Abstract
ABSTRACT
Fear, worry, and stress are normal responses to perceived or real threats, and at times when we are faced with uncertainty or the unknown. So it is normal and understandable that people are experiencing fear in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fear of contracting the virus in a pandemic such as COVID-19 are the significant changes to our daily lives as our movements are restricted in support of efforts to contain and slow down the spread of the virus. Different situations and circumstances in our personal life and in our job produce stress. Those can be divided into factors related to the organization and factors related to the person which include his experience and personality traits. Job related factors are working from home, temporary unemployment, work overload, time pressures, insecure political climate at organization, role conflict and ambiguity, difference between organizational values and employee values. Person related factors are poor quality of network, unavailability of facility to take lecture at home, small house, home-schooling of children, and lack of physical contact with other family members, friends and colleagues, death of spouse, or of a close friend, family problems, change to a different line of work, prolonged illness in the family, change in social activities, eating habits, etc., Yoga, meditation and cyclic meditation alters stress response and person’s attitude, towards stress along with improving self confidence, increasing one’s sense of well being, and creating a feeling of relaxation and calmness.