MESOTHELIOMA THERAPY
meditation, yoga, prayer, and tai chi

People with mesothelioma can benefit spiritually and emotionally from "mind-body medicine." Mind-body medicine typically focuses on intervention strategies that are thought to promote health, such as relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga, prayer, biofeedback, tai chi, qi gong, cognitive-behavioral therapies, group support, autogenic training, and spirituality.

The field views illness as an opportunity for personal growth and transformation and health care providers as guides in this process.

Certain mind-body intervention strategies listed here, such as group support for cancer survivors, are well integrated into conventional care and, while still considered mind-body interventions, are not considered to be complementary and alternative medicine.

In 2002, mind-body techniques, including relaxation techniques, meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback and hypnosis, were used by some 17 percent of the adult U.S. population. Prayer was used by 45 percent of the population for health reasons.

This information is courtesy of the National Institutes of Health

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