Balance your Stress

Stress is a normal reaction of your body when you find yourself surrounded by some crisis or your mental balance is disturbed. Furthermore, the stress response helps you cope with challenges. But beyond a point, this same stress stops helping and adversely affects your health, your mood, your productivity, your relationships, and your quality of life.

There are many forms of stress in Ayurveda such as mental, emotional, and physical stress; And different types of stress require different types of treatment. According to Ayurveda, mental stress is caused by overuse or misuse of the brain. For example, if you do mental work for a long time or work on the computer for many hours, then there is an imbalance in your mental activities, energy, and Prana-Vata elements associated with the brain. And the first symptom of Prana-Vata imbalance is the inability to balance stress. As stress progresses, changes in mental processes such as attention, concentration, and memory may occur or affect receptivity, inhibition, positive thinking, euphoria, and a night’s sleep.

Symptoms that your stress is out of balance

Cognitive Symptoms

1. Memory problem.
2. lack of concentration.
3. Testing error.
4. Seeing the negative side
5. Constant worry.

Emotional symptoms

1. Mood change
2. Irritability or anger
3. Restlessness, inability to rest
4. feeling defeated
5. The feeling of loneliness and isolation.
6. Depression or anger.

Physical symptoms of inbalanced stress

1. pain and suffering.
2. Diarrhea or constipation.
3. Nausea or dizziness.
4. Loss of sexual interest.
5. Having frequent colds.
6. Indigestion and hoarseness.
7. Rapid heart rate.
8. Shaking eyelid

Personality traits when the stress is out of balance

1. More or less eating or sleeping.
2. Keep yourself isolated from others.
3. Refrain from taking any responsibility.
4. Drinking, smoking, or using drugs for relaxation.

Ayurvedic Medicine for Stress Balance

Include five almonds with warm milk in your diet. You can also consume 1 gram of black pepper with milk or honey 2 or 3 times a day to reduce stress.

You can also get benefits by applying neem powder on your forehead.

Make a paste of dry ginger with milk or water and apply it on your forehead.

Dip a small towel in cold water, squeeze it and keep it on your forehead for some time.

Massaging the whole body with Ksheerbala oil, Dhanvantari oil or coconut oil is also beneficial in reducing stress.

Mixing gulkand in milk and drinking it before sleeping is also beneficial.

Lying down in a dark room or sleeping for about half an hour can also reduce tension and stress.

Betel leaves have analgesic and cooling properties. Keeping them in the afflicted place gives a lot of benefits.

Ayurvedic medicines like Ashwagandha, Brahmi, Ginger, Hypericin also prove beneficial in reducing stress.

Certain foods such as almonds, coconut, and sweet and juicy fruits like apples, lassi, ghee, fresh cheese, and paneer also help in balancing the state of stress.

Last, if you work on your computer all day and experience pain in your shoulders, hands, or arms, consider trying this special yoga practice.

What to do, what not to do to relieve stress

Firstly, give up negative thinking to reduce stress.

Do not consume alcohol and drugs as both can worse your emotional balance and mental issues.

Do not try to take any major decision when you are in a bad emotional state.

In addition, don’t let yourself get discouraged.

Take at least eight hours of sleep to reduce stress and try to sleep before ten o’clock at night. To help you get a better night’s sleep try out our moon milk recipe, it will warm your body and calm your mind.

Stress has become a part of most of our lives, and if not handled properly, it can lead to heart disease, peptic ulcers, and cancer.

Practice Breathing exercises or Yoga or Meditation daily or at least every second day to balance your stress.

Walk backwards balance stress

One of the best ways to deal with periods of high stress and overload is to take a few short breaks during the day to do another activity, such as short walks, breathing exercises, or yoga. However, to have a very fast benefit of balancing stress and feeling completely refreshed, walk backward. It’s simple but very effective.

To walk backwards, make sure you are in a safe environment, where you are not in a risk of having an abrupt fall or hitting yourself somewhere. You can even do this on a treadmill at the gym.

It has three levels to go backwards, do not advance to the next one until you have confidently mastered the previous level and always start slowly and make progress gradually.

For more benefits and information, check out our article on walking backwards.

First level

Start at this level, walk about 30 meters back, turn, walk about 30 meters forward, turn, and then walk about 30 meters back again. Then, repeat this process three times. The first level is enough to go back to your stress balance.

Second level

On the second level, run about 30 meters back, turn, walk about 30 meters forward, turn, and run about 30 meters back again. Then, repeat this process three times.

Third level

Last, on the third and most advanced level, run about 30 meters backward, turn without stopping and run about 30 meters forward, turn without stopping, and run about 30 meters back again. Repeat this process three times. At this level, the running process must be continuous, in a single movement, without stopping running to turn. Mastering this level can take a long time, so take care and take your time.

Videos

Walk backwards – Level 1

Walk backwards – Level 2

Walk backwards – Level 3