Impact of Yoga Training on Programme on Selected Psychological Variables of School Going Boys

ABSTRACT: Yoga refers to unity, harmony as well as balance. Yoga maintains the unity of the consciousness of the individual with the cosmic consciousness, the harmony of the soul, mind and the body as well as the universal balance. In promoting physical and mental health and in preventing many disorders, yoga shall play an important role. Yoga practitioners have improved their personality changes because yoga takes a holistic approach. The practices of yoga stimulate physiological and psychological variables to enhance the secretion of melatonin, which may be accountable for the perceived welfare. Therefore the study aims to focus with the objectives of the impact of yoga training on the self-confidence of the school going boys, to find out the impact of the yoga training on the concentration ability of the young school going boys and to find out whether yoga training has any impact on the motivation level of the school going boys. To achieve the objectives a sample of 30 school going boys. Before selecting the school boys three psychological self-confidence, Concentration ability and the Motivation level were also selected. These variables were tested with the help of some selected questions from Mental Skills Questionnaire by Bull, Albison & Shambrook (1996) before starting yoga training. After that the boys have been given six months yoga training on daily basis and after the completion of the training again the psychological variables have been tested. The collected data has been analyzed with statistical analysis