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Emotional and mental therapies
Yoga addresses the deeper aspects of emotional wellbeing and introspectional self-analysis (swadhyaya), breath-based techniques of vital energy control (pranayama), practices enabling mastery and withdrawal from sensory reactivity (pratyahara), intense concentration (dharana), and contemplative oneness (dhyana). Chanting, devotional music (bhajana), and yoga nidra are very effective in managing emotions, attitudes, and thought processes.
Development of healthy psychological attitudes
Yoga encourages us to step back and take an objective view of our habitual patterns of behavior and thoughts. This enables us to cope better with situations that normally put our bodies and minds under strain. Patanjali emphasized the need to develop the following qualities in order to become mentally balanced human beings: a non-attached and objective meta-cognitive attitude (vairagya), balanced acceptance of life (chitta prasadanam), friendliness towards those who are at ease with themselves (maitri), compassion for those who are suffering (karuna), cheerfulness towards the noble and virtuous (mudita), and indifference towards those who stray from the noble path (upekshanam), and so on. Conscious adoption of the right attitude towards the situation, person, place, and/or event is one of the most important aspects of yoga as a therapy. If this is not done, we practice yogopathy, and not yoga therapy.