Yoga for Stress and Anxiety Relief
By Jill Barth, certified yoga teacher
Of course I could argue that my patterns protect me from falling on the ice, but they also predate outcomes in a way that’s not always helpful.
This reliance on thought patterns “justified” or not, creates anxiety.
Anxiety is generated when we look ahead at what’s to come, and our predictions provoke an unsettled mindstate. Stress manifests in our minds and bodies from a perpetual state of anxiety. Clinically, stress and anxiety are not the exact same, but experiencers (all of us) of these two states will confirm that stress and anxiety share the same bed.
A typical argument for maintaining stress in our life is that it’s inescapable, that the problems and circumstances we face are the cause of stress