yoga and personality

1. Dr S Theebika
PG scholar 2nd year

2.  Personality is a collections of thoughts, emotions,
and behaviour, unique to a person that is
consistent over a period of time.
 Personality continue to develop throughout our
lifetime.
 PD is more obvious in childhood than adulthood.

3.  Important Aspects of personality
Development includes:
 1) Physical Development
 2) Psychological Development
 3) Intellectual Development
 4) Social Development
 5) Emotional Development

4.  To make the powerful personality external &
internal physically development is most
important.
 Physical dimension is related to body and involves
proper development and function.
 Yogic practices like asana, pranayama, and bandha
play a beneficial role in physical development of
children.

5.  Psychological wellbeing/ mental toughness is one
of the important concept of personality
development
 Yogic activities Yamas and Niyamas are helpful for
purified of internal senses of thoughts, feeling and
individual self awareness for pursuits of the higher
goals of humankind are as follows.
 Meditation is of greater value in shaping our
thought pattern and psyche as well

6.  Yoga helps in the development of frontal brain/
rational brain, instead of the limbic cortex or
emotional brain
 This is of greater significance especially in early
adolescents/ teenagers with lot of emotional
turbulence
 In modern times, Emotional quotient (EQ) is gaining
increasing significance even more than the
Intelligence quotient (IQ)

7.  It is third eye of Human being to live with positive
lifestyle. Without education & socialism humankind
would be like life of animal. Naturally everyone does
not live without group of cooperative society. With the
help of each other every one going on his own
successive way. So it is essential to improve the social
sense of human being.
 Some key elements of this process include respect for
others, listening carefully to other persons, being
interested in them, and voicing your thoughts and
feelings politely, honestly and clearly so that you can
be easily heard and understood. Principles of yama
include these key elements and are very important as
these help us in the betterment of our relationships
with our friends, parents, teachers and others.
 Yamas: - (Code of conduct – Self-restrain.)

8.  Intellectual development is most important for
personality of human being. Nature gives extra
power of intellectual to humankind. on the basis
of bright intellectual power change human life and
open the scientific eye. So it is essential to
develop intellectual aspect of personality. With
the help of yogic activity.
 Dharna:- This activity is Concentration of mind
performance role of human life. Result it
developing the power of self decision thought
adjustment, ability of decision making, planning,
leadership, co-ordination in human positive
lifestyle and development of self-confidence.