International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
February 23, 2024
Wazir C Vasudeva, Vidushi Vasudeva
The word meditation is derived from a Latin word ‘madri’ which means “to heal”. Meditation can certainly be considered as a great healing process - spiritual, mental, and emotional - with proven benefits to physical well-being. In the current communication, an attempt has been made to explain some of these benefits and provide science based evidence to explain them. Meditation develops our...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
2023
Hiroshi Bando, H. Ogawa, Kei Tanaka et al.
1 citation
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Mousikē) is the goddess of music and poetry. Muses provided us meaningful gifts, which are Meditation, music and medicine (three M’s). Mindfulness meditation brings focusing on our existence just now. Solfeggio frequency music may give bring relaxing effect, where 528Hz sound has been known for possible benefit for health. Medicine shows each pharmacokinetics with...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
June 27, 2022
Wazir C Vasudeva
2 citations
Meditation and definitionsSitting alone in one of the yogic postures, shutting the mind to the external world and diverting all its powers inside with concentration on Trikuti (space between two eye-brows), eyes closed, breathing slowly through both nostrils and getting absorbed in the Absolute until the knower, the known, and the knowing become one in the enlightenment.This practice offers...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
November 24, 2021
Kshama Gupta, Prasad Mamidi
4 citations
Background: Kashyapa Samhita (KS) is a very well known ancient Ayurvedic manuscript considered as the hand book of Kaumarabhritya (paediatrics).KS consists of 120 chapters divided among 8 Sthanas' (sections) with one additional part known as Khila Sthana which consists of 80 chapters.Kashyapa Samhita Indriya Sthana (KSIS) consists of 12 chapters and it deals with prognostic aspects.Only the...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
April 16, 2019
Robelyn A. Garcia
When compared to society at large, police officers have particularly stressful lifestyles, placing them at greater risk of a multitude of stress related diseases in addition to overall mortality and decreased life expectancy.1,3–5 “Developing a comprehensive list of every stressor potentially confronted by policing officers would be an impossible task”.1 The number of years of service in police...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
2018
Itai Ivtzan
19 citations
Stress remains a common factor in modern work life, and resilience building strategies have been shown to support and enhance natural human adaptability in overcoming workplace stress.This study examines the resilience and well-being building efficacy of loving-kindness meditation (LKM).Following initial training with employees of Microsoft Corporation in the United Kingdom, through a seven...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
October 21, 2016
Tzu-Ying Hu
Objective:Adenomyosis is a common benign gynecological condition in pre- menopausal women, with symptoms such as menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea, greatly affecting women’s health and quality of life. The treatment options of adenomyosis are hysterectomy, anti-inflammatory, hormone medications and conservative surgeries. However, they might be either temporary symptom control, or side effects, or...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
February 22, 2016
Vernon A Barnes, Jean L. Kristeller
Background: Childhood and adolescent overweight is one of the most important current public health concerns. There is an urgent need to initiate community-based prevention to support healthy eating and physical activity in children. Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) is a 12-w eek manualized intervention developed by Kristeller et al. that uses focused meditation techniques to...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
2016
Ravinder Jerath
8 citations
Our experiences with the external world are possible mainly through vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell providing us a sense of reality. How the brain is able to seamlessly integrate stimuli from our external and internal world into our sense of reality has yet to be adequately explained in the literature. We have previously proposed a three-dimensional unified model of consciousness that...