Yoga is a form of meditation and exercise that helps in promoting the control of both your mind and body. It should be applied in your daily life for mental peace and body fitness. Make sure that you practice yoga always in a good mood so that it can give you a more intense feeling of happiness and satisfaction afterwards. Plus, this is a religious art of meditation and it provides clarity of mind, calmness with increasing body awareness, relief from chronic stress and enhancing concentration along with sharpness of mind.

The mental benefits of yoga are listed below:

• It increases the social adjustment: practicing yoga on a daily basis will surely relax you and it will also help your body to adjust to various situations.
• Increasing concentration and efficiency of learning: this can help you to focus on a single point without letting your mind wander from here to there all the time. It also helps to reduce stress and strains on the mind. Similarly, it enhances mental strength.
• Change of mood and vitality: practicing yoga for a long time helps to reduce mind swings and you can also develop a way of looking positively towards everything in life. In short, yoga can teach you to the positive outlook on life. The stretching and breathing will help in meditating deeper and throwing away those useless feelings that are presently encountering your life.
• Self-awareness: yoga practice can bring more self awareness and also helps to enhance the body’s comfort level. It is said that yoga can increase self confidence in an individual and gain the self esteem. It helps you to feel both your adverse and better aspects of life like happiness and depression.

As per the conclusions from various researches it is shown that yoga can enhance the activity of brain especially if you are doing those yoga positions that are formulated especially for exercising the brain and concentration.

It can also boost you up with fresh energy and gives you relief from depression and anxiety. Unlike hardcore gym exercises, you will not have to leave the yoga session feeling tired. Doing yoga will only leave you feeling fresh and full of enthusiasm and energy. Do not go for hard poses on the very first day. It is suggested that first let your body adapt to the basic poses of yoga then followed by harder poses slowly. Always make sure to take proper training, so that you are not doing anything wrong.