When a busy day at your job leaves you still feeling alert, decompress your spine by doing this easy twist technique.
You finally get home after a long day at work, and you are exhausted. Rest seems like an impossibility with your mind still on the alert mode. If your brain is still on high alert, relax your mind by doing a simple twist technique while in the seated position according to Jasmine Tarkeshi, cofounder of Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in San Francisco and New York City. Utilizing this move, you fully tense up your muscles and then relax your muscles before engaging in the twist technique. When your body and mind are no longer inundated with the day's tensions, you are ready to have a good night's rest.
What does the seated twist technique do?
This technique helps to remove the body of any negative potential energy. That is any bad energy stored up within you. This technique rejuvenates and soothes the nervous system. It also relaxes the muscles of the neck, shoulders, back, and hips.
How do I perform the seated twist technique?
- Sit cross-legged and put a blanket under your hips for support. Inhale slowly and deeply through the nose. Breathe in for a count of 4, and then breathe out for a count of 4.
- Next, breathe in and tense up all your muscles from head to toe. Then elevate your shoulders. Breathe out through the mouth while relaxing all your muscles as well as your shoulders. If you choose, you can stick out your tongue. Do these while releasing any anxiety and stress. Feel your bottom sink to the floor.
- On your next breathe inward, raise your arms above your head and lengthen your spine. Then breathe out and rotate your torso to the right as your bring your arms down, putting your left hand on the outside of your right knee and your right arm behind your body. Place your fingertips on the floor for support. Then rotate your head to look back over your right shoulder.
- Remain in this position for about 3 to 5 breaths. Imagine that your spine is lengthening. Every time you breathe out, try to twist a little deeper.
- Upon taking a breathe in, raise your arms back up toward the ceiling as you come back to the neutral center position, then breathe out into the twist on the left side. Remain in this position for 3 to5 breaths while twisting more deeply with each breathe out. Come back to the center position, raising your arms toward the ceiling, and do the same procedure on each side 3 more times.
If you practice this seated twist technique on a daily basis, you will become adept at bringing your mind down from the high alert status and learning to relax your body and mind after a long a day at work.
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