SPIRITUAL SILENCE PRACTICES AS AN INTERVENTION TOOL FOR IMPROVING META-COGNITION AND EMOTIONAL STATE OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH THE SIGNS OF MOOD DISTURBANCE

Abstract

The proposed research is designed to explore the effect and effectiveness of Spiritual Silence Practices (Hinduism & Buddhism Perspective) as an intervention tool for improving Neurocognitive functioning of patients of mood disorders. The major focus of the study is on contemplating this technique as a major Participants are selected from Art of living ‘silence course’ centers who have been diagnosed with mood disorder and sought refuge in these courses.  This course was held for 5 days and encompassed yogic asans, pranayama, panchkosh kriya,

Sudarshan kriya and hollow-and-empty meditation. The meta-cognition questionnaire and The Emotional State questionnaire was administered on participants to measure their meta-cognition, and emotional state 5 days after completing the course and returning back to home. The scores of anxiety, depression, fatigue, insomnia and metacognition are checked for pre and post intervention. The Wilcoxon signed rank test is used to find the relationship between the pre and post intervention data. It was found that spiritual silence has significantly decreased the anxiety, depressive symptoms, agoraphobia, panic like symptoms and insomnia.