What research has provided evidence for the health benefits of relaxation and stress management techniques?

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2. How might yoga help heal our isolation from our feeling and inner self and bring inner peace?
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4. Write up a brief program for overall stretching (Ha-tha = sun and moon)
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6. What are some simple office stretches that can be done during the workday?
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8. What affects breathing and what do changes in breathing affect? What are some methods of breathing practice?
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10. Describe Visualization or Imagery. How might it be a benefit to health?
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2. What are communication skills and how can using them help us feel more connected to others so that we can transcend our sense of separateness?
4. How can altruism, compassion and forgiveness be healing?
6. How can group support and disclosing be beneficial to health?

 

2. Why might opening one's heart to a higher force be healing?
4. What are the characteristics of meditation?
6. What are some ways to meditate and how often should one meditate?
8. Discuss self-analysis and prayer as ways of experiencing a higher force?