STRESS IN PROFESSIONALS

In today’s world we are so occupied with negativities, jealousy, competition and fatigue that we are unable to cope up with the stress created by our day today life which finally leads to health problems, psychosomatic disorders, diminished work performance, poor decision making finally putting more stress and there is no end to it until we do any special effort to cope up with this cycle of stress. Stressed out individuals carry a great deal of physical tension in their bodies and it is the root cause of so many psychosomatic disorders.
Circumstance keeps on changing in our life which may interfere with the peace of our mind. These factors may be environmental and personal. Such obstacles place adjustive demands and when an individual becomes incapable to fulfill these demands stress over powers the mind which starts affecting ones health.

EFFECTS OF STRESS

When stress is severe and long continued the after effects may become irreversible for instance when the person in under stressful situation his digestion slows down, his brain and nervous system becomes intensely active, the heart starts pumping more blood which ultimately results in so many physical and mental disorders:-
• High blood pressure
• Heart attacks or strokes
• Peptic ulcers
• Effects ones ability to think, feel and act in an integrated manner.
• Frustration, anxiety, insomnia, migraine, loss of concentration & memory
• Aging & indigestion.


ROLE OF YOGA TO CURE STRESS

The solution is to make one that much strong that he or she can cope up with worldly day to day stress and can perform better by taking the stress situation easily. In this the natural yoga postures are helpful. By exercises of muscles and joints through Yogasanas and kriyas muscles tension is released from the body and body produces chemicals like endorphins which thus promoting feel good factor. The benefits of yoga postures (asana), breathing (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana) include increased body awareness, release of muscular tension and increased coordination between mind and body. It helps in better management of stress and ensures an overall feeling of well being.
Yoga is beyond physical it gives one a sense mental, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. Yogic asanas, meditation and breathing can help stress affected persons in many ways such as:
o It sharpens the brain and makes one more active. It releases healthy chemicals and hormones in the body which makes one feels stress free and positive. Among professionals it is very beneficial in improving over all health thus enhancing ones work performance.
o Increases movement and flexibility of joints thus reducing pain, prevents arthritis, good for cervical, backache, knees pain and other joints deformities.
o Regulates blood circulation and balances secretion of hormones thus managing physical and mental disorders. It relieves body aches, enhances mobility, flexibility of joints and improves digestion.
o Practicing Yogasanas, Pranayama and meditation helps to improve concentration, memory power and is good for brain because it works on whole nervous system.
o It helps to reduce extra fat from body and gives a feeling of lightness, activeness and refresh ness.

The great seer Maharishi Patanjali has described yoga as —yogaschittavrittinirodhah, which means completely shutting out all kinds of mental fluctuations. This statement has been said thousands of years ago but is true in sense of today’s world for the treatment of Stress. Because today’s world is full of stress but still we have to face it to prove ourselves to survive in this competitive world and for that we need to be mentally and physically sound and Yoga is the solution to it.


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