A coupon arrives in the post for a free game of bingo on the Friday evening session. You have two choices of what you do with it.
- Use it
- Lose it
The same goes for your mobility. You can use it or you will eventually lose it.
Flexibility is one of the highest concerns for an aging population.
- Joints stiffen
- Reflexes slow
- Aches and pains come par for the course.
That is if you choose to let it get you down.
Even when mobility and associated health problems charge at you, dishing out chronic back pain, sciatica, arthritis, or even constipation...
You can fight back without leaving your seat.
Every health concern, and life woe that worries you adds to a burden of stress.
Stress is a part of life! You can work with it and manage stress healthily, or you can let it rule the roost and dominate your life.
Do you know how severe unhealthy stress is?
It can lead to:
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- High levels of Cortisol
Cortisol Helps You Survive, or it Can Destroy Your Life - If you let it!
Cortisol is natural as it's the bodies primary stress hormone. When you're watching TV, stick the toaster on the kitchen... it screws up, burns the toast, and the smoke alarm goes haywire.
So does your body with Cortisol.
It's the fight of flight response that tells you that you need to take action. You sort out whatever raised your pulse rate through the rush of the Cortisol hormone, and then it returns to the baseline.
If you age without actively managing your stress levels, you can wind up with a body that's pre-programmed to be in fight-or-flight response mode.
Constantly on edge, agitated, anxious, sleep deprived etc. (if you're feeling that now, you'll learn in a minute how to banish the anxiety)
Too much Cortisol leads to all sorts of health concerns including disrupting your digestive system, which can lead to chronic constipation.
Eradicate all of those with just the one part of chair yoga for Seniors
- Breathing
During a chair yoga session, emphasis is put on breathing techniques to inhale deep from the diaphragm, bringing oxygen up through your body, into your chest, up to your head, and then slowly exhaled.
The increase in oxygen alone through effective breathing techniques lowers Cortisol instantly, relieving your body of the high anxiety levels.
That can be done anytime of the day, regardless whether you are or are not actively using chair yoga exercises.
For the (roughly) one hour that you do use the chair yoga sequences, (some can be done in only 5 minutes) you can improve your flexibility, regain mobility in all your major joints, without putting any stress on your knees, ankles, wrists, or back.
It's a relaxation exercise, great for the mind and body.
Just a few weeks and you will see and a new and improved you.
You can unlock massive health benefits with the chair you're sitting on right now. Discover how at http://www.squidoo.com/benefits-of-chair-yoga and watch the free video demo for a 10-minute chair yoga sequence you can use instantly
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