Effect of Swadhyay on the mental health of the elderly

Pages: 1004-1006
Sareeta Behera (Department of Psychology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha)
Anuradha Kotnala (Dev Sanskriti University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand)

Mental health is the essence of a happy, healthy and fullfilling life. It is the pivotal raison d’être behind physical, personal, familial, social and overall wellbeing. Without a sound mental health a person is just like a straw in the storm, knowing not where to go. It is the main ingredient that makes or mars man’s life. Any distortion in mental health is not only a trubulent phase for the person per se but each and everyone related to him. The incidence rates of mental health issues differ in accordance with manifold factors like age, gender, mental health hygiene, lifestyle, culture, situational variants and so on. However, the most innocent and worst victims of mental health problems are the elderly. In order to treat such problems and illnesses, many treatment interventions have been discovered and practiced since the advent of medical psychology and treatment techniques. However, among them Swadhyay Therapy has also reaped fruitful results in the area. The study is an epitome of the effect of Swadhyay Therapy on the Mental Health of the Elderly. It serves as an outlook towards the theory and practice of Swadhyay and the advantageous effects it has in rejuvenating the mental health conditions of the elderly.