Yoga literally means Union. Union of Mind, Body & Spirit. When you make a balance between all three, it will give you entirely different experience.Yoga simply means union. Yoga is related to physique, mind & spirituality. Main purpose of yoga is to control your mind with the help of some physical & mental practices.According to Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or we can say Ashtang Yoga, the main goal is Samadhi or liberation. Yoga is union of Body, Mind & Spirit to get the liberation.Asanas & Pranayama is the part of yoga that is taught world wide. Asana is related to physical posture & Pranayama is related to breath control.

Asana & Pranayama has immense effect on our body as lot of physical exercises are related to it. Similarly there is dhyana or meditation to control the mind. There are many forms of yoga around 84 Asana, but the most important is Hath Yoga. Hath Yoga is related to Physical Practices of Asanas & pranayam. Asana the physical postures and pranayam is controlling the breath. These Asanas & Pranayamas has immense effect on our Physical & mental fitness. So yoga and meditation is mostly taught around the world to live happy and unstressed full life. Meditation is also an important part of yoga. In Eight components of Ashtang Yoga the 7th Component is dhyana, the dhayana is the meditation.

Meditation is also known as Dhayana Yoga. In Patanjali Yog Sutras Meditation is Seventh component of Ashtang Yoga. So we can say that meditation is a part of Yoga. There is lots of thoughts that comes in human mind. Mind is never free from thoughts. Meditation is a technique which makes your mind thoughtless while meditating. That's why most of the things that human body do is unconsciously, That means you are not focused & attentive while doing anything. Meditation makes you more conscious. So what ever you do in consciousness you will do it in much better way.

How To Meditate

In meditation you have to sit in a cross legged posture with your eyes closed while resting your hands on your legs you can monitor your breath or we can say that you have to concentrate on your breath. Your mind will wander here & there but you have to be still & stick on focusing your breath. Slowly your mind will stop wandering. You can practice it as long as you can sit comfortably. You can start with guided meditation in Beginning.

Life Skills is ability of human being to deal with different situations of life effectively. We live in society where there is lots of challenges that we have to face in day to day life. we have to deal with them in proper way so that we can maintain a state of mental well being. There is lot of problems that a human being has to face in life every day. so he/she has to face lots of stress & pressure. In this state of mind he/she may take wrong decisions which may affect his/ her life & our society. For example people get addicted to drugs & alcohol. They find these thing as a temporary solution of there problem as a result they harm themselves & society too. Lots of youngsters who cannot handle the pressure & emotions start taking drugs.