A Review on the Benefits of Yoga Practices for Working Professionals

Abstract

Stress and anxiety in the corporate sector have been drastically increasing worldwide. Stress and tension at work in today’s time has become a constitutive phase of everyday life. In the year 1992, it was identified by United Nations that job stress and the pressure was a ‘20th-century epidemic’ which is about to be carried forward in future. On the other hand, The World Health Organization took it to a larger level by calling it a ‘worldwide epidemic’. Main aim of this research is to review on the benefits of Yoga practices for working professionals. Working professionals face lots physical and mental issues in their working environments. The Yoga practices create a significant impact on solving these issues. The main aim of this research is to analyze benefits of yoga practices with respect to the working professionals at physical, Mental, Emotional & Intellectual levels. Further, this study uses

the secondary data collection methods. The yogic practices pave a way to enhance the

activities of brain related to cognitive performance and decision making among the working professionals in the corporate sector. It is concluded that yoga practices have benefited working professionals in

decision making, mind-body coordination, positive energy and enhancing well-being and quality of life. In future, this work can

be detailed by collecting the primary data source through quantitative approach among various investigators.