Yoga for Stress Management

20 | Yoga for Stress Managementcope up with and that goes on very nicely. So when we want to getalert, excited, stimulated, there is one set of nerves called SympatheticNerves System which activates increases the heart rate, Bloodpressure, increases the muscle tone, increases the blood glucose leveland makes our mind very very alert and increases the sweating rate,decreases the blood that goes to the intestine so that the intestine canwait digestive activity until we escape from danger and once we areout of danger, Para Synthetic Nerves System takes over and then itrestores, rejuvenates, relaxes, reduce the heart rate, reduce the bloodpressure, improves intestinal motility, improves secretion of digestivejuices and makes our system come back to base level of working.This is a beautiful balancing mechanism. Imagine if this system wasnot there, all the time heart only functions at a level which neverincrease when required and decrease when not required. This is notwhat our system wants. We want to activate and rest and relax andrejuvenate when the system demand is over. So this process of stressadaptation is called SAS or Stress Adaptation Syndrome, Stress AdaptationMechanism which was beautifully described and elaboratedwith lots of understanding by two doctors in 1960. The famous doctorsShelly and Levy worked on this stress adaption mechanism andmade us understand Psycho Neuron Physiology. What are all thechanges that happen in our system when we get stressed up and thatmakes us understand how this stress is a useful adaptation mechanism.Then why do we call stress a dangerous thing? What is happeningin the present day life style? Let us see, we activate the system. Thereis a demanding situation that activates, heart rate goes up, bloodpressure goes up, alertness goes up and we have no time to get backto normalcy. Again another demanding situation right from morn-Yoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 0