Effectiveness of Pranic Healing on Mental Health

By : Suprabha Srivastava, Ashok Kumar Patel, Shraddhesh Kumar Tiwari, Kavita Gupta

Page No: 163-168

Abstract
It has been acknowledged that various complementary and alternative therapies are commonly used in community settings in India. Pranic therapy is a seminal and ground breaking work that attempts to bridge the gap between the mind, the physical body, and the human energy system by using the Principle of Self-Recovery and Life Force. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of Pranic Healing Therapy on mental health. 42 female undergraduate students of Dev Sanskriti University, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) actively participated in Pranic Healing Therapy. Mental health scale (Sharma, 1996) was administered in pre and post study (gap duration of one month). The findings of the study reveal that pranic healing therapy has a significant effect on mental health.

Authors :
Suprabha Srivastava : Senior Research Fellow – Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Ashok Kumar Patel : Clinical Psychologist – Mental Health Unit, District Hospital, Balrampur, U.P., India- 271201
Shraddhesh Kumar Tiwari : Post Doctoral Fellow – Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, U.P., India
Kavita Gupta : M.A., Clinical Psychologist – Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.18