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Shameem Akthar, yogacharya with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Kerala, leads you through five practices that will help you dispel that bloated feeling.
For many people this is an actual reality and a continuous nightmare: feeling bloated, flatulent and uncomfortable. It can be embarrassing and discomfiting.
Though there are several over-the-counter cure for such a state, yoga believes the causes must be addressed for the cure to be totally effective. Talking while eating, or eating absent-mindedly, not chewing your food well enough, overeating legumes or sulphur-rich foods like sprouts, beans, broccoli or cabbage, or eating too many fruits together or mixing up raw food or suddenly introducing raw foods into the diet can all cause discomfiture. Excessive stress or eating while stressed can also lead to this.
If you wish to introduce yoga in your life to deal with this problem, then you must focus on a regular soothing meditative practice like yoga nidra (meaning sleep of nidra). Similarly, a regular practice of soothing meditative pranayama such as ujjayi (victory breath) and bhramari (humming bee) are important.
Practices which apply pressure on the stomach such as yogic forward bends, or twists and squeezes should make a large part of your practice
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