Preksha Meditation For Work Stress And Mental Health - An Experimental Research Study

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While presenting spiritual-philosophical and scientific evidences in this book, the author has advocated that steady practice of Yoga and Meditation has 'power to change within the individual' that enable it's practitioner to experience deeper silence, stability and bliss which leads to adopt a sound strategy and practice of `flow' (or 'stay and play' or 'adjust or adapt or accommodate' or `win-win') over `fight (attack) and flight (run away or escape).' Otherwise, animals do react by ' fight or flight' under threat. According to him, it is only us humans who got 'choice of actions' (`flow' or .... `win-win') and Yoga and Meditation is a mean to become the choice maker of own actions. The book comprises physical and mental problems faced by the management personnel due to stress and poor mental health, why meditation only a choice, what meditation is not? facts about meditation, various aspects as well as philosophical and scientific bases of Preksha Meditation. The second chapter presents various aspects and dynamics of stress and mental health; the third chapter presents review of literature showing effectiveness of popular meditation techniques on various aspects of human beings observed during past five decades; the fourth chapter presents scientific research methodology adopted by the author to show 'Impact of Preksha Meditation on occupational stress and mental health of management personnel'. The fifth and sixth chapters present results and discussion on the aforesaid title (`...') and sixth chapter present summary. The last chapter presents module of Preksha Meditation adopted by the author to investigate and prove effectiveness of meditation for managing and preventing stress and mental health of management personnel.

Dr. Vijay Singh Gusain has 23 years of academic excellence record and experiential background of teaching, consultation, and counseling in the disciplines of Yoga, Modern Psychology and Alternative Systems of Medicines. His academic qualifications include N.D.D.Y. (Naturopathy & Yoga), D. Ac. (Acupuncture), M.A. (Psychology), M.A. (Science of Living &Yoga) and Ph.D. (Meditation-Stress & Mental Health) and several short terms courses. He was selected, amongst 10 Yoga professionals from all over India, for specialized training program in Yoga with Central Council for Research in Yoga in 1996. His experiential background includes personal training to well known businessmen, C.E.O.s, M.D.s, dancers, models, etc; therapeutic sessions, consultation and counseling with Chrysalis, Delhi; consultations to 12,000 clients from abroad (80%) and India (20%) on www.healthandyoga.com. To satisfy his archetype of caregiver as well as to promote and propagate Yoga and Alternative systems of Medicines, he conducted hundreds of free lectures, demonstration, camps and workshops at Clubs, RWAS, SSWAs, Temples, etc under banner of "Born Free" as well as `Himalayan Institute for Studies in Yoga' (HISYOGA), Delhi. To satisfy his deepest interest to apply Yoga and Alternative Medicines for stress management and preservation of mental health, he conducted Yoga and wellness based lectures, demonstration and workshops for the management personnel of several organizations such as: Power-Grid, Delhi Police (P.T.C.), United Nation Women Association (Delhi), Indian Oil (Noida), India Oil Pipelines (Noida & Panipat, Haryana), Rotary Club (Delhi), General Motor (India), A.B.L India, Le Passage to India Tours Travels Pvt. Ltd., Go India Journeys, Select Vacations, Select Hotels (Delhi), TUI India, T.I. InfoTech (Delhi & Noida), Corbus (Noida), R.M.S.I. (Noida), Tata Communications (Europe Management Personnel) and Sheela Foam Pvt. Ltd. (Ghaziabad, Noida & Gujarat, India). To satisfy and challenge his archetype of intellect, he persuaded Ph.D., an experimental research study on stress and mental health of working personnel. He taught subjects of Yoga, Naturopathy and modern psychology with International foundation of Natural Health & Yoga (IFNHY), Delhi, from 1996 to 2009; with Archana Yogayatan, Delhi from 2009 to 2013. As a Guest Faculty, he taught Yoga to students of nursing programs with Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Nursing Colleges, Delhi, from 2000 to 2003; to the students of acting and presentation, journalism and media communications from 2000 to 2013 with Asian Academy of Films & TV and Asian Academy of Media Studies, Film City, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Since July, 2011 to August, 2018, he served as Guest Faculty of Yoga-Psychology with prestigious University of Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Delhi and with same University, from September 2018 till date; he is serving as an Assistant Professor of Yoga. He has presented several research papers on subject matters of Yoga -Psychology in national seminars. His research papers published in National and Internal Journals. His articles on Yoga published National News Papers: "Health Wise" magazine of Hindustan Times, Delhi and Dainik Jagaran, Ghaziabad, U.P., India. He appeared in several news channels such as Sahara Samay, Zee News, CNBC TV 18, Cannel-7, Total TV, CNEB & CNN IBN, etc. His face to face and telephonic interviews published in Indian Express, Business Standards, Mint, Amar Ujala (Hindi News paper), Hindustan (Hindi News paper), etc.

Changing means of communication and technology and easy to access ways of information and data have tremendously popularized Yoga and Meditation in the past three decades. Now days, benefits of Yoga and Meditations have not only been known by the Comman man worldwide but also its benefits have been reaped by increased numbers of populace. The subject matter of Yoga and Meditation has ever attracted attention of the common man (realizing their inadequacies), intellectuals. scholars, and scientists. It seems to be so because Yoga and Meditation have been interpreted as mean of changes 'within the individual' that enable its practitioner to experience deeper silence, stability and to modify his/her thinking, attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, etc. and hence results into a 'better human beings... The results of scientific studies on Yoga and Meditation i.e. changing 'within the practitioners', have also attracted attention of industries and organization in India as well as abroad. At such a time when industries and organizations have progressively been shifting their perspective towards working personnel from treating them as 'machines' to treating them as 'golden egg producing goose'. Hence there was a need to conduct scientific research on benefits of Yoga and Meditation on stress and mental health of management personnel. I have been teaching Yoga and Meditation methods for last 23 years to common man; and conducting Yoga and Meditation based wellness programs for 18 years for the management personnel of industries and organizations. I have ever been interested in applying Yoga and Meditation methods in two areas taken for the research study, and operational definitions as well as potentiality and scope of Yoga and Meditation in management of stress and mental health. The third chapter is related to review of relevant literature, selection of problem, conceptual clarification of problem and objectives of the study. It ends with hypothesis for six variables of occupational stress as well as six areas of mental health. The fourth chapter is related to the research design, methodology, procedure, tests and tools, samples and statistical design adopted for the present study. The fifth and sixth chapters subsequently deal with results and discussion to explain the impact of Preksha Meditation on six variables of occupational stress as well as six variables of mental health of management personnel. The chapters highlight inter-group and intro-group comparisons at three levels of experimentations and lead to conclusions. The chapter seven presents summary of the whole research work and limitations of this research study. The chapter also suggests the possible areas of further investigations.

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