Articles
Mental Health and Yoga
Throughout
Yoga's long history, there have been many
misconceptions which shrouded it in my stery until proper scientific
research begin in the beginning of 20th century. In
India,
people become aware of the need to revive old traditions and sciences
which might otherwise die out and scientific research into yoga was
one of the areas which generated a lot of interest. Many western
scholars too realized the utility of yoga and made effort to study its
significance from scientific point of view. Yoga stands out distinctly
from others approach for attaining health and happiness in our life.
It accepts one's own responsibility in attaining this state of health
and happiness.
Published in the second International
Conference on Yoga and Psychotherapy held at Haridwar in the year 2006
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