title: Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques, namely, cyclic meditation (CM) and supine rest (SR), using the six letter cancellation task (SLCT).
  
  
  METHODS
  The subjects consisted of 208 school students, (132 boys, 76 girls) in the age range of 13 - 16 years. The subjects were assessed on SLCT before and immediately after both yoga-based relaxation techniques.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After both practices, the total and net scores were significantly increased, although the magnitude of change was more after CM than after SR in the net scores (14.5 versus 11.31%). The net score change in the CM session was significantly larger than the change in the SR, whereas, there was no significant change in the wrong cancellation score. After either practice, the total and net scores were significantly increased, irrespective of gender and age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both CM and SR led to improvement in performance, as assessed by SLCT, but the change caused by CM was larger than SR.
authors.affiliation: Division of Yoga and Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore - 560 019, India.
authors.forename: Balaram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pradhan
authors.forename: Hr
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagendra