Campus Calm had the opportunity to speak with Bo Forbes about how yoga can be an effective treatment option for stressed-out students who may be suffering from anxiety, depression and insomnia. Forbes is a yoga teacher, clinical psychologist, and integrative yoga therapist with over seventeen years of clinical experience in mind-body healing. She is the founder of Elemental Yoga and Director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics(TM), established in 2006, which offers innovative mind-body yoga therapeutics to clients in the Boston and New York areas. She has a master’s degree in Social Sciences and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology.
In this article I invite you to un-cover the positive abilities that are hidden behind your weak points and to gain mastery over your assets.
Take a few moments to reflect upon yourself. What are your strong points, your assets? What do people see from you? What are you known for? Make a list of your five strongest points.
Your abilities might be obstacles on your life path if you use them automatically, without mastery.
An asset habitually applied without conscious awareness has become a mechanical reflex and is more of a handicap than it of help.
Escape. Run away. How often have you thought about it? Still, after all these years, the idea continues to attack your thoughts – is it possible? Yes and no - there is a fine line between healthy escape and denial.
Sometimes, you need to get away. Maybe you work too much, maybe you are in the midst of a very difficult personal issue, or maybe, you need to take a break from the stressful reality of your day to day life, whatever – escape is possible. Get in a car, a plane or even a train, and leave that which is the reality of your life. Why? Perspective.