Divyayatan - A Journal of Lakulish Yoga University
September 30, 2025
Aditi Patwardhan, Sachin Patel
Padmasana, or Lotus Pose, is one of the most popular and traditional postures in yoga and meditation. Profound physical, mental, and spiritual benefits are often associated with this posture, particularly in the context of deep meditation, inner peace, and enhanced concentration. The deep meaning of Padmasana (Lotus Pose) in the Lakulish Yoga tradition as explained by Swami Rajarshi Muni is...
Health Psychology
September 2018
Zachary W. Adams, John C Sieverdes, Brenda Brunner-Jackson et al.
Essential hypertension (EH) is the most common chronic disease in the United States and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Lifestyle interventions (e.g., diet, exercise, stress management) to reduce blood pressure (BP) are often complex with varying effectiveness. Breathing awareness meditation (BAM) is a stress management strategy with encouraging effects on BP, though widespread...
mHealth
October 19, 2017
John C Sieverdes, Zachary W. Adams, Lynne S. Nemeth et al.
19 citations
BACKGROUND: Chronic stress is an independent risk factor for essential hypertension (EH), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and is sometimes confronted by mal-adaptive coping behaviors (e.g., stress eating, excessive alcohol consumption, etc.). Pre-essential hypertension (preEH) is the leading predictor of future EH status. Breathing awareness meditation (BAM) can result in clinically beneficial...
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
July 2006
Sachin Patel, Cecilia J. Hillard
Extracts of Cannabis sativa have been used for their calming and sedative effects for centuries. Recent developments in drug discovery have suggested that modulation of neuronal endogenous cannabinoid signaling systems could represent a novel approach to the treatment of anxiety-related disorders while minimizing the adverse effects of direct acting cannabinoid receptor agonists. In this study,...
Journal of Neuroscience
December 1, 2000
Jennifer L. Scruggs, Sachin Patel, Michael Bubser et al.
154 citations
Administration of the hallucinogenic 5-HT 2A/2C agonist 1-[2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl]-2-aminopropane (DOI) induces expression of Fos protein in the cerebral cortex. To understand the mechanisms subserving this action of DOI, we examined the consequences of pharmacological and surgical manipulations on DOI-elicited Fos expression in the somatosensory cortex of the rat. DOI dose-dependently...