MSc Dissertations (Submitted by MSc Students)

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Yoga Dissertations by Yoga Students at SVYASA. These pages present some efforts of SVYASA at Scientific Validation of Yoga, combining the best of the East with the best of the West

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    IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF VAMAN DHAUTI ON SUBTLE ENERGY (AS MEASURED BY GDV) -A PRE POST CONTROL STUDY
    (SVYASA, 2021-09-04) Davendra Pratap Singh; Padmasri Gudapti
    1. Background and Introduction: The physical body is consistently throwing off waste materials through its natural mechanisms via four organs. Kidneys eliminate acid and other waste products, which come through the blood. Sweat glands remove waste materials through the skin as perspiration, which contains toxins. Liver and large intestines eliminates toxins in type of undigested food and faeces. Lungs eliminates CO2 other gases. We throw away impurities of the body through various openings by means of perspiration, urine, excretion and breathing. Yet this excretory system of the body is loaded with disease carrying poisons because of modern life style (i.e. lack of exercise, irregular or excessive food intake together with fast food, indulging in habit disorders like smoking, alcohol, etc) which ends up in physical and physiological disorders (Disorders, 2019). All the cleansing techniques are figured out just opposite to natural action of the body. To illustrate, during practice of dhauti, the practitioner controls natural force of vomiting and natural force of cough and sneeze subsequently. These techniques don't seem to be only ‘unnatural’ during this sense but also ‘unnatural’ because the techniques are voluntary performed while controlling natural and involuntary processes. Regular and steady practice of the cleansing techniques ultimately helps not only to stop diseases and keep the body and mind healthy, but also gain voluntary control over involuntary process (autonomous nervous system) of the body (Disorders, 2019). It is an instrument for the measuring energy of the normal person. The GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) leads main effective rules it indicates a human health problem, better condition of health, stress levels, depression level, altered state of consciousness, chakra measurement, monitoring energy state, energy testing etc (K. Korotkov, 2014). 2. Objectives: The objective of this study is to find out the statistical changes in level of Stress, Energy, Balance, and Chakras in healthy persons before and after Vaman Dhauti practice though GDV. The hypothesis is that Vaman Dhauti may improve overall subtle energy pattern. 3. Material and methods: Thirty four participants both male and female, age range between 20 to 40 years were screened according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Every participant attended the study for 2 times as member of control and experimental group. On the first day, pre-post measurement was done with intervention (Vaman Dhauti followed by Deep Relaxation Technique). On the next day again pre-post measurements were done with same participants without Vaman Dhauti, only Deep Relaxation Technique was given to them. 4. Result: Experiment group showed significant improvement in all the variables (all p-values <0.05) and most of the p-values <0.01 showing very significant improvement, except one variable sahasara ca (p-value =0.103). Whereas control group did not show any significant effect in most of the variables but showed significant improvement in variables stress (p-value =0.002), balance (p value <0.001), svadhisthana ca (p-value =0.002), anahata ca (p-value =0.019) and sahasara ca (p value =0.046). 5. Conclusion: The results of present study demonstrated that there was significant improvement in the participants because of practice of Vaman dhauti followed by DRT in all of the variables except one i.e. sahasara ca. Findings of the study suggested that Vaman Dhauti followed by relaxation can improve energy field of digestive organs, chakra energy and alignment and reduce stress. Also, there was significant improvement in some of the variables in the participants when only DRT practiced.
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    Effect of Nadanusandhana on sustained attention and working memory among adolescents
    (SVYASA, 2020) Sakshi Vashishtha; Satya Prakash Purohit
    Background:- Sustain attention allow students to maintain their attention on a task or activity over a period of time. It assists students to process the material presented, store information, and solve problems. Working memory is also crucial for students to store and manipulate information for short duration. Adolescence is an important stage of development during which many changes occur in body involving physical, mental, emotional and cognition related changes. Studies on Yoga and meditation have shown that it helps to improve cognition related abilities including memory and attention. Present study aims to see if any changes occur among adolescents in sustained attention and working memory through practice of Nadanusandhana. Methods and materials 68 students within age range from 11 to 15 years participated in study. They were equally divided into two group (experiment and control group). Two participants from each group withdrew from study. Total 64 were analysed. Digit span test was used to assess sustained attention and digit vigilance test was used for sustained attention. Intervention was given for one month five day per week. Total 21 session were conducted on Nadanuasandhana. RESULT There was a significant improvement within experiment group. Wilcoxon’s signed rank test suggested that p-value of variables total error and total time for digit vigilance test is less than 0.01 and p-value all variables related to digit span test is less than 0.05. Percentage change in mean values are, digit span test (5.123%), digit span backward (4.607%), total time taken for digit vigilance test (2.0519%), total error (26.06%). However, between group test did not show any significant effect on variables of digit span test and digit vigilance test. Digit span forward p-value=0.061, digit span backward p value=0.338, Total time taken for digit vigilance test p-value=0.188, total error p-value=0.116. CONCLUSION One month intervention of nadanusandhana showed significant improvement within experiment group when compared to baseline data. However, it did not show any significant improvement in sustained attention and working memory between experiment and control group. The reason for no significant change between the groups could be relatively short duration of intervention and environmental factors. Therefore, these finding need confirmation from studies with a large sample size. KEYWORD Digit span backward Digit span forward Digit vigilance test Nadanusandhana Adolescence
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    Immediate effect of kapalbhati, breath awareness and, running on attention
    (2020) Gurumayum Solophin, Sharma
    Background- Attention is an important component for optimal cognitive functions. Previous studies on yoga showed positive effect on several mental processes including attention, memory, learning abilities etc. However, there is no study evaluated the impact of yoga breathing on attention network task in college going students. Aim- To compare the effect of pre and post of kapalbhati, breath awareness and running on attention. Objectives- Compare the accuracy while performing ANT task in pre and post of running, kapalbhati and breath awareness. Compare the processing speed (reaction time) while performing ANT task in pre and post of running, kapalbhati and breath awareness. Methods and Materials- Thirty one students only male, age ranges from 18 to 30 yearswere recruited and from these 8 samples for breath awareness, 11 sample for running and 11 for kapalbhati were selected in the present study. Statistical Analysis Used- Statistical analysis was done with statistical package of social science (SPSS version 21.0, IBM). Result- The results of the present study showed that the data were normally distributed. The performance was tested for accuracy and reaction time and immediately after 15 minutes of kapalabhati, running and breath awareness practice showed an attention performance is improve. Conclusion- The present study showed an improvement in attention performance immediately after the intervention. This suggests that a brief Kapalabhati, running and breath awareness session has a potential to improve attention performance by enhancing effective learning, sustained attention and memory processes. Keyword: Kapalbhati on attention, running on attention, Breath awareness on attention, immediate yogic breathing effect on attention, Attention
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    Effect of yogic relaxation technique on reaction time
    (SVYASA, 2020) Lopamudra Naik
    Background: Human beings receive various types of stimuli in day to day life and respond to them accordingly. The time taken to receive a stimulus, it's processing and giving a response is different for every individual at minute level, in milliseconds. This time interval is called Reaction Time. Various Yogic practices are found to influence the RT of individuals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of deep relaxation technique which is a type of yogic relaxation technique on Auditory and Visual Reaction Time. Method: 115 healthy yoga students from SVYASA Yoga university, between the age group of 20 to 50 years were taken for the study. Pre and post measurements of auditory reaction time and visual reaction time was done. 10 minutes of pre-recorded DRT was given as intervention and immediately after that reaction times were measured. Result: Statistical analysis were carried out using JASP software. There was a significant decline in the ART and VRT observed in the Post DRT condition. Conclusion: The significant decrease in Auditory and Visual Reaction Time shows that DRT helps to increase the awareness and attention of students. Keywords :Auditory Reaction Time, Visual Reaction Time, Deep Relaxation Technique, attention
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    Anxiety, Aggression, mindfulness and emotional intelligence of Indian sports persons : A correlational study
    (SVYASA, 2020) Chinmay Kumar Singh; Satya Prakash Purohit; Rajesh S. K.
    Background Sport includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organized participation, at least in part aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators. Aggression is overt or covert, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual. It may occur either reactively or without provocation. Anxiety is your body's natural response to stress. It's a feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come. Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. Aim of this study to see the correlation between mindfulness and anxiety, mindfulness and aggression and emotional intelligence with aggression and anxiety. Materials and method 265 sports person with in age range from 20 to 30 years participated in the study. This sample study is conducted to know the relation among variables mindfulness, emotional intelligence, aggression and anxiety. Mindful Attention Awareness Scale questioner was used to asses mindfulness, Sports Aggression Inventory questioner was used to asses aggression, Sport Anxiety Scale questioner was used to asses anxiety and Sport Emotional Intelligence questioner was used to asses emotional intelligence. Spearmen’s correlation test was used to see the correlation among variables. Results: Result of the Spearmen correlation indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between sports anxiety and sports aggression (rs=0.193, p=0.002).Result of the Spearmen correlation indicated that there was a significant negative correlation between emotional intelligence and sports anxiety(rs= -0.152, p=0.003),between sports aggression and emotional intelligence(rs= -0.156, p=0.011). Result of the Spearmen correlation indicated that there was a significant correlation sports anxiety and mindfulness,(rs=0.441, p<0.001). Result of the Spearmen correlation indicated that there was no significant correlation between sports aggression and mindfulness,(rs=0.080, p<0.193). Conclusion: This sample study was conducted to know the correlation of sports anxiety and aggression with emotional intelligence and mindfulness. This study indicated that there was a significant negative correlation between emotional intelligence and sports anxiety, sports aggression and emotional intelligence, findings of study also revealed a significant positive correlation between sports anxiety and sports aggression, whereas there was no significant correlation between sports aggression and mindfulness. Also, positive correlation between sports anxiety and mindfulness was observed which could be due to low sample size, response bias and sportsperson without experience of mindfulness
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    Effect of Tulasi, Kusa, and copper on conductivity, turbidity, and pH properties of water in mud container on lunar eclipse day
    (SVYASA, 2020) Sheya Nandy; Itagi Ravi Kumar
    Background In India during Lunar Eclipse from the ancient time people used to follow, skipping food. It is believed that eating foods during the Lunar Eclipse may be harmful effects on the body and also knows that Tulasī, Kuśa and Copper basically use for purifies the Water. Kuśa grass has been observed to block X- ray radiation. Aim Effect of Tulasī, Kuśa, and Copper on Conductivity, Turbidity, and pH properties of Water in Mud Container on Lunar Eclipse day. Materials and Methods Water of 100 ml was measured and poured in 28 mud glasses. Out of these 28 mud glasses 7 glasses for control, 7 glasses for Tulasī, 7 glasses for Kuśa, and 7 glasses for Copper as treatment materials. Each Tulasī, Kuśa, and Copper was 250 mg. The parameters measured were Conductivity, Turbidity and pH. Results and Discussion Conductivity and Turbidity levels of Water were seen to be increasing significantly with Kuśa and Tulasī and non significant with Copper with increased durations. It has been observed that Copper and Tulasī maintain pH whereas Kuśa has decreased pH level. Copper might act as buffer agent for regulating pH, turbidity and Conductivity of Water. Conclusion It can be concluded that there was a positive relationship between Conductivity and Turbidity. As Conductivity increases, Turbidity also increases and the pH levels decreases. Compare to Kuśa and Tulasī, Copper control the increment of Conductivity, Turbidity and pH of Water. Kuśa, Tulasī and Copper can be served as cost effective, eco-friendly and point-of-use method to purify Water.
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    Relationship between interoceptive awareness, metacognitive awareness, paranormal belief, and superstitious belief among emerging adults
    (SVYASA, 2020) Rooba G.; Rajesh S. K.; Judu Ilavarasu
    BACKGROUND Interoceptive awareness is the conscious perception of the internal sensation of the body. It is known to be one of the factors that can help in emotion regulation, expressivity, and so many other elements. METHODS AND MATERIALS The Sample size of 400 students of age group between (18-25) has been collected. They were given a questionnaire composed of 5 questionnaires namely MAIA (Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness), MALQ (Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire), RPBS (Revised Paranormal Belief Scale), ISS (Indian Superstition Scale). RESULT There was a mild correlation between Interoceptive Awareness and Metacognitive Awareness, Interoceptive Awareness and Paranormal Belief, Interoceptive Awareness, and Superstitious Belief. CONCLUSION The present study indicates a significant correlation between all the variables with MAIA and significant correlations between all the variables and its subdomains. KEYWORD Interoceptive Awareness, Metacognitive Awareness, Paranormal Belief, Superstitious Belief
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    The relationship between interocptive awareness, expressivity, humility, open mindedness and depression among emerging adults
    (SVYASA, 2020) Riyana Sreedharan; Rajesh S. K.; Judu Ilavarasu
    BACKGROUND Interoceptive awareness is the conscious perception of the internal sensations of the body. It is known to be one of the factors that can help in emotion regulation, expressivity, and so many other elements. METHODS AND MATERIALS 402 students of age group (18-25) were chosen. They were given a questionnaire composed of 5 questionnaires namely Multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness (MAIA), Actively open-minded scale (AOMTS), Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ), Patient health questionnaire (PHQ), Comprehensive intellectual humility scale (CIHS). They were made to answer these questionnaires and their responses were collected. RESULT There is a mild correlation between MAIA and expressivity. The rest of them doesn’t show any correlation between MAIA. CONCLUSION The present study indicates no significant correlation between any of the variables with MAIA except the mild correlation between expressivity and MAIA and the significant correlations between the subdomains of MAIA itself. KEYWORDS Interoceptive awareness, Expressivity, Humility, Open-mindedness
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