Role of Yoga to Control: Exploring the Benefits of Yoga and Meditation for Stress Control in the Workplace

Abstract

Stress has an adverse effect one‘s health, workperformance, social life and even the relationship with family members. Thestress, factors leading to it and consequences of stress are to be understood atindividual and organizational level. The changed working conditions, multipleand overlapping roles have increased stress to a greater extent at workplace.Stress has emerged as a major issue for the businesses and has reached alarmingproportions due to its negative impacts. Organizations must develop stressprevention as well as stress reduction techniques. This paper focuses on Yogaand meditation as the best practices adopted by organizations to prevent,reduce and to overcome stress at work place.