Improve Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms in Children with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “There are two main types of breathwork that are particularly helpful for people with Cystic Fibrosis that can either increase lung capacity or facilitate airway clearance. Any physical activity or breathing exercise that expands the chest, encourages full breath […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Tai chi is often described as “meditation in motion,” but it might well be called “medication in motion.” There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which originated in China as a martial art, has value in treating or preventing many health problems. And you can get started […]
Improve Inflammatory and Stress Responses with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “yoga could slow the harmful physical effects of stress and inflammaging.” – Harvard Health The immune system is designed to protect the body from threats like stress, infection, injury, and toxic chemicals. One of its tools is the Inflammatory […]
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Change Behavior for the Better with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness practice supports and facilitates behavior change through training attention, emotion, and self-awareness.” – Yi-Yuan Tang We tend to think that illness is produced by physical causes, disease, injury, viruses, bacteria, etc. But many health problems are behavioral problems or have their origins […]
Improve Health and Treat Illness with Qigong By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “in order to do qigong … we have to be pretend to be empty, so the first thing to empty is the mind, so we try not to think of anything and only listen to our breathing, relax all the […]