Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy for Positive Health

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Man has stepped into the third millennium.  Medical men are working with many technologists to offer better health care, world health organization is engaged in taking stock of global health status and taking necessary steps to raise the health standards.  Scientific aptit8de that entered medical profession in the beginning of 20th century made rapid strides in eradicating epidemics and pandemics, through invention of antibiotics and vaccines.  Although nutritional deficiencies and infections continue to be the major problem in the under developed and developing countries, the scenario in developed countries is totally different.  Hi-tech medical facilities with fascinating advances in spare part surgeries, although has made life more comfortable, with a life expectancy of greater than a hundred years, the expected quality of life, with harmony and peace seems to be far from reality.  Problems of stress, stress related ailments, student unrest, breaking up families, are all on an exponential rise.  The frustrated patients are moving towards alternative so called non-scientific therapies.  Deep thinkers, have raised questions as to why this way?  What went wrong in our health delivery system?  Why the mental and social health problems are on the increase?  What should we do to prevent such problems?  Can we raise the basic health level to greater heights as a preventive programme rather than do fire fighting after ailments have shown up?  What are the markers of positive health?  Is positive health a single State?  What are the measures of positive health at the physical, mental, social and spiritual levels?  What are the tools for achieving states of positive health?  Health professionals who started by giving relief to their suffering sick fellow beings, through medicines and surgeries, are now faced with such newer questions because of the need of the hour.  Most of the common health and social problems cannot be solved through germ theories, antibiotics or surgeries.  The advent of fascinating diagnostic tools has started pointing to the role of mind on matter.  Biochemical, psycho-neurophysiological, immunological researchers are all recognizing the role of mind, the life style, suppressed emotions, stress etc. in the causation of many of these challenges of the millennium.

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Title
Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy for Positive Health
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788187313083
Length
viii+178p., Plates; Figures; Tables; 22cm.
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