Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care
2021
Jim Morningstar, Jessica Dibb
This chapter provides evidence for the benefit of bringing yoga and its breathing practices into a working relationship with contemporary breathwork techniques for the betterment of both in certain circumstances. The history and developmental overlap of both are explored as well as their applications in the field of physical heath, psychotherapy, and spiritual growth. The benefits of both...
International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
July 18, 2020
Pranita K Shinde, Kalpana Jadhao, Pradnya Shinde et al.
Background -In today’s era lifestyle of people has become very mechanical. Everyone is running in a rat race for target achievement, which results in stress. This stress further effects on physical as well as mental health of an individual. Mental health is the balanced development of emotional attitudes and personality which live harmoniously with all society or community. Mental disorders are...
International Journal of Yoga - Philosophy, Psychology and Parapsychology
July 1, 2020
B. Ushamohan, A. Rajasekaran, Yamini Belur et al.
7 citations
Bhramari Pranayama is said to be an aid to attain Samadhi or contemplative absorption. It is a yogic technique that comprises attending to self-produced sound emulating a bumblebee along with breath control. The vibration of sound produced is the aid to enhance the level of consciousness to reach the state of Samadhi. In this review, an attempt has been made to understand the processing of...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 21, 2020
Morgana M. Novaes, Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Heloisa Onias et al.
110 citations
Pranayama refers to a set of yoga breathing exercises. Recent evidence suggests that the practice of pranayama has positive effects on measures of clinical stress and anxiety. This study explored the impact of a Bhastrika pranayama training program on emotion processing, anxiety and affect. We used a randomized controlled trial design with thirty healthy young adults assessed at baseline and...
Journal of Mental Health Counseling
2020
Babatunde Aideyan, Gina Martin, Eric T. Beeson
19 citations
Breathwork techniques and therapies offer a set of practical interventions for clinical mental health counselors (CMHCs) and are viable methods for integrating physiological sensitivities in treatment by way of the relaxation response. We discuss an organizing framework of breathwork practices and identify three broad categories of breathwork within the field: deep relaxation breathing,...
International Journal of Yoga
2020
Stephany Campanelli, Adrianobretanha Lopes Tort, Bruno Lobão‐soares
41 citations
INTRODUCTION: , are known to induce meditative states, reduce stress, and increase lung capacity. However, the physiological mechanisms by which these practices modulate the human nervous system still need to be unveiled. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this work was to review studies describing the influence of breathing exercises on the brain/mind of humans. METHODOLOGY: We reviewed articles written...
Human Physiology
December 1, 2019
Ivan Vasilievich Ivanov, O. P. Zheltyi, А. О. Шпаков
Abstract After medical examination, members of flying personnel were divided into a group of essentially healthy people (control) and a group with the risk of preneurotic disorders due to lowered mental adaptability to the flying environment. A rehabilitation program consisting of a system of person-centered rational psychotherapy supported by a course of holotropic breathwork (breathing and...
Practical Theology
May 3, 2019
Darren Cronshaw
The attraction of this book for me was multi-layered. Breathing is central to meditation and prayer. It is a foundation for mental health and managing anxiety. I have to keep breathing (and keep my breathing calm and under control) for endurance sport and especially the rhythm of swimming. And my yoga teacher consistently reminds me to breathe through my exercises while stretching. I have...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
January 28, 2019
Leandro Timm Pizutti, Alicia Carissimi, Lucianne Jobim Valdivia et al.
Objectives: This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of the Breathworks' Mindfulness for Stress 8-week course on depressive and psychiatric symptoms, and on positive and negative affects, compared with active control and wait list. Method: A total of 84 primary care health professionals enrolled in the study, in quasi-experimental research design. The scales Beck Depression Inventory,...
What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries
November 8, 2018
P. Bray
In June, 2010, I was presenting a paper at an international transpersonal psychology conference in Moscow.1 As part of the experience I had elected to attend a two day Holotropic Breathwork (HB) workshop led by Stanislav Grof, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology.2 As a simple ritualised process, HB harnesses the innate capacity for individuals to realise their potential for deep...