Yoga For immunity

According to Gallup-Healthways ‘Well-Being Index’ to UN’s ‘World Happiness Report’: 

Stress is associated with an increased occurrence of autonomic cardiovascular and immune systems pathology. A study was done to evaluate the impact of stress in overall human layers during medical term academic examination and the effect of yoga practices on the same. Group A would practice yoga for 35 min daily during 12 weeks, while group B wouldn’t do any stress management. 

The conclusion was that yoga persists the autonomic changes and impairment of cellular immunity. 

But How?

Let’s first understand the stress. Stress is commonly defined as psychophysiological  (mind-body) process, usually experienced as a negative state. But we also have something called Eustress which is good stress and prepares you to take up challenges in your life. Mental health includes psychological, emotional, physical and social well-being. Bad stress disturbs our physical and mental equilibrium causing illnesses, raising Psychosomatic diseases. it started in the mind like anxiety, pain, guilt, loss, concern, and reflection on the body.

What does yoga do?

Yoga treats a human being as a unit, comprising of Body (muscles, senses, organs of action, nervous System ) and Mind ( feelings, emotions, motivations, thought, desires, states of consciousness). It sees man in a much more holistic way. It gives one not only a healthy body but also sound mind. Among the several physiological benefits of yoga, there is a decrease in biochemicals in the body such as cortisol levels and glucose levels that has also been reported.

Yoga has a significant positive effect in the autonomic, endocrine, as well as psychological systems. It is understood to act through the cerebro-cortico-limbic pathways on the hypothalamus and the anterior pituitary glands, which are part of the endocrine system and is responsible for secreting good hormones in our body that are mainly beneficial to the thyroid, reproductive system, and adrenal glands. The increase of the circulating cytokines levels suggests that Yoga most definitely has a beneficial effect on the immune system as well as decreases inflammation in an individual and maintains a balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic limbs of the nervous system.

What are you waiting for? 

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Om shanti,

Love & Light