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One of the foremost concepts of yoga therapy is that the mind (adhi) influences the body, thus creating disease (vyadhi). This is the basis of psychosomatics and mind–body medicine, and is termed adhi vyadhi or adhija vyadhi, where the mind causes the disease in the physical body. In modern language, this is also termed psychoneuroimmunology, as modern health systems have started to realize that how we think and feel can positively or negatively influence our nervous, endocrine, and immune responses. One path leads to health while the other leads to disease and suffering.

Virtually every health problem that we face today either has its origin in psychosomatics or is worsened by the psychosomatic aspect of the disease. The mind and the body seem to be continuously fighting each other. What the mind wants, the body won’t do, and what the body wants, the mind won’t do. This creates a dichotomy, a disharmony, in other words, a disease. Yoga helps restore balance and equilibrium by virtue of the internal process of unifying the mind, body, and emotions. The psychosomatic stress disorders that are so prevalent in today’s world can be prevented, controlled, and possibly even cured via the sincere and dedicated application of yoga as a therapy.