Role Of Yoga Therapy In Anxiety

Anxiety has become an almost integral of our daily life.



As a result more than a few means and techniques have been adopted it, from time to time, to cope with and to treat it. One of these techniques is Yoga. It has long been established as a mystical approach to life and healing.

Yoga has a history of many thousands of years.



In fact, it is one of the best philosophical and mystical schools of India. Besides, being an educational device for autognosis science and self-purification, Yoga is also useful for overall health. Yoga can is successfully employed to improve levels of concentration, to enhance mental states and to control one’s personal feelings and emotions.



Because of these characteristics, Yoga is one of the most promulgated psycho-physiological techniques of copying with anxiety and tension.

Anxiety is an indivisible trait of human life in the modern digital era. It is, most certainly, one of the results of modernism and post-modernism in this millennium. Anxiety has grave effects in squandering both material and spiritual resources. Subsequently, facing this fact is a money-spinning investigation in short; medium and long term points of view. A lot of studies have been carried out in countries besides USA. The results of these studies revealed the efficacy of Yoga in bringing down anxiety and depression; in many cases, even elimination.

As a result of the cultural and social diversities in American society and the societies where the former studies were carried out, the results were remarkable. Those, in fact, could be the primary sources of the differences between the types and the intensities of anxiety levels in those societies. The topmost question in this subject was: whether the anxiety level is lower in yoga practitioners compared to non-practitioners?

The results were shockingly simple. And the answers are evident all over the USA. The number of schools, institutes and centers, not to mention Yoga studios mushrooming by the thousands day by day, lends credence to the results of the studies. Yoga does, and always will continue to have a positive effect in alleviating symptoms of anxiety, no matter how severe the condition. Notwithstanding the fact that it is an alternative therapy, and medication might still be required, there is no doubt that Yoga plays a great role in reducing the use of medication and helping the patient stand on his / her own feet.