Yoga & Adolescent Anxiety

Adolescence is a phase of life when an individual is exposed to the world outside. In the ladder of education from nursery to university system academic stress as well as examination anxiety is almost universal. In fact anxiety is a basic human emotion consisting of fear and uncertainty that typically appears when an individual perceives an event as being a threat to the ego or self-esteem. Modern sports scientists and physical educators are interested in human performance in a variety of sports and games. Practiced for more than 5000 years yoga is one of the oldest forms of healing therapy. The amazing results of yoga are now being studied by scientists all over the world. Teams of doctors at the various yogic health centers in India keep detailed records of patients treated with yoga for diabetes respiratory ailments digestive complaints and obesity. Yoga works on the mind and the body at the same time as well as exploiting their interdependence. No other system does this. Western psychology studies the mind western exercise physiology studies the effect of exercise on the body but there is no emphasis on the interrelationship of the mind and the body