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...
Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
June 2022
Sakura Horiuchi, Yael Flusberg, Christine Tara Peterson et al.
Background: Yoga is described as a system of physical and mental practices originating from India that connects mind, body, and spirit with techniques such as physical exercises, breathing, and meditation to promote health and well-being. Medical students experience an immense amount of stress that unfortunately continues throughout their residency and careers. Yoga represents a tool to reduce...
Academia Letters
May 31, 2022
Stephen R. Holmes
The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of Holotropic Breathwork in the context of a weeklong workshop called “Insight and Opening”. This workshop combines four Holotropic Breathwork sessions, daily Vipassana meditation, and formal teachings. A repeated-measure, Pre-Post test design with a 4 month follow-up time point was used. The questionnaires used were Derogati’s Brief...
Technium BioChemMed
May 30, 2022
Athanasios Drigas, Eleni Mitsea, Charalampos Skianis
13 citations
Low oxygen breathing has been the subject of considerable research in recent years. The present review aims to determine the physiological and neuropsychological benefits of low-oxygen training. Specifically, we explored the ways low oxygen affects hormones, neurotransmitters and growth factors responsible for neuroplasticity, higher cognition and positive emotions. In addition, we shed light...
Medicina
April 26, 2022
Nike Walter, Thilo Hinterberger
14 citations
Background and Objectives: In recent years, singing bowl sound interventions have been progressively implemented in the fields of well-being, therapy and education; however, the effectiveness has only scarcely been investigated. Therefore, this study was aimed at determining neurophysiological effects of a singing bowl massage. Materials and Methods: In this prospective cohort study 64-channel...
Biological Psychology
April 1, 2022
Sophie Betka, Dan Adler, Thomas Similowski et al.
Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory system to various areas of the brain. It is intimately associated with bodily movements. It bears particular relationships with consciousness as its efferent motor control can be automatic or voluntary. In this review...
Journal of Neurophysiology
April 1, 2022
Ludovic Molle, Alexandre Coste
In a recent article published in The Journal of Neurophysiology titled "Sensitivity to changes in rate of heartbeats as a measure of interoceptive ability," Larsson et al. (J Neurophysiol 126: 1799-1813, 2021) introduce a new method to evaluate the interoceptive ability and report a surprising tendency in humans to perceive fewer heartbeats during spontaneous increases in resting heart rate....
Technium Social Sciences Journal
March 9, 2022
Eleni Mitsea, Athanasios Drigas, C. Skianis
The purpose of the current review study is to shed light on the relationship between respiration and attention. Specifically, we examined whether and how respiration can provoke alterations in attentional states. Secondly, we investigated the benefits of breath-control training techniques in attention. Furthermore, we explored the effectiveness of virtual reality breathing training in improving...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
March 9, 2022
Vaibhav Tripathi, Lakshmi Bhasker, Chhaya Kharya et al.
5 citations
preprint
Meditation has been practised for millennia but the neuroscientific understanding of the dynamics is still lacking. Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) is an evidence based breathing based meditation technique that utilizes rhythmic breathing to induce a deep state of relaxation and calm. Multiple studies have found benefits of the SKY technique from genetic, physiological, psychological to behaviour...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
March 4, 2022
Barbara Jachs, Manuel Camino Garcia, Andrés Canales-Johnson et al.
21 citations
preprint
Subjective experiences are hard to capture quantitatively without losing depth and nuance, and subjective report analyses are time-consuming, their interpretation contested. We describe Temporal Experience Tracing, a method that captures relevant aspects of the unified conscious experience over a continuous period of time. The continuous multidimensional description of an experience allows us...