Effect ofdifferent variation of chakra meditation on spleen chakraof athletes: A comparative study Poonia Sonesh1, Gurjar Keshav Singh2 1Sports Officer, Govt. College, Aron (Dist-Guna, M.P) 2DSW & HOD, SOS Physical Education, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, (M.P) Online published on 4 September, 2020. Abstract In the Tantric traditions, chakras (Skt. cakra) are focal points for meditation within the human body, visualized as structures of energy resembling discs or flowers at those points where a number of nads or meridians converge. Our body has 7 major and many minor chakras. These 7 chakras are situated from base of spine to the top of head. These are psychic centre of the astral body governing a group of functions. To attain the purpose of the study, 45 students were selected as subjects from LNIPE, Gwalior (M. P.). The age of the subjects ranged between 18 to 25 years. For administration feasibility three intact groups were formed, namely group 1, group 2 and group 3 with each group consisting of fifteen students. The treatment (chakra meditation with beej mantra chanting, chakra meditation with chakra colour, and control group) was randomly allotted among groups. The training duration was five days in a week for total eight weeks. The Spleen chakra was selected for the study. The criterion measure chosen for testing the chakra in this study was Auramed Biopulsar Reflexograph and the energy readings of spleen chakra was recorded in percentage before the training programme (pretest), after 4 and 8 weeks of training programme. To compare the effects of different chakra meditation training and training duration on selected chakra 3 (Training Durations) X 3 (Training Variations) between within factorial ANOVA was used as the statistical technique and the level of significance was set at 0.05. Partial Eta Square was also calculated to see the effect size of treatment. The SPSS-20 software was used for analysis. The findings indicated that the practice of chakra meditation for 8 weeks is sufficient to bring out significant improvement in spleen chakra (main effect of training duration). In all the three groups the pattern of improvement in spleen chakra is almost similar after 4 and 8 weeks. Top Keywords Chakra meditation, Spleen chakra, Auramed biopulsar reflexograph. Top |