The yoga postures (asana), breathing (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana) create increased body awareness, release of muscular tension and increased coordination between mind-and body. It helps in better management of stress and ensures an overall feeling of well being.

Massage

Massage is an ancient healing art, which works to calm and relax the body through which mental anxiety is lessened. Under stress muscles are over-worked, and the body shows many weakening symptoms such as soreness, stiffness, and even muscle spasms. Heightened stress responses accumulate lactic acid in the muscle and waste air inside the body.

Specific massage techniques, using hands, forearms, elbows, or even feet are applied to a patient's body for loosening the muscles and to locate areas of tension and other soft-tissue problems.

Acupressure

Acupressure is the needle-less variation of the Chinese healing system which believes that when acupoints or meridians or energy pathways become blocked or congested, a person experiences pains or discomfort on a physical level. On emotional or mental level one may become frustrated or irritable, vulnerable, desperate, and indecisive about life.

In acupressure, practitioners use deep but gentle finger pressure on specific acupoints to release the blocked energy and to facilitate its smooth flow. In effect, this allows your body/mind to relax. As your body/mind relaxes, you experience less discomfort and stress in addition to an elevated sense of well being.

Acupressure is, perhaps, the most convenient as well as a skillful healing art for stress.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is based on the concept of maintaining balance and harmony within the body by facilitating the flow of life energy in it, so when chi/Qi (life energy) inside the body becomes stagnant and congested, all kinds of mental and physical illness follow. In order to restore chi distribution, needles are inserted into acupoints along the meridians of the body.

A large number of neurological and musculoskeletal disorders induced by stress can be successfully treated by acupuncture. The principle here is to clear the blocked energy in the muscles and nerve channels, as well as facilitating the flow of fresh energy in them. This ensures relaxation of muscle and mind, and relief from stress and tensions.

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