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Humans are increasingly changing their lifestyle from active living to passive living due to technology and occupational settings. The Covid - 19 pandemic has added to it exponentially and more prone to adversity on mental health as well as the quality of lifestyle. The virtual shift of the workplace and long sitting hours lead to physically inactive and encouraged sedentary behavior. Social isolation, staying away from people, lack of personal touch with colleagues and peer groups, lack of proper sleep & quality time with family and loneliness has resulted in burnout and chronic stress. This affects the cognitive function in terms of working memory and executive functions. The physical in-activeness and sedentary behavior has affected the quality of lifestyle and mental health. The WHO says that sedentary lifestyle has attributed to serious mental health problems leading to clinical depression, stress, and anxiety. The study shows that the quality of lifestyle depends on the activity they do to improve their physical and mental well - being. Thus reducing the activity of sedentary behavior ameliorate the cognitive function and improved physical activity. The focus is on encouraging behavioral changes to shift sedentary or virtual lifestyle to active lifestyle to resulting in better quality living and mental health.