Effect of Surya Kriya and Shambavi Mahamudra Programme on Selected Psychological Variable among College Men

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation is to find out the effect of surya kriya and shambavi mahamudra
programme on selected psychological variable among college men. To achieve this purpose of the study 30
students were selected at random from Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India as subjects. Their age ranged from 18
to 22 years. They were divided into three equal groups of 10 subjects each and assigned to experimental
group-I, experimental group-II and control group. The experimental group I underwent surya kriya,
experimental group II underwent shambavi mahamudra programme and Control Group was not given any
specific training. All the subjects underwent one area of test namely depression. They assessed before and
after the training period of 12 weeks. The one way analysis of covariance was used to analyze the collected
data. The study revealed that the above said criterion variable was significantly improved due to the effect
of surya kriya and shambavi mahamudra programme on selected psychological variable among college men