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Suppressing tumor progression of in vitro prostate cancer cells by emitted psychosomatic power through Zen meditation
Human prostate cancer PC3 cells were treated in vitro with psychosomatic power emitted by a Buddhist-Zen Master. A significant decrease of growth rate was observed as determined by MTT assay after 48 ...
EEG alpha blocking correlated with perception of inner light during Zen meditation
According to the experimental results and practitioners' subjective experience, we report some hypotheses that may account for meditative phenomena during the practice of Zen-Buddhism. Orthodox Zen-Bu...
Eastern meditative techniques and hypnosis : a new synthesis
In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and tonglen (gtong len), will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Easte...
Buddhism and western psychology
Buddhism and Western Psychology represents one of the early volumes to contain reflections on the interface between Buddhism and psychology from a diverse and expert group of Western Buddhist s...
Psychotherapist and expansion of awareness
The author emphasizes the therapist's well-integrated and matured personality as the crucial element for being a good psychotherapist; therefore, it is essential for a psychotherapist to make ceaseles...
Zazen and cardiac variability
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effects of "tanden breathing" by Zen practitioners on cardiac variability. Tanden breathing involves slow breathing into the lower abdomen. METHODS: Eleven Zen pract...
Chasing elephants : healing psychologically with Buddhist wisdom
Chasing Elephants, written by Diane Shainberg, a psychotherapist who has been studying and practicing Zen, Dzogchen, and other Hindu and Buddhist teachings over a period of decades, shares the ...
Zazen and psychotherapeutic presence
Zen meditation, or zazen, has attracted the interest of many psychotherapists. The teachings and practices of the Soto Zen tradition are understood as encouraging important areas of both psychological...
Psychophysiological correlates of meditation
The scientific research that has investigated the physiological changes associated with meditation as it is practiced by adherents of Indian Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Zen has not yielded a ...
Zen meditation and ABC relaxation theory : an exploration of relaxation states, beliefs, dispositions, and motivations
This study is an attempt to rigorously map the psychological effects of Zen meditation among experienced practitioners. Fifty-nine Zen meditators with at least six years of experience practiced an hou...
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