A study on the impact on stress and anxiety through Yoga nidra
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The present study aims at finding out the effect of Yoga nidra on stress and anxiety on college going students. The study conducted at the Yoga clinic of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya. Practice time was 30 min the duration was 6 months. 80 students were taken from P.G. Yoga classes for observing the effect as well as 30 was in control group. The result shows a significant change in the practice group, as Yoga nidra positively decrease the stress level of the male and female subjects. Several other studies prove Yoga nidra equally influences anxiety level significantly in both male and female subjects.
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... For example, following a short yoga intervention, students reported improvements in perceived stress and depressive symptoms (Simard AA et al 2009). A study conducted on college going student shows a reduction in stress and anxiety level as effect of Yogic relaxation (Kumar Kamakhya 2008). ...
Back ground: The college going students experience a lot of stress, which increase when they prepare for the examination. Yoga as an anxiolytic tool in anxiety reduction has been practiced over centuries in India.
Aim: The present study aims to observe the effect of Yogic intervention over academic anxiety level among college going students.
Method: A pre- post research study was conducted at a inter college of a developing town of Uttrakhanda. Thirty students were selected through random sampling for the Yogic intervention and were exposed to yogic practice daily for half an hour for 45 days.
Results: The statistical results showed a significant reduction in the academic anxiety level of the subjects.
Conclusions: Academic anxiety is one of the major problems with the young generation facing now days, Yogic intervention was found to reduce the academic anxiety level of the subjects.
Background
Anxiety is one's response to stress. Its symptoms can be psychological, physical, or environmental challenges. Depression is a common mental disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feeling of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. Yog nidra is probably the best known technique to induce complete physical and emotional relaxation.
Aim
The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of yog nidra for reducing anxiety and depression among first-year professional students.
Materials and Methods
The level of anxiety was measured by using State, Trait, and Free-Floating Anxiety Scale developed by Tripathi and Rastogi (1986). The Hindi version of Beck Depression Inventory by Arora and Prashant (1988) was used to assess the depression level of participants. The study was conducted in three phases. In Phase-1 (preintervention), data were obtained from 201 students. In the Phase-2 (intervention phase), the participants were selected on the basis of high scores on the measures of anxiety and depression and divided into intervention (28 students) and non-intervention groups (30 students). The intervention group was given yog nidra training regularly for 5 weeks. Posttest was conducted after 5 weeks of the intervention.
Results
The results showed a reduction in mean scores on the measures of anxiety and depression within the intervention group but not in the nonintervention group, which indicated the effectiveness of practicing yog nidra for reducing anxiety and depression and its positive effects among professional students.
Conclusion
A dramatic effect of practicing yog nidra was observed among students for reducing anxiety and depression.
Mental health disorders are treated with all the available advanced health techniques. The pioneers of Indian philosophy, sages, saints, and yogis, through their experiences and rational explanations, expressed the importance of yoga, and their treatment effects. Yoga-Nidra (YN), one of a particular forms of yoga, is described as a simple and precise way of dealing with mental disorders. The use of YN as an intervention has been reported to reduce anxiety, anger, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other different kinds of psycho-physiological abnormalities. In addition to the role of Yoga-Nidra as an intervention tool, it also brings relaxation to the mind and brain, mental catharsis, a positive attitude, self-improvement, and personality refinement. At the same time, YN contributes to boost concentration, memory, and other cognitive capacities, including attention, and thoughts.
Because of its important therapeutic contribution to psychological well-being and mental health, it is currently used as a therapy and medical intervention. Yoga-Nidra and other yogic practices will play an important role in treating mental, physical, and psychological problems and improving cognitive abilities, and will help to connect with oneself.
Background and objectives
Academic stress can exert severe stress in adolescents answering their career deciding board exams. The present study attempted to understand the efficacy of Yoga Nidra (YN) in mitigating psychosocial stress.
Design
and Methods: This study was carried on 10th-grade students (ages 14 to 16) and had two arms, one performing YN (experimental) and the other without YN (control) for 21 consecutive days. Modified Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ-I) was used to assess the stress in the students before and after the intervention.
Results
The results indicate that performing YN was effective and significantly decreased the total stress (P < 0.001) and vital domains like the stress of home life (P < 0.005), school performance (P < 0.026), teacher interaction (P < 0.024), future uncertainty (P < 0.001), school and leisure conflict (P < 0.001). Also, at the end of the study in control, low and moderate stress was observed in 58.06% and 41.93%, while in the YN group, it was 96.15% and 3.85% and was statistically significant (p < 0.001).
Conclusions
This study shows that YN effectively reduced psychosocial stress in adolescents and could be useful in school curriculum.
The science of yoga begins with the recognition of existence of immortal and eternal soul as the essence of personality and regards its super-consciousness as the origin of the foundation for manifestation of personality. The method of yoga therefore focus on the awakening of the inner force and encompass enlightened aspects of life in general; cultivation of positive attitude, mental liberation and incessant purification and refinement of personality are emphasized here.
The present study aims at finding out the effect of Yoga nidra on regression and guilt on college going students. The study conducted at the Yoga Arogya Polyclinic of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya. Practice time was 30 minutes the duration was 6 months. 80 students were taken from P.G. yoga classes for observing the effect as well as 30 was in control group. The result shows a significant change as Practice of Yoga nidra positively decrease the regression and guilt level of the male and female subjects both.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES AS RELATED TO YOGA NIDRA
Yoga Arogya Polyclinic, India
Purpose. The present study aims at finding out the effect of Yoga nidra on regression and guilt on college going students.
Material and method. The study conducted at the Yoga Arogya Polyclinic of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya. Practice time was 30 minutes the duration was 6 months. 80 students were taken from P.G. yoga classes for observing the effect as well as 30 was in control group.
Results, conclusions. The result shows a significant change as practice of Yoga nidra positively decreases the regression and guilt levels of both the male and female subjects.
Contemporary studies show that researchers are keen to know the effect of Yoga nidra in various directions; thus it is the right time to go deep into the search of the impact of Yoga nidra. The present study aims at finding out the effect of Yoga nidra especially on ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) on healthy subjects. The study conducted at the Yoga Arogya Polyclinic of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya in collaboration of Brahmavarchas Research Institute, Haridwar. Practice time of Yoga nidra was 30 minutes and the duration was 6 months. Eighty students were taken from PG Yoga classes for observing the effect as well as 30 was in control group. The present study shows a significant change on the ESR level of the normal persons as the result of Yoga nidra practice. The results are significant at 0.01 level of confidence. At the end it can be concluded that Yoga nidra positively decreases the level of ESR in the male and female subjects both.
Chronic sympathetic nervous system overactivity has been implicated as a factor capable of elevating and maintaining high serum cholesterol levels independent of dietary measures. We conducted a controlled trial to determine the effect of a relaxation technique. Transcendental Meditation, on serum cholesterol levels in hypercholesterolemic subjects. Serum cholesterol levels were measured at beginning and end of an 11-month period in 12 hypercholesterolemic subjects who regularly practiced meditation. Eleven hypercholesterolemic controls who did not practice the technique were similarly followed up for 13 months. Paired comparisons showed a significant (p less than 0.005) reduction in fasting serum cholesterol levels of those subjects who practiced meditation. These results suggest that the regular practice of a relaxation technique may contribute, most likely through a reduction in adrenergic activity, to the amelioration of hypercholesterolemia in certain subjects.
: The long-term effect of relaxation in lowering blood pressure and anxiety was evaluated in this study. Eighteen male Caucasian essential hypertensives with moderate elevations in blood pressure were studied. Relaxation significantly reduced both blood pressure and anxiety. Control procedures had no significant effect. The reductions lasted for 12 months after training. However, there was no statistical relationship between reduction in blood pressure and anxiety. Copyright (C) 1979 by American Psychosomatic Society
This review discusses the relationship between the psychological and physiological factors responsible for airways in asthma and indicates the mechanisms by which psychological methods of treatment may influence airway caliber. The effects of mental and muscular relaxation therapy, systematic desensitization, and biofeedback-assisted relaxation are evaluated in children and adults with asthma. The methodology and results of studies are analyzed critically to present a balanced opinion of the subjective and objective effects of these methods of treatment. Muscular relaxation therapy alone appears to have no effect. Certain mental relaxation techniques, such as autogenic training and transcendental mediation, systematic desensitization, and biofeedback-assisted relaxation, can produce subjective improvement as well as clinically significant improvement in respiratory function and other objective parameters. As with any therapy the response is variable and is influenced by factors such as age and severity of asthma.
If the demonstrated effects of relaxation training on blood pressure (BP) occur only during relaxation practice, then little effect on the morbidity and mortality of exssential hypertensives would be expected. This question was addressed by inpatient monitoring of five hypertensive patients' BP for 24 hours during six experimental days, including a no-treatment baseline, three days of relaxation training, and one day of recovery. Lowering of both systolic and diastolic pressures persisted beyond the end of the training sessions. Moreover, systolic BP was significantly lower during relaxation training days than during either baseline or recovery days, a difference particularly noticeable at night when patients were sleeping. The BPs of the three patients showing the largest initial effects of training averaged 12.5/7.3 mm Hg less during nights following relaxation sessions than during nights following no treatment.
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