New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s Resolution: Whoa, it is almost a New Year! Are you ready? As the New Year calls for celebration, it is also time to leave your old self and step towards a new you. It is when people make goals and new habits for themselves. New Year is when we reflect on our previous year and focus on what we need to improve. Having sound physical and mental health is prevalent in most people’s New Year Resolutions list, along with healthy eating, exercise, and career plans. Fortunately, good health can be achieved by including yoga in your New Year resolution.
So, if you are going to set yourself a new resolution for 2021, then including yoga in your daily routine is an excellent resolution for these reasons:
For a fitter you:
How many of you have long for a fitter and toned body?? We always thought of going to the gym and working on our physique to get that chiselled body and lean waistline. Yoga helps you to achieve that, whether it is a slimmer body or a narrow waist. Include Surya Namaskar– 12 powerful yoga poses that work on your whole body. Even 7 to 8 reps of Surya Namaskar daily will do magic on your body, and you will feel energetic and leaner, too. Also, asanas like bow pose and a few kapalbhati pranayama rounds will help you lose those inches from your belly and get you that toned belly you always wanted.
For overall health and wellbeing:
Several studies have shown that yoga helps cope with several ailments when practised over a while. Whether it is about removing that muscle’s stiffness and achiness by improving your overall flexibility or controlling hypertension, blood pressure, stress, and anxiety, practising deep breathing exercises or pranayama will do wonders for you. Just follow the correct set of yoga asanas according to your conditions. You can also enrol in a yoga teacher training course to practice these asanas under a yoga teacher’s guidance, who will adjust according to your health condition.
For a calm and wiser mind:
Let’s face it: 2020 has been rough on most people, and it gave us its share of stress and anxiety. Even though the New Year comes with challenges, we must be calm and composed while dealing with these problems. Yoga helps you achieve mindfulness, whether on or off the mat. It focuses on breathing, helps calm the mind, and refrains us from making hasty decisions in real life. So, if you are stressed or about to spew expletive in anger, remember to take a deep breath and move away.
Help in detoxification: 
Consistent yoga practice helps in the detoxification of the entire body. Regular yoga helps flush out the deep-seated toxins stored in the system and release emotional tension and stress from the body. The training will let you achieve that younger-looking body with a peaceful mind and a vibrant personality.
It teaches you self-acceptance:
It is one of the best reasons to include yoga in our daily routine in the New Year. Yoga teaches you to be kind to yourself. It is not about changing your body or mind or how many headstands you can practice. It is about accepting yourself the way you are and improving yourself in every aspect. We live in a world where we constantly rush to meet deadlines, whether in our career or personal; we always try to follow the latest trends and lifestyles or even change our bodies for fear of being left out.
Take this New Year yoga as your resolution; not just show it to the external world but to yourself. Take it now, a day, a week, then the year. Create a marker for yourself at which you can adjust yourself according to your comfort and follow it. Maybe in the process, you will find happiness and freedom for yourself.