Causes of Tiredness and How Yoga Can Help

Causes of tiredness can range from one single event like jet lag to lifestyle and mental health.

Everyone wants to have more energy. The first problem to solve is identifying the cause of extreme fatigue. The next step is finding a solution to the problem.

Yoga therapy can be a huge help with these 3 causes of excessive tiredness: (1) Lifestyle, (2) Insomnia and (3) Depression.

Lifestyle

Stress can act as agent to wear the mind and body down. As you become more run down, what increases is a garden variety of health conditions and more tiredness. What lifestyle pattern is creating stress for you? Can you make a decision to change it?

To manage symptoms the solution is clear. Yoga has been used around the globe. While many people are tapping into yoga as a form of exercise, it can be used as wellness in holistic ways because of the balancing effect. It stimulates as well as relaxes the entire body mind.

Yoga therapy (much more than yoga as exercise) is one of the purest forms of holistic healing since its concepts and practices go deeper than managing symptoms. They get to the root of stress. Yoga is able to alleviate symptoms from virtually anything the body is enduring. And the good news is anyone has the ability to use yoga as therapy, regardless of what shape the body is in.

Insomnia

If you're tired during the day, have trouble falling asleep and/or staying asleep, try these strategies before bedtime for an insomnia cure. Have a warm bath with a few drops of lavender. Soothing music adds to the ambiance. Avoid TV and electronic gadgets 2 hours before sleep. Practice yogic breathing, that's deep breathing. Read a book; not a suspense thriller, a book on the boring side.

Regarding deep breathing, if your breath tends to be chronically short you have to correct this. Place one or both hands on your abdomen and tune in to the wave-like movement of your breath. Spend 5 to 10 minutes like this. It can help to deepen your breathing.

Depression

If you are dealing with depression one challenge is to get moving; to exercise when you don't feel like moving. If you are using conventional therapies, for sure continue to do so and practice yoga if you like yoga.

Standing poses with movement in arms and legs reduce that stuck feeling and encourage a feeling of ease and flow. Play your favorite music to energize and make your spirit rise. And when it's time for relaxation at the end, the tense and release technique might prove to give both stimulation and relaxation.

Have you found it difficult to develop a regular yoga practice? Why not start with small bite size pieces. Establish a short daily practice; no more than 30 minutes and as little as 10 minutes. The important thing is you start.

Yoga therapy is a cure for excessive tiredness caused by lifestyle, insomnia and depression. But you have to practice.