Glowing Skin with Yoga and Meditation

 Yoga and meditation are known to be the modern way of living. These practices have been increasingly adopted in the lifestyle of various people all over the world.

 

Although the main purpose of both these lifestyle activities is considered to be “the attainment of focus and peace in mind”, yet there are various other relative benefits that one derives from them.

You must be thinking about the fitness and other health benefits now! But have you ever heard that yoga and meditation help in bringing the most desired glowing skin, which is a dream for every human being! Yes, there are postures and ways of inculcating these practices inhabit that help in bringing the most desired glow on your skin.

These days various factors contribute to the unhealthy skin such as pollution, bad eating habits, lifestyle woes, stress, hormonal imbalance, anxiety, and depression etc.

As we know that skin is the first thing anyone notices when we meet. When we meet someone for the first time, our skin makes the first impression and then our body language. Therefore, we need to take care of our skin and try to heal its problems in the most natural ways which are holistically possible through face yoga.

In this article, we will discuss some facial exercises that will help you in bringing back the youthful glow in your skin and its radiance back with yoga and meditation. Along with good nutrition, these facial exercises can really make wonderful transformations in your skin texture and glow if carried out regularly and with proper guidance.

Before we go ahead and discuss the asanas, let us specify the causes that generally cause the damage of skin cells:

• Bad eating habits– People rely so much on the junk food that they do not realize in the initial years of youth, but when they start aging, their skin tells the story of lack of nutrition.
• Stress: Work, study and pressure to meet up the expectations has raised the levels of stress. We hardly get any time to pay attention to our health and that causes us to acquire dull skin.
• Lack of sleep: When we talk to youngsters, they are always running out of time. The lifestyle is changing, they stay awake till late to finish their pending tasks or to have some moments of solace. It leads to lack of sleep in their routine. Deficiency of sleep causes your skin to appear tired most of the time.
• Hormonal issues: Due to certain medications or changes in hormones due to growing age, at times people develop skin conditions.
• Pollution and other harmful radiations: Pollution is degrading the layer of earth and our skin as well. Let us blame it on industrialization. When we go out we should cover our face and other open areas of the body properly. Otherwise, pollution and harmful rays of sun take away all the hydration from the skin which takes a lot of time to retain back.

How yoga and meditation can help you in attaining glowing beautiful skin?

Before we discuss yoga for beauty, let us discuss the role of meditation in improving our skin.

Meditation can be done purposefully to attain peace of mind. It leads us to live a life free of stress and impatience. When we acquire inner peace, our face attains the similar expressions. It is not wrong to say that our face is the mirror of our thoughts.

Our mind starts functioning in a certain way that we do not push our adrenaline every now and then due to stress. It creates various healing effects on our skin and the tissues that had gotten damaged due to stress and anxiety start recovering too. A proper diet will help in making the process faster.

Glow yoga is nothing but a few asanas such as –Surya Namaskar, Uttanasana, Shirshasna, Sarvangasana, Bhujangasana, Chakrasana etc. These are the asanas to name a few while there are many such asanas that help in attaining the glow on the skin through yoga.

Surya Namaskar

 

Uttanasana

 

Shirshasna

 

Sarvangasana

 

Bhujangasana

 

Chakrasana

 

Best of them all is Surya Namaskar that should be carried out in the morning and evening facing the sun (precisely at dawn and dusk). The postures or “mudra” that we make during Surya Namaskar is meant to offer salutations to the sun for bestowing us with a healthy environment.

These asanas make us feel grateful as well as push the heart to pump the blood a little faster and in a proper manner. These asanas will help in controlling many diseases especially those related to high and low blood pressure in their primary stage itself. When the blood reaches all the tissues and cells on the skin, it results in a healthy and glowing skin!

The effect of yoga and meditation on the beautification of skin is long lasting and carried out in the most natural ways!