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How to Do Yoga Against Anxiety

Fears are part of our time. Many people have fears. Anxiety is caused by work
pressure, violence and movies on TV. Yoga can help to overcome fears by
relieving inner tensions, calming the mind and generate positive thoughts.
Yoga gives us the strength to overcome anxiety provoking situations. Yoga
makes us inwardly and outwardly strong. If you get enlightened, all fears
vanish. Face it.
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Lie on your back and put your feet on the bottom near the butt. Your knees
are upright. The head is on the earth. Pound your sts on the ground and stomp
your anger alternately with your feet in the ground. Solve all the pent-up anger. To whom
or what are you angry today?
Knock a minute dynamic with the butt up and down on the ground. Work all
your stress and aggressions out. Focus on your body. Lift the butt while knocking
so much in the air, that you resolve the tensions in the upper body.
Put in the supine position your arms around the head and press the pelvis as
much as possible upwards. The shoulders and the head rest on the oor. Make
large circles with your pelvis in the air. First ten times left and then ten times right
around. Visualize water and think the mantra "Water".
Go into the candle, straighten both legs to the sky and support you with your
hands at the back. Breathe one minute relaxed into the body.
Roll out of the candle into the heel seat (or cross legged). Stretch your arms to
the sky. Breathe in. Then bow before you and put the hands on the oor. Breathe
out. Do this exercise several times and count the numbers 1 to 20 in the body.
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In your meditation seat move a hand in blessing and think, "I send light to
(name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy." Then think the mantra
"Light" and send light a) to your friends b) to your enemies c) to yourself. Massage the
light into your body.
Sit in the meditation position (cross-legged or heel seat) and put the hands
in the lap. The back is straight and the belly relaxed. Stop one minute every
thought. Then remain in meditation, thoughts can come and go as they please. All
feelings of anger, fear and grief appear and dissolve by themselves.
Forward with optimism.
First advice: Look closely at every fear. Who closely looks at frightening
situations can optimally protect himself. Fear is caused by negative
thoughts. Fear thoughts can be overcome with the eight major
techniques: reecting (alone or talking with another person), mantra
(thinking a positive word), thought-stopping, acting wisely, doing
something good, walking, yoga or meditating (resting in inner
happiness and let all thoughts come and go). Who exactly looks at his
fear, nds his negative thought and can dissolve it with a appropriate
positive thought.
Second advice: Sacrice the ego. Unchangeable things we have to
accept as they are. We have to let go of our false wishes. All fears are
only mental constructs based on an exaggerated rejection. Who
sacrices himself into the center of his fear, triggers the fear by this. It
is the best to hand over yourself to the will of life (God). Who can let go
of his ego, can ow positive through all suffering.
There was once a man who was very frightened. He wanted to
overcome his fear. So he went to an enlightened Master and asked his
advice. The Master advised the man to become a yogi and to disband
his neurotic anxiety with his spiritual exercises.
The yogi looked closely at his problems. Jackals just howl and don't
bite. Snakes only bite when they feel attacked. When a yogi is careful
and moves slowly the snakes will do him nothing. Only tigers eat
people, but it is rare. It is the best to go such a tiger out of the way. And
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if that is not possible, a yogi sacrices his ego, takes the situation, and
continues practicing Yoga in the next life. The Yogi went his way with
courage and perseverance. And one day he was enlightened, and all
the fear was gone.
Third advice: Ask the great Masters (God) for help. Then think about
the problem and go with endurance the path of your personal wisdom.
The man pulled into a lonely hut in a large forest. In the forest, there
were tigers, snakes and jackals. The yogi feared all. Therefore he read
in his clever yogi book what a yogi has to do in such a case.
Go to a therapist, if you have great fears. Make a cognitive-behavioral
therapy.
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http://yoga.wonderhowto.com/how-to/reduce-anxiety-using-yoga-with-
tara-stiles-289271/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/102423-yoga-poses-anxiety-
depression/
Yoga for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Yoga Therapy for Anxiety
Categories: Stress Anxiety and Crisis Management | Yoga
Recent edits by: BR, Zach, Nicole Willson
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Deutsch: Wie man mit Yoga die Angst besiegt
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