Yoga, meditation to beat recession
With pink slips, job loss and salary cuts becoming the order of the day, it seems recession is taking a toll on almost everyone’s personal and
professional life.
The situation gets worse from bad when professionals find it tough to deal with the stress creeping at work front, thus ending up spoiling their health and losing out their mental balance.
While, recession stress is no less a mental trauma, yet there are ways to deal with it in a healthy way. Recession stress is all in the mind, which eventually gets reflected in our thoughts, dreams, imagination and attitude towards life – both personal and professional. Therefore, youngsters need to chuck off the negative ways of reliving stress like drinking, smoking, drug addiction etc and opt for more realistic techniques.
Body and mind are directly connected. If you use your mind too much, your body would be in trouble and if you exert your body, it would affect your mind adversely. So it’s important to bring a balance and what better way than yoga and meditation? These are conventional forms that work on your body and send a direct signal to your mind that helps in fighting the recession stress.
Here are a few ways that can help you maintain your calm and let you have a positive outlook towards life in this phase of recession...
Try Reiki therapy : People are worried about job cuts due to recession that causes stress both amongst the youth and the seniors. Their future growth becomes uncertain as avenues get limited. To survive in the industry, they have to work harder and excessive work causes greater stress. With Reiki they can programme your success at the job interviews and presentations.
De-stress your mind and soul : Meditation is an effective tool to de-stress and make you more confident and peaceful. It directly affects your mental, physical health and eases ailments. When combined with Reiki, the benefits increase manifold that includes improved harmony between employees and the employers, increased productivity and enhanced employee performance to name a few. If you regularly meditate for 3-4 hours a week, you would feel de-stressed within a month.
Practice balancing postures : It’s easy to get caught up in work related problems and ignore your personal life. In such a scenario, the need is ‘awareness building’, whereby you need to strike a balance. Balancing postures in yoga make you aware of imbalances in life. Body’s de-stress mechanism needs to be brought out through these postures and stretching exercises. For instance, Natraj asana where you balance your body on tips of your toes or Vriksha asana (tree pose) where you stand on one leg with your other leg folded and touching your thighs and your arms stretched on top of your head in folded position. Since you’re standing in a way where your body is not in complete balance, your nervous system gets toned up and becomes strong. Thus, whenever any stressful moment comes across, it will not affect you much.
Walk through your body : Another yogic technique is Yoga Nindra , which is a form of deep relaxation or guided meditation. Until and unless body is completely fit and healthy, you cannot get into meditation. So here, a person’s mind is used to focus on the body. In this meditation process, you keep walking down through whole body. And gradually, you end up entering deep into your sub-conscious, which lets you hold on to your emotions and thoughts in a better way.
Boost your self-confidence : Meditation creates self confidence that lets you face the situation and makes the outlook positive. Reiki, a positive energy in meditation makes one positive in body, mind and spirit. Also the clutter in the minds of those who meditate gets cleared, so they can take the recession as a passing phase. In case you’ve lost your job, try taking this as a time to re-evaluate your career. Is this what you enjoy doing? Do you have a passion for your job? If yes, then you will certainly be able to find another job. Maybe you need to expand your working skills. And if at all you find yourself de-motivated to find another job, maybe you would like to try something different. So, it all depends upon how you let your confidence stand by you.
Instill positive thoughts : Young professionals who are frightened by recession need to realise that it’s time to stay physically and mentally fit. Yoga works on your mind and body and hence increases productivity, increases creativity, makes you have more fun with your life and helps you attain a balance between personal and professional life. If you’ve witnessed a drastic salary cut in your job, you would visibly become a negative person and will remain in that state for a longer period than actually required. But if you resort to yoga, you would feel healthy and your mind will soon recover from that traumatic state. With an induced sense of positivism, you can deal with recession stress by looking upon its brighter side, which can be - that you may get a salary hike soon.
Focus on your breath : According to the Yogis, your breath is the clearest indicator of your mental state. If your breath is fast and unsteady, you can do simple breathingexercises to bring it back to normal. If you are tense and your body is stiff, you can do simple stretches and asanas to relax your body. Short shallow breathing or heavy deep breathing changes body chemistry and produce different fluids flowing in through your body. Some of these cause stress and others have something to do with your wellbeing. You can practice Bandhas (neuromuscular locks) which balance your hormones and bring your entire system to its optimum level.
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The situation gets worse from bad when professionals find it tough to deal with the stress creeping at work front, thus ending up spoiling their health and losing out their mental balance.
While, recession stress is no less a mental trauma, yet there are ways to deal with it in a healthy way. Recession stress is all in the mind, which eventually gets reflected in our thoughts, dreams, imagination and attitude towards life – both personal and professional. Therefore, youngsters need to chuck off the negative ways of reliving stress like drinking, smoking, drug addiction etc and opt for more realistic techniques.
Body and mind are directly connected. If you use your mind too much, your body would be in trouble and if you exert your body, it would affect your mind adversely. So it’s important to bring a balance and what better way than yoga and meditation? These are conventional forms that work on your body and send a direct signal to your mind that helps in fighting the recession stress.
Here are a few ways that can help you maintain your calm and let you have a positive outlook towards life in this phase of recession...
Try Reiki therapy : People are worried about job cuts due to recession that causes stress both amongst the youth and the seniors. Their future growth becomes uncertain as avenues get limited. To survive in the industry, they have to work harder and excessive work causes greater stress. With Reiki they can programme your success at the job interviews and presentations.
De-stress your mind and soul : Meditation is an effective tool to de-stress and make you more confident and peaceful. It directly affects your mental, physical health and eases ailments. When combined with Reiki, the benefits increase manifold that includes improved harmony between employees and the employers, increased productivity and enhanced employee performance to name a few. If you regularly meditate for 3-4 hours a week, you would feel de-stressed within a month.
Practice balancing postures : It’s easy to get caught up in work related problems and ignore your personal life. In such a scenario, the need is ‘awareness building’, whereby you need to strike a balance. Balancing postures in yoga make you aware of imbalances in life. Body’s de-stress mechanism needs to be brought out through these postures and stretching exercises. For instance, Natraj asana where you balance your body on tips of your toes or Vriksha asana (tree pose) where you stand on one leg with your other leg folded and touching your thighs and your arms stretched on top of your head in folded position. Since you’re standing in a way where your body is not in complete balance, your nervous system gets toned up and becomes strong. Thus, whenever any stressful moment comes across, it will not affect you much.
Walk through your body : Another yogic technique is Yoga Nindra , which is a form of deep relaxation or guided meditation. Until and unless body is completely fit and healthy, you cannot get into meditation. So here, a person’s mind is used to focus on the body. In this meditation process, you keep walking down through whole body. And gradually, you end up entering deep into your sub-conscious, which lets you hold on to your emotions and thoughts in a better way.
Boost your self-confidence : Meditation creates self confidence that lets you face the situation and makes the outlook positive. Reiki, a positive energy in meditation makes one positive in body, mind and spirit. Also the clutter in the minds of those who meditate gets cleared, so they can take the recession as a passing phase. In case you’ve lost your job, try taking this as a time to re-evaluate your career. Is this what you enjoy doing? Do you have a passion for your job? If yes, then you will certainly be able to find another job. Maybe you need to expand your working skills. And if at all you find yourself de-motivated to find another job, maybe you would like to try something different. So, it all depends upon how you let your confidence stand by you.
Instill positive thoughts : Young professionals who are frightened by recession need to realise that it’s time to stay physically and mentally fit. Yoga works on your mind and body and hence increases productivity, increases creativity, makes you have more fun with your life and helps you attain a balance between personal and professional life. If you’ve witnessed a drastic salary cut in your job, you would visibly become a negative person and will remain in that state for a longer period than actually required. But if you resort to yoga, you would feel healthy and your mind will soon recover from that traumatic state. With an induced sense of positivism, you can deal with recession stress by looking upon its brighter side, which can be - that you may get a salary hike soon.
Focus on your breath : According to the Yogis, your breath is the clearest indicator of your mental state. If your breath is fast and unsteady, you can do simple breathingexercises to bring it back to normal. If you are tense and your body is stiff, you can do simple stretches and asanas to relax your body. Short shallow breathing or heavy deep breathing changes body chemistry and produce different fluids flowing in through your body. Some of these cause stress and others have something to do with your wellbeing. You can practice Bandhas (neuromuscular locks) which balance your hormones and bring your entire system to its optimum level.
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