Yoga and meditation is very efficacious for senior members to stay fit and healthy physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Generally, we depend heavily on medication for taking care of old age diseases. Some chronic or life style diseases need lifelong medication and in turn produce side effects producing another disease. The mild form of Yoga and meditation exercises prepare the cellular environment conducive to self-healing and boost immunity power thus, there is less intervention of medication and life is happier and clear from frequent conflict with body and mind.

Simple form of yogic posture, pranayama and meditation techniques enhance the quality of living and encourage self-discipline bringing peace, silence and satisfaction. Holistic yog emphasizes holistic development or caring body, mind and soul together. Body is taken care of with regular life style and yogic postures, mind with breathing exercises, right reasoning and soul through meditation.

When philosophy and purpose of individual life is explored through yogic ideas of union of human consciousness with divine consciousness, on the process of living, a sense of satisfaction arises and practitioner lives with a balance of both disease and health, success and failure, pain and pleasure, panic and peace, stress and fresh etc. etc.

It is said that more than 60% of diseases are psychosomatic. The cause of the disease takes roots in the mind and afterwards get reflected in the body. So, stress and tension of the mind has to be addressed to bring mind in a relaxed and calm state that can be very effectively achieved through various yogic techniques such as pranayamas, progressive relaxation, yoga nidra, visualization, affirmation and meditation.

Yoga is that form of exercise/ activities or way of living in which one can transform oneself from within, one can empower oneself, one can observe one’s fault/ thought and action, one can inculcate discipline, strengthen will power, instill confidence with clarity while pursuing it with patience and perseverance.

Yoga is the union or connection of physical aspect with spiritual aspect of human being. Yogic methods can address various physical, mental, intellectual, emotional and spiritual issues and concerns of human life as per individual’s requirement, understanding and inquisitiveness. Yoga is balancing both work and life in an effortful enthusiastic way.

Stress is ongoing lifestyle phenomena of modern human hi-tech living. Mind generally is accustomed to bring memory/ experience of past and imagination/ expectation of future, to living present and thereby, stress is generated. Once a particular kind of negatively conditioned thought is pondered again and again and fearing about future uncertainties and insecurities, stress is invariably developed in the mind.

Life is facing stress through ‘survival is the fittest’ mode of living in society through complex competition, comparison and criticism. One can hardly choose the occupation or profession and has come by chance not by choice thus, mostly living life of unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Career in the early age, relationship in middle age and health issues and concerns in the leading age becomes very stressful at times that cannot be solved by medication only.

Philosophy of yoga can bring the answer to the question that an individual face by understanding the karma and mind’s modifications (ego-desire-attachment-ignorance). In holisticyog body, mind and soul aspect is addressed in holistic manner through exercise, pranayama and meditation and a lots of discussion for regulating and realizing life towards fulfillment.

Stress at time can be positive or negative. Negatively conditioned mind can be transformed to positive state by applying holisticyog principles. So, how to convert stress to success and panic to peace can be learnt and applied in individual life to tackle harmful stress.