Really let go of your belly (an area many of us subconsciously hold onto). Try this:Īs you read this, sit (or stand) up straight, relax your shoulders, lift your chest ever so slightly and then take your attention to your belly. Deep abdominal breathing encourages more oxygen into the body which in turn slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure. Shallow breathing restricts the range of movement of the diaphragm so that the bottom part of the lungs don’t get their fair share of oxygenated air, which can make us feel anxious and short of breath.
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However, the theory is this can also work the other way round:ĭuring times of stress, or due to poor posture (hunched over our desk/laptop/mobile/steering wheel) or because we are simply ‘holding ourselves’ subconsciously, the full potential of our breath can suffer and our breath can become limited to the chest area. Whilst it’s difficult to control our emotions, we can actually use our muscles to trick our brain into thinking that we feel something we actually don’t! Emotions are accompanied by a range of changes in the body, from increased heart rate, sweaty palms, dilated pupils to flexion of the zygomatic major muscle (smiling). Ekhart Yoga members: Five feel good stretches with Esther Ekhart.
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Read: 5 yoga tips for office workers plus free video!.It also stimulates receptors in the nervous system that reduce the production of stress hormones. Stretching increases blood flow to the muscles which aids circulation and encourages freer movement. Unreleased stress can have a huge impact on our body, resulting in tight shoulders, a sore neck, an aching back, a clenched jaw…even our eyes can feel tense if we’ve been staring at a computer or concentrating on detailed work for too long. Ekhart Yoga members: Guided deep rest mindfulness meditation with Jeff Foster.Out of work, if you’re brushing your teeth, or making a cup of tea, try and focus solely on the process of doing that one thing (rather than simultaneously cleaning the bathroom / emptying the dishwasher / texting your friend…) If working on a computer, close the 15 or so other toolbar tabs that aren’t related to what you’re doing and commit yourself fully to your one task in hand. Try this:Īsk yourself ‘what is the most important/ urgent thing for me to at this moment?’ Turn your mobile phone to Silent, remove yourself from the distraction of social media and make a ‘rule’ to yourself to only check your emails a limited number of times during the course of a working day. So focus on doing one thing at a time and do only that. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the brain cannot effectively or efficiently switch between tasks, so instead of reducing time, multi-tasking actually costs time and you make mistakes.
It won’t some of them will inevitably get dropped. When we’re feeling overwhelmed by life, our tendency is to speed up – as if juggling eighteen balls at a hundred miles an hour with only half an eye on each of them is somehow going to lead to Getting Things Done.
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