Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, if a person regularly experiences a disproportionate amount of anxiety, it can become a disease.
Anxiety disorders are a category of mental health diagnoses that cause excessive nervousness, anxiety.
These disorders alter the way a person handles emotions and behaviours and also causes physical symptoms. Mild anxiety can be vague and disturbing, while severe anxiety can seriously affect your daily life.
What is Anxiety?
Disproportionate stresses and anxiety reactions characterize anxiety.
The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as "an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes, such as high blood pressure."
Recognizing the difference between normal anxiety and an anxiety disorder that requires medical attention can help a person identify and treat the problem.
The causes
The causes of anxiety disorders are complicated. Many can occur simultaneously, some can lead to others and others can not lead to an anxiety disorder unless there is another.
The possible causes are:
Environmental stressors such as work problems, couple problems or family problems.
because people with family members who have an anxiety disorder are more likely to have an anxiety disorder
Medical factors such as the symptoms of another disease, the effect of a medication or the stress of an intensive surgery or a prolonged recovery
Brain chemistry, psychologists who define many anxiety disorders as hormonal imbalances and electrical signals in the brain.
Elimination of an illegal substance whose effects could increase the effects of other possible causes.
Symptom
A series of diagnoses are anxiety disorders. However, the symptoms of a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) often include the following:
Restlessness and the feeling of being "on the edge"
Uncontrollable feelings of worry.
increased irritability
difficult to focus
Sleep disorders, such as falling asleep
Although these symptoms may be normal in everyday life, they are persistent or extreme in people with ADHD. GAD can cause a vague and disturbing concern or serious anxiety that disrupts daily life.
Mudras for Anxiety
Mudra treatment of anxiety is curbing aggravated Prana Vata(air) and increasing sattva guna, which envisages a stable and peaceful mind through self-realization and self-control.
Vayu mudra and Vata-nashak mudra are helpful in the treatment of Anxiety.You can go ahead and check fifty non-drug treatment for anxiety.
Mudra For Anxiety
Vayu mudra and vata-naa shag mudra are very helpful in controlling anxiety. These mudras help to calm the mind.
Before practicing Mudras, it is crucial to find your Ayurvedic Body type To find your Ayurvedic body type follow this link
Vayu Mudra
Placing the tip of the index finger on the base of thumb finger will form Vayu mudra. Vayu mudra decreases the air element within the body which results to reduce Vata dosha. Decreasing Vata dosha helps to calm the mind.
Placing the tips of index and middle on the base of thumb finger will form vata-nashak mudra. This mudra also gives the same benefits of Vayu mudra.
Regular practice of any of this mudra for a 30 to 45 minutes duration will give excellent results. If you are a vata deficient person then practice this mudra in moderation only.
Vata-naashak mudra
Ayurveda approaches to Anxiety
Ayurveda has a holistic approach to an individual's physical, emotional and spiritual conditions, attributes anxiety symptoms to aggravated Prana Vata(air), a subsidiary of Vata(air) dosha that is associated with worry, anxiety, and depression. Prana Vata(air) weakens the nervous system and triggers mental imbalance. It also reduces the neurohormonal system and nerve impulses.
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