Effect of alternate nostril breathing and meditation practices on stress and aggression among the university women students

Abstract

Yoga is an effective complementary approach to health maintenance and promotion for College women and has been demonstrated to support many dimensions of psychological wellbeing, from everyday stress to anxiety, aggression, and coping with health challenges. The Purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing and Meditation practices on psychological variables (stress and aggression). To achieve this purpose, 45 women students were selected randomly as subjects from various department from Annamalai university, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram. And their age between 18 to 25 years. They were divided into three equal groups namely Alternate Nostril Breathing practices group, Meditation practices group and control group. The Alternate Nostril Breathing practices group and Meditation groups did train for all Six weeks. The pre and post test were taken for all subjects before and after the training, respectively. The data pertaining to the variables in this were examined by using dependent T-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The six weeks of Alternate Nostril Breathing practices group and Meditation practices group practices on psycho logical variables improved the among the students.