International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Teaching of gita and yoga in ICDS can reduce anxiety in mordern society

  • Author:
  • Soumen Acharya
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 115 to 130

Consultant National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, New Delhi, India

Abstract

The importance of teaching yoga and Gita in early childhood refers to the formative stage of first six years of life, with well-marked Sub-stages (conception to birth; birth to three years and three years to six years) having Are-specific needs, following the life cycle approach. It is the period of most rapid growth in addition, development and is critical for survival. Growing scientific evidence confirms that There are critical stages in the development of the brain during this period which Influence the pathways of physical and mental health, and behavior throughout the life cycle. Deficits during this stage of life have substantive and cumulative adverse impacts we use yoga and some lectures to the beneficiary of the ICDS, then we can see the change on human, development. Bhagavad Gita is part of the great epic Mahabharata, a widely popular mythological story in Hindu philosophy; part of Bhishma Parva, Gita is Almost in its entirety the dialogue between two individuals, Lord Krishna (considered as Incarnation of Bhagawan Vishnu, Narayana) and Arjuna (the Pandava prince, Nara) in the battlefield (war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, the cousins, for control of The kingdom of Hasthinapura) of Kurukshetra. It has 18 yoga's (chapters), with about 701 shlokas (short poems), the first one being “Arjuna Vishada Yoga” (Sorrow of Arjuna) and the last one “Moksha Sanyasa Yoga” (Nirvana and Renunciation. Yoga is the teaching about whole body. Yoga and Gita classes will change the whole environment of the society as whole. The small study was done in anganwari in WB to see the use of yoga and teaching of Gita in children adolescent, women, pregnant mothers and all who attend a small group. The yoga training and readings and shlokas in pregnant women, adolescent girls and children were given, they were tested on sunhat anxiety score before and after the Gita and yoga class. The result of Sinha anxiety scale was less after the yoga and Gita class in the above mentioned training so we can see that the training of yoga and Gita class by yoga teacher and small verse of Gita a Saw a small change. So if we implement this at national level it will be a big change. We will be able to bring the changes in the future generation in the ICDS system in India.

Keywords

Gita, yoga, anxiety, stress