Yoga for Stress Management

14 | Yoga for Stress Managementsharper. The blood supply to skeletal muscles increases so that themuscles are strong enough to handle the situation. At the same timeother systems like the Digestive system etc., they withdraw theirfunctioning in terms of reduced blood supply etc. To do this taskyou need more energy. Hence the glucose in the blood increaseswhereby it is available to handle the situation. So overall there is anArousal. The muscles are ready, heart will be beating faster so thatmore blood goes there, more oxygen is available in terms of breathing.Vision becomes sharper. Everything is ready to handle thatstressful situation.Imagine if this continues for a long duration, the body cannot copeup. Instead if there is a withdrawal of stressful stimulus the bodyslowly comes back to its base line. As was mentioned earlier, supposeone has been chased by dog, now what happens suddenly becausehe person appear to be stronger, the dogs run away. So nowthe body understands that there is no more threatening situation. Soyou can relax yourself. It comes back to its base line. Having beencome to base line, now the life continues. Imagine if this repeatsagain and again that is what has been observed in the present daythat we undergo stressful situations quite frequently say that we arenot giving our body enough time for it to come back to its normalbase line, hence resulting in the phase of exertion. Taking care of allthese three phases of Stress will lead to a positive stress which can beused for developing better skills. If the three phases of stress are nottaken care, they can lead to chronic stress.Yoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 0