Overcoming Health Anxiety: Yoga, Pilates, Reiki, Acupuncture?

[pykrackersjasonzee]

in the past couple years i've been CONVINCED i've had hpv & herpes (i have catholic guilt) a brain tumor, deep vein thrombosis, ms, als, & i still think i have parkinsons)

so i'm thinking about trying some new things to alleviate my bfs and health anxiety . i was wondering if anyone has had any luck with any of them:

yoga
pilates
reiki
acupuncture

thanks for the feedback
-kris

 

[jsageurge]

Kris – Watch out for that Catholic guilt. That mindset nearly drove me to materialism/atheism. Regarding health anxiety, acupuncture could be helpful in terms of relaxation, if you find the right practitioner, but that’s not easy. Not sure about yoga/reiki, I practice Shaolin Kung Fu, which is also excellent. Meditation is the best in terms of curing health anxiety, but there are a lot of bogus meditation techniques. The only one I’d recommend is “Active Meditation” by Leichtman and Japikse.

Cheers,
-Bill