If anxiety, stress or depression become overwhelming, yoga-based Ki energy techniques can help, regardless of whether a person seeks treatment.
Maintaining a healthy mind-body balance is important no matter who you are. If anxiety, stress or depression become overwhelming, yoga-based Ki energy techniques can help, regardless of whether a person seeks treatment. Recently, an article published by United Press International addressed the use of Chicago yoga classes in inpatient care facilities.
The news source stated that Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital has changed much in the last decade or two, not least because its Stone Institute of Psychiatry offers patients access to yoga classes and exercise routines.
The institute's director, Dr. Cathy Stone, told the news source that the movement toward yoga, exercise and physical health is one of the ways that the inpatient care center has contemporized.
"The integration of physical health with mental therapy is extremely important. Patients with mental disorders have a higher chance of developing physical problems," she stated, adding that some mental conditions are known to actually reduce life expectancy.
With such phenomena in mind, Stone and her colleagues gave the Chicago-based facility a makeover, adding yoga and other exercise regimens to patients' daily routines.
Numerous studies have established the benefits of yoga on mental health, even among people with serious disorders.
A paper appearing in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal found that inpatient participants who did yoga experienced improvements in mood, anxiety, tension, depression, confusion and other mental metrics.
Another study, this one in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, found that a yoga rehabilitation system designed for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder could be repurposed to mitigate the symptoms of all sorts of anxiety-based conditions.
Again and again, scientists have found that yoga can help curb the severity of anxiety and depression. Studies in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Affective Disorders point to the holistic health system as an effective complementary therapy for people with mood disorders.
