The document promotes healthy living through yoga, emphasizing the importance of a balanced lifestyle for physical, emotional, and spiritual health. It outlines key components such as diet, exercise, and stress management while highlighting the benefits of yoga as a holistic practice. Ultimately, it encourages individuals to take responsibility for their health and well-being through consistent yogic practices.

1. HEALTHY LIVING
THROUGH YOGA
Yogacharya
Dr ANANDA BALAYOGI BHAVANANI
MBBS, ADY, DSM, DPC, PGDFH, PGDY, FIAY
Chairman : International Centre for Yoga
Education & Research at Ananda Ashram,
Puducherry, South India. www.icyer.com

2. INTRODUCTION
Good health – a priceless possession
Ill health & disease – a curse
Holistic health- body - mind - soul
Improve your health / heal yourself
physically, emotionally and spiritually
 Unhealthy lifestyle is a major underlying
factor for disease, disability and death.
 Adopt a healthy lifestyle for
– Health promotion
– Prevention & cure of disease
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3. LIFESTYLE IS:
 The way we live our day-to-day lives with
the object of acquiring and maintaining a
healthy body and mind
 The way we
• think, emote and behave,
• act and interact,
• rest and relax,
• eat and drink
 It’s a daily discipline, a dynamic process

4. LIFESTYLE MODIFICATIONS
• Choices / actions to be taken to improve:
– Physical health and physiological
functions
– Mental health and the sense of well
being
– Quantity of Life span
– Quality of life experiences

5. CHOICE IS YOURS
RESOLVE NOW !!!!
• If healthy – to stay fit
• If unwell – to restore health

6. COMPONENTS OF
LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION
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Healthy food and drink
Regular physical exercise
Rest and relaxation
Healthy emotional relationships
Preventive measures
Management of stress
Periodical check-up
Self-examination
External & internal cleanliness & purity

7. ADVANTAGES OF
LIFESTYLE MODIFICATIONS
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Natural, effective and safe
Complementary to “modern” medicine
Inexpensive
Should be the basis of our public health
policy and clinical approach
Are doctors trained?

8. ADVANTAGES OF YOGA
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Wholistic:
Preventive, promotive, curative
Science, philosophy, art
Body, mind, soul
Desirable +ve “side benefits”
Harmless
Simultaneous improvement in health and
control of other diseases
Relief from stress - the main cause of
Adhija Vyadhi (psychosomatic disorders)

9. YOGA AND YOGA THERAPY
• YOGA
-integration / reintegration
(mind-body --- spirit-universe)
• YOGA THERAPY
- tools to attain the integration /
reintegration

10. • Yoga enables us to attain and maintain a
dynamic sukha sthanam - a dynamic sense
of physical, mental and spiritual well being.
• Yoga helps cultivation of positive health
through three integral steps:
– Cultivation of correct psychological attitudes,
– Reconditioning of neuro-muscular and neuroglandular system – in fact, the whole body –
enabling it to withstand stress and strain better,
– Laying great emphasis on appropriate diet
conducive to such a peak state of health, and
encouraging natural processes of elimination
through various processes of shuddhi.

11. Yoga places great importance on a proper and healthy
lifestyle whose main components are:
 ACHAR – healthy physical activities and exercise in our
daily life
 VICHAR – right thoughts and right attitude towards life
that are vital for wellbeing.
 AHAR – healthy, nourishing diet with adequate intake of
fresh water along with a well balanced intake of fresh
food, green salads, sprouts, unrefined cereals and fresh
fruits. It is important to be aware of the need for a satwic
diet, prepared and served with love and affection.
 VIHAR – proper recreational activities to relax body and
mind are essential for good health.

12. PRINCIPLES OF YOGA LIFESTYLE
• Yoga lifestyle is 24 / 365 of our life with conscious
awareness of our body, emotions and mind
• Increase your self reliance and self confidence
• Improve your dietary habits
• Relax yourself as completely as possible
• Slow down your breathing – quiet, regular & deep
• Calm down your mind and focus it inwardly developing naturally a positive state of mind
• Decrease your stress level by fortifying yourself
against various omnipresent stressors

13. PRINCIPLES OF YOGA LIFESTYLE -2
• Improve flow of Healing Pranic Life Energy thus
relaxing, regenerating & reinvigorating every cell
• Facilitate natural emanation of waste by practice
of Shuddi Kriyas such as Dhauti, Basti and Neti.
• Remember that ultimately it is “YOU” who are
responsible for your health and wellbeing and
must take the initiative to develop positive health
to tide you over challenging times of ill health.
• Health and happiness are your birthright, claim
them & develop them to your maximum potential.

14. IN CONCLUSION
• The ancient art and science of Yoga has infinite
possibilities of solutions for the problems being
faced by modern humankind.
• We however want it to be a miracle pill, that we
take only once - immediate loss of all problems!
• Yoga is a wholistic science and must be learnt
and practiced with a holistic view.
• The dedicated practice of Yoga as a way of life
is no doubt a panacea for problems related to
psychosomatic, stress related disorders helping
us to regain our birthright of natural health and
universal happiness.

15. THANK
YOU
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