Effectiveness of Yoga on Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Mental health is one of the fundamental determinants of meaningful existence of human kind. Sound mental health determines the quality of physical health and lays great impact on basic life-skills needed to live a better personal and social life. Today at a state of busy lifestyle full of competitions in various aspects of living Mental health of people has been greatly affected. In such a situation significance of yogic practice has been frequently echoed globally. The Indian National Education Policy, 2020 has also given great stress on yoga for achieving the target of holistic development. A large number of studies have been conducted to see the effectiveness of yoga and those revealed great gifts of yogic practice to the life of man. In the present paper the investigator reviewed the studies pertaining to mental health benefits of Yoga.