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How to Deal With Emotional Stress
By admin | April 25, 2010
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Emotional stress can often come about from stressful feelings related relationships, career or money. It is a stress that stems from emotions or attitudes towards something. Emotional stress is not just some external situation that occurred, but how we react to that external stress.
So how do you deal with emotional stress. One way to deal with it is yoga. Many people think of yoga as just a way to relax or calm the mind, but it is also a way to release stressful emotions that are stored in the body. If we don’t deal with our emotions (express them or journal about them, etc) then they get lodged in your body and get stuck there. When it gets stuck there it is stored and blocks the energy flow in your body.
Yoga is great way to release energy that is pent up in the body as certain poses will work on certain aspects of the body such as backbends or heart openers. Yoga is also a great way to really just be in the moment. Focusing on the work of the body calms the mind down to really just be truly present. When you are present you can feel the emotions that are going on instead of resisting them. When you feel the emotion you can actually release it and then come up with a viable solution to any stressors that may be happening in your life.
While yoga is great way to become stronger or more flexible or more peaceful it is really a practice to end suffering. The end of suffering (or stress) comes really from acceptance and living right in the present moment and that is what a yoga practice is really meant to teach you – be present in the here and now and learn what you can from it. You can’t change the past and you don’t know what is going to happen in the future so living in the moment is the only thing that you really have. Yoga is a great reminder of this and it helps in dealing with emotional stress.
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