Depression and Yoga often come up in the same sentence. Today I want to share my understanding of their relationship, starting with what evidence we have from a western perspective to the philosophy of the eastern view.
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Let me know if this sounds familiar to you. Your brain receives a stress signal (maybe it’s a stressful phone call, a public health update, or a screaming child). The brain tells the body to move into a sympathetic state (fight, flight, or freeze). all essential brain & body function is decreased or turned off, and specific muscles begin to brace, most commonly the iliopsoas muscle. For some people, their shoulders or their glutes also decide to react.
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Affirmations can be extremely powerful in redirecting your thoughts. I have eczema, and stress is a trigger. Learning how to redirect my thoughts was so crucial to my prevention of flare-ups & healing. The more stressed I was, the more I would itch. The more I would itch, the more stressed I became. It was a vicious circle, and I needed out. Affirmations are one tool that I use to get out of that circle.
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So my birthday just passed, next was my parents' anniversary and one of my four brothers' birthdays. Each year, my birthday comes, and I start to think about my friend who passed away a few years ago, coming up on four years actually. I think of him because it was my birthday and then a few weeks later his. He will never have another birthday. Each year his birthday hits me harder than his death anniversary. Each big moment or milestone that I have in my life, I think of him and realize he will never have that. Each place I visit, I know he will never see or be there.
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As I sit in the sand with the salt water… it stings. I’m learning Santosha. Lately, life circumstances have had a sting. Just like waves, the situations continue relentlessly. Wave pounding in one after another; sting, sting, sting. I have been deeply hurt and saddened, bitter, angry, frustrated. I have felt betrayed and unloved. I know that you reading this know exactly what I mean. You have had your own waves, your own stings.
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