Yoga for Stress Management

10 | Yoga for Stress Managementcan contribute us as stressor, it is important for us to understand howwe can regulate them. This is where Yoga comes into picture in helpingus to understanding stress producing factors. Yoga also helps togive us different methodologies and techniques to manage them.Let us see how this whole concept of stresscan influence our body. As was mentioned, itinvolves three different systems to function ata given point of time. This whole process hasbeen divided into three phases. Phase one, analarm response, phase two where by an individual settles with thestressful situation whereas stage three is exertion. What the NeuroScientists believe it as general awareness syndrome. In this basicallyan individual in the first stage undergoes series of changes physiologically.This part is called as Basic Stress Response or the Flight orFight Response. Most of us have encountered this in different ways.Some of us might have just encountered early in our life whereassome others might have encountered it little later in our lives. Butstress response has become a mandatory to each and every individual.Let us see what happens when you interact with this Flightor Fight response. Basically whenever you come across a stimuluswhich demands a response from you, body prepares itself to handlethat demanding situation in the form of physiological as well as behavioralresponses. For example, imagine you are just taking a walkin a park. Suddenly you see a snake. You have any one of thesetwo choices with you. Either you attack the snake or you run awayfrom the snake. Another most commonly observed phenomena arewhenever you are going for a walk, you have been chased by a dog.So you have once again two options. Either fight with the dog or runaway from the dog. In both the cases your body has to prepare itselfYoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 0