Impact of Yoga and Meditation Among the Student Community

Abstract

There is large number of methods of Yoga catering to the needs of the different types of people in society and to bring about the transformation of the individual. As Swami Vivekananda told; “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy by one or more or all of these and before. This is the whole of religion” -Swami Vivekananda In fact, yoga is not a religion; it is a way of living whose aim is ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. A piece of yoga practice every day will definitely make student community gain more physical strength and get rid of all physical difficulties and diseases. With this mental strength, student community can come out and fight against all discrepancies with increasing self-confidence. They will thus become more powerful than ever before. Yoga can empower in the following four ways like Physical Health Empowerment, Emotional Empowerment, Mental Health Empowerment and Spiritual Empowerment. All these can be attained through yoga practices that include Yogasana, Pranayama and Meditation. These simple but powerfully uplifting intervention programmes can instill self confidence in students, renewing their sense of joy, spirit of integration and communal kinship.