PSYCHOLOGY

MIND AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND Swami Budhananda in his book “ THE MIND AND ITS CONTROL” says that as Per Hindu psychology, “ Mind is a finer body within his Gross body. The physical body is as it were, only the outer crust of the mind. The Mind being the finer part of the body, the one affects the other. It is for this reason that physical illness often affects the Mind and Mental illness or tension often affects the body. Behind the mind is the Atman, the real self of the man. Body and mind are material. Atman is pure sprit.” Every body knows that it is highly difficult to control this mind. But however, this Mind can be controlled by YOGA, Lord Sri Krishna in Baghawat Gita explained to Arjuna,the way to attain the supreme state of Yoga. On hearing this Arjuna told that “ The Mind, O, Krishna is restless, turbulent, powerful and obstinate. To control the mind is as hard, it seems to me as to control the wind. How by Yoga it can be controlled. Lord Krishna said “ O, Arjuna , the mind is...

PAIN CONTROL TECHNIQUES The following are the newly adopted techniques for pain control in addition to pharmacological surgical and sensory stimulation techniques. They are a) Relaxation technique. b) Biofeed back technique. c) Hypnosis technique. d) Distraction technique. e) Guided imagery technique and f) Other cognitive techniques. RELAXATION TECHNIQUES: As anxiety increases pain, Relaxation techniques are used to reduce the anxiety of the person who experience pain, which in turn reduces the pain. Shifting of the body into a state of low arousal will give relaxation and this can be achieved through the progressive relaxation of different parts of the body. The mostly followed is the progressive muscle relaxation technique formulated by Jacobson . Controlled breathing is also one of the components of relaxation. Also, relaxation can be achieved thro’ Meditation. In this method individual’s attention is Fully focused on a unchanging stimulus. The clinic...

In day to-day life every human being is living with minor pains all the time. these pains are essential for our survival since they give feed back about the functioning of our bodily system. with this feedback we can adjust our postures, sleeping positions . Pain causes anxiety and fear among the patients. It is learnt that in United States every year about $100 biliions are spent on pain remedies. twenty million tons of aspirin are consumed Annually by head ache sufferers alone. There are about seven million sufferers of cronic pain. Pain is basically a psychological experience and the degree to which it is felt and how incapacitating it is depends partially on how it is interpreted. Pain bearing capacity depends on the mental power. We can see the sports persons despite sustaining inuries on the field stay in the game by tolerating the pain. the severity of pain can be assesed by observing the individuals pain behaviour.For...