Effects of Yoga on Mind

Yoga is considered to be a significant spiritual discipline because that is based on an extremely subtle science, which mainly focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. Yoga is considered to be an art and science of healthy living and the fundamental purpose of yoga is to foster harmony in the mind, body, and environment. It declares a complete system over physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional development. It is known that Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word “Yuj” which means “to join” or “to yoke” or “to unite”.

Yoga played a great impact on the lives of the students as it helps them in their academics which not only helps them to clear the mind but also can give students a break from the constant social atmosphere of the school. Through this, it can make it easier to concentrate when reading, studying, and sitting through lectures. Whereas; Yoga contributes a positive impact on the mind of the person as it helps to improve a person’s mental well-being by breathing and meditation. By implementing yoga in a daily practice creates mental clarity and calmness, relieves chronic stress patterns, increases body awareness, relaxes the mind, sharpens concentration, and focuses attention.

It is said that providing training in Yoga and mindfulness-based skills may cultivate several beneficial effects for educators including mindfulness, increase in calmness, positive mood, well-being, improvements in classroom management, self-regulation, and physical fitness. Taken together, these improvements may lead to students’ behavior, health, performance, mental state as well as effectiveness, teacher resilience, and overall classroom climate.

Yoga plays wonders as it increases your flexibility, helps you to build strength, improves your posture, helps to keep your joints healthy, and helps in practice powerful mindfulness, reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, helps to improve breathing, and helps you to make healthier life choices. Yoga education can also be prevalent as it will enhance all the activities of the students, either academic or social or sport. This technique helps to provide better stamina, well-focused attention in studies, coordination for sports, and a heightened awareness and balanced attitude for social activity.

Thus, Yoga aims to mainly focus and experience the Truth, by realizing the true nature of our ‘Self’ and the Universe. We can finally conclude that with the implementation of Yoga, academic performance tends to improve by optimizing the stress levels so it should suggest that yoga should include as a mandatory subject in the schools because integrating yoga in schools can support students and teachers, also it will help schools address many of the challenges common in education today.