A Healthy body for a Healthy mind Pratyush Das00:03 0 comments

In this fast paced competitive world, one finds himself always short of time and mugging up things. This way a student is able to get good grades. But are good grades enough to succeed in life? I feel that they play an important role but they are not enough. We miss something that we need in our life and that is learning. Learning in today’s world is rare. If we try and analyse the reasons behind it we find stress, lack of confidence, negativities, distractive activities and much more. If we need to search for a simple yet effective solution to all of these problems we get just one answer- Yoga! This indeed is true. Yoga is and has been one of the most sought after methods to improve the learning. 

Many people think that yoga is just a way of achieving physical fitness and wastes a lot of time which we can use to study. Well, studies have shown that an average person who gives one hour daily to yoga needed to study for half the time a person who does not perform yoga to achieve better results. Yoga is a mis-conceptualised term as one feels it is attaining the pose, but in fact yoga is much broader term whose small part is performing asanas. Yoga consists of eight components that target the complete development- physical, mental as well as emotional. We are all aware that yoga helps in physical fitness. But how does it affect mental and the emotional fitness of a person?

Yama is the component of yoga that deals with one’s ethical standards and sense of integrity. This helps in overcoming the distractions and the negativities in life. Niyama, the second component, has to do with self-discipline. Self-discipline is very important to succeed in life. Overall Yoga makes us calm and confident. It helps in increasing the brains capacity to think. A confident person is likely to do much better in life than an under-confident person.

Coming back to the enhanced thinking part, we know that yoga helps us remove negativities from our memory and thus enhancing our memory. Like in a computer if you have 100's of useless files and apps they consume memory and our computer works slowly. Similarly our brain works much slower than normal if it has all junk memories and negative feelings in it. Yoga helps to clear this junk.

It is a well-known fact that achievements enhance the spirit of a person to do better. But some people are unable to get the sense of achievement even after making huge progress. This is because they have lost their ability to think positively. Yoga helps in finding inner peace and thus helps us sense achievements however small they may be.

Yoga helps keep a body in its physical best. We all know that for a healthy mind, a healthy body is a must. And thus yoga contributes in mental fitness by physical fitness. Yoga helps us over our horrors of the past and makes us emotionally strong.

Thus Yoga is a perfect practice for anyone who wishes to learn in today’s modern life. It makes time for itself and doubles the efficiency of our work so that we are able to change the present mugging up concept, which the students have adopted. Learning will make them successful and will contribute towards the betterment of individual as well as the community. Thus, on this International Yoga Day, make a pledge to spare one hour daily for yoga. You will relish the step taken by you forever.


Author: Sarisht Wadhwa