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My Questions and Interview/Quotations
The questions I would ask the scientists are:
What prompted you to explore and studyYoga?
Where did you first hear about the benefits of Yoga?
Are you a practitioner yourself?
You showed your data, but did the patients exhibit calm facial expressions? Were they more alert in responding to you?
For people with bipolar disorder, did they experience less manic episodes? Were their moods more stable?
For the people with schizophrenia, how many of their delusions went away?
What caused the data to vary between each individual?
The article I found on www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200011/yoga-not-just-exe..., explains a woman's journey to find an alternate cure to help her disorder. Jenny Smith was 41 years old when her symptoms were so bad, she could hardly walk or speak, and had hallucinations of spiders crawling on her skin. Jenny was sent to the hospital and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mood disorder that causes her to have feelings of extreme highs and extreme lows . She tried 10 different medications, and therapy, but the doctors at the hospital told her that she would probably end up there more often in her lifetime.
Jenny decided to practice Hatha Yoga, which through the series of postures and breathing techniques, she learned how to calm her panic attacks. Jenny's severe mood swings were also subsiding. She eventually became a Yoga instructor and taught her 11-year-old daughter some of Yoga's breathing techniques of inhaling to the count of four, and exhaling to the count of eight. Her duaghter, who had also experienced panic attacks since the age of seven, noticed her symptoms subsiding as well.
The author of "Yoga and the Quest for True Self," Stephen Cope addresses how Yoga's postures move energy in the body to places where grief and anger are stored. "Hatha Yoga is an accessible form of learning self-soothing," he says. "These blocked feelings can be released very quickly, creating a regular systemic experience of well-being." He also says that the relationship between the teacher and the practictioner is important and that the teacher can serve as the "container," or a safe place to resolve emotional issues.
While Yoga is still under scientific scrutiny, doctors mention that with Yoga or cognitive behavior and medication all teach people to learn "about their emotions, not just by writing their own thoughts, which is what Cognitive Behavorial therapy is all about, but also by paying attention to the way their emotions are expressed in their bodies," says Zindel Segal, Ph.D., a psychiatry professor at the University of Toronto. He adds, "Both approaches allow people to observe their experience without judgement, an important first step in stepping out of depression."
In the article, it mentions that Jenny is determined to keep up with the practice, so she won't succumb to her disorder the way her grandmother did. Her grandmother also had bipolar disorder and eventually committed suicide. Jenny, overall feels that Yoga has saved her life.
My Questions and Interview/Quotations
The questions I would ask the scientists are:
What prompted you to explore and studyYoga?
Where did you first hear about the benefits of Yoga?
Are you a practitioner yourself?
You showed your data, but did the patients exhibit calm facial expressions? Were they more alert in responding to you?
For people with bipolar disorder, did they experience less manic episodes? Were their moods more stable?
For the people with schizophrenia, how many of their delusions went away?
What caused the data to vary between each individual?
The article I found on www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200011/yoga-not-just-exe..., explains a woman's journey to find an alternate cure to help her disorder. Jenny Smith was 41 years old when her symptoms were so bad, she could hardly walk or speak, and had hallucinations of spiders crawling on her skin. Jenny was sent to the hospital and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mood disorder that causes her to have feelings of extreme highs and extreme lows . She tried 10 different medications, and therapy, but the doctors at the hospital told her that she would probably end up there more often in her lifetime.
Jenny decided to practice Hatha Yoga, which through the series of postures and breathing techniques, she learned how to calm her panic attacks. Jenny's severe mood swings were also subsiding. She eventually became a Yoga instructor and taught her 11-year-old daughter some of Yoga's breathing techniques of inhaling to the count of four, and exhaling to the count of eight. Her duaghter, who had also experienced panic attacks since the age of seven, noticed her symptoms subsiding as well.
The author of "Yoga and the Quest for True Self," Stephen Cope addresses how Yoga's postures move energy in the body to places where grief and anger are stored. "Hatha Yoga is an accessible form of learning self-soothing," he says. "These blocked feelings can be released very quickly, creating a regular systemic experience of well-being." He also says that the relationship between the teacher and the practictioner is important and that the teacher can serve as the "container," or a safe place to resolve emotional issues.
While Yoga is still under scientific scrutiny, doctors mention that with Yoga or cognitive behavior and medication all teach people to learn "about their emotions, not just by writing their own thoughts, which is what Cognitive Behavorial therapy is all about, but also by paying attention to the way their emotions are expressed in their bodies," says Zindel Segal, Ph.D., a psychiatry professor at the University of Toronto. He adds, "Both approaches allow people to observe their experience without judgement, an important first step in stepping out of depression."
In the article, it mentions that Jenny is determined to keep up with the practice, so she won't succumb to her disorder the way her grandmother did. Her grandmother also had bipolar disorder and eventually committed suicide. Jenny, overall feels that Yoga has saved her life.