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| Published: March 25, 2016
Significance of Yoga in Healing Anxiety and Depression
PhD student, Gujarat University, India
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Assi. Prof. L.D. Arts College, India
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DIP: 18.01.143/20160302
DOI: 10.25215/0302.143
ABSTRACT
Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. Primary goal of yoga is to gain balance and control in one’s life that includes both physical and mental wellbeing. Effect of yoga on mental wellbeing: Yoga frees one from confusion and distress; provide a sense of calmness and installs optimism within you. Effect of yoga on physical wellbeing: Practicing yoga poses cleanses and detoxifies the body, by circulating of fresh blood through the body. Yoga helps to achieve perfect health, spiritual contentment, and total well being. It is inner journey inside one’s self and maintains harmony between mind and body. The aim is to examine Significance of Yoga in healing anxiety and depression for this purpose researcher selected purposive sample study. The study was carried out on 42 Male/Female at yoga ayurveda, shilaj, Ahmedabad. Sinha Anxiety Test and Aron. T. Deck Depression inventory were administered after gap of one month. Outcome/result of study was seen.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I R Trivedi, S Raval
Received: January 19, 2016; Revision Received: February 21, 2016; Accepted: March 25, 2016
Rutu D Trivedi @ rututrivedi9@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.143/20160302
10.25215/0302.143
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016