Houston: Practices like yoga, meditation and prayer can help curb the need for general healthcare services by almost 50 per cent, according to a new study.
“Evoking the relaxation response or a physiologic state of deep rest, helps alleviate stress and anxiety, while also affecting heart rate and blood pressure,” according to a study conduxted by Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and the Benson-Henry Institute.
“Our study’s primary finding is that programs that train patients to elicit the relaxation response can also dramatically reduce health care utilisation,” said James E. Stahl.
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