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new article on PNI (psychoneuroimmunology)

dannybex

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Study: Immune Function and Meditation

Great article as always Jody!

I don't know if I posted this study already (I think I did, but maybe it's worth repeating), that showed the benefits of meditation on immune function.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12883106?dopt=Abstract

Psychosom Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;65(4):564-70.

Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation.

Davidson RJ, Kabat-Zinn J, Schumacher J, Rosenkranz M, Muller D, Santorelli SF, Urbanowski F, Harrington A, Bonus K, Sheridan JF.

Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. rjdavids@facstaff.wisc.edu

OBJECTIVE: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation have not been systematically explored. We performed a randomized, controlled study on the effects on brain and immune function of a well-known and widely used 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in a work environment with healthy employees.

METHODS: We measured brain electrical activity before and immediately after, and then 4 months after an 8-week training program in mindfulness meditation. Twenty-five subjects were tested in the meditation group. A wait-list control group (N = 16) was tested at the same points in time as the meditators. At the end of the 8-week period, subjects in both groups were vaccinated with influenza vaccine.

RESULTS: We report for the first time significant increases in left-sided anterior activation, a pattern previously associated with positive affect, in the meditators compared with the nonmeditators. We also found significant increases in antibody titers to influenza vaccine among subjects in the meditation compared with those in the wait-list control group. Finally, the magnitude of increase in left-sided activation predicted the magnitude of antibody titer rise to the vaccine.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate that a short program in mindfulness meditation produces demonstrable effects on brain and immune function. These findings suggest that meditation may change brain and immune function in positive ways and underscore the need for additional research.
 

Lisa

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I almost mentioned this earlier, but is anyone familiar with Happy Water? I saw a documentary on like Discovery or one of those type channels. It was some pretty cool sounding stuff.

The water changes based on if it is infused with happiness or sadness. And then this effects the user of the water. Spooky. lol

Lisa :)
 
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Happy water

There is a doctor from Japan who has some fascinating research on how our thougths can change the cells of water, with pictures on his website, he has a very good book on it as well! If I were better at all this forum stuff i could put in the website address, but I haven't figured that one out -- so google DR Masura Emoto to find his site. Since our cells are made mostly from water, it does seem to have implications, but then I do firmly believe in the mind body interaction and practice meditation, imagery ( I am a hypnotherapist) and when I do it regularly I do feel better.

Rosebud
 

Lisa

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Hello Rosebud!

Thanks for posting on this water crystal stuff. I have this topic page opened to remind me to look it up but been pretty busy.

Here's the link you might have been trying to do:
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/e_ome_home.html

To link a website in a post, you just have to copy the address from the window it is on, then past. viola! :D

Lisa :)

ps, agree about the concept of us being mostly water and positive thinking. :)