Epidemiological studies strongly suggested that yoga as an integrated form of exercise may be used for the treatment of behavioral addiction.
Yoga, the ancient practical technique for harmonizing external and internal body well beings, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement, and gesture..... has been best known to people in the Western world and some parts of Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research and supported by health advocates.
According to the joint study led by the University of Florida, yoga may be considered as an adjunct treatment in behavioral addiction through inducing "dopamine homeostasis", or in simpler terms "normalcy".
Prevention of addictive diseases is a complex and systematic strategy including training of social skills, decision in-making skills, family intervention, etc. particularly, in making the treatment more effective.
Combination of physical exercise and yoga may be useful components of comprehensive programs, especially in the treatment of patients in substance-dependent patients and pathological gamblers.
Yoga and other forms of treatment may regulate the resting-state functional connectivity (rsfMRI), a method of functional brain imaging, used to evaluate regional interactions and restore this impaired cross-talk between various brain regions (e.g. Nucleus accumbens, cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, etc.)
Truly, physical exercise, a planned, organized, and repeated body movement and yoga practice not only promoted physical fitness but also alleviated the stress and anxiety in the induction of impulsive behavior, thus relieving craving behavior, suppressing abstinence symptoms, through ameliorating hormone production in response to stress and activated impulsive behavior, such as hormone cortisol, dopamine, ghrelin,...
Moreover, the intensities of exercise study showed a two- to three-fold longer time to the next cigarette, reduced substantially cravings withdrawal symptoms, and decreased heart rate reserve (HRR) (lasting 30-40 minutes) from 60-85% to as low as 24% HRR (lasting 15 minutes).
Dr. Taylor AH, the lead author of the study "The acute effects of exercise on cigarette cravings, withdrawal symptoms, affect and smoking behavior: a systematic review", said, "withdrawal symptoms and negative affect decreased rapidly during exercise and remained reduced for up to 50 minutes after exercise. Effect sizes for seven studies that assessed "strength of desire to smoke" showed a mean reduction, 10 minutes after exercise, of 1.1".
Some researchers also suggested that yoga intervention, directly and indirectly, drive the attention and energy to the root of suffering by restoring the balances of the mind and body, bringing back the presence and dealing how to control impulsive behaviors in a positive way through breathing and body control.
Indeed, compared to yoga intervention, competitive professional sports instead increased the number of risk factors for substance-related problems.
More interestingly, the study of 17 clients from the Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (88% male) to evaluate the feasibility of teaching problem gamblers about mindfulness meditation as part of regular treatment for problem gambling by 8-week mindfulness group program, researchers found that in the comparison of the first group session and after the final group session, yoga mindfulness increase the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) scores from a pre-test score of 3.65 (SD = 1.01) to a post-test score of 4.40 (SD = 0.78) and
Participants also highlighted a number of improvements in being more in control, relaxed, and able to stay in the now.
In fact, yoga mindfulness participated demonstrated a high level of positive instinctive or intuitive feeling with the improvement of the ability to control emotion and acted, according to the values while experiencing negative emotions, by adapting to the change of environment.
Additionally, yoga attendees also expressed gaining management skills in controlled poor emotion regulation which may lead to impulsive behavior.
Participants with difficulty in the appropriate management of emotions were found to associate with a variety of psychiatric illnesses, including depression and anxiety
Further analysis of yoga mindfulness effectiveness, researchers opinionated, "the suitability of mindfulness as an intervention as part of a problem gambling treatment service. However, the study did not evaluate whether mindfulness improved the clients’ ability to resist relapse".
Taking it all together, yoga may be considered a secondary and integrated form of treatment combined with standard therapy in treating behavioral addiction.
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Sources
(1) Addiction Treatment in America: After Money or Aftercare? by Miller D1, Miller M1, Blum K2, Badgaiyan RD3, Febo M4.(PubMed)
(2) [Physical exercise and yoga in preventing and treating addictive diseases].[Article in Czech] by Nespor K1.(PubMed)
(3) Mindfulness and problem gambling treatment by Peter Chen, Farah Jindani, Jason Perry, Nigel L Turner(Springer link)
(4) Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Impulsive Behaviors Kelcey J. Stratton, M.A.(The New School Psychology BulletinVolume 4, No. 2, 2006)
(5) The acute effects of exercise on cigarette cravings, withdrawal symptoms, affect and smoking behavior: a systematic review by Taylor AH1, Ussher MH, Faulkner G.(PubMed)
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