other index finger on top and stay for another 5 breaths. Take your hands to your hips, and your thumbs to the top of your behind. Drop the flesh of your buttocks to the floor to propel you up to stand. Take a giant step out to the right.
3. Wide-Legged Standing Forward Bend (Prasarita Padottanasana)
Turn your feet parallel to each other and place your hands on your hips. Inhale, lift your chest, and with an exhale, bend forward from your hip joints to come into a forward bend. Place your hands on the floor, shoulder-distance apart, fingers in line with your toes. Release your head toward the floor. If your head doesn't reach the floor, you can place it on a block. Hold the pose for 10 breaths. Inhale, come to a flat back, take your hands to your hips, and drop the flesh of your buttocks to come to stand. Heel-toe your feet together and step to the front of your mat to transition into Child’s Pose. Take your knees to the floor, sit on your heels, and fold forward with your head on the floor.
4. Rabbit Pose (Sasangasana)
From Child's Pose, interlace your fingers behind your back, lift your hips, and roll to the crown of your head. Keep pressing the tops of your feet down, so that you can control the amount of weight on your head. Take your hands any amount away from your back. Lower down, change the interlace, lift your hips, and roll to the crown of the head again. Lift and lower 3 times on each side, changing the interlace each time. Create a rhythm with the breath and movement.
5. Side stretch
Take one hand to the floor, walk it away from the body, and drop your head to your ear, with your other arm over your head. Repeat on the other side.
The best part about yoga is that it helps you discover more about your mind, body, and emotions. Yoga can help you become more balanced, calm, focused, and relaxed as you go through life's usual ups and downs.
Of course, you won't instantly feel more positive, calm, or energetic after doing a few yoga poses. As with all good things, the effects of yoga need to build up over time.
