By Kelly McGonigal — 2011
Yoga can transform your reactions, improve your health, and help you embody grace under pressure.
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Modern science and yoga agree: our present pain and suffering have their roots in our past pain, trauma, stress, loss, and illness.
When one hears a chant like Aum Namoh Bhagvate Vasudevaya, it is not a Grammy award ceremony that comes to mind as the setting of such chanting; but that is precisely what Krishna Das has been able to do—take cherished age-old Indian kirtans to a global stage such as the Grammys.
He’s driven a school bus, dabbled in the blues, and meditated in the jungles and ashrams of India, but today Krishna Das is known as the King of Kirtan.
We all know that unmanaged stress can be destructive. But are there positive sides to stress as well?
The great majority of people report feelings of relaxation and freedom from anxiety during the elicitation of the relaxation response and during the rest of the day as well.
Learn to counteract the physiological effects of stress.
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In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as “the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.
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Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.