Exploring the efficacy of yoga and meditation on anxiety and memory among school children

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Page: 1348-1350

Shilpa Sharma and Charu Dhankar (Department of Psychology, Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The effectiveness of yoga and meditation is well known among the people in society especially adults. There has been a gradual increase in the use of alternative treatments like meditation and yoga for multiple reasons. To make yoga and meditation practices useful measure for improving memory and reducing anxiety. With the objective to see ten days effect of the same on anxiety and memory thirty school children were randomly tested on anxiety and a memory test, after 10 days of intervention through yoga techniques and sessions of meditation found that ten days of practice with the children aged between eight to eleven years may be insignificant to bring effective changes in anxiety and memory with yoga and meditation.