Anxiety has been a rapidly growing problem across the world, and can seriously affect our personal and professional lives in an adverse manner. As far as Ayurveda is concerned, anxiety is a result of imbalance between the three doshas, making for an erratic mind filled with worry and restlessness. The Jamna Herbal online store has a range of ayurvedic products such as ayurvedic chyawanprash, as well as many other medicines. We have put together a list of a few tips you could use to help alleviate anxiety.
Ayurvedic Tips To Help Deal With Anxiety
- Yoga and Meditation
While this is certainly a very commonly recommended bit of advice, practicing yoga and meditation on a regular basis is a great way to alleviate anxiety and center yourself, reducing stress and lightening your mood. Making it a part of your routine to start your day could make a great change in your overall psychological state, you will feel a whole lot more mentally fresh through the day. It does not even have to take up too much of your time, and about 20 minutes of yoga and meditation everyday is more than enough for you to see a noticeable change.
- The Importance of Structure
It's certainly possible that a contributing factor to anxiety is the existence of far too many uncontrolled and haphazard aspects in your everyday life. Setting up an everyday routine and adding a bit more structure to your regular life might be a very useful way to reduce anxiety and calm the nerves. Getting rid of as many unnecessarily erratic parts of your life will keep you more grounded and feeling more in control. By structure, we mean setting a fixed time for your everyday activities, from your working hours, to your three meals, as well as exercise and most importantly, your sleep schedule.
- Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a herb that is popularly used in Ayurveda for a number of purposes. While it offers a range of physical health benefits, Ashwagandha can also have different uses with regards to mental health, including treating anxiety. Otherwise known as “Indian Ginseng”, Ashwagandha is said to reduce stress and help deal with PTSD, due to its properties as an adaptogen. This means that it is a natural substance that aids the body in coping with stress and anxiety. Research also suggests that Ashwagandha helps in lowering cortisol levels, which is the hormone that raises stress and causes mental fatigue. It is also very helpful in improving sleep quality, helping the body feel more well rested and fresh, in turn alleviating anxiety. This herb can be found in a range of forms, including as an ayurvedic churna or as an Ashwagandha pak.
- Tulsi
Tulsi, otherwise known as the ‘Holy Basil’, has been a mainstay in Indian culture as well as ayurvedic treatment for generations, and has been used in a plethora of medicinal products and concoctions. It offers a host of medicinal and healing properties, including in alleviating anxiety, because it is an adaptogen, much like ashwagandha. It keeps the stress hormones in the body at a balanced state, and allows the mind and body to deal with stress and mental strain much more easily. Tulsi is also said to improve the overall mood and also sharpen cognition. It is said that having tulsi leaf extract on a regular basis, or drinking tulsi tea twice a day can lead to a much better mental state with reduced anxiety and stress.
Reducing anxiety and its effects is easier said than done, to say the least. But there is certainly no shortage of techniques you can adopt to try and deal with the problem, many of which are offered by the practice of Ayurveda. Jamna Herbal offers a myriad of all-natural products, from ayurvedic medicine for diabetes, to oil for pain relief, and a range of other medicines.
