Stress plays a big role in everyone’s lives, including mine. Full schedules, family responsibilities, chauffeuring the kids, bringing home the worries of work, bills, bill, and more bills all these things cause stress. Recently, I caught myself stressing over the stressful issues in my life.

Now you may ask, “What is she talking about when she says stressing over the stressful issues in her life?” When you stress over stressful issues you are constantly thinking about all your problems 24/7. You are thinking about all your problems from the moment you wake up, during the day, at night, and when you go to sleep. Most people that stress over the stress in their lives have trouble sleeping because the stress so much over their problems, they suffer anxiety and restlessness at night causing them to toss and turn all night and lose hours of precious sleep. As we all know sleep plays a vital role in our lives. Lacking in sleep can cause illness, not able to focus and having maximum mental well-being.

Also, by constantly thinking about the problems in your life you become the victim of over analysis. When you over analyse your problems making the worse than they really are in reality.
Stress can make you sick - very sick! Research has convincingly demonstrated that if you're not happy at home or at work and you are under excessive stress you will become ill.


Many people work over 60 hours a week and this exhausting schedule can have devastating consequences for family relationships. Long hours in a stressful environment can damage your life and your health.
If you are too busy to de-stress then you could be placing yourself at considerable risk. Many people only resolve to get serious about their personal health and well-being when they have a heart attack or become seriously ill. Don’t let yourself get to that point.

You can significantly reduce stress if you are prepared to invest time and effort to rediscover long forgotten coping skills through the magical techniques of yoga.

Below are some yoga techniques that I have incorporated into my daily schedule. These techniques are quick and easy to perform. They are perfect for people who have hectic schedules or for moms at home who have a bunch of little gremlins running around!

To distress yourself you need to free yourself from your worries. You need to gain control of your life. Once you achieve that sense of control you will feel enough of strength and confidence to free yourself of stress through the magic of yoga.

The promise of yoga is freedom from suffering. As the sage Pananjali outlined in the yoga sutra, the first step toward this freedom can be found in the practice of yamas, or restraints. This will guide you to freedom from stress.

When you observe restraint in your yoga practice and in your life, you suffer less. Also, others around you will suffer less too because they are not exposed to your negativity of stress and worrying.
Using these techniques will help you be aware of what is going in your body each moment and respecting your limitations and boundaries. You’ll realise when you are abusing your body by worrying and stressing over stress. These techniques will free you from stress.