Exploring the Relationships between Yoga Practice, Affect and Attention Regulation, Health Outcomes and Program Adherence in Cancer Survivors

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Yoga practice has been reported to lead to improvements in health-related quality of life (HRQL), psychological functioning, and symptom indices in cancer survivors. Yoga is defined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a path towards, “stilling the fluctuations of the mind (YS I.2).” Importantly, meditative states experienced within yoga practice are correlated to neurophysiological systems that moderate both positive affect and internalised attention. Despite preliminary findings, little attention has been paid to the psychophysiological mechanisms by which benefits are accrued via yoga practice. The impetus for the present studies was to explore the mechanisms by which yoga practice stills the fluctuations of the mind in cancer survivors. Three studies examined: 1) the clinical significance of patient–reported outcomes in yoga interventions for cancer survivors; 2) longitudinal associations between yoga participation, affect, and mindfulness as predictors of mood, stress and HRQL outco

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