Treatment of Psycho-Somatic Disorders Through Yoga Therapy

Download or read book Treatment of Psycho-Somatic Disorders Through Yoga Therapy written by Dr. Hiralal Sharma and published by Sports Educational Technologies. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga tell us how to live life meaningfully. The core goal of the practice of yoga is self, realization and expansion of concluousness. Healthy are not is objective. But as consciousness is the core of the being, the health promotion and therapeutic benefits do follow practice of yoga, as side benefits. The most significant paint is the yoga is compatible with other forms of therapeutic approaches and such it has a great potential to prove regular complementary therapy in all range of clinical problems, physical, mental or psychophysical including drug addiction and alcoholism. Yoga has proved stress, anxiety and depression relieving effect. As stress, anxiety and elements of depression are common accompaniments in most range of patients, if has an useful role. Yoga is a essentially a spiritual science of self-development and self-realisation and hence the healthy and healing benefits are not out of context. Ordinarily the efficacy and effect of yoga therapy occurs holistically in whole mind-body system. The Asanas from the most important part of therapeutic yoga if we properly practiced with Hatha Yoga, proper breathing and progressive awareness one will find that all yogic practices yield varying degress of relaxation and anti-stress effect. The proper breathing and practice of Pranayam we are more concerned with achieving conscious relaxation. These practices correct the postural substrate, impart quality to the body build, flexibility to faints, muscles, tendons and entire connective tissue system. Yoga lays special stress on cleanliness, purity and thruthfulness in improving the quality of life. This book have been classified into seven chapters, i.e. (1) concepts of yoga (2) Tradition and scope of yoga (3) Therapeutic yoga and its essentials (4) Development of yoga (5) The Astanga Yoga (eight-fold path of yoga), (6) study of yoga as Health Science and (7) Yoga as a system of curative medicine etc.