After going through the elements of the root chakra, I determined that my root chakra was under active. Even though I had many elements in the balanced column, I felt as if the under active elements took more from my life. For almost 4 years I was extremely physically active. I went to the gym almost everyday and participated in various sports and activities. However, over the past year I noticed a steep decline in my willingness to participate in physical activity. When I started working out, it was not for mental or physical health, but to lose weight and try to be skinny. I believe that what derailed me from continuing my fitness journey was all the emotional stress I was under. Suffering from depression and anxiety are not easy. They are …show more content…
One of the most prominent elements I connected with was being very motivated. I have always been very driven to finish whatever I had set my mind too. Which has also greatly influenced my choices in studies and academic success. My motivation is very connected with my optimism. I would not have made it through the obstacles I have without being optimistic. Especially losing my dad to cancer, being optimistic helped me to move forward with my life like he would have wanted me to. Another reason I felt so connected to the heart chakra was because my personality is very much connected with the emotion of empathy. From a very small age I have always felt that I had the ability to put myself into others shoes. Empathy is also one connection I made that I believe will help me greatly in being a mother. As well as being very nurturing, I believe that will help me greatly in my journey through motherhood, helping my children to be balanced and well rounded. It was a fine line in some areas of the heart chakra where I thought I was under active. At times of intense stress I find that I can become cold and distant, as well as emotionally unavailable. Mostly because I do not like others to see my weakness. I run through only brief periods of these emotions but for the most part I find that I balance my love equally amongst every person in my
I have integrated various holistic practices into my treatment plans including acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation and prayer. I also discuss and recommend the importance of balance in our lives, which is a major philosophy of Ayurvedic Medicine, “balance between body, mind and spirit” (What is the philosophy, n.d.). I stress how healthy choices regarding diet, exercise and relationships can impact a patient’s physical, emotional and spiritual balance in their life.
Nowadays people just sit down, order everything online and try to not move as much as possible, or that how I was until my freshman year at Arizona State University. I was not active at all and had self-esteem issues and weighted 220 pounds, and my major is computer science (CS) which mean, I get to sit down for hours typing codes and study for all different sorts of hard classes and that increased my anxiety and stress. Then, I started working out and my life changed, I lost 60 pounds, felt happy about myself and how I look, all the stress I had from classes which anyone who takes calculus, computer classes know how hard they can be, it just decreased and I could feel like everything is going to be fine at the end, just have to try harder and that is it. In an article by dozen of PHD scientist in metabolism and fields related to that, they said, “There is strong evidence that physical activity is a key factor in maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing the risk of many health problems, including hypertension, cardiovascular
While the research of Blumenthal et al. (2007) focused on exercise being effective in reducing self-reported depressive symptoms, Diaz and Motta (2008) and Motta, Kuligowski, and Marino (2010) looked at the positive effects of exercise on depression, anxiety and PTSD. The theory of exercise’s positive effect on mental health has heavily been focused on
As a former Army Soldier, I know that life is full of stress and stressors that can have an impact on my life. In fact, I believe as a Soldier, you can have an additional form of stress known as combat stress that can produce long term effects to your health and well-being. I retired from the Army in 2009 after deploying six times to various combat zones and dealt with other stressors that you have in the Army. I believe that I have some effects from the stress that I endured while in a combat zone. Finding ways to deal with stress without going and asking for help through meditation and relaxation exercises would be beneficial to me, so that I don’t have to turn to someone for help. Besides combat stress or related stress, I also have the stress that everyone in life endures. My top stressors are that of work in my current job, family life to include extended family, finances, continuing my education, and lastly combat stress from when I was on active duty. According to the Mayo Clinic in an article from mayoclinic.org titled Healthy Life Styles Stress Management, “Stress might be affecting your health without you even realizing it.” In this paper I will answer the questions like, what causes this stress. Is it time management? I believe what causes a lot of this stress is not having enough time in the day to do it all the things you want or need to do without causing a negative feelings or anger. In this, I
Of the many techniques people use to reduce stress, yoga is among one of the more popular. Although some may believe that effects of yoga are merely physical, there is research that suggests that yoga has direct impacts on one’s mental state. According to Forbes, in addition to the benefits on the heart and blood flow, yoga helps release dopamine and gaba and serotonin (Walton, 2012). All of these are known to create feeling of happiness in a person (K. W. Brown, personal communication, Sept. 7). For this lab, I decided I would try yoga for myself to test the results.
Since 1990s, many scientists agree that exercise has positive impacts on people’s physical health and mental health (SIME WE, 1987). From Morgan and O’Connor’s research, people can reduce stress and state anxiety by doing physical activities; also gain emotional pleasure from the process (Morgan and O’Connor, 1988). Later in 1997, Landers states that physical activities can reduce people depression after weeks of regular and routine exercise. In addition, people can benefit from more
In the article from The Atlantic Magazine, entitled “Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core”, James Hamblin taps into the hot topic of stress relief methods; specifically through exercise, at the forefront of popular media today. To provide an avenue through which to do so, he tells the story of a neuroscientist by the name of Peter Strick. Due to the way Strick’s brain works, he was initially unable to accept the commonly made claim that activities, such as yoga, have a direct impact on an individual’s stress level without concrete facts and reasoning backing this up. While both directing his intriguing, informative material at the scientific community and the general population enveloped in the pull of the media, Hamblin leaves
During the time in my PED 101 yoga flow class I finally got the privilege to enforce a physical activity and this has given me some insight of how being physically active can change you not just physically. Mentally I feel that I can focus more and handle test better, I am less emotional, and have increased my social outlook and my interactions with people. This is evidence of the divine act of wellness and how dimensions often effecting many other aspects of one’s life ultimately for the better. However, with their also being an online portion I got educated on the different aspects of maintaining one’s health and certain things that goes into it or effect it.
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One area in my life that is currently out of balance is my overall health. I feel a lot of it is because of my depression. That my depression controls me sometimes and it makes it difficult for me at times to take care of myself like taking my medications and getting exercise. When this happens it affects my overall health causing it to decline. A strategy that I will use to restore
People encounter various challenges in life ranging from diseases, lack of basic essential needs and psychiatric problems among others. This has given rise to various forms of therapies being adopted by specialists whilst offering solutions to depressed individuals. Group therapy has taken a center-stage in the management of depression. Butler et al (2008) in their article titled "Meditation with yoga, group therapy with hypnosis, and psychoeducation for long-term depressed mood: a randomized pilot trial" show that depression and anxiety form part of the well-known conditions named by individuals seeking treatment using therapies and complementary alternatives. Alternative therapies include yoga, qigong, tai chi, mediation, and exercise. They argue that people are increasingly using these therapies. Butler provides information claiming that yoga and exercise are effective therapies with high rates than uncontrolled activities (Butler, et al 2008). The authors also demonstrate that these therapies can be compared to established anxiety treatments and depression treatments such as sertraline, cognitive behavioral therapy, and imipramine.
The Healthcare Industry has focused significant attention to the issue of stress, and members of the helping profession have initiated a vast array of therapeutic scenarios and approaches to assist clients in multiple situations in which stress negatively impacts an individual’s health. Self-care and self-help techniques span all forms of health care to include Ayurveda and Alternative medicine, with one common goal…to help individuals cope with and alleviate stress and its negative effects. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a timeless classic and a must read, because it was written in easy to understand language with fundamental facts that everyone should know about worry and offers techniques on how to understand the source of worry. Carnegie offers suggestions on how the reader can cultivate a mental attitude that will bring peace and happiness into the reader’s life while tackling worries head-on and quickly. Carnegie recommends the anticipation of problems and planning for them rather than allowing oneself to worry. Among other suggestions for alleviating worry, Carnegie further expands on the importance of learning to accept constructive criticism
Amazingly, something this good for your inner being is also good for the outer you. Yoga and
Cardiovascular disease is a global burden and by changing risk factors such as increasing physical activity and reducing stress by relaxation can lower the incidence of the disease (Hartley, Dyakova, Holmes, Clarke, Lee, Ernst, & Rees, 2014) The study had 800 participants with high risk factors of the cardiovascular disease and were recruited to 11 study trials. After eight months of this ongoing study, Hartley and Colleagues (2014) found that any form of yoga showed reduction in the systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, and an increase in high-density lipoprotein. Since patients with the cardiovascular disease are unable to perform rigorous exercises, yoga was concluded to be an ideal choice for them. Participants, who
My yoga journey started more than ten years ago with an intense and dedicated interest in learning yoga postures from Ashtanga, Hatha, Jivamukti, etc. In the beginning I practised most days of the week and imagined that I would never tire, in spite of long trips to the studio in the early hours of the morning. A pleasant reward was that my blood pressure dropped back to normal and I could stop taking medicines. So, from the start, I knew that yoga could provide health benefits as well as an enormous feeling of wellbeing. No matter how tired and fed-up one felt at the beginning of a session, the mental lift afterwards was deeply satisfying. Meditation, Savasana, or corpse posture, wound up every session so it also became clear that postures or asanas were only part of the remedy. Meditation and yoga practise from the very beginning fired my interest in searching for an inner consciousness. This is an easily misunderstood word and means many different things to many different people. Some will associate it with awareness, or mindfulness