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Mind-body intervention
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Overview
Mind–body interventions is the name of a U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) classification that covers a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. Some of these are techniques that were once considered to be complementary or alternative medicine but have now become mainstream (for example, patient support groups and cognitive-behavioral therapy). Other mind-body techniques are still considered complementary or alternative medicine, including meditation, prayer, mental healing, movement re-education, and therapies that use creative outlets such as art, music, or dance. [1]
Mind–body intervention practices
- Aromatherapy
- Art Therapy
- Autosuggestion
- Bach Flower Therapy
- Body-Mind Centering
- Dance movement psychotherapy
- Dynamic Embodiment
- Eutony
- Feldenkrais method
- Hatha yoga
- Hypnotherapy
- Laban Movement Analysis
- Metamorphic Technique
- Movement Therapy
- Somatic Education
- Somatic Movement Education & Therapy
- Journaling
- Meditation
- Music Therapy
- Rebirthing-Breathwork
- Self-hypnosis
- Somatic Experiencing
- Somatic Movement Therapy
- Support groups
- Taijiquan
- Trager Approach
- Visualization
- Vivation
- Yoga