4 years ago
Virtual yoga meditation during lockdown: At which hour one should perform yoga and meditation at home?
Everybody is locked at home because of the pandemic, and our mind is full of fear due to covid-19 negative impacts news around the globe. Our mental state of well being is in our hands now, whether you want to make it or break it. So, yoga and meditation turns out to be the best that can happen to you during this lockdown beside gardening and painting.
For those individuals who are not able to work from home, and are trying hard to be productive and healthy they can get started with yoga and meditation through online classes which are easily available on instagram, youtube, facebook for free.
Meditation helps an individual to shift from reactive to responsive living, including our thoughts, experiences, and healing to calm and relax our mind. Meditation is a practice in which the practitioner trains the mind to reach the state of the mind when we are in yoga which means union with divine.
Yoga is the movement to prepare one's body to do more formal types of meditation. In general yoga can be explained as a practice to stretch and soothe the body through various postures, called 'aasana'.
Yoga meditation is all about calming and quieting a busy mind. The more we are able to quiet your thoughts through yoga meditation, the more we experience a sense of true presence and being in the moment which helps us to create connection bettween mind-body for inner-peace. To get started with yoga and meditation for beginner’s great commitment and good access to internet is needed.
Here are few tips to get started for beginners
1.Set the time suitable for you to practice but Morning 4am and Evening 4pm is believed to be the best time for yoga and meditation. It is believed that the angle between the earth and the sun is 60 degrees and that being in a sitting position at these times will balance the pituitary and pineal glands giving you maximum results of your practice.
2.The best way to meditate is to focus on present moment (here and now). You can start by counting your breathing, gazing a black dot or at a candle flame.
3.Our might is a great wanderer, if your mind starts to wander and get aware of it and pull your thoughts back to present moment.
4.You have to be sitted with good posture either on the floor, cross-legged, or in a chair whichever is more comfortable to you. Keep switching your leg if you seat cross-legged.
5.Follow any best virtual class you wish and keep improving your breathing techniques with the increment of time.
Stay healthy mentally and physically with the practices of yoga and meditation with your family, friends, and colleagues through virtual world.
