Background: Medical students often experience high levels of academic stress, sedentary lifestyle, and irregular routines, all of which can adversely impact both physical and mental health. Yoga, that integrates asanas, pranayama, and meditation, has gained increasing attention in modern health research for its potential holistic benefits. This study aims to evaluate the effect of a structured...
Yoga practices date back to ancient times. It is a mechanism that connects our mind, body, and soul consisting of different movements and poses performed in coordination with controlling breath, meditation, relaxation, and lifestyle. In recent years, yoga therapy has gained a huge amount of attention and shown promising results as a complementary treatment for psychological disorders and...
Background: Mizaj (temperament) is a core concept in Unani medicine, reflecting an individual’s constitutional makeup and influencing physical, psychological and behavioral traits. Classical texts suggest that mizaj modulates dream patterns and sleep quality, yet empirical evidence integrating traditional temperament assessment with contemporary dream and sleep metrics is limited. To...
Grief is a profound and universal human experience, yet its expression and management are deeply shaped by cultural, psychological, and spiritual factors. Traditional models such as the Kübler-Ross stages and the dual process model have contributed to understanding bereavement, but they often lack the transpersonal dimension that many individuals rely on for healing. Yogic philosophy,...
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain disorder that severely affects mobility and quality of life. This case report describes an 86-year-old man who has a long-standing history of CRPS-related back and leg pain. Traditional treatments, including opioids and duloxetine, did not improve his symptoms, and due to religious beliefs restricting specific interventions, standard...
Ketamine’s rapid action and diverse physiological effects have made it an important drug in both anesthesia and mental health treatment. Clinically, it offers unique dissociative anesthetic properties, preserving stable vital signs during sedation and analgesia. Beyond its numbing effect, studies explore its influence on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors and wider neurochemical systems...
Background: Exam anxiety is the primary factor preventing students from achieving their academic goals and is an unpleasant worry-based experience. Where in, Mindfulness helps to uphold consciousness, release oneself from a deeply held connection to ideas, emotions, or sensations, and cultivate a stronger sense of emotional equilibrium and wellbeing. Research indicates, mindfulness education...
Background: Anupreksha-based meditations (AM) involve focusing on objects including images, colors, sounds, and the nature of the body and soul. Similar to Preksha meditation, which has shown positive effects on mental and physical well-being, AM is proposed to have potential benefits. However, the impact of AM on negative thinking, a key factor in various psycho-physiological ailments, has not...
Background: Stress is not always avoidable but learning techniques to manage stress can develop overall wellbeing by decreasing the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social effects of stress. Learning to manage stress through holistic self-care with MBSR techniques could help to decrease the negative effects of stress.Methods: Mixed method research approach and concurrent dominant...
Background: The health improvement for pregnant women in antenatal phase is not only focused on maintaining physical health, but also the psychological health. One of the factors of maternal psychological health is anxiety. Anxiety is common in pregnant women caused by maternal concerns about complications that accompany the mother and her fetus. The increasing anxiety in pregnant women can...
Background: A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep is known as a dream. Relationship of dreams and dreamer has been studied in different perspectives quite extensively. The present study is focused on dream content and personality type.Methods:A sample of 370 randomly selected participants by nonprobability convenience sampling from Karachi,...