Brainhack - how to utilize Yoga and Meditation 

Managing fear and anxiety as temporary visitors can bring you back into your own power feeling ready to handle any challenge with lightness and ease. — How can Yoga help you with this shift? Yoga can move out of fear by triggering certain mechanisms in your body. Fearful thoughts have no transformational energy nor any creational energy to make the changes you want to have happened in your life. You want to move out of a fear-based mindset as soon as you catch yourself. Even though you think this is easier said than done, some knowledge on how fear is a mechanism in the body that can be reversed might help here.

Here are a few exercises that specifically reverse the body’s fearful reactions that create worry and anxiety instead of a thriving, joyous life:

1. Breath of Fire — Breath of fire is a breath where you focus on exhaling whilst pumping the navel point. You trigger the nervous system to reverse the fear-response of the body and release tension from the diaphragm.
2. Slow Flow Yoga focused on the breath: The breath connects the movements between mind and body. This connection allows the mind to focus on the activity that the body performs and thus breaks the thought-patterns of fear.
3. Pranayama — alternate nostril breathing balances the hemispheres of the brain. Fear is a symptom of an imbalanced mind. The mind needs to be in peaceful balance between the rational and the creative part of the mind. The body responds to the opposite side of the brain — the left side of the body triggers the right side of the brain and the other way around. This is way naturally, the yoga flows balance the hemispheres of the brain as every flow alternates equally between the sides of the body. Alternate nostril breathing is a 5min exercise to balances the hemispheres of the brain and get back to the now moment: Here is how it goes: Using the right thumb close the right nostril, inhale left, hold the breath, close the left nostril and exhale right. And then repeat: Using the right thumb close the right nostril, inhale left, hold the breath, close the left nostril and exhale right.