Yoga for Stress Management

18 | Yoga for Stress ManagementSTRESS MANAGEMENTYoga for Stress. Stress is something that we find every day andeverybody is talking about stress today. What is this Stress? Howdo we understand stress? Why it is becoming a major issue in thepresent day life style? Let us try to understand this, find techniquesand learn yogic techniques of helping ourselves to be free from thiswhat could be called as monsters of present day life style. What isStress? As soon as I ask you what is Stress, you will start wonderinghave you heard Stress. Yes. I have had lot of stress in my life. Whatare your stresses? May be your office, may be your child, difficulthusband, difficult mother, difficult family, difficult politics. So wetend to relate our stress to a mental state, a reaction, an emotion,an uncomfortable feeling that is evoked by these different situations.But stress is not just that uncomfortable feeling. Stress by definitionis a necessary helpful mechanism that is set into our system to beable to cope up with demanding situations of life. It is a productivemechanism. So stress is not basically a disease. Stress is notbasically only a distress. Stress is a coping helping mechanism toevoke to manage emergency situations. So for example, you are allseated here. Suddenly fire alarm comes. What have we to do? It is adangerous situation. The sound of the fire alarm falls on your ear, itgoes to your mind, you recognize it as danger and immediately a bigsurge of electrical activity comes down from the brain and stimulatesall activities of the body. To make that escape from the danger, weYoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 0