Sports and Physical Education


Yoga: A Solution for Stress and Its Impact on Human Health

Article Number: SMF258651 Volume 01 | Issue 01 | January - 2019 ISSN: UA
07th Sep, 2018
10th Oct, 2018
13th Dec, 2018
25th Jan, 2019

Authors

Arunima Maurya

Abstract

Health is very important factor for life as without health, everything is valueless. Now these days, human beings are suffering from many problems and diseases such as physical and psychological stress and strains. This problems should be reduced by the changes in their lifestyle in which yoga is considered as best lifestyle that has potential in the prevention, management and rehabilitation of lifestyle disorder. When someone feel healthy, he can touch himself from inside. He can make happy to others and his surroundings which shows the spiritual health. Yoga in daily life has five main goals; physical health, mental health, social health, spiritual health and self-realization for great healthy life. Yoga can be done in the meditation form or in physical exercise. Some people are confused with yoga and exercise are similar words but both are different terms. This paper represents the all goal of yoga by which human make themselves happy and stress-free. The daily yoga may be helpful in reducing the rush from hospitals because it prevent from many disease as cardiovascular disease has positive correlation with the yoga. The cardiovascular problem cure from the daily yoga. Keywords: Spiritual Health, Exercise, Yoga, Health.

Introduction

In ancient India, Saints developed a method of medication, called Yoga. It is an effective method that controls mind and activities of body. Yoga is a system of practice that contains eight levels of development in the field of physical, mental, social and spiritual health. When all condition like stress, focused and all are under control with the healthy fitness and clear mind give the space for connecting to loved ones and maintain socially healthy relationships. A healthy person live in touch with oneself, with others and surrounding on a deeper level that connect him to his spiritual health. By yoga, spine makes flexible, physical condition of body is improved, and the awareness regarding the importance of relaxation is also increased.

Physical exercise and Yoga are two different terms by their definition as physical exercise is the exercise of skeletal muscles only while Yoga is the solution to each and every of the body. It includes exercise, massage and toning for all organs and muscles. We can say that yoga’s effect reach to all internal organs which is not possible by physical exercise. For humans, only striated muscles are not need to be straightened but whole body needs an effective treatment for gaining the strength, energy, flexibility and sound health. In modern life time, man is suffered from different problems and diseases such as Diabetes, Obesity, Anxiety, Depression, Cervical Pain, Hypertension, Insomnia, Cancer etc. More than 60% population is involved in the chair job and driving due to which they suffer from Khyposis that resulted in the form of cervical spondolitis (Verma, Singh and Rajesh, 2015).

Goals of Yoga in daily routine are as Physical Health, Mental Health, Social Health, Spiritual Health and Self-realization of the divine within us. For achieving these goals different factors work like it is attained by love and help to other living beings, by the respect for life, and nature and environment protection, peaceful state of mind, Only complete vegetarian diet, having pure though and positive lifestyle, practices of physical, mental and spiritual, and have the tolerance for all nations, cultures and religions.

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APA StyleMaurya, A. (2019). Yoga: A Solution for Stress and Its Impact on Human Health. Academic Journal of Sports and Physical Education, 1(1), 19-24.
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