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Being healthy is incredibly hard in the modern society filled with stress, however, keeping up with a yoga routine can help you. Yoga is an amazing tool for focusing, reducing stress, improving your sleep, and simply making you happier. Only one hour of yoga can make dramatic changes in your mind and perception. Since, I always feel extremely stressful because of the variety of factors, such as college, parents, and friends, for me yoga is an entrance to calmness. For example, because of too much stress, I became angrier and disaffected. This affects not only me but people around me: my family and my friends. Therefore, I personally want to attend yoga classes at least two times a week, to help myself feel better, …show more content…
If people around you, start doing a variety of things, including eating healthy or smoking, you will follow them as an example, it is like “tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.” As soon as I shared the idea of attending yoga classes to my mom, and explained the benefits of it, she started to think about going too. After a few days, my mom told me that she is going with a friend to the yoga classes on the beach. The same happened with my friends. They also started to think about changing something in their daily routine, to improve mentally, and work on their physical appearance. I believe that one person can bring change, therefore I will do my best to convince people around me to make right …show more content…
Conboy MA, MS, ScD, Jessica J. Noggle Ph.D., Jessica L. Frey BA, Ravi S. Kudesia BA and Sat Bir S. Khalsa Ph.D. This article I found helpful since the experiment was conducted among teenagers. This study creates a yoga program which was "offered in place of the semester of physical education classes at a rural public high school." As experiment shows that most students enjoyed the yoga classes and felt benefits. After the experiment, all students were interviewed and the study concludes that students reporting "psychological benefits, many cited stress reduction; many used yoga to manage negative emotions, and some propagated more optimism." Also, yoga helped to "reduce interest in the use of drugs and alcohol and increase social cohesion with family and peers." The results suggest that school-based yoga program increases healthy behavior among students and decrease negative