Yoga : The Life Changing Tool to Improve Health of Human Beings

Keywords: Yoga, Health, life, Asana, Hypertension, Meditation

Yoga is a life changing tool for human beings. It is the subject of research from last few decades intended for healing purposes for modern epidemic illnesses i.e. hypertension, mental stress, obesity, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In such cases, specific research studies reported beneficial results of yoga. That means, yoga can be utilized as a nonpharmaceutical measure or counterpart to drug therapy for the treatment of these conditions/cases. In this article, research is reviewed on the effects of yoga as a tool for changing the life of human beings. In addition to this, the limbs, asana and pranayama are discussed in a proper way. Further, how that helps in solving the health problems are also discussed in this article.

Parth M. Kapatel                                                                           The Author is the Psychanalyst in Department of Materials Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 388120, Gujarat, India.