Kids have stress in their lives — and not much less than adults do. Try to see the world through their eyes and you will understand. There is a strong connection between our body and our mind; all our mental and emotional tensions express themselves in our body.
If we are not happy, if we are worried or anxious, we will feel it after a while in our back, shoulders or neck, in our digestion or as a headache. Being happy and relaxed is the best preventative medicine.
But it’s difficult to release tension directly from the mind. If we just tell someone to “just chill” it doesn’t really help, right?
So in yoga we focus on this connection, between the body and the mind; we start from the body, to release the tension, then the mind relaxes too. In truth, it is easier to do it through the body.
Don’t believe me? Try it now! Take the biggest stretch you can and, as you do this, feel the physical tension slipping out of your body. As you continue to do this and as the tension leaves your muscles, can you feel it also being released from your mind? This is why we feel so good when we do yoga. We release physical (and also mental) tension through stretching in poses, through breathing deeply, through playing… and of course also by lying down, being still and letting go.
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