yoga and mental health

Those practicing yoga experiences a number of factors results in a profound effect on their mental health. These can classified under:
1. Reduction of tension
2. Restoration of pliability
3. personal and
4. social
1. Reduction of tension:
Many people who practice yoga speak of ‘freeing the mind from mental disturbances’, ‘calming the spirit’, or ‘steadying the mind’. Reduction of nervousness, irritability and confusion, depression and mental fatigue are some of the benefits experienced. One experienced a relief from the pressure of his ‘compulsions’. His nervousness, especially any jitteriness should subside or disappear.

The extent to which these benefits may be expected will depend in part upon whether or not one can approach and practice in them willingly and wholeheartedly : for one who tries to practice postures with anxiety cripples his chances for very much benefits .
2. Restoration of pliability
‘The positive side of the benefits from a full round of yogic exercises may be described as renewal of mental agility. Both mood and capacity for alertness and willingness to tackle problem revive. One may not be able to rekindle boundless enthusiasm late in a working day: early morning or even noonday, efforts to recharge mental energies can revive a full measure of willingness. Traditional phrases, such as restored ‘spiritual vitality’ , intend to convey the complex idea of mental spryness, agreeableness to attaining feeling of buoyancy and euphoria: these then provide a background or moodof well- being and assurance such that one naturally more fully enjoys both his ability and the worthiness of being more tolerant and generous’.