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Aug172011

Yoga Provides Improved Health & Comfort for Cancer Patients  

Yoga has long been recognized as a source of meditation and inner peace. The practice of yoga itself enhances the physical, mental and spiritual discipline of one's self and the meditative poses associated with yoga helps patients achieve a state of tranquility and spiritual insight. Widely accepted for its health benefits, doctors are seeing more and more benefit in prescribing yoga for cancer patients to enhance traditional cancer treatments in a very non-traditional way.

What Benefits Does Yoga Give Cancer Patients?

Many cancer patients and survivors suffer from sleep deprivation due to symptoms related to their cancers. Mesothelioma cancer and breast cancer patients most notably, have found that regular yoga exercises may help with breathing, relaxation and stressors. Likewise, yoga can provide a deep connection with one's self and while it may not be a cure for cancer it certainly provides a powerful healing practice for cancer patients and may increase life expectancy. Yoga helps patients regain the strength they need to help them stay strong to battle their respective cancer, and the grounding effects provided by the motions related to yoga helps them deal with their battle on a day-to-day basis.

The diagnosis of cancer such as mesothelioma prognosis is often followed by feelings of denial, doubt, self-loathing and fear. A yoga regime that focuses a patient's inner self with calm tranquility has been shown to help reduce the anxiety related to cancer and cancer treatment. The relaxation methods employed by regular use of yoga have shown to help when dealing with pain, invasive treatments and overall mental state. With a large part of any health battle being fought in one's mind, the meditation provided by the practice of yoga can help clear patient’s worries and let them focus more fully on their body and on the promotion of healing.

Over the years, yoga has proven to have many benefits that we are only just beginning to understand. For cancer patients, any relief offered during their time of trial and treatment is an added bonus as well as a welcome one. For families watching a loved one struggle with the cancer battle, simply knowing that their family member is provided some measure of relief through something as simple as yoga can have far reaching effects. Each patient in a scheduled group of yoga sessions can obtain benefits that go far beyond our understanding, but that help strengthen them for the fight of their lives. 

Author - Jillian McKee - http://http://center-yourself.blogspot.com/

 

 

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