Purushottam Borkar*

Associate Professor in Psychology, SRM College of SW, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding Author: Purushottam Borkar, Associate Professor in Psychology, SRM College of SW, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India.

Received: September 27, 2021; Published: January 31, 2022

Abstract

Meditation means daydreaming or to engage oneself in imaginary things. Meditation is such an incantation, which calms the mind and settles it. we see all sides of your personality and existence, rather closely. Meditation is an altogether different technique to work accurately and minutely for achieving this. It removes the muscular tension, and these become relaxed. Anxiety is a basic cause of many physical and mental ailments. A person with anxiety feels the world around him as treacherous, insecure and threatening. In this research sample, total 400 men and women, in whom 200 men-women were non- meditated, while 200 men-women were meditated groups. The age group of these selected men and women was 40 to 45 and there social and economic status was of middle class. For this Sinha comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) was used to collect data. it is concluded that the persons (women-men) who are involved in meditation experience low anxiety than persons (women-men) who are not involved in meditation. There exists a significant difference between pre training of meditation and post training meditated individuals.

Keywords: Meditation; Anxiety; Gender

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Citation

Citation: Purushottam Borkar. “Gender, Effect of Meditation on Anxiety". Acta Scientific Neurology 5.2 (2022): 41-46.

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