Since time immemorial, body education has been a fundamental principle in China and India. The study of Eastern and Alternative Medicine has discovered new ways of working the body in a more natural but suspicious way for general culture.
80% of the vague nerve fibers that connect the brain to many internal organs are related, i. e. these fibers range from the external body to the brain, meaning that we can directly educate and control our wave nerve activation system through breathing and movement.
- We all know how to breathe.
- But calming our breathing is a fundamental resource for restoring the mental health of many people.
- When we breathe slowly and deeply consciously.
- We teach the body to stop the SNP (parasympathetic nervous system).
For example, when working on the effects of trauma and neglect, emotional regulation makes a big difference in results. One aspect of this regulation is respiratory control. The more we focus on our breathing, the more beneficial it will be.
Therefore, it is important to be careful from the beginning to the end of breathing and wait a moment before the next breath. If we can see the air coming in and out of our bodies, it will be easy to realize the importance of this breathing. “vital and natural act”.
Yoga is a traditional discipline native to India, meaning “union of physical and mental well-being”. The word is associated with meditation practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Through body work, a yoga class can help us connect with the deepest and most forgotten part of ourselves. Yoga is more than an exercise or relaxation technique, and here are the main benefits it can offer us:
Research has shown that ten weeks of yoga practice reduces symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), especially in cases that do not respond well to other types of treatment.
“When we listen to our own bodies with respect and sensitivity, when we look at our minds objectively and when we learn to live from our inner reality, we obtain the main goals and benefits of yoga.
Some cultures in Japan and Korea focus on the awareness of the movement and when it occurs; these are skills that, for example, can be affected in people who have suffered trauma. Martial arts, aikido, judo, taekwondo, jiu-jitsu, capoeira in Brazil? All these techniques have something in common, such as physical movements, breathing and meditation.
Yoga, taichi, gigong in China or rhythmic drum sounds in Africa are also based on the idea that recovery is in self-awareness or self-awareness. Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the pioneers of interventions seeking to benefit from the channels of communication that exist between body and mind. Thus, in 1979, he created a stress reduction program based on increased self-awareness.
“One way to observe this transformation process is to think of consciousness as a lens that collects the scattered and reactive energies of our minds and focuses them on a coherent energy source for life, solving problems and healing us. “Jon Kabat-Zinn ?
Paying attention to the sensations of our body facilitates the recognition of the ups and downs of our emotions and thus helps us to have more control over them. Practicing consciousness calms the sympathetic nervous system and reduces the chances of “fight or flight” responses. In this sense, the consciousness of the body allows us to release sensations or impulses that have been blocked at some point to prioritize other feelings that were more important to our survival.
We cannot recover at all if we do not feel safe in our skin, when physical tension is released feelings are also released, movement helps to breathe deeply and tensions are released. , soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, victims of incest, refugees, demonstrate how effective expressive therapies can be.
As a reflection and closure, let us think that support for the search for new intervention protocols is only allowed by what has already been proven; It should be remembered that nearly four decades elapsed between Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin in 1928 and a definitive understanding of its mechanism of action in 1965.