NAME- PRIYANKA DEWASI

PRN NUMBER- 8022014609

SEAT NUMBER- 405307
CORE SUBJECT- POLITCAL SCIENCE(MASTERS) SEMESTER 04
Explain how the concepts from indian philosophy can be utlilized in providing
psychotherapy.

INTRODUCTION
Psychotherapy research has entered a new phase in the new century with more than 450
different therapies. From experimental narrations, it has taken a different turn with more
evidence based research appearing in the recent years. Over the past seven decades, Indian
mental health professionals have debated extensively about the relevance and applicability of
psychotherapy in Indian population. Indians believe in karma and dharma Along with
superstition, ritual and mythology and have the tendency to look for the source of problem
outside the cell. Indians believe that verbal expressions and display of emotions is
undesirable as it is a sign of weakness and damage relationship. It may be hard for them to
participate in exploration of feelings. The Indian society is collectivistic in that it promotes
interdependence and cooperation with the family forming the focal point of the social
structure. It values form family cooperation, solidarity and conformity. The essence of
psychotherapy existed in India since time immemorial submerged in social structure, religion
scriptures, mistakes and system of medicine including Ayurdveda, yoda and sidha.
The first half of the 19th century so rise in applied psychology with recognition to the
therapeutic approach. Psychology had acquired professional status with the establishment of
All India institute of mental health, the last five decades witnessed a metamorphosis in the
area of mental health, yet evidence based psychotherapeutic was far behind. Different
approaches used in India in dealing with mental health issues have been dropped broadly
submerged under 2 headings which are indigenous approaches and western approaches.
SOURCES OF INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY
The original source of Indian psychology at the classic text beginning with veda and the
variety of psycho spiritual practises prevalent in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. Yogi
motive in a number of scenes of the Indus valley civilization were found at the historic sites
which possibly date back to previous victims. Speculations on the nature of mind,
consciousness and their role in human behaviour and conduct were made from the time of the
vedas. A distinction made between 2 aspects of the mind, manas and citta , the former is the
processor and the letter is the dispositor E of the variety of mental phenomena like thoughts
and feelings.
The katha upanishad Points to the central role of the mind in our quest for liberation. The
person as encased in five kosas. Buddhist psychology is essentially an attempt to understand
the nature of transcendence and the matter of attaining it. We find it normal consciousness
and the psychological process associated with it are so organised that they generate a sense of
table an enduring ego, colours and even determine our passions, thoughts and actions. This is
seen as the cause of manifest suffering. The person is pursuing of salvation aids to transcend
the ego by achieving A transversal state where the psychological process lose their ego
reference.
MEDITATION
The word meditation comes from the Greek N Latin root the word medicine. Meditation is a
discreet and well different experience of a state of thoughtless awareness or mind silence in
which the activity of the mind is minimised without reducing the level of alertness. Other
major description of meditation emphasise components such as relaxation, awareness,
concentration, suspension of logical thought process.
It is a practise of meditation that has utilised a specific and clear defined technique, involves
muscle relaxation and involves logic relaxation and a self induced state. Concentration
meditation aims at central pointed focus on some ground, image or sensation to still the mind
and achieve greater awareness. Form refers to the setting of meditation and the activity of
body during the meditation whereas object refers to object of ones attention during the
meditation.
EFECTS
PHYSIOLOGICAL- Few Indian studies have attempted to examine establish the neurological
correlates of yoga practises, including meditation the development of brain imagine technique
has thrown the ball in the western quote. Heart rate studies have indicated that heart rate
slows down during quiet meditation and quickens in the moment of ecstasy during
meditation. Blood pressure and hypertension is one of the easiest measurable physiological
variables. Cortical activity is another form of physiological process and alpha waves are slow
an high amplitude brain waves with frequency ranging from 8 to 13 cycles per second. Many
studies have shown that during meditation oxygen consumption is reduced, carbon dioxide
elimination is reduced.
Psychological
Perceptual ability. Both tests were conducted of the treatments of rigorous meditation
practise. Visual sensory sensitivity was measured by detection and discrimination threshold
using simple light flashes. Other studies also reported similar decrease in visual threshold an
increased auditory. The memory an intelligence was reported that number of months of
practise predicted the higher performance on non verbal intelligence test.
Creativity and self actualization is thought to be the major goal of dedicated medic
meditation practises This measure of self actualization included three independent factors
which are effective majority, integrated perspective on the self in the world and sense of self.
They found effect size of TM on self actualization is 3 times larger than other form of
meditation and relaxation practises.

YOGA
Yoga practitioner and researchers have become increasingly aware of the health benefit of
yoga practises, physical benefit and mental health benefit. Although yoga is not a substitute
for professional psychological and psychiatric care, many health professional will agree that
yoga practises can greatly benefit their clients in a number of important weights. Yoga
practise maybe an important treatment,, complementing standard psychotherapy and
psychiatric meditation. Yoga is a determined pursuit to transcend the limitation of
phenomenal awareness to achieve higher states of consciousness in which awareness is
dealing from sensory processing and gets closer to true knowledge. When a state of trance
idents is reached and awarenesses successfully dealing and disassociated from sensory mode
in the state of samadhi The mind gets fully absorbed in the object of consciousness.
Knowledge of date in such a state is considered perfect and beyond falsification and out.
You can be seen as a philosophy and practise of connection, as an individual develops his or
her sense of relatedness to other people, the environment and the universe. Or individual also
develops his or her sense of connection to him or herself through yoga, becoming more and
more aware of the links between mind body, breathe, feeling, memory, experience. Your
technical yoga end to uncover and highlight this connection. Yoga practises are one of the
way to integrate work with the body, breathe, emotions, thoughts, interpersonal., cognitive
and affective changes. Yoga can help cultivate and strengthen healthy attitude and behaviour
such as mindfulness compassion, focus, joy an ethical behaviour. It can be a way to work
with clients who have more difficulty expressing themselves healing through traditional
therapy. Emotional sensation are often imported in physical experience will stop client may
be blocked or struggling with powerful physical reaction memory such as the evoked by
trauma, eating disorders. Physical work may assist therapeutic goals such as helping clients
more comfort table index back setting of their bodies. Relaxation, three breathing and release
of physical tension may help client not only feel better and be more self aware but alter their
perspective. Yoga practises encourage health by promotion of physical and mental supplies,
strength balance and relaxation. One of the goal of physical poster is to gain perspective on
the body by gaining distance from it, fostering neutral observation and promoting higher level
of growth.
Because the breath is both of voluntary and involuntary function, it can be considered an
intermediary between mind and body. All the mental and his emotional states often feel
difficult to control, the irregularities of the brief can be easily observed in control. The
breathing and concentration practises come both the more body and mind common grazing
focus an naturally promoting meditation. Yoga practises involving the physical body, the
breath and concentrating a prepare practitioner for meditation. This transversal consciousness
must be directly experienced.
Many psychotherapy goals are identical to those of yoga practise; Promoting health,
regaining a sense of peace and joy parenting physical, mental and energetic imbalances,
coping with difficult experience in mental states and developing surface substance and
connection with others. They are also element of yoga practise that are beyond the realm of
tradition psychology such as discussion of higher consciousness in the integration of work
with body commemorate, mental experience.
Yoga is based in a number of principles that may be useful psychotherapeutically

 There is wisdom in experiencing.

 You are just right as you are
 Your body mind is right
 change is inevitable
 Yoga practise can help you become more aware of the body, breath, mind, spirit
an your link to the universal.
 Yoga practises bring you into the present
 Yoga practises help you except difficulties, accept pleasure and pain.
 It also teaches you to be where you are.
 You will feel better if you physically stranger, stretch and stabilise your body.
Yoga will feel better if you learn to tune into your energy level an internal energy
flow. Yoga practise will help you revitalise, control and enhance your energy. Or
condition, healthy body that holds as little attention as possible will help you be
mindful, rest and watch the mind body and sit in meditation more easily. The
body moves to help calm the mind.
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
Religion in Indian culture provides A buffer to various life stressors. It adds to multi
dimensional aspect of coping with the feeling like guilt, death. Some philosophy, religious
concept like rebirth example is helpful in reducing fear of loss. A hindu’s ultimate goal is to
live alive by ways of conduct as described by Dharma. another belief among common masses
is that in past karma. Such beliefs are used in the therapeutic situation to improve the
motivation of the patient to change for better men.