The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
August 1, 2005
Richard P. Brown, Patricia L. Gerbarg
470 citations
Yogic breathing is a unique method for balancing the autonomic nervous system and influencing psychologic and stress-related disorders. Part I of this series presented a neurophysiologic theory of the effects of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY). Part II will review clinical studies, our own clinical observations, and guidelines for the safe and effective use of yoga breath techniques in a wide range...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 2005
Michael P Collins, Lucia F Dunn
To analyze the relationship between a patient's "spontaneous recovery" from dermatomyositis and her practice of transcendental meditation and visual imagery without confounding effects of conventional therapies. Study of time-varying relationships between (1) measures of arm strength and skin condition (rash and pain) and (2) mind-body interventions-controlling for psychologic stress-in a...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
October 2004
Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Anna M. Tacón, Patrck Randolph et al.
Stress has been cited as a causal factor in heart disease. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based stress-reduction program on the resting levels of stress hormones, physical functioning, and submaximal exercise responses in women with heart disease. Random selection with the numbers 1 and 2 were used to assign 18 women (60 +/-6.3 years old) with...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 2004
Kasiganesan Harinath, Anand Sawarup Malhotra, Karan Pal et al.
To evaluate effects of Hatha yoga and Omkar meditation on cardiorespiratory performance, psychologic profile, and melatonin secretion. Thirty healthy men in the age group of 25-35 years volunteered for the study. They were randomly divided in two groups of 15 each. Group 1 subjects served as controls and performed body flexibility exercises for 40 minutes and slow running for 20 minutes during...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 1, 2004
Dean Radin
Objective: To examine electroencephalograms (EEG) in pairs of people to see if event-related potentials evoked in one person's brain are correlated with concurrent responses in the brain of a distant, isolated person. Design: Simultaneously record EEGs using independent physiologic monitoring systems. One person relaxes in a double steel-walled, electromagnetically and acoustically shielded...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
2004
Sharon I McDonough-Means, Mary Jo Kreitzer, Iris R. Bell
The purpose of this paper is the exploration and explication of the complex phenomena of "healing presence" and of appropriately supportive theoretical approaches to integrate emerging models for research design. Healing presence is described as an interpersonal, intrapersonal, and transpersonal to transcendent phenomenon that leads to a beneficial, therapeutic, and/or positive spiritual change...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
October 2003
F Patrick Robinson, Herbert L Mathews, Linda Witek Janusek
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a structured, 8-week, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on perceived stress, mood, endocrine function, immunity, and functional health outcomes in individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This study used a quasiexperimental, nonrandomized design. Subjects were specifically recruited (nonrandom) for...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
December 2002
Marcus Majumdar, Paul Grossman, Barbara Dietz-Waschkowski et al.
This exploratory study is the first systematic outcome evaluation to examine the effects of an 8-week meditation-based program in mindfulness in a German sample. Twenty-one (21) participants with chronic physical, psychologic, or psychosomatic illnesses were examined in a longitudinal pretest and post-treatment design with a 3-month follow-up. Both quantitative and qualitative data were...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 2002
Pavel V Bundzen, Konstantin Korotkov, Lars-Erick Unestahl
To investigate the psychophysiologic mechanisms of an altered state of consciousness (ASC) produced via systematic mental training by correlating the results of multiple computerized bioelectrographic measurements. All subjects were tested, using a set of modern computerized techniques comprising digital electroencephalography, measurement of the low-frequency bilateral activity of the brain,...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
June 1, 1995
Kenneth G Walton, Nirmal D. Pugh, Paul Gelderloos et al.
161 citations
Our objective was to identify endocrine-related mechanisms capable of mediating preventive effects of stress reduction in hypertensive heart disease. Since beneficial effects of stress reduction accrue over time, this cross-sectional, descriptive study sought differences between healthy students not practicing a systematic technique for reducing stress (the average stress, or AS, group, n = 33)...