Employee Wellness Without Stress and Strain: Application of Yoga and Meditation in Management With an Industry 5.0 Perspective

Introduction

Yoga as an ancient practice being followed globally by all walks of people for improving their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual state (Rakhshani T.,2014). Recent studies show that skills for improving quality of life with yoga training provide positive emotions associated with well-being of an individual (Karmarkar, K., et al 2017). According to (Group T.W., 1998) quality of life may be defined as an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns. However more studies are needed to explain this relationship and to determine which facets may correlate and mediate the yoga-quality of life relationship. Yoga is not the just workout or body building and muscles developing way but is much more than this it is essentially done to bring synchronization in the body, mind, breath, and spirit. it is a type of lifestyle. Yoga makes the body flexible and promotes relaxation in the most stressful moments. Combination of yogasanas, pranayama, and meditation makes a compete Yoga module. An organization with stressed workers cannot bring prosperity and its survival may also become difficult and doubtful over a period of time(Ganster, D. C.,etal.,1991)

For many years, psychiatrist scientists have affirmed that prolonged stress at the work place leads to various mental health complications. Corporate sector have taken initiation to adopt alternative interventions and sustainable practices to ensure to sound physical and mental health of their employees who cannot overcome the workplace stress by self-help strategies. Today most of the corporate sector employees are constantly running in a race of business competition without a celerity of goal. This is also leaving most of the employees in a constant state of dissatisfaction and distress therefore, the only way out to lead a stress-free life is to upgrade one’s personal software to keep up in this race of improving oneself till death. Yoga is one of the ancient effective & efficient therapeutic method to achieve wellness and to treat different mental and health related issues. This study is an attempt to evaluate the wellness of the employees of corporate sector by an appropriate systematic review design on yoga asana and meditation(Valle, D., et al., 2020)Further this research will also provide solution to the corporate world to manage wellness of their employees at workplace by introducing practice of mindfulness and stress-reducing exercises. This study also investigates to what extent yoga, as a collective activity promotes physical, mental, and psychological awareness, benefits the individual members of the organization as well as employer–employee relationships in the organization.