Pilot Test of a Kundalinî-Yoga Intervention Developing the Mind-Body Connection

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Manoj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Expectations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Kundalini Yoga ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
Breathing Techniques ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Midwestern City

Objectives: Yoga is a systematic practice aimed at developing harmony in the body, mind, and environment. The practices entail low impact physical activity postures (âsanas), breathing techniques (prânâyâma),relaxation, and meditation. In Kundalinî-Yoga the meditation involves performing a formless contemplation at the pituitary and hypothalamus glands. The purposes of this study were to develop, pilot test, and evaluate changes in behavioral antecedents and behaviors through a Kundalinî-Yoga training program for adults in a Midwestern city. Design: The study utilized a pre-test post-test design. Setting: The intervention was implemented at a wellness club in a Midwestern city with a population of about 450,000. Subjects: A sample of 3l predominantly Caucasian volunteers with a mean age of 47 years completed the course. Intervention: A basic intervention of six weeks with six 75-minute weekly classes teaching âsanas, prânâyâma,relaxation, and meditation involving a formless contemplation at the pituitary and hypothalamus glands was implemented. Outcome measures: A psychometric scale was developed that measured perceived knowledge; outcome expectations (including values and value expectancies);self-efficacy for performing âsanas, relaxation, and meditation; and recollection of the frequency of these behaviors performed in the past week. Results: Statistically significant changes (p < 0.0001)were found in all the study variables. Conclusion: The intervention was successful in modifying Yoga-related behaviors. The approach and tools developed in this pilot test are useful for process and impact evaluation of Yoga training interventions. The efficacy of this intervention in influencing the outcomes of several disease recovery, behavior change, and health promotion programs needs to be analyzed in future studies.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme Regarding Selected Yoga Techniques to Relieve Symptoms of Premenstrual Syndrome Among Adolescent Girls of Selected High School at Bangalore

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 1688-1698
Author(s):  
Nitu kumari singh (Gautam) ◽  
Laxmi Paudyal
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Premenstrual Syndrome ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Structured Teaching ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mind

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a challenging problem as the psychological changes which occur in adolescent period are much more stressful and complex. Premenstrual syndrome also known as premenstrual tension (PMT) is a collection of emotional symptoms, with or without physical symptoms, related to menstrual cycle of girls. Menstruation is a normal physiological cycle or process in all females of the reproductive age group. However some women, girls feel or affected by menstrual problem. Among those, PMS is one of the disorder and it is mainly due to hormonal imbalance in the body. Yoga which helps to harmonize the mind and breath with the body through various breathing techniques, yoga posture (asanas) and meditation which also helps in relieving pain. Yoga, tailored to chronic low back pain which helps to produce significant reduction in pain and depression. Several yoga poses helps to ease PMS and also help the mind and body to adapt with stress, anxiety and depression making to feel relaxed and calm, as well as enabling us to cope with psychological symptoms of PMS. The study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) regarding selected yoga techniques to relieve the symptoms of PMS among adolescent girls. Researcher adopted an evaluatory approach with pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design in the study. Self- structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge among adolescent girls regarding selected yoga technique to relieve the symptoms of PMS. Split half method was used to check the Reliability of the Tool and the tool was found reliable ( r= 0.88). probability simple random sampling techniques was used to select 100 adolescent girls from 3 high school. Findings revealed that the post-test knowledge score (26.49±2.48) was higher than pre-test knowledge score (10.25±2.46). The calculated ‘t’value in knowledge (51.34 p<0.05). The study found significant association between knowledge and demographical variables. Study concludes that structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding Yoga techniques to relieve the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.

School-Based Mindfulness Interventions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalyn H. Shute
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Years ◽  
School Based ◽  
Developmental Appropriateness ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
The Mind

Mindfulness, adapted from ancient Buddhist thought and practice, was introduced into the West in a secularized and Westernized form during the 1980s. In subsequent decades, it spread around the world, into clinics, workplaces, and schools. The practice involves cultivating the ability to focus attention, and to notice any distracting thoughts and feelings without judgment or elaboration, in order to reduce stress and improve mental health. As such, it is a psychological phenomenon involving metacognition, or thinking about thinking, though this can be placed within a holistic framework that sees the mind as intricately linked with the body and the external world. In the early years of the 21st century, concerns grew about children’s mental health, and schools became seen as places to address this through universal programs; that is, mental health promotion programs that reach all students and that therefore do not stigmatize those who already have psychological difficulties, or are at risk of developing them. Evidence was also accruing that, with samples of healthy (non-clinical) adults, mindfulness had moderate effects on measures such as anxiety, and strong effects in reducing stress. Although research designs were generally not very strong, the positive results and public enthusiasm for mindfulness encouraged the introduction of universal programs into schools, and even preschools. However, the dissemination of school-based mindfulness programs ran well ahead of the scientific evidence examining their efficacy (under tightly controlled conditions) or their effectiveness in real-world school contexts. While studies were suggestive that mindfulness could affect many aspects of children’s and adolescents’ wellbeing and development, the body of research as a whole fell short in terms of scientific rigor. There were few well-designed randomized controlled trials that would enable firm conclusions to be drawn that any identified effects were due to the mindfulness program rather than to unknown factors. Moreover, little attention was paid to the presumed mechanisms of change or to the developmental appropriateness of programs. As more, and better-designed, studies began to emerge, accumulating results suggested that effects were generally small, but stronger for older than younger adolescents, and longer lasting for adolescents than for children. Issues that remained for further systematic attention included many matters of program design and implementation, the safety of the practice, its basis in developmental theory and research, and its ethical and political implications.

scholarly journals Overcoming Anxiety During The Covid-19 Using Five-Finger Hypnotic Therapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jek Amidos Pardede ◽  
Galvani Volta Simanjuntak
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
The Body ◽  
P Value ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Severe Anxiety

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by coronavirus 2 Acute respiratory syndrome (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2). This Virus can be transmitted from human to human and has spread widely and raises anxiety in all people. People's anxiety toward Covid-19 should be promptly addressed if unresolved will be poorly engaged. Anxiety towards Covid-19 is higher than the person in general who can lower the quality of life. Anxiety handlers use five-finger hypnotic therapy. Because of the five-finger hypnotic therapy is a process that uses the power of the mind by directing the body to heal self-nourishes health/relaxation through communication in the body involving all visual senses, touch, guidelines, vision, and hearing. The study aims to determine the effect of five-finger hypnotic therapy on anxiety levels in people with Covid-19 mentoring (ODP) at Sari Mutiara Hospital. The research design of the Quasy experiment one group pre-post test. The number of samples used as many as 31 people were selected with the purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the level of anxiety before the five-finger hypnotic therapy was largely in the medium category of 15 people (48.4%) At a severe anxiety level as much as 14 people (45.2%) And at a mild anxiety level as much as 2 people (6.5%). After the five-finger, hypnotic therapy showed that there was a decrease in the number of severe anxiety levels of 2 people (6.5%) Mild anxiety Level 11 people (35.5%) The anxiety level was 18 people (58.1%). The results of this study at Wilcoxon's statistical test were to get the result of Z = -3,162 and P-value of 0.002 (P &lt; 0.05), there was a significant effect of five-finger hypnotic therapy on the anxiety level of people with Covid-19 (ODP) mentoring.

Burnout of the Mind – Burnout of the Body?

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Traunmüller ◽  
Kerstin Gaisbachgrabner ◽  
Helmut Karl Lackner ◽  
Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Urinary Catecholamines ◽  
Morning Cortisol ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Cortisol Increase

Abstract. In the present paper we investigate whether patients with a clinical diagnosis of burnout show physiological signs of burden across multiple physiological systems referred to as allostatic load (AL). Measures of the sympathetic-adrenergic-medullary (SAM) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis were assessed. We examined patients who had been diagnosed with burnout by their physicians (n = 32) and were also identified as burnout patients based on their score in the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and compared them with a nonclinical control group (n = 19) with regard to indicators of allostatic load (i.e., ambulatory ECG, nocturnal urinary catecholamines, salivary morning cortisol secretion, blood pressure, and waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]). Contrary to expectations, a higher AL index suggesting elevated load in several of the parameters of the HPA and SAM axes was found in the control group but not in the burnout group. The control group showed higher norepinephrine values, higher blood pressure, higher WHR, higher sympathovagal balance, and lower percentage of cortisol increase within the first hour after awakening as compared to the patient group. Burnout was not associated with AL. Results seem to indicate a discrepancy between self-reported burnout symptoms and psychobiological load.

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