Health and Wellbeing:

Life, Stress, and Ego

This is one section of the course on Health and Well-being. Each lesson includes a one-hour video and an accompanying article along with a short essay style quiz at the end.

Lesson 1: How Yoga helps us to handle Stress

Modern Life is full of stress and strains and demands on our system. Stress comes from the inability or difficulty to adapt due to habits, ego, attachments and fears. Stress can also be the result of not having enough Prana (energy) to cope with the demands or pressure. When we are stressed, we develop negative feelings and lose even more Prana. It can snowball into a big problem.

Lesson 2: What is the true meaning of life?

Yoga is a way of life that brings about balance and centeredness. That means you have to apply it in daily life. That is why it is so wonderful that you come to a yoga ashram to learn yoga. Because here you don’t just learn yoga only as a system of exercise you also learn yoga as a yoga life. Once you understand it you bring it into your daily routine.

Lesson 3: What is the Ego?

Selfishness arises from us failing to realize that we gain more from giving than from taking. Our mistaken belief that we are separate from others leads us to behave selfishly. We fail to consider the deep interconnectedness and oneness of all life, and act from the small perspective of our own egos or personalities, creating more separation. Yoga teaches us to open up our awareness beyond our small and limited perspectives, and to begin to recognize the divine Self that is in all.

As you watch the lessons, it is recommended that you sit on the floor in a cross legged position and have a notebook and a pen with you so you can take notes and reflect on the teachings.