Yoga and social values are closely related to each other. Social values are a set of philosophy that an individual carries for all his life. Yoga possesses great power to inculcate those values that go a long way in making a man complete. With Yoga along your side you have the luxury to tackle any tricky situations that you come across in your day to day life. We all wish to be good but reality is somewhat different than that. Many a times we all become so obdurate, demanding and insistent that it is hard to get along with. If these irritants are removed from an individual, one becomes less difficult to deal with. Yoga is of great help in this regard.
The social effects of one's changed behavior upon colleagues and clients, superiors and inferiors, public officers and service specialists could be awesome. Yoga inculcates in an individual the universally accepted social norms of society. One becomes easier to get along with and others also follow the same. With these positive qualities one is more recognized and desirable individual to deal with. With a change in your attitude others also tend to change and respond in the same vein. Yoga accelerates our sense of duty and responsibility as human beings. The biggest virtue of Yoga is that the individual is in full command of his own. The power of Hath Yoga is so strong that after some weeks of practice, an individual is so lost that he/she no longer knows himself/herself and each person notices a change in his bearing and reaction.
Healing benefits of Yoga are so great that you feel better at the end of every Yoga session than before you began and life runs effortlessly when you keep up a steady discipline than when you don't. Yoga enhances your understanding of life. Yoga changes an individual's perspective about life. After coming in the fold of Yoga a person finds himself taking up a broader view of life. Yoga helps a person to know who he is, how life works, who is God and so on. One starts looking at things differently, with less confusion. It helps in more peace of mind, better health, more keenness for life, and an ever-growing sense of internal well-being.
As one practices Yoga, positive effects of Yoga begin to show. The sense of feeling good envelops around the individual. This feeling is so natural and so genuine that it goes entirely in an individual's life. In this way it helps clarify deepest cravings, motivations and aspirations, thereby restoring confidence, hope, meaning and rationale to life. We all like feeling good, peace of mind, being joyful, peaceful, animated and calm. There can't be two opinions about this. But the sad part is that most of us know that we are not feeling as good as we should.
Spiritual benefits
Yoga helps to discipline the mind attaining mental peace, improving concentration powers and giving you a relaxed state of living, you become more mentally and emotionally centred. Yoga purifies the heart of the practitioner from vices such as attachment, hate, envy, avarice and other bad feelings. Yoga changes your perspective about life, helping you to know who you are and how life works; you start looking at things differently and consider the world part of his family.
The driving force of yoga is aimed at the monumental, life-changing discovery of who and what you actually are. This is precisely how yoga works, how it makes you feel good. Yoga helps you experience the truth. The truth- which, you discover is goodness. The implications of knowing the truth is massive.