Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Richard P Brown |
Author | Patricia L Gerbarg |
Abstract | Yoga breathing is an important part of health and spiritual practices in Indo-Tibetan traditions. Considered fundamental for the development of physical well-being, meditation, awareness, and enlightenment, it is both a form of meditation in itself and a preparation for deep meditation. Yoga breathing (pranayama) can rapidly bring the mind to the present moment and reduce stress. In this paper, we review data indicating how breath work can affect longevity mechanisms in some ways that overlap with meditation and in other ways that are different from, but that synergistically enhance, the effects of meditation. We also provide clinical evidence for the use of yoga breathing in the treatment of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and for victims of mass disasters. By inducing stress resilience, breath work enables us to rapidly and compassionately relieve many forms of suffering. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Pages | 54-62 |
Date | Aug 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04394.x |
ISSN | 1749-6632 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735239 |
Accessed | Fri Feb 4 11:13:50 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735239 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | William C Bushell |
Abstract | This chapter briefly reviews recent psychological, physiological, molecular biological, and anthropological research which has important implications, both direct and indirect, for the recognition and understanding of the potential life span and health span enhancing effects of the basic yoga meditational regimen. This regimen consists of meditation, yogic breath control practices, physical exercises (of both a postural- and movement-based, including aerobic nature), and dietary practices. While each of these component categories exhibit variations in different schools, lineages, traditions, and cultures, the focus of this chapter is primarily on basic forms of relaxation meditation and breath control, as well as postural and aerobic physical exercises (e.g., yogic prostration regimens, see below), and a standard form of yogic or ascetic diet, all of which constitute a basic form of regimen found in many if not most cultures, though with variations. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Pages | 20-27 |
Date | Aug 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04538.x |
ISSN | 1749-6632 |
Short Title | Longevity |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735236 |
Accessed | Fri Feb 4 11:14:26 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735236 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | William C Bushell |
Author | Neil D Theise |
Abstract | The orientation of this volume and the Longevity and Optimal Health: Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives conference is that there is abundant evidence in the scientific and medical literatures that the diligent practice of certain yoga-meditational regimens can lead to a spectrum of health enhancements, ranging from modest to profound, and that these can be investigated in a scientifically rigorous fashion. This overview will summarize these possibilities regarding improved human longevity, regeneration, and protection of health and serve to introduce the perspectives of conference participants from all of the traditions represented. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Pages | 5-19 |
Date | Aug 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04959.x |
ISSN | 1749-6632 |
Short Title | Toward a unified field of study |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735235 |
Accessed | Fri Feb 4 11:15:10 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735235 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Editor | Clyde M. Nabe Charles A. Corr |
Editor | Donna M. Corr |
Edition | Sixth |
Place | Belmont |
Publisher | Wadsworth Cengage Learning |
Date | 2009 |
# of Pages | 712 |
Date Added | Tue Oct 11 20:51:58 2011 |
Modified | Thu Nov 3 08:50:34 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Liz Grant |
Author | Scott A Murray |
Author | Aziz Sheikh |
Abstract | Despite the decline of formal religion many people still regard the idea of spirituality as essential to their sense of self, especially at times of inner turbulence. We explore how the spiritual needs of dying patients can be understood and met in pluralist and secular societies. |
Publication | BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) |
Volume | 341 |
Pages | c4859 |
Date | 2010 |
Journal Abbr | BMJ |
DOI | 10.1136/bmj.c4859 |
ISSN | 1468-5833 |
Accessed | Wed Oct 6 20:31:55 2010 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20847019 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:02:29 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:02:29 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Henri Nouwen |
Place | Notre Dame |
Publisher | Ave Maria Press |
Date | 1999 |
# of Pages | 62 |
Date Added | Tue Oct 11 20:57:47 2011 |
Modified | Tue Oct 11 20:57:47 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Michael E McCullough |
Author | Howard S Friedman |
Author | Craig K Enders |
Author | Leslie R Martin |
Abstract | Religious people tend to live slightly longer lives (M. E. McCullough, W. T. Hoyt, D. B. Larson, H. G. Koenig, & C. E. Thoresen, 2000). On the basis of the principle of social investment (J. Lodi-Smith & B. W. Roberts, 2007), the authors sought to clarify this phenomenon with a study of religion and longevity that (a) incorporated measures of psychological religious commitment; (b) considered religious change over the life course; and (c) examined 19 measures of personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health that might help to explain the religion-longevity association. Discrete-time survival growth mixture models revealed that women (but not men) with the lowest degrees of religiousness through adulthood had shorter lives than did women who were more religious. Survival differences were largely attributable to cross-sectional and prospective between-class differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health. |
Publication | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |
Volume | 97 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 866-882 |
Date | Nov 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Pers Soc Psychol |
DOI | 10.1037/a0016366 |
ISSN | 1939-1315 |
Short Title | Does devoutness delay death? |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19857007 |
Accessed | Mon Nov 23 20:01:02 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19857007 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul Monette |
Place | Fort Washington |
Publisher | Harvest |
Date | 1994 |
Date Added | Tue Oct 11 20:54:53 2011 |
Modified | Tue Oct 11 20:54:53 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Allison R. Sullivan |
Abstract | Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, I examine the relationship between adult mortality and religious affiliation. I test whether mortality differences associated with religious affiliation can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic status (years of education and household wealth), attendance at religious services, or health behaviors, particularly cigarette and alcohol consumption. A baseline report of attendance at religious services is used to avoid confounding effects of deteriorating health. Socioeconomic status explains some but not all of the mortality difference. While Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and black Protestants benefit from favorable attendance patterns, attendance (or lack of) at services explains much of the higher mortality of those with no religious preference. Health behaviors do not mediate the relationship between mortality and religion, except among evangelical Protestants. Not only does religion matter, but studies examining the effect of “religiosity” need to consider differences by religious affiliation. |
Publication | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 740-753 |
Date | 12/2010 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01543.x |
ISSN | 00218294 |
Short Title | Mortality Differentials and Religion in the United States |
URL | http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01543.x |
Accessed | Tue Jan 18 20:23:03 2011 |
Library Catalog | CrossRef |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:58:27 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:58:27 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Thomas Lynch |
Place | New York |
Publisher | W.W. Nortnon & Company |
Date | 2001 |
Date Added | Tue Oct 11 20:59:25 2011 |
Modified | Tue Oct 11 20:59:25 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Geshe Ngawang Tsondu |
Author | Brooke Dodson-Lavelle |
Abstract | The focus in our discussion of longevity-enhancement has centered on developing techniques and technologies to control the environment as well as the physical body and its functions. The Tibetan contemplative and medical sciences offer a sophisticated view of the mind-body complex in which efforts to control the external world are insufficient without the development of "inner" technologies to train the mind. From the Tibetan perspective, training the mind is in fact essential to the realization of extraordinary levels of longevity, happiness, and optimal health. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Pages | 344-347 |
Date | Aug 2009 |
Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04408.x |
ISSN | 1749-6632 |
Short Title | Wisdom and method |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735254 |
Accessed | Sat Sep 26 15:41:21 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19735254 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Laraine Winter |
Author | Marie P Dennis |
Author | Barbara Parker |
Abstract | We defined and measured a dimension of religiosity frequently invoked in end-of-life (EOL) research-deference to God's Will (GW)-and examined its relationship to preferences for life-prolonging treatments. In a 35-min telephone interview, 304 older men and women (60 +) were administered the 5-item GW scale, sociodemographic questions, three attitude items regarding length of life, and measures of two health indices, depression, and life-prolonging treatment preferences. The GW scale demonstrated internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = .94) and predictive and discriminant validity. Higher scores indicative of greater deference to GW were associated with stronger life-prolonging treatment preferences in poor-prognosis scenarios. Implications for the role of religiosity in medical decision-making are discussed. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 418-430 |
Date | Dec 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-008-9205-y |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19890718 |
Accessed | Mon Dec 28 13:13:05 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19890718 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |