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Yoga For Concentration And It's Health Benefits

Last Updated: Jan 20, 2025

Benefits of yoga for concentration

If it is getting difficult to give attention to a specific task then it means the concentration level of an individual is decreasing. A person that has a sound state of mind has sharp concentration levels and can recollect the events very easily. The problem of depleting concentration level can be alleviated through yoga as studies have revealed that doing yoga keeps the mind in a healthy state. Yoga helps in keeping the mind calm and composed. It keeps all the distracting thoughts far from the mind.

The emotional clutter in the mind is flushed out through yoga thereby improving the concentration level. Various studies conducted on how yoga can benefit the mind of the people revealed that if yoga is practiced regularly then the brain function improves emphatically. There are asanas in yoga that help provide relief from anger, anxiety, and tension and soothes the mind. Yoga improves the blood circulation in the brain thereby providing a supply of freshly oxygenated blood to the cells of the brain thereby improving the concentration and memory of a person. Given below are some of the poses in yoga that help in improving the concentration level of an individual.

Yoga asanas for concentration

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Tadasana (Mountain Pose)

Stand straight keeping your feet and legs joined together. Keep your joints loose and your thigh muscles firm. Lift up your chest pushing the shoulder blades backwards. Now lengthen your neck, breathe in deeply and gently lift your toes and balance the body on the heels. Hold this posture for 5-10 seconds and feel your entire body stretch. Now exhale and get out of this pose. Tadasana raises the oxygen levels in the frontal portion of brain and the spinal cord and thus boosts concentration.
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Vrikshasana (Tree Pose)

Probably one of the simplest and the most effective asanas, the vrikshasana requires you to stand straight with the arms on both sides of the body. Then bend the right knee slightly and place your right foot at a place as high as possible on your left thigh. Keep your left leg erect, find a balance and lift your arms over the head. Bring your hands together to form the namaste mudra and stare at something distant for sometime while holding the pose. Exhale deeply and relax your hands first followed by your legs. Repeat the same with the left leg. This asana helps improve concentration and the body's balance.
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Bhramari Pranayama (Bee Breath)

Sit in the Padmasana position and breathe deeply closing your eyes. Close the flaps of your ears with your thumbs. Now place the index fingers above the eyebrows and the other fingers on your eyes. Now, focus your mind and your view between your eyebrows and slowly exhale through your nose while making a humming noise from the chanting of Om. Do this exercise 5 times in your yoga regime. This asana can work wonders in terms of increasing concentration, lowering stress and relaxing the mind.

Conclusion

A healthy mind needs a healthy body. Besides yoga, a diet involving food products that help in improving the functioning of the brain must be consumed by an individual. Incorporating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids is beneficial as it helps in slowing the cognitive decline and assists in rebuilding the brain cells. Incorporating green tea instead of caffeine helps in boosting memory and mental alertness.

Adding beets to the diet promote improved concentration levels as they contain nitrates which dilate the blood vessels thereby increasing the flow of oxygen and blood to the brain. Including green leafy vegetables like spinach prevents the brain from various diseases like dementia due to its nutritional value. Addition of eggs in the diet helps in maintaining a healthy membrane on the brain cells. Fruits like banana help in maintaining the potassium level which is necessary for keeping the brain of the nerves in a healthy state. Drinking plenty of water throughout the day flushes out the toxins not only from the body but also from the brain. Positive results are observed with respect to improvement in the concentration level when yoga is complimented with a healthy diet.

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