Yoga and meditation may cut health care costs
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 19-10-2015
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"These programmes promote wellness and, in our environment of constrained health care resources, could potentially ease the burden on our health delivery systems at minimal cost and at no real risk," Stahl said, who is now at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre. The relaxation response is elicited by practices including meditation, deep breathing, and prayer, and has been shown to be helpful in the treatment of stress-related disorders ranging from anxiety to hypertension.