Yoga And Treating Pain
Yoga for Pain Management
Living with pain that is chronic and virtually permanent is one of the most devitalizing of lifes experiences, as it saps your energy and depletes your strengths as well as making you mentally drained. Often those that practice yoga regularly realize that they can reduce their pain medication. Yoga has three distinct disciplines and these are breathing, relaxation, and meditation. As humans we fear pain, because we are afraid of what we feel pain will reduce us to, to overcome that fear overcomes a level of the pain. It is our mind and brains that converts the stimulus to cause pain into pain.
Drugs are normally used to control pain, some literally dull the brain, whilst other inhibit the prostaglandins which are the chemicals generated by the stimulus, and once inhibited they cannot reach the brain to be translated into pain. Unfortunately, taking the pharmacological approach to pain means that the body is suppressed from using its own natural painkillers and the effects of drugs are temporary and are not always without side effects.
Yoga reduces pain by allowing the body to produce its natural pain killers the mechanism for which is in the spinal cord. Once this has occurred you can move through pain, rather than resisting it. Once you resist pain it exerts the most pain but yoga allows you to be distracted as it were from the pain, because the tension in your body is reduced. This process is also assisted by the breathing exercise that accompanies the yoga.
Breathing control also helps in relieving pain because as we exhale the muscles relax. Try breathing in and breathing out and testing that theory now. As you exhale all your muscles relax and if you can be encouraged to breath out more slowly your tension is relaxed for longer. However to be in control of your breathing you have to be aware of it. When the lungs are full, the tension in the muscles is on hold, so by controlling your breathing to a breathing in, a holding of breath and a breathing out the body is relaxed for two thirds of the time .
When muscles are tense we feel more pain, but when we consciously relax the body this lessens pain and we can also relax the mind with rhythmic breathing and meditation. Regular daily of meditation builds a core of inner strength that helps us to relax and fight pain. Try to meditate for five minutes once you start and build up to twenty minutes night and morning.
Living with pain that is chronic and virtually permanent is one of the most devitalizing of lifes experiences, as it saps your energy and depletes your strengths as well as making you mentally drained. Often those that practice yoga regularly realize that they can reduce their pain medication. Yoga has three distinct disciplines and these are breathing, relaxation, and meditation. As humans we fear pain, because we are afraid of what we feel pain will reduce us to, to overcome that fear overcomes a level of the pain. It is our mind and brains that converts the stimulus to cause pain into pain.
Drugs are normally used to control pain, some literally dull the brain, whilst other inhibit the prostaglandins which are the chemicals generated by the stimulus, and once inhibited they cannot reach the brain to be translated into pain. Unfortunately, taking the pharmacological approach to pain means that the body is suppressed from using its own natural painkillers and the effects of drugs are temporary and are not always without side effects.
Yoga reduces pain by allowing the body to produce its natural pain killers the mechanism for which is in the spinal cord. Once this has occurred you can move through pain, rather than resisting it. Once you resist pain it exerts the most pain but yoga allows you to be distracted as it were from the pain, because the tension in your body is reduced. This process is also assisted by the breathing exercise that accompanies the yoga.
Breathing control also helps in relieving pain because as we exhale the muscles relax. Try breathing in and breathing out and testing that theory now. As you exhale all your muscles relax and if you can be encouraged to breath out more slowly your tension is relaxed for longer. However to be in control of your breathing you have to be aware of it. When the lungs are full, the tension in the muscles is on hold, so by controlling your breathing to a breathing in, a holding of breath and a breathing out the body is relaxed for two thirds of the time .
When muscles are tense we feel more pain, but when we consciously relax the body this lessens pain and we can also relax the mind with rhythmic breathing and meditation. Regular daily of meditation builds a core of inner strength that helps us to relax and fight pain. Try to meditate for five minutes once you start and build up to twenty minutes night and morning.
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