Stress Reduction Through Yoga Nidra

By M a Megha Deuskar

With the rise in stress and stress-related disorders all over the world, work on health related issues emerged as an important sub-field of psychology known as health psychology. Health psychology is "the aggregate of the special educational, scientific and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, the identification of etiological and diagnostic correlates of health, illness and related dysfunction, and to the analysis and improvement of the health care system and health policy information" (Matarazzo, 1982). In this field, the idea that mind and body are not two distinct and mutually independent systems, but that there is a clear link between the two has gained grow.ing support. That a person's psychological states play an important role in the development of diseases has been amply demonstrated in various studies (e.g. Bartrop et al., 1977; Stone et al., 1987; Totman & Kiff, 1979). Similarly a person's characteristic ways of structuring reality, thinking patterns, and emotions are known to affect his health. For instance, Type A people are more susceptible to heart disease than Type B's (Weidner et al., 1989). Repressed anger is considered to be a significant factor in the development of cancer (Greer & Morris, 1975; Morrison & Paffenbarger, 1981 ). Such and other findings suggest that the mind factor in human health is by no means negligible and though it does not fall into the realm of the visible and measurable, we cannot afford to bypass it altogether in our endeavour to gain knowledge about disease and health. That is why within the area of health psychology, increasing attention has been focussed on behavioural medicine, an area of research and practice that integrates behavioural techniques with the science and application of medicine in order to promote health and prevent, diagnose and treat disease (Masters, Burish, Hollon & Rimm, 1987).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1006316787
• ISBN13: 9781006316784
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Shodhganga
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"