Annie Wilson

Yoga and Mindfulness for Cardiovascular System

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Yoga and mindfulness improve the blood circulation and thereby reduces the causes of hypertension, heart attack or stroke. Yoga detoxifies muscles and organs and thereby improves blood circulation. Yoga brings harmony in heart and lungs. Yoga and mindfulness pumps the immune system and balance the cardiovascular system. Scientist observed that dispositional mindfulness is positively associated with cardiovascular health. During yoga session the massaging effect on the internal organs improve blood circulation.

The Best Sleeping Positions

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Yoga tells us that you should sleep on the left side of your body for 50% of your sleeping time and rest of the time you should change your position. Sleeping on back and sleeping on stomach is not recommend in yoga philosophy. Sleep is necessary for us to clear the toxin called beta-amyloid and tau proteins. Improper sleeping position can cause of back pain, neck pain, stomach troubles, and even premature aging. Sleep helps our brains sort out, reorder and make sense of all the information it consumes during the day.sleeping-beauty Researchers are telling us that sleeping less than six hours per night can actually shut down some genes, that play a key role in the body’s process of self-repair. Sleep plays a significant role in brain development. It is impossible to overcome sleep deprivation through any other recovery method. Sleeping in the same position night after night can itself create pain in neck and shoulder. One position all night is also not good for blood circulation.

Seven Factors of Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is relaxing with present moment awareness. Mindfulness is a science developed around 3,500 years back. Mindfulness was popular before Buddha, but Buddha formalized it and popularized it among common people. In modern Western society, mindfulness has been adapted for use in treatment of stress and depression, especially preventing dementia and alzheimer’s and also for assisting with emotional regulation. The seven factors of mindfulness are discussed. There are about 200 scientific articles on the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation. Scientist observed that mindfulness practice reduces stress and decreases volume of grey matter in the amygdala.

Green Yoga Exercises for Stress Relief

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Yoga exercise in nature even has a name. It is called “green yoga.” Many research studies validate the potency of “green yoga.” Yoga in nature are good for physical fitness and stress management. This is a 10-minute green yoga sequence in nature that encourages the use of mindful breathing and gentle movement ensuring your day begins … Read more

Breathing During Yoga Poses

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Correct breathing is extremely vital for yoga poses. Synchronizing yoga movement with breath creates harmony in the body and mind. You need to develop an harmony in breathing. When you expand your body – you inflate the lungs and the diaphragm – you need to inhale and  when you contract your chest and diaphragm – you need … Read more

Six Posture Correction Yoga Poses

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How you look and feel is directly related to your posture. Despite the importance of having good posture, most of us don’t do anything to improve it. We go about our lives with forward head, curved backs and imbalanced hips, and deal with pain because we think it’s normal. If you haven’t been paying attention to … Read more

Diaphragmatic Breathing Benefits

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Diaphragmatic yoga breathing allows one to take normal breaths while maximizing the amount of oxygen that goes into the bloodstream. In yoga, diaphragmatic breathing is different from abdominal breathing or belly breathing. Here, the main muscle for breathing is the diaphragm. In yoga diaphragmatic breathing, the movement will be only on the diaphragm muscles and … Read more

Meditation and Rich-Club Connectivity Hubs

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Recent scientific studies on meditation demonstrated that rich club brain network have a key role to play in making global communication and information integration during meditation. The human brain is a complex network of interlinked regions. Scientific studies on meditation demonstrated that the anatomical network of the human brain shows a “rich-club” organization. The aim … Read more

Brain Network Hub Connectivity during Meditation

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How meditation work in our brain? How brain network hubs interacts? This article identify the major brain regions and their dynamic connectivity during meditation. Brain network connectivity approaches to meditation neuroscience are currently accelerating at a rapid pace, propelled by the availability of ‘big fMRI data’, an expanding computational infrastructure, and the formation of large-scale … Read more

Top Ten Sirtuin Foods for Good Health

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Scientists observed that Sirtuin foods or sirtfoods have enormous health benefits. These foods increase longevity and quality of life. Recent research demonstrated that caloric restriction along with “sirtfoods” is the elixir of long life. Researchers are in search of sirtuin activator supplements. However, there many natural foods, which can naturally and easily activate the sirtuins. In this article, we discussed top ten natural sirtun activating foods.