Complementary & Alternative Medicine for Mental Health
FACILITATE PSYCHOTHERAPY: Brown et al. describe six ways that yoga, in addition to reducing stress and promoting healing, can f ...
disorder (COPD), asthma, and physical injuries are all contraindications for rapid or forceful yoga breathing. They recommend sl ...
MEDITATION Meditation is even more difficult to evaluate since the definition is extremely diffuse, and in principle it can aid ...
that empirical evidence must triumph over scriptural authority, and that research can only reinforce the power of meditation. T ...
belly, you simply allow your belly to rise with the in breath and fall with the out breath, while you focus on the image of a so ...
Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response The following is the technique reprinted with permission from Dr. Herbert Benson’s book, ...
* or any soothing, mellifluous sound, preferably with no meaning. or association, to avoid stimulation of unnecessary thoughts.^ ...
fundamentally important thing, with brain waves secondary? The Open-Focus Brain is Fehmi's affirmative answer to that question.^ ...
antidepressant therapy.^38 One recent MBSR study showed greater gray matter concentration for meditators in the right anterior i ...
with yoga, the help of an insightful and cheerful guide(s) and of supportive companions on the way is helpful if not, for most o ...
10 Streeter, C.C., Jensen, J.E., Perlmutter, R. M., et al., “Yoga Asana Sessions Increase Brain GABA Levels: A Pilot Study,” Jou ...
26 Brown et al., op cit. at 113-114. Dr. Gerbarg’s chapter, “Yoga and Neuro-Psychoanalysis.” was published in Bodies In Treatmen ...
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