“Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior.” (“Mental Illness." Mayo Clinic. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2017.) For thousands of years yoga has been an effective form of meditation and relaxation, helping reduces stress and other symptoms in psychiatric patients throughout the world. “Yoga is a widely practiced form of meditation and relaxation, with ap- proximately 20 million regular yoga practitioners in the U.S. and Europe (Feuerstein, 1998)” (“The Effects of..” N.p.,Web. 2005.) Individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities tend to have heightened symptoms such as, “prominent negative emotions (Bartels & Drake, 1989), cognitive difficulties (Heaton et al., 1994),
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With the study not being controlled, it was stated that the change in mood could have had other reasons than the yoga program. The individuals would enter the yoga room with the surveys already set up on each mat, they would then have the printout of the survey explained to them, the psychiatric inpatients had the choice of whether to partake in the survey or not. They would each be asked to complete the survey before the class and then after the class was over. This would allow the researchers to evaluate the change of mood before and after partaking in yoga. They were aloud to participate in this weekly activity as often as they desired. Out of the 113 who participated in this study 38 (33.6%) partook in the yoga group two or more times. Participants who did so showed similar results from the first class to the last class, which raised the question of why grater benefits were not shown the more times an individual partook in the weekly yoga class. The results we put into a chart, which showed significant improventnt of all 5 of the negative emotion factors on the POMS: “tension-anxiety, depres- sion-dejection, anger-hostility, fatigue- inertia, confusion-bewilderment. In contrast, the sixth factor, vigor-activity, did not change significantly from be- fore to after the yoga session.” (“The Effects of..” N.p., 2005.) It was proven that theses results had no comparison to the gender or age …show more content…
Yoga does not only provide you with physical health such as flexibility, weight loss, and muscle gain, but it also provides positive effects for your
5 of 6 mind and soul. Yoga allows a enjoyable way to meditate, relax, clears your mind allowing cognitive clarity. It is also a great way to prevent and clear stress and anxiety. I think people who practice yoga on a regular basis are able to control their thoughts better allowing less stress and anxiety to enter their life. Therefor I believe bringing yoga into hospitals for psychiatric inpatients is a strong and beneficial resource. It allows for patients stationed in hospitals to get out of their confined room to destress and relax through the use of meditation. Another thing I find beneficial about this program is that patients will get to interact with other patients who are hospitalized for the same reasons. I do also agree that further studies should be done to discover other therapeutic methods for inpatients. Different activities may be better for different ages, such as therapeutic serves animals for children at a younger age, but over all I found this study to be beneficial in helping patients stationed at a hospital relieve stress and make there stay more
With the study not being controlled, it was stated that the change in mood could have had other reasons than the yoga program. The individuals would enter the yoga room with the surveys already set up on each mat, they would then have the printout of the survey explained to them, the psychiatric inpatients had the choice of whether to partake in the survey or not. They would each be asked to complete the survey before the class and then after the class was over. This would allow the researchers to evaluate the change of mood before and after partaking in yoga. They were aloud to participate in this weekly activity as often as they desired. Out of the 113 who participated in this study 38 (33.6%) partook in the yoga group two or more times. Participants who did so showed similar results from the first class to the last class, which raised the question of why grater benefits were not shown the more times an individual partook in the weekly yoga class. The results we put into a chart, which showed significant improventnt of all 5 of the negative emotion factors on the POMS: “tension-anxiety, depres- sion-dejection, anger-hostility, fatigue- inertia, confusion-bewilderment. In contrast, the sixth factor, vigor-activity, did not change significantly from be- fore to after the yoga session.” (“The Effects of..” N.p., 2005.) It was proven that theses results had no comparison to the gender or age …show more content…
Yoga does not only provide you with physical health such as flexibility, weight loss, and muscle gain, but it also provides positive effects for your
5 of 6 mind and soul. Yoga allows a enjoyable way to meditate, relax, clears your mind allowing cognitive clarity. It is also a great way to prevent and clear stress and anxiety. I think people who practice yoga on a regular basis are able to control their thoughts better allowing less stress and anxiety to enter their life. Therefor I believe bringing yoga into hospitals for psychiatric inpatients is a strong and beneficial resource. It allows for patients stationed in hospitals to get out of their confined room to destress and relax through the use of meditation. Another thing I find beneficial about this program is that patients will get to interact with other patients who are hospitalized for the same reasons. I do also agree that further studies should be done to discover other therapeutic methods for inpatients. Different activities may be better for different ages, such as therapeutic serves animals for children at a younger age, but over all I found this study to be beneficial in helping patients stationed at a hospital relieve stress and make there stay more