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1 Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 5, No 12 (2014), Pagination: 1449-1452
Abstract
The rapid developments in science and technology brought us convenient living, but that lifestyle does not give comfort. Due to these problems many psychological problems occur. Depression is one of them. Peoples with chronic disease, often suffer from physical and psychological distress, lowering their quality of life. During the past 50 years the use of meditation and yoga, commonly applied as an effective adjunct to conventional medical treatment. Mystic rose meditative therapy is one of the most effective therapy created by Osho. The therapy is three hour a day process which last for 21 days. Objectives of the study are: To Study the demographical profiles of the subjects; To examine the effect of Mystic rose meditative therapy on depression (All levels), and Quality of life (All domams). 100 subjects equally divided into two groups i.e. experimental (intervention N=50) and control (without intervention N=50) were taken from Osho Dham (meditation Center). Further on subjects were equally divided on gender basis i.e. Males & females (N=25 each) within the age range of 30 to 65yrs. Obtained scores were analyzed with the help of paired t-test and chi square (for categorical variables). Findings of the study indicated a significant decrement in depression and improvement in quality of life among the subjects who received intervention than non intervention group.
Keywords
Mystic Rose Meditation, Depression, Quality of Life.
