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countries. Quoting Dolezalova, another Czech psychiatrist, Nespor said that yoga had a good effect on patients with depressive psychoses. Yoga could be helpful in removing sexual problems and could also be useful in children with attention-deficit and hyper-activity disorder, Nespor said.
The noted psychiatrist said that a considerable number of papers had been written on the effects that meditation had in reducing the abuses, of alcohol and other drugs as yoga could relieve stress, anxiety and depression and ensure increased self-awareness both on mental and physical levels, besides improving self control.
The practice of yoga could also effectively deal with safe management of minor psychosomatic problems like insomnia
and headaches, Nespor said, and added that the psychiatric hospital at Prague had published basic information about yoga for teenagers as one of the positive alternatives to alcohol and drugs.
About the problems with the use of yoga in psychiatry, Nespor said that patients often discontinued the practice of yoga after they were discharged from hospital. Besides, competitiveness and too much effort in some patients might lead to the overdoing of the practice to the point of discomfort which decreased their compliance in the long run. Nespor said that it should be emphasized that yoga was non-competitive and its goals were internal to the individual rather than an external demonstration to win the approval of others.
The Hindustan Times, Patna
4.11.93
SCIENTIFIC PROBE INTO MAN'S POTENTIAL URGED
MUNGER, Nov. 3 - Mr. George Tompkins, a researcher from USA who is conducting research into the mysteries of cosmic energy which is lying dormant in man's biological system, said that scientific studies into man's potential and how to awaken it, is the need of the hour.
Addressing the World Yoga Convention on the third day today, the researcher said that ac- cording to his observations, this
energy awakens even in the usual evolutionary process and produces geniuses in the fields of science, culture and politics etc. But when it awakens without proper channelization, it causes various mental disorders he said, and added that he would set up an institution in India where about 150 persons would be identified for being initiated into a Kundalini awakening programme. Kundalini, he said, is the
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