The belief that there is a higher power that will ensure fruit to hard and honest labour is very essential, particularly in today's world, to provide solace and equanimity to workers in any field. With the practice of the yamas and niyamas, pratyahara controls the senses and the mind. This de-stresses the nervous system. Dissipation of energy is controlled, leading to a rise in the levels available to the executive. Dharana, dhyana and samadhi are psycho-spiritual processes which bring about steadiness of mind, and subtlety and refinement of consciousness.
Complete tranquillity is the result.
For the executive, this can be interpreted as releasing the tensions of work and engendering a much needed state of composure and serenity. Thus, it is very clear that the executive has to create a lifestyle around healthy habits. The time has arrived for executives to take the lead, to be forceful about their health, physical and spiritual, as they would be in their work. Modern medicine has been successfully challenged by situations where, as catalogued in Howard Murphet's book, Sai Baba Man of Miracles, cures of seemingly impossible conditions have taken place by methods that cannot be understood by science. The discipline of yoga in all its aspects will help the executive attain what an individual needs most in life - trikarana shuddi, which is the integration of thought, word, and deed.