YOGA AND YOUTH

Youths around the world are facing a lot of challenges every day, the challenge of fulfilling the expectations of society and family, the challenge of evolving as an independent individual, and most importantly challenge of living a healthy life with their work and education. So here in this article, we will talk about how youngsters can get a healthy mind and body with their schools, colleges, and jobs. 

Yoga as part of education

In the 21st century, education has evolved from classrooms and expanded its boundaries beyond the books. So far Music, dance, drama, debate, sports, art and craft, etc has become a part of education. Similarly, we have to involve yoga and exercise in the curriculum of school and college. Half an hour class of Yoga and exercise in school and colleges can exponentially improve the health status of youths. Teaching the human body structure in biology class and tutoring the chemical reaction inside the human body in chemistry class alone is not going to help youths to adopt a healthy lifestyle. We have to educate the youths about the importance of a sound body and mind.  

Once the yoga, meditation, and physical exercise become part of education, then youngsters will recognize the role of yoga in improving the quality of life and will adopt these things in their daily lifestyle.

Benefits of yoga in student's and youth's life

Stress control

Students and youngsters are dealing with a lot of stresses in their daily life, the stress of scoring well in exams, getting admission to a good college, getting a job, earning money, and lot more in such cases busting stress and managing them with meditation and yoga becomes very necessary. It has been scientifically proved that continuous meditation and regular yoga help people in releasing the pressure and overcoming the anxiety.

Eagle Pose (Garudasana), Standing Forward Fold (Uttanasana), Child’s Pose (Balasana), Thunderbolt Pose (Vajrasana) Variation, are few yoga asanas that help students to release stress.

Improve concentration.

Concentration is very important in everybody's life and when it comes to young people it becomes very crucial that they concentrate on the right things. A lot of students are preparing for competitive exams, a lot of youths are struggling to find a job and many are trying to establish themselves as entrepreneurs hence it is very necessary that they save themselves from distraction and keep the focus on their ultimate goal.

Tree Pose (Vrksasana), Eagle Pose (Garudasana), Half Moon Pose (Ardha Chandrasana), Side Plank (Vasisthasana) are some yoga poses to improve concentration.

Personality development.

Personality has a great part to play in youths' life. Young people are extremely energetic and they are always ready to grab an opportunity and hence it's necessary that have an impressive personality. And yoga plays a great role in personality development. It enhances the overall character of youngsters. Continuous practice of yoga and meditation not only helps youths to stay healthy but also helps them to build a versatile personality. Yoga also enhances the self-confidence of students. In the everyday hectic life yoga and meditation balance the body and mind. It also helps students to maintain inner peace and balance their emotions. Even yoga is effective in curing serious problems like depression. 

Yoga And digital Age 

With this digital age, smartphones, laptops, and many other electronic items have become part of the youth's everyday life. Nowadays students study online and employees are adopting work from home culture and therefore they are all bound to spend a lot of time in front of screens and electronic devices. So in these cases, yoga is helping a lot of youngsters to stay relax and calm.