Yoga and lifestyle changes can help improve cognitive health and reduce impairment. Stress plays a role in cognitive decline. Exercising daily through yoga or other activities, maintaining a positive social circle, sticking to a regular sleep schedule, and eating a balanced diet can all help promote cognitive health. Yoga in particular provides benefits like increased flexibility, strength, cardiovascular health, and better sleep. Specific yoga practices that can help include pranayama, kapalbhati, surya namaskar, and various asanas.

1. Life Style
And Yoga
BY RITIKA MAHANTA
BCA 2nd YEAR

2. INTRODUCTION
TO LIFE STYLE
• Life style” is a term which we
generally use to mean the way people
live reflecting the entire range of social
values, attitudes and activities.
• It includes lifelong personal habits and
also cultural and behavioral patterns.
It is through the social interaction with
parents, groups, and friends and
through school and mass media we
get to our lifestyle.

3. Psychological
Aspect
• Stress plays an integral
role in a person's life as it
hinders their cognitive
health and can lead to its
impairment.
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4. What is cognitive health and what are
the adverse effects caused by it ?
• Cognitive health is the ability to clearly think, learn, and remember. Functions such as motor
skills, emotional responses, and sensory responses indicate a resilience to neuropathological
damage. Genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors are all thought to
influence cognition and health.
• cognitive impairment is when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things,
concentrating, or making decisions that affect their everyday life. Cognitive
impairment ranges from mild to severe.

5. What is the solution ?
• Exercising on a daily basis.
• Having a positive social circle.
• Having a healthy circadian rhythm.
• Having a well-balanced diet.
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6. Benefits of
Exercising
• When you exercise, your
body releases chemicals
called endorphins.
These endorphins interact
with the receptors in your brain
that reduce your perception of
pain. Endorphins also trigger
a positive feeling in the body,
similar to that of morphine.
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7. YOGA
• Yoga is essentially a spiritual
discipline based on an
extremely subtle science,
which focuses on bringing
harmony between mind and
body. It is an art and science
of healthy living. The word
'Yoga' is derived from the
Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to
join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'.

8. Benefits of yoga
No matter what style of yoga you choose
to practice ,you will likely see
improvements in many areas of your
health .By practicing regularly you can:
• increase your flexibility
• increase muscle tone and strength
• improve your circulatory and cardio
health
• Helps you sleep better

9. Some yoga
practices
• PRANAYAMA
• KAPALBHATI
• SURYA NAMASKAR
• TADASANA
• BHUJANGASANA

10. Social Circle
• A social circle is a group of
socially interconnected people.
A social circle may be viewed
from the perspective of an
individual who is the locus of a
particular group of socially
interconnected people and
from the perspective of the
group as a cohesive unit.
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11. Circadian Rhythm
• A circadian rhythm is a natural,
internal process that regulates the
sleep-wake cycle.
• Circadian rhythms has a critical role in
immune system homeostasis.
• Both innate and adaptive immune
responses - ranging from leukocyte
mobilization, trafficking, and
chemotaxis to cytokine releases and
T cell differentiation – are mediated in
a time of day–dependent manner.

12. Balanced Diet
• A well-balanced diet provides
important vitamins, minerals
and nutrients to keep the body
and mind strong and healthy.
Eating well can also help ward
off numerous diseases and
health complications, as well
as help maintain a healthy
body weight, provide energy,
allow better sleep and improve
brain function.
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13. For Listening.