Stress management through exercise and yoga

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. According to World Health Organization (WHO) mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others. Although world is changing at rapid pace, every individual is wrapped in the coveted cover of techniques, spirit of competition, forces of emotion and ultimately put under the word “stress”. It has affected each and every individual of different age groups. The present paper unfolds the reasons of stress, the various tools of understanding, managing and controlling it.