Can MBSR strengthen the immune system?
The MBSR meditation program can reduce stress, strengthen the emotional well-being. That it can also have positive effects on the immune system, has demonstrated an American study. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one of the best evaluated through studies meditation programs at all. That it can provide lasting relaxation and promote the mental balance, there is no doubt. Again and again, studies have pointed out that MBSR may have a positive impact on physical health – though with not quite as clear results. To investigate the effects of MBSR on our immune system, Temple University in Philadelphia cancer researcher organized group from 24 subjects, each of them took a part in eight-week MBSR program. Participants completed a questionnaire at baseline and two weeks after about their mental constitution and blood test sample. As expected, significant improvements in anxious symptoms...
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How Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) works?
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) are becoming increasingly popular. The tapping of certain points in the body can help relieve stress and other various physical and mental disorders. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) called a therapeutic concept that belongs to the area of the, so-called, Energy Psychology. The basic idea is to relate the physical and mental suffering with a disturbed flow of energy in the body. To allow again an undisturbed energy system specific meridian points on the head, torso and hand are tapped or massaged. EFT was developed in its present form by the American – Gary Craig. The basic assumptions of the method, however, go back to ideas of traditional Chinese medicine and applied kinesiology ideas. Craig was referring to attempts by Roger Callahan, an American psychologist, who treated patients with phobic disorders by the tapping of meridian...
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Reducing of depression symptoms with Qigong
Women with breast cancer get benefit from Qigong. Especially depressive symptoms go back, as reported an international research team. That qigong can improve quality of life. That fact already known and has already been proven by various studies. The Chinese concentration, movement and meditation technique can be specifically targeted against depression in breast cancer patients. Now a team of researchers from China, the US and Dresden has examined this. About 96 participating women with breast cancer were shortly removed before the trial, and them involved in radiotherapy over five to six weeks. Half of the women took a part in regularly Qigong exercises, while the other half came on a waiting list; they were also allowed to the study of qigong program. The stronger depressive symptoms, the greater the benefits you get from Qigong. The exercises were conducted on...
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Can mindfulness meditation improve exam results?
An American research team wanted to know if mindfulness meditation is able to improve the concentration and the memory of students, that later reflected also in their exam results. The scientists came to an amazing result. Mindfulness meditation may improve mood, help to increased concentration and contribute to relaxation. For many years it has been successfully applied to stress, anxiety and depression. Now American researchers want to find out if regularly practiced meditation can also improve the examination results of students. They found that mindfulness meditation can positively affect both: on the memory capacity and the intelligence. Previously, researchers were in doubt on whether meditation can significantly improve the memory actually. But now in the journal “Psychological Science” published study of the research team from the University of California at Santa Barbara which shows that this is possible. At...
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Love protects health?
“Love is the best medicine” – this proverb is confirmed repeatedly by studies. Research shows: Who lives in a happy partnership, not only feels better, but also living longer. Love inspires – most people, probably, have come to this conclusions in their lives. But who is in love, not only feels good. Love can also protect the health. Because the feeling of happiness, which are triggered by a happy love can, also bring relax, reduce depression and anxiety and even relieve pain. The American scientists demonstrated it in a test. The researchers demonstrate, that pain at the sight of the loved one become less intense. The researchers recently studied 15 voluntary enamored couples. Scientists give a heat transfer module in the palm of subjects. Either they show them a photo of their partner. In the measurement of brain activity,...
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Music therapy
Music is particularly influenced on our mood, relaxes us or excites us, makes us sad or happy. But music can do much more. More and more studies show that music can promote the healing process in various diseases. That music influenced both: the blood pressure and the heart rate, is now indisputably. Music in this way can solve inner tensions and relieve stress-related symptoms. But that music can be used specifically in the treatment of certain diseases and even possibly contribute to reducing the dose of medication – this knowledge is only gradually catch up medical professionals. Music passes through the auditory nerve directly into our brains. As studies show, this is the “motivation hormone” Dopamine and the “happiness hormone” Endorphin. The attention, the emotion, the movement and the Language Centre and the memory to be specifically addressed by...
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