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An Alternate Approach To Healing

Yoga serves as an alternate healing practice that promotes self-awareness and helps individuals manage stress by activating the parasympathetic nervous system. It emphasizes deep breathing and mindfulness, which can reduce stress hormone levels and transform stressors into manageable challenges. The practice encourages individuals to recognize early signs of stress and take proactive measures to mitigate its effects on the body.

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An Alternate Approach To Healing

Yoga serves as an alternate healing practice that promotes self-awareness and helps individuals manage stress by activating the parasympathetic nervous system. It emphasizes deep breathing and mindfulness, which can reduce stress hormone levels and transform stressors into manageable challenges. The practice encourages individuals to recognize early signs of stress and take proactive measures to mitigate its effects on the body.

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An alternate approach to healing

"YOGA IS A LIGHT WHICH ONCE LIT WILL NEVER DIM, THE BETTER YOUR PRACTICE
THE BRIGHTER YOUR FLAME." - B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga isn't a work-out but a work-in and this is the point of alternate healing practice to make
us teachable to open up our hearts and focus so that we can know what we already know
and be who we already are. What we feel as stress, is a result of sympathetic nervous
system or the “fight and flight” response: a sudden hike in heart rate, cardiac output,
sweating, blood pressure, shallow breathing, and metabolism, combined with contraction of
muscles. Internally, the fight and flight response slows down digestion and elimination and
reduces blood flow to the internal organs. This stress reaction is beneficial. The fight or flight
response prepares us to respond to any kind of environmental threat by fighting against it or
fleeing from it. But long term, continuous exposure to stress is harmful, placing excess wear
and tear on the body’s systems and severely limiting the body’s natural maintenance and
healing abilities. Yoga emphasises on long, deep breathing and conscious relaxation which
activates the parasympathetic nervous system and promotes its rest and renew functions.
Moreover, recent studies revealed yoga would decrease the level of the stress hormone
levels like cortisol in the blood. The meditative practices of yoga help to reduce the
reactiveness of the mind to stressors and to lessen the intensity of the fight or flight
response. Yoga also teaches us to see potential stressors as challenges rather than threats,
enabling one to avoid the stress response entirely. Its cultivation of physical awareness and
mindfulness helps one to identify the symptoms of stress right at the start of the fight or flight
response. This allows one to quickly take measures to stop and abate the stress response
before it becomes toxic to the body.

I personally believe that the nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the
darkest corners of the body.

A Gireesh Chandra
Registration ID- OSMEC1432

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