Sunday, August 9, 2009

Workplace Intervention To Lower Stress

Guided meditation and yoga can lower feelings of stress and improve sleep quality in sedentary office employees, suggests a pilot study.

Ohio State University researchers offered participants a modified version of what is known as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a program established in 1979 to help hospital patients in Massachusetts assist in their own healing that is now in wide use around the world.

In this context, mindfulness refers in part to one’s heightened awareness of an external stressor as the first step toward relaxing in a way that can minimize the effects of that stress on the body. (More)

Source: Psych Central

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