Depression, Anxiety, Peace

Grasses in the Forest by Melina Meza
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." �Lao Tzu

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Friday Q&A: Kyphosis (Dowager's Hump)

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Q: I teach chair yoga for older people. Several of my students have pretty bad kyphosis, a rounded curve in the upper back. They are not yet into a dowager's hump but they are on the way. When we do down dog with a chair, their upper backs are very humped. If I have them try to do cat/cow stretches with hands on the chair seat, their upper backs barely move. I have suggested that they try to lie on their backs with a small blanket roll under the bottom tips of the shoulder blades. Do you have any suggestions for how they might try to reverse this curve or at least stop it from getting worse? A: This is an interesting question: what to do with the student who has kyphosis of the thoracic spine, the part of the spine in the area of the rib cage? What can we do as yoga practitioners to prevent the progression of the spinal changes we are seeing, and is it possible to reverse the excessive posterior curve in the upper back?  And should we be more attentive to this area when we are youn...
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Yoga and the Mind-Body Connection

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by Ram Succulent Plant with Blossom by Melina Meza Both the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali provide several references to how a sound mental health helps to achieve a stable physical body. According to these texts, the goal of any human activity is to achieve a state of perfect understanding, clarity, and renewed strength that can be achieved only from a strong mind-body connection.The mind-body connection uses our thought process to minimize the negative effects and positively influence our body�s physical responses. Thus, positive qualities (including happiness, appreciation, selfless service, and so on...) help to relax the mind, which in turn strengthens the physical body. The mind-body connection is described as follows in both the above mentioned texts: �vita raga vishayam va chittam � Verse 1.37 Yoga Sutras (see here ) indriyanam hi caratam, yan mano 'nuvidhiyate tad asya harati prajnam, vayur navam ivambhasi Chapter-2 Verse 67, Bhagavad Gita  (see here ) Con...
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Brad's Perspective on Migraine Headaches

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by Brad Phases of Migraine Headaches by Brad Gibson The first time I had a migraine �aura,� I was working at my computer and wondering why there was this small area of flashing light in the center of the screen. I was using a new large screen Apple display and I was concerned that it might be malfunctioning. It didn't take too long, however, before I realized something was wrong with me: my vision was screwed up. Stroke? Migraine? Something else? I decided to quickly conduct an experiment: I walked down to the bathroom, shut the door and turned off all the lights and with my eyes open or closed, I saw the same thing, a growing crescent and jagged shaped object that was oscillating in my filed of vision. As I walked back to my office, I suspected this was a migraine aura, something that I had heard about (in words) but never experienced. As fate would have it, I ran into a neurologist colleague in the hallway and explained what was going on. He immediately replied, �Do you get heada...
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