Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Yoga Techniques for Taking the Stress Out Of Vacations

By Nishanth Reddy


Yoga techniques act as a stress reliever. Yoga techniques help to reduce the stress that rises from our daily activities. Even during vacations people are getting attacked with the outside stressful factors, which can damage a very good vacation period.

Vacation stress is somewhat an aggressive expression but it is real and it can cause serious disturbances and damages. The reasons for getting stress and angry during your vacation are numerous. The reasons could be poor services, awful weather, high charges, crowd, noisy tourists, irritating insects and many more.

In order to avoid the vacation stress, it is better to follow yoga techniques for stress management. Yoga techniques for stress management provides relief by making the body relaxed for the maximum flow of energy through yoga poses, breathing exercises that give energy by pranayama and peacefulness to the mind by meditation.

Yoga techniques provide numerous ways of reducing the effects of these negative elements in the form of meditation, sakshin, pratyahara and pranayama.

Meditation is a suggested practice when vacation stress factors become active and it helps to avoid these vacation stress factors. Meditation is one of the five principles of yoga. It is one of the important yoga techniques to achieve mental stability and health.

There are some simple techniques of meditation that can be used by people to combat vacation stress problems. To have progress in meditation it is more important to meditate at least once a day.

• Meditation helps you get ready for any possible stressful conditions. It also helps during and after combating these obstacles.

• Sakshin is a separate state of consciousness that provides you a way of getting a better understanding of the realities around you.

• Pratyahara is a state of peace that is achieved by reducing all outside interferences to an optimum level. By using pratyahara, the mind gets tranquil and relaxed, focusing towards the inside of your own body.

• Pranayama helps in increasing the ability to calm yourself nearly in any difficult conditions by regulating your breathing and hence balancing the energies in your body.

It is more important to get prepared for any type of stress factors that arises in a vacation period. Expecting the probability of getting a problem doesn’t imply worrying about it before it arises. It only means that you need to have a good understanding over the situation and the problem that arises.

Always, you will achieve much better consequences by dealing an issue with a peaceful and clear mind, rather than acting on an inclination. It is better to “step out” of your body and see yourself in that particular situation, when a problem occurs. Impartiality is hard to attain, particularly when it comes to your own self, nevertheless it helps to get a balanced point of view on situations or things.

Stimulating an action by the strategy of an objective mind will illustrate more successful than jumping in head initially into a situation. There are some thoughts such as, it will be hard to help myself from these situations, need to eliminate completely from your own thoughts and dictionary.

It will be great if you take control of your inner self because it helps you to have control over the outside things of your body in the surrounding world. You must primarily feel the body’s reaction to an outside element and react only after getting a clear judgment of the things to do.
Breathing exercises provides a great help in relaxing an impulsive spirit and getting peacefulness to your mind in a particular event or situation. It is necessary for you to interrupt the events of your subconscious mind before you take control of a situation.

Early responses are speedy and often very hard to evade, however it is necessary that, with a regular practice of yoga techniques, you find a constant feeling of control over your reactions.
The first reaction to a negative element of vacation stress can be either combating back or escaping. In any of these cases, there will be a significant amount of tensions that fills your body, and it could stay for days or weeks until you manage to get over these unfortunate events.

A peaceful and balanced response will have more chances of removing any kind of tension before it even gets an opportunity to start rising. Consider that the most vacations are short and do not afford to waste half of your vacation period in a negative mood. So, yoga techniques and meditation are there to recharge your body energy, and do not try to waste your vacations on worthless stress and tensions.

Nishanth Reddy is an author and publisher of many health related websites. For more information on yoga, benefits of yoga, yoga exercises, yoga techniques and yoga postures, visit his website: Online Yoga Guide

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