Yoga to fight Depression and Anxiety
Hormonal fluctuations during menopause can cause anxiety and depression.
These fluctuations can affect serotonin, a brain chemical that promotes happiness and well-being. When hormone levels drop, serotonin levels also fall, which can lead to sadness, irritability, and anxiety.
In combination with common treatments like therapy and medication, Yoga helps to manage depression & Anxiety.
Nadi Shodhana
Slow and deep breathing during practising this Pranayama technique can be relaxing and calming effect on mind.
Nadi Shodhana increases parasympathetic activity and helps an individual to de-stress.
Meditation
Meditation works by changing how your brain reacts to stress and anxiety.
When you meditate, you can override the triggers stimulated from the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.
This explains why your stress levels fall.
Salamba Sarvangasana
This Asana releases happy hormones like dopamine in your brain.
This reduces the amount of anxiety, stress, and depression.
This pose helps to develop calmness and peace of mind. In this position, it is possible to shut off distracting thoughts from the mind, attaining a more reflective internal state.
Balasana
The forward bend in Balasana helps calm the mind and relieve stress.
The sense of being supported by the earth in this pose can provide great emotional comfort in times of anxiety and depression.
Janu Sirsana
Janu Sirsana, or Seated Head to Knee Pose is designed to promote relaxation and boost creativity.
This pose has a calming effect on the brain and can help alleviate depression.
Savasana
This meditative pose is excellent for controlling your mind, freeing you from stress, anxiety, and depression while inviting clarity into your experience.
It calms the nervous system and relaxes fatigued muscles, and works to bring together the benefits of the movements so you leave rejuvenated
If you want to better understand the menopause
Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart.
When you’re young, there’s so much now that you can’t take it in. It’s pouring over you like awaterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
I see menopause as the start of the next fabulous phase of life as a woman. Now is a time to ‘tune in’ to our bodies and embrace this new chapter. If anything, I feel more myself and love my body more now, at 58 years old, than ever before.
All of a sudden I don’t mind saying to people, ‘You know what? Get out of my life. You’re not right for me.’ It’s wonderful and liberating.
If you deal with it in a healthy fashion then I think you come out the other side a better person. I’ve got so much more energy now than I ever had in my early 50s before the menopause.
The very best way that you can help yourself is to develop and sustain a positive attitude. The way you think and feel about everything will make all the difference to your experience.
Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.
A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.
Women are always being tested … but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves.
I think our bodies are beautiful, and I think celebrating them and being comfortable in them—no matter what age you are—is important. There shouldn’t be any kind of shame or discomfort around it.
I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse; it’s just different. You change, and that’s okay.
For you, it’s a joke, but think about it for me, everything is going south. Menopause is one of themost significant things that happens to women. As someone who is in that phase, it is very frightening, because everything is basically out of your control.
The anticipation of a problem creates bigger problems than it really is. One has to adapt to alifestyle change to remain in the best of health. What works for one in their 30s or 40s cannot workin your 50s. You need to understand what you are getting into and make those small changes. One can have methi to regulate hormones. Zinc too. Start exercising, limit your alcohol intake if you drink and get into bed earlier.
I didn’t know what peri menopause was, I thought after a certain age we go through pre menopause up to 10 years before menopause? But did you know you could go through perimenopause up to 10 years before menopause ? It’s like the body is getting ready for menopause?
Menopause is considered as a “problem” rather than something normal every women experience.There’s a very important message behind it because what we’re saying here is that there are noexpiration dates for women.
I have a very healthy baseline, and also, well, I was experiencing hormone shifts because of infertility, having to take shots and all that,” Obama explained. “I experienced the night sweats, even in my 30s, and when you think of the other symptoms that come along, just hot flashes, I mean, I had a few before I started taking hormones.
Menopause is like autumn leaves falling; it’s a natural shedding of the old to make way for the new.
Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart.
When you’re young, there’s so much now that you can’t take it in. It’s pouring over you like awaterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.