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How to Do Yoga Against AnxietyFears are part of our time. Many people have fears. Anxiety is caused by workpressure, violence and movies on TV. Yoga can help to overcome fears byrelieving inner tensions, calming the mind and generate positive thoughts.Yoga gives us the strength to overcome anxiety provoking situations. Yogamakes us inwardly and outwardly strong. If you get enlightened, all fearsvanish. Face it.

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Lie on your back and put your feet on the bottom near the butt. Your kneesare upright. The head is on the earth. Pound your fists on the ground and stomp

your anger alternately with your feet in the ground. Solve all the pent-up anger. To whomor what are you angry today?

Knock a minute dynamic with the butt up and down on the ground. Work allyour stress and aggressions out. Focus on your body. Lift the butt while knocking

so much in the air, that you resolve the tensions in the upper body.

Put in the supine position your arms around the head and press the pelvis asmuch as possible upwards. The shoulders and the head rest on the floor. Make

large circles with your pelvis in the air. First ten times left and then ten times rightaround. Visualize water and think the mantra "Water".

Go into the candle, straighten both legs to the sky and support you with yourhands at the back. Breathe one minute relaxed into the body.

Roll out of the candle into the heel seat (or cross legged). Stretch your arms tothe sky. Breathe in. Then bow before you and put the hands on the floor. Breathe

out. Do this exercise several times and count the numbers 1 to 20 in the body.

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In your meditation seat move a hand in blessing and think, "I send light to(name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy." Then think the mantra

"Light" and send light a) to your friends b) to your enemies c) to yourself. Massage thelight into your body.

Sit in the meditation position (cross-legged or heel seat) and put the handsin the lap. The back is straight and the belly relaxed. Stop one minute every

thought. Then remain in meditation, thoughts can come and go as they please. Allfeelings of anger, fear and grief appear and dissolve by themselves.

Forward with optimism.

First advice: Look closely at every fear. Who closely looks at frighteningsituations can optimally protect himself. Fear is caused by negativethoughts. Fear thoughts can be overcome with the eight majortechniques: reflecting (alone or talking with another person), mantra(thinking a positive word), thought-stopping, acting wisely, doingsomething good, walking, yoga or meditating (resting in innerhappiness and let all thoughts come and go). Who exactly looks at hisfear, finds his negative thought and can dissolve it with a appropriatepositive thought.Second advice: Sacrifice the ego. Unchangeable things we have toaccept as they are. We have to let go of our false wishes. All fears areonly mental constructs based on an exaggerated rejection. Whosacrifices himself into the center of his fear, triggers the fear by this. Itis the best to hand over yourself to the will of life (God). Who can let goof his ego, can flow positive through all suffering.There was once a man who was very frightened. He wanted toovercome his fear. So he went to an enlightened Master and asked hisadvice. The Master advised the man to become a yogi and to disbandhis neurotic anxiety with his spiritual exercises.The yogi looked closely at his problems. Jackals just howl and don'tbite. Snakes only bite when they feel attacked. When a yogi is carefuland moves slowly the snakes will do him nothing. Only tigers eatpeople, but it is rare. It is the best to go such a tiger out of the way. And

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if that is not possible, a yogi sacrifices his ego, takes the situation, andcontinues practicing Yoga in the next life. The Yogi went his way withcourage and perseverance. And one day he was enlightened, and allthe fear was gone.Third advice: Ask the great Masters (God) for help. Then think aboutthe problem and go with endurance the path of your personal wisdom.The man pulled into a lonely hut in a large forest. In the forest, therewere tigers, snakes and jackals. The yogi feared all. Therefore he readin his clever yogi book what a yogi has to do in such a case.

Go to a therapist, if you have great fears. Make a cognitive-behavioraltherapy.

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