Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
Open Access

Abstract

The pace of life is speeding up, while social environment is degrading; immorality, soullessness, and consumption of illegal drugs of any kind are rampant; healthy eating habits are being discarded, amid consumption of immense amount of medicines; all the above factors are affecting both the quality of life and psychophysical health. In addition to this, chronic stress and increase in frequent natural disasters explain, why people tend to overreact to problems they face. Unfortunately, school and university curriculums tend to neglect studentsâ�?�? health, motivating them to lead healthier lives and develop practical skills in behavioral self-regulation. Capacity of psychophysiological regulation (PPR) is the leading quality of the human body, which is required for mobilization and development of the body reserves. The psychophysical relaxation and self-regulation program developed by us is based on â�?�?local exhaleâ�?- type psychophysical exercises, concentration and visualization techniques, breathing exercises, finger and hand plastic movement, meditation for health, selected exercise from Hatha yoga, as well as emotional and behavioral self-regulations exercises. University students aged between 18 and 20 practiced our 15-minute-long relaxation sessions twice a week throughout an academic year. Our findings showed that students, who have mastered self-regulation skills, demonstrated keen interest in their majors and in getting advanced knowledge, higher confidence, better mood, and better health, improved relationships with their family members and friends, a sense of security and showed reduction in the overall vulnerability to diseases. Positive changes were observed in all the subjects on their EEGs and EKGs, which indicates improvement in their psychophysiological state of their bodies. We strongly recommend that psychophysiological self-regulation programs must be given to school and university students.

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Email: tati.popova2010@yandex.ru