Yoga for kids may help with physical and mental health

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6. I suspect they will indeed fit within the usual ranges

as we were made aware by the Naval Yard shooter being well versed in buddhism.

But the notion of absence of harm wasn't really the point of my reply.

The point of my reply was, and remains, that very many things will help -some- people feel better.

OF COURSE feeling better is not a terribly bad thing for the person feeling better. I don't mean to say that. But this forum wasn't intended to be about merely idosyncratic experiences. Information can also be considered critically with regard to generalizability.

In that respect, the questions 1) is something, a cup of broth or yoga practice better than something else? and 2) is the something that makes you feel better merely palliative or is it curative? move the discussion towards broader awareness by placing the supposed helpful thing within the context of many, and juxtaposed against a few other, possible behaviors to 'feel better'.

Honestly, we're neck deep in things that help some people 'feel better', but pretty short on things that reliably move most people into the "recovered" class.

Something like the standard used for comparison in psychiatric research, TAU (treatment as usual), would be useful for general discussion and commentary here about how some newspaper reports some activity that makes people feel better.

Yoga makes people feel better? That's not too informative.