A diagnosis of cancer and specifically tumor breast creates a state of confusion, the feeling of not being able to handle control, program anything. Then in most cases begins a therapeutic process that leads after a surgery and pharmacology, to guar gone. But it is a long and winding road, which continues to be afraid of not being able to resume the reins of his life: the specter of recurrence diter is always around the corner and to make matters worse, must regain confidence with your body, which has undergone a disability.

Numerous scientific studies have shown that the psychological support throughout this phase is crucial and recently is becoming in this way also the important techniques of meditation. A new medical research has emphasized this aspect: a team of scholars Sinclair School of Nursing of University of Missouri (U.S.) has published an article in the journal Western Journal of Nursing Research which shows the effectiveness of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction characterized by a set of meditation, physical awareness and yoga) In dealing women in the fight against breast cancer. In particular it is stressed that the women who participated in the study by passing a series of MBSR sessions have seen a general lowering of blood pressure, A slowdown in heart rate and the respiratory symptoms of a significant reduction of anxiety and stress to which they were subject.

All this is accompanied by a rise in mood. “Mindfulness Meditation-based, ideally it should be practiced daily or at least on a routine program. This is because to teach patients new ways of thinking that will provide them with benefits in the short and long term, “explained the authors of scientific scholars. “Through meditation women know they can control, to control something, and this will improve their health by offering them the hope of a normal life.”