J C Smith

Isometric squeeze relaxation (progressive relaxation) vs meditation: absorption and focusing as predictors of state effects.

Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1992 M Weinstein, J C Smith

We taught isometric squeeze relaxation (a variant of progressive relaxation) or meditation to 52 anxious subjects (16 men, 36 women). For meditation, pretreatment high absorption correlated with reductions in state cognitive and somatic anxiety as well as increments in state focusing. For isometric squeeze relaxation, pretreatment low state focusing correlated with reductions in somatic anxiety...