State Anxiety and Anger levels among listeners of  Vedic Mantra Chanting

Mrs. Kavitha Dhanaraj; Dr. V. Balaji Srinivasan

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| Published: March 18, 2019

State Anxiety and Anger levels among listeners of Vedic Mantra Chanting

Mrs. Kavitha Dhanaraj

Assistant Professor in Psychology; JBAS College for Women, Chennai, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Dr. V. Balaji Srinivasan

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.099/20190701

DOI: 10.25215/0701.099

ABSTRACT

The Vedas are impersonal and inspirational hints of ultimate reality unveiled by persons of peerless perseverance for perfection, the Rishis. Vedic chanting is a meditative practice from the rich tradition of Indian spiritual practices (Sripad Ghaligi 2006). The present study focuses on the effect of state anger and anxiety levels of the Listening to Vedic chanting, who had minimum exposure to such chanting. Data of the pre and post levels of state anger and anxiety was statistically analysed and the results show a considerable reduction in the post test scores of both the state anger and anxiety levels of the listeners of Vedic mantras.

Keywords

Listeners, Vedic mantra chanting, State Anxiety level, State Anger level

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How to cite this article: K Dhanaraj, & V B Srinivasan. (2019). State Anxiety and Anger levels among listeners of Vedic Mantra Chanting. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 7(1), 887-891. DIP:18.01.099/20190701, DOI:10.25215/0701.099