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1. Developing awareness of the body, emotions, and mind: Awareness of the body can be achieved by conscious bodywork synchronized with breath and awareness in order to qualify as a psychosomatic technique. However, being aware of the emotions and thought processes is a challenge, and may take a lot of practice.

2. Changing dietary habits: Most disorders are directly or indirectly linked to unhealthy dietary patterns that need to be assessed and then addressed.

3. Conscious relaxation of the entire body: Relaxation is often all that most patients need in order to improve their physical condition. Stress is the major culprit and may be the causative, aggravating, or precipitating factor in many psychosomatic disorders. The relaxation part of every yoga session is important as it produces rest, rejuvenation, reinvigoration, and reintegration of all of the body’s systems, down to the cellular level.

4. Slowing down the breath, making it quiet and deep: Rapid, uncontrolled, irregular breathing is a sign of ill health, hyperventilation, and an overactive mind. Slow, deep, and regular controlled breathing through the nose is a sign of health. Breath is the link between body and mind, connecting physical, physiological, and mental factors. When the breath is slowed down, the mind is calm and the metabolic processes are also slowed; anabolic activities begin the process of healing and rebuilding.