In view of the first report on childhood obesity in China jointly compiled by Peking University College of Public Health and China Nutrition Society, the rate of childhood obesity in China is on the rise. At present, the obesity rate of children aged 0-7 in major cities is about 4.3%, and the obesity rate of school-age children over 7 years old is about 7.3%. In 20 17, another China health survey data pointed out that 16.8% of teenagers were overweight and obese.
Yoga can improve the physical quality of teenagers and is beneficial to many aspects of physical health; Such as improving respiratory function, increasing exercise compliance and reducing obesity risk factors.
The therapeutic effect of yoga is effective and obvious, especially for those who suffer from uncontrollable chronic stress and unhealthy lifestyle? Cause and cause disease.
If you are a real yoga practitioner, you will easily find that yoga can indeed provide physical health, but its really powerful field lies in the development of the mind.
Research shows that school-based yoga will not only promote students' health, but also cultivate their physical and mental awareness, self-regulation and attention control ability, and classroom teachers will also benefit from yoga. In short, these abilities may improve students' behavior, mental state and health state, as well as teachers' adaptability, teaching efficiency and overall classroom atmosphere.
Some potential benefits of yoga for children and adolescents.
By training students how to pay attention to the relationship between body and mind, school-based yoga courses help children notice the influence of stress on their happiness, which helps them better understand the consequences of certain behaviors. If students eat junk food or have uncontrollable anger after practicing yoga for a period of time, they will be more keenly aware of the negative inner feelings and consequences that follow.
Therefore, they will gradually choose to avoid behaviors that lead to negative experiences and start activities that are willing to make themselves feel healthier.
It is not enough to emphasize academic performance blindly. Many people can think of and agree with this view, but few can fully support it and put it into action. In recent years, we have noticed that children's studies are getting heavier and heavier. It is not an exaggeration to describe them as "heavy schoolwork", which has contributed to the study pressure.
The Center for Child Development Research of Harvard University divides this kind of pressure into positive pressure, tolerable pressure and toxic pressure, and many school-age children are facing toxic pressure.
On a very broad level, self-regulation refers to our ability to deal with stress, emotion and behavior. Psychological and neuroscience studies have begun to show that yoga and meditation can help teenagers manage stress and emotions and make them more optimistic. The basic principle is that yoga can calm the excitement and conflict reaction, and lead to relaxation, thus helping children to calm down and tend to be calm in the case of emotional instability.
Whether it is physical perception or the flow of thoughts and emotions, yoga asana and meditation can guide consciousness by practicing concentration, thus reducing memory forgetting and thinking wandering. With the passage of time, this will lead to the improvement of attention, the development of physical and mental consciousness and the tendency of mindfulness, and finally improve attention, cognition and executive function.
In recent years, Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, an assistant professor and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, has been studying the influence of yoga and meditation on schoolchildren. One of the studies shows that almost all students who practice yoga become more focused and can handle emotions and pressures better, which may have a lasting and far-reaching impact on their ability and way of dealing with complex life!