Strategies and Tactics to Prepare Mentally for Elite Athletes

It is such a waste of talent when physically and mentally injured athletes will be just left to where they are right now. Athletes who had been to physical, mental and behavioral problems should be applied with special strategies, medication and therapy to prepare them for their next fight. Yoga is a spiritual practice essential in religions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism that is originally rooted in India. Today, it remains an existing custom in India although in some parts of the world, especially in western countries, it has become a form of work out and a relaxation technique. It has also has become a source of industry on its own.

Although yoga has existed for hundreds of years, its popularity gained larger domain in this last few decades. This is largely caused by the growing trend of healthy living especially in urban places and to the undeniable benefits that yoga advocates get when practicing it. Recently, there is a growing market for those who seek alternative remedy or aid to sicknesses that medical treatment cannot provide. Yoga therapy is one of those emerging alternative treatments or supplementary treatments with medical treatment. While there is a growing market on its stake as a therapeutic treatment, concrete evidence as to its capability is yet to be studied further. This paper then will attempt to review some existing studies on the benefit of yoga as a complementary therapy to explore the extent of its uses in sicknesses that medical treatment cannot offer.

The most important benefit of yoga is physical and mental therapy. Following the practices of yogasanas, pranayama and meditation, one will be able to get the maximum benefit of yoga. As to any exercise, yoga also has the capability of slowing down the natural process of aging. Yoga has the goal of achieving health and wellness at all levels of a person; physical, mental and spiritual. One is able to maintain a flexible and well circulated body system, therefore enforcing the body in a cleaner state and minimizing cell deterioration. Besides, yoga creates a balance in the nervous and endocrine systems that directly affect all the other systems and organs in the body.