According to WHO definition of health, being healthy is not mere the absence of disease but its complete physical , MENTAL and social well being of an indiviual.
Although most of psychiatric disorders are caused due to imbalnce of neurotransmitters in our brain but some of them like anxiety , depression have alot to do with our day to day activities.
Due to our stressful lifestyle these disorders are on rise at alarming rate. we can mantain our mental harmony by practicing apowerful stressbuster known as YOGA.
Yoga is a spritual practice concieved in india thousands year back and being practiced here since then. Due to marked increase in mental health disorders in recent times its being explored like anything these days and being practiced worldwide. Term Yoga stands for UNION, union with the divine conciousness .Union with conciousness is ultimate source of happiness and enlightnment. yoga practice consists of various body postures and breathing exercises. practicing yoga not only helps improving our self esteem and sense of well being but increses muscle tone,flexibility and strength. it also boosts immune response, increses blood circulation and helps decreasing body fat. so yoga is not just helpful for being mentally healthy but it has shown very promising results in various chronic disordres like diabetes, chronic headaches, hypertention and asthma .
So if you practice YOGA then it not only gives you spritual elevation but also physical and psy
chological well being.
1 comment:
yoga is definitely helpful, but interestingly strict followers of yoga call these so called benifits positive side effect of practising yoga, for yoga is transcedental spiritual practice and not meant for some worldly physical or mental health benifits.
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