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Fostering Mental Health - The Role of Yoga

The document discusses the rising incidences of mental ill-health in youth due to various internal and external factors and emphasizes the importance of mental health in national development. It outlines the significance of a supportive home and school environment for children's mental well-being and highlights practices like meditation and yoga that can alleviate mental stress. Recommendations for creating a conducive atmosphere at home and school are provided to foster emotional and social adaptability in children.

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Dr. K.SURESH, Post Doctoral Fellow of ICSSR, Department of Education, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvarur – 610 005.
In recent years, many incidences of mental ill-health have tremendously increased and have posed a serious problem in the nation. Industrial development, social and economical changes have given rise to a number of new problems.
The problem of mental health has acquired importance in the programmes of national development. National development is depends on the youth of the nation. But the youths were put into the mental illness due to some internal and external factor of an individual.
The ability to adjust satisfactory to the various strains of the environment we meet in life and mental hygiene as the means, we take to assure this adjustments. - Ceiths and Moseley (as cited in Kundu & Tutoo, 2011)
positive but relative quality of life. condition which is characteristics of the average person who meets the demands of life on the basis of his own capacities and limitations. - Sulton and Webster (as cited in Kuppuswamy, 2010)
It is a quality of an individual as to free from intellectual, social, emotional and physical strains with assurance of the mental hygeinic. - Author
Home Atmosphere:  Provide proper affection and love to the child.  Provide conductive environment in home.  Do not criticize the child.  Do not compare the child with other children.  Don’t ask irritable questions to the child  Be a friend in time  Don’t use harsh words to the child while they did wrong  Do not reject or overprotect the child.
Home Atmosphere:  Do not quarrel in present of the child.  Do not be over anxious about the future of the child.  Try to be democratic in your dealings.  Meet legitimate needs of your child.  Provide guidance where necessary and build self-confidence in the child.
School Atmosphere:  Bad environment  autocratic style of Teacher  undesirable participation of teacher  school rejects proper human relations  Less facility of schools  Irrespective activities of teachers and the head
 Adaptability and resilient mind  Social adaptable  Emotionally satisfied autocratic style of Teacher  Desires are in harmony with socially approved goals  Insight into his own conduct  Enthusiastic and reasonable  Good Habits
 meditation and it reduced all types of mental stress of an individual.  continuous meditation leads the individual as destructive emotional and stress free individual. physical problems may be reduced within the range like asthma, high blood pressure, lower back pain, arthritic, menstrual problems, stress, anxiety and depression.
 oxygen is clearly circulated.  The postures and bending activity makes the body fitness and strengthens.
Yoga is a best practice to enhance both physical and mental well being And it leads to successful life
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Fostering Mental Health - The Role of Yoga