Applying Yoga Exercises During Home Quarantine and Its Effect On Negative and Positive Thinking for Students of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science of Al-Maarif University College

Abstract

Due of the Corona pandemic (Covied19), individuals in all societies, including the Iraqi society, were subjected to great pressures that caused tension and anxiety to confront this pandemic, with many aspects of life disrupting the person’s normal life.This study aims to identify the effect of applying yoga exercises during home quarantine and its effect on negative and positive thinking for students of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science of Al-Maarif University College, using the experimental approach.In practical terms, the importance of the study appears in light of the conditions witnessed by Iraqi society, due to the Corona pandemic and the consequent abolition of all sports, cultural and scientific activities, disrupting official working hours in universities, schools and all state departments, and declaring a state of emergency throughout the country, which requires the use of All means to overcome them, and among those methods, students practice yoga exercises during home quarantine and take advantage of technological development in communicating with others under quarantine conditions. The study is reached that the application of yoga exercises during home quarantine has a clear effect on reducing negative thinking to the research sample and raising their level of positive thinking.