THE PAULA METHOD

Ring Muscles Exercises have a very beneficial effect on people suffering from depression and helps healing from depression. People who are depressed usually have a bad posture-their shoulders are slumped, their heads bowed, and the corners of their moths pulled down. They tend to drag their feet when they walk, landing on the entire sole at once, not lifting their knees sufficiently. The abdomen falls forward and the back is rounded. Depressed people often suffer from constipation as well. This degeneration of posture in turn results from faulty functioning of the sphincters. Depression significantly affects a person’s family and personal relationships, work or school life, sleeping and eating habits, and general health. A person having a major depressive episode usually exhibits a very low mood, which pervades all aspects of life, and an inability to experience pleasure in activities that were formerly enjoyed. Depressed people may be preoccupied with thoughts and feelings of worthlessness, inappropriate guilt or regret. The common way for healing from depression is medication… yet drugs only tend to give momentarily relief and addiction in many cases, rather than healing the body and mind. In doing Ring Muscles Exercises, the body starts a self healing from depression. A depressed person’s state of mind benefits as his or her posture improves. As physical balance is restored through exercising, mental equilibrium improves, too. Once people with depression learn which exercises help them to regain their physical and mental balance, they are able to help themselves, without having to depend on medication or on someone else to achieve physical and emotional harmony.