Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) provides a framework for understanding the integration of psychological, neural, endocrine, and immune processes, yet it has rarely engaged non-Western models of mind–body regulation. This study examines Zhanzhuang (aka Chan-chuang), a Daoist standing meditation centered on the cultivation of qi, as a potential PNEI intervention. We present the protocol...
hinese mysticism has a long and varied history: from the early thinkers of the Axial Age through various permutations in the middle ages to modem versions of both theory and practice.It spread throughout the different aspects of the Chinese tradition and was present as much in the dominant school of Confucianism and the foreign religion of Buddhism as in Daoism, the indigenous higher religion...