The Negative Speech: Yoga And Meditation

Have you ever wanted to try an exercise that not only gets you physically in shape, but also mentally and emotionally as well? Yoga and meditation do just that and today I am going tell you how cultures use these practices as a form of not only exercise for the body, but therapy for the brain too.

Since the 1970s, meditation and other stress-reduction techniques have been studied as possible treatments for depression and anxiety. “Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million—experiences mental illness in a given year”(NAMI). Meaning that there is probably someone sitting beside you that suffers from a mental illness silently every day.

As a person that suffers from anxiety and depression everyday, I have realized that the form of pharmaceuticals to treat my illnesses has not helped, but just suppressed it. Yoga and meditation has become a natural way for me

I am going to talk to you about how yoga and meditation is used in cultures to help improve a person physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Body

Yoga and Meditation being used as a form of physical therapy has been going on for thousands of years. We, the western society, have picked this up and created a yoga boom doing researches with results showing that it can improve physical health.

In the Western world, the most common aspects of yoga practiced are the physical postures and breathing practices of Hatha yoga and meditation.

Hatha yoga enhances the capacity of the physical body through the use of a series of body postures, movements, and breathing techniques.

Iyengar yoga based from Hatha Yoga places an emphasis on standing poses to develop strength, stability, stamina, concentration and body alignment.

a. Props are used to facilitate learning and to adjust poses and instruction is given on how to use yoga to ease various ailments and