AUTHOR(S): Dr. Pradip Debnath

ABSTRACT:
Modern education seeks to bring about all round development of children to enable them to enjoy their childhood freely and build a strong nation and society later on; but sometimes children get depressed owing to their low academic achievement. Students may feel stressed for many factors like pressure of self-expectation. Academic stress is a mental distress with respect to some apprehended frustration associated with academic failure, apprehension of such failure or even awareness of the possibility of such failure. Yoga is a science of right living and as such, it is intended in daily life. Yoga is a means of balancing and harmonizing the body, mind, and emotions and this state need to be achieved before union with the higher reality takes place. Yoga may help to reach wisdom in work or skillful living and this will bring harmony in our life. So the researcher treats yoga as the strategy to follow and overcome the stress. Here the researcher intends to measure the academic stress, difference between the mean scores of the yoga- practicing and yoga non-practicing students of secondary level of students.

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