Everything in life can cause stress. You can be stressed by relationship
problems, family problems, emotional problems (such as anxiety and
depression), social situations, your job and where you live. The
symptoms of stress are a faster heartbeat, stiff neck, headaches,
sleeping problems, stomach problems, back pain, sweaty palms and reduced
immune system efficiency which can lead to disease and illness.
Many diseases are also due to psychological imbalance, nervous strain and hypertension. In order to feel relaxed, some people, now-a-days, take tranquilizers, smoke marijuana or use LSD drugs but this does not provide them with a lasting relief. Rather, these things have harmful effects on man's mental faculties and they make him a slave of the urge to take them again and again. It has now been demonstrated that the best course to be free from mental tension is to practice Raja Yoga Meditation daily, even though for a short while.
One would naturally like to know as to what exactly it is that leads man
to mental tension and how Raja Yoga helps to keep him free from it. In
this connection, one should know that the main factor responsible for
the mental tension is man's attitude towards events, persons and things.
It is well-known that the main mechanism through which man reacts to
external stimuli in the form of events, persons or things is man's brain
and the network of sensory and motor nerves with which the brain is
connected. But it is the soul which is the centre of the consciousness
and the soul abides near the pituitary gland. 
The pituitary receives the external stimuli
through the hypothalamus which receives information from the cerebral
cortex of the brain and passes it on to the soul. Now it depends upon
what attitudes, values or proclivities the soul has. The soul reacts to
those stimuli according to its tendencies, beliefs, values etc. through
the above-mentioned mechanism. Raja Yoga enables the soul to have proper attitudes, values, will-power and bliss through link with God. Click Here to Find Rajyoga Meditation Center Near You
