Here ’s What Yoga Can Do For You

You're reading Here’s What Yoga Can Do For You, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. It`s International Yoga Day people. I was thinking about doing yoga over the past three months, and because of my analytical nature, I decided to do some quick research on its benefits. And since we're celebrating International Yoga Day this month, I decided to show you the six key benefits practicing yoga will give you. Here they are: Yoga will make you calmer Yoga is so great at regulating stress that researchers from Tulane University recommend it should be taught in schools as early as in third grade. Their study, along with other ones, suggests that breathing exercises mixed with traditional yoga poses increase stress resilience by reducing your Cortisol levels ---aka. The stress hormone--- as well as increasing a neurotransmitter called gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) which improves your mood by stimulating the nerve cells responsible for anxiety inhibition. 2. It makes you less likely to be depressed According To a 2017 study published in the American Psychological Association (APA), doing yoga for eight weeks can significantly reduce depression. The study included 23 U.S. veterans with integration problems, and it notes that not only they enjoyed yoga, but their depressive levels were also much lower than before. Another study by Alliant University in San Fra...
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