A study of sustainable well-being in pranayama practitioners

Pages:56-61
O.P. Sharma and Rajshree Tewari (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)

This paper aims to study main and interactive effects of type of Pranayama Anuloma Viloma and Kapalabhati on General Mental Health , Emotional Intelligence, Happiness and Optimism in Pranayama Practitioners i.e. sustainable personal well-being it was hypothesized that Type of Pranayama and Life Skills will have no significant main and interactive effect on General Mental Health , Emotional Intelligence, Happiness and Optimism in Pranayama Practitioners . A purposive sample of 200 Pranayama practitioners age range 25-55 with balanced number of males and females was selected. Psychological tests administered were Life Skills Questionnaire (Clements, 2005), General Mental Health Questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 1979), Emotional Intelligence Scale (Mayer, 1997), Happiness Scale (Passer & Smith, 2006) and Optimism Scale (Carver & Scheier, 1985). It was empirically proved that Pranayama had significant main effect on General Mental Health, Emotional Intelligence, Happiness and Optimism in Pranayama Practitioner s, practicing Anuloma-Viloma and Kapalabhati Pranayama. It was further ascertained that Life Skills had significant main effect on General Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence but not on Happiness and Optimism in Pranayama Practitioner s practicing Anuloma-Viloma and Kapalabhati Pranayama. It was also empirically proved that Pranayama and Life Skills had significant interactive effect on General Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence but not on Happiness and optimism in Pranayama Practitioner spracticing Anuloma-Vilom a and Kapalabhati Pranayama.