Harnessing Electroceuticals to Treat Disorders Arising from Traumatic Stress: Theoretical Considerations Using a Psychosensory Model
Symptoms arising from a traumatically encoded event are produced by continual/intermittent activation of an encoded memory (either by conscious/subconscious or inadvertent recall) and the release of stress hormones.1 These hormones generate an allostatic load2 that drives an attempt to a restore the pre-event state. This adaptation ultimately becomes maladaptive as the consequences of the chronic, inescapable stress dysregulate homeostatic processes causing a wide range of both physical and emotional problems. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - September 6, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Ronald A. Ruden Tags: Hypothesis Source Type: research
Visceral and neural manipulation in children with cerebral palsy and chronic constipation: five case reports
In many children with cerebral palsy (CP), constipation is chronic, adversely affecting their quality of life. Treatment may require invasive measures beyond diet such as medications, digital stimulation, enemas, and hospitalization. Children with cerebral palsy and chronic constipation often have resulting co-morbidities such as increased frequency of seizures, abdominal pain, decreased appetite, increased gastro-esophageal reflux, increased irritability, hospitalizations, and possible need for surgery. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - September 6, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Jean Anne Zollars, Margaret Armstrong, Sandra Whisler, Susan Williamson Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
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Self-Reported Effects of Energy Healing: AProspective Observational Study With Pre –PostDesign
Healing is reported to be used by 16.8% of the population, however utilization may be considerably higher in selected patient groups.The aim of this study was to map the symptoms the participants reported when visiting a healer for the first time, and to evaluate the subjectively experienced benefits and risks from the healing sessions. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Trine Stub, Olav Knudsen-Baas, Anne Helseth Udal, Frauke Musial Source Type: research
Comparing the detection of endogenous psychedelics in individuals with and without alleged mediumistic experiences
In most Western societies, when a person has anomalous sensorial experiences and behaviors, this is usually interpreted as a sign of mental disease. However, in some cultures, these experiences may be interpreted as a spiritual connection or a “spirit” communication. The prevailing scientific interpretation of the external “communicating spirits” is that they are fragments of the individual`s own inner conflicts.1 In line with this view, some researchers propose that mediums would be individuals with an intrinsic proclivity to som atization and to dissociation that find in a religious system a way for a positive tr...
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Marco Aur élio Vinhosa Bastos, Paulo Roberto Haidamus Oliveira Bastos, Maria Lucília Santos, Décio Iandoli, Renata Boschi Portella, Giancarlo Lucchetti Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research
Effect of Integrative Medicine Services on Pain for Hospitalized Patients at an Academic Health Center
Pharmaceuticals such as opioids have routinely been prescribed for pain management. However, there has been an increasing epidemic of prescription opioid abuse, causing demand for nonpharmacologic complementary and integrative therapies for pain management. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Stephanie D. Clark, Brent A. Bauer, Sairey Vitek, Susanne M. Cutshall Source Type: research
Beneficial effects of school-based mindfulness training on impulsivity in healthy adolescents: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial
Impulsivity and poor self-control have been associated with poor health behaviors among adolescents and are major obstacles to the adoption and maintenance of health-supporting behaviors in this population.1, 2 Interventions that effectively target impulsivity could thus positively affect health behaviors. Mindfulness is the awareness that arises by cultivating a particular way of paying attention (on purpose, non-judgmentally) to events unfolding in the mind, the body, and the environment at any given moment. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, Susan Druker, Florence Meleo-Meyer, Christine Frisard, Sybil Crawford, Lori Pbert Source Type: research
Shifting Food Systems: Increasing Well-being through Plant-Based Approaches
This interdisciplinary, critical assessment examines alternative approaches to replace adverse outcomes arising from diets high in fat, salt, sugar, and processed foods including meat and dairy. This hypothesis paper includes a study of ways to prevent or mitigate risks to public health, environmental stability, or animal well-being. Increasing global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change are closely connected with dietary choices1. “Civilisation as we know it can't withstand the stress es of continuing with business as usual”2. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Kathleen M. Kevany, Gene Baur, George C. Wang Source Type: research
Remote viewing of concealed target pictures under light and dark conditions
The belief that performing a nonlocal task in darkness plays a facilitating role in remote viewing and other psi-related phenomena is well established in esoteric and traditional beliefs (Grim, 1983; Hallowell, 1942; Lyon, 2012). However, the role of darkness in RV success is unclear beyond these esoteric explanations. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Stanley Krippner, David T. Saunders, Angel Morgan, Alan Quan Source Type: research
Self-reported effects of energy healing: a prospective observational study with pre-post design
Introduction. Healing is reported to be used by 16.8% of the population, however utilization may be considerably higher in selected patient groups.The aim of this study was to map the symptoms the participants reported when visiting a healer for the first time, and to evaluate the subjectively experienced benefits and risks from the healing sessions.Method. Data were obtained from the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) questionnaire. One-hundred adults who, for the first time, referred themselves to a healer in southern Norway between January 2016 and January 2017 were included in the study. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Trine Stub, Olav Knudsen-Baas, Anne Helseth Udal, Frauke Musial Source Type: research
Juniper Subtle Energy Healing: A Case Study
This pilot study addresses significant weaknesses in existing case studies of biofield or subtle energy techniques: They tend to last three months or less and the qualifications of the healer is rarely discussed. We conducted a one-year exploratory study focused on the work of Segyu Rinpoche, a Buddhist healing master who works closely with physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists in prestigious institutions in the United States, Uruguay, and Brazil. Segyu Rinpoche is the head of the Juniper Integrative Clinic in Northern California where he sees clients and trains students. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Celine-Marie Pascale, Catherine M. Schaeff Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
The Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Emotional Competence: Depression –Anxiety–Stress, Sense of Coherence, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Well-Being of Unemployed People in Greece: An Intervention Study
Objectives: Assessment of the impact of Jacobson Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on depression –anxiety–stress symptoms, sense of coherence, health-related quality of life and well-being in long-term unemployed people with anxiety disorders.Design and setting: An intervention study was conducted at a relevant Organization, in Athens, Greece.Intervention: 50 long-term unemployed individual s suffering from anxiety disorders participated in the study. Participants were separated into two groups: (a) the intervention group (30 individuals) that was trained on an 8-week on Progressive Muscle Relaxation program and also...
Source: Explore - August 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Kyriakoula Merakou, Konstantinos Tsoukas, Georgios Stavrinos, Eirini Amanaki, Antonia Daleziou, Ntina Kourmousi, Georgia Stamatelopoulou, Evi Spourdalaki, Anastasia Barbouni Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research
Juniper Subtle Energy Healing: An Exploratory Study
Researchers are recognizing the usefulness of the Buddhist approach to mindfulness and meditation when investigating the mind-body relationship in psychiatry and psychology.1 –3 Tibetan Buddhism includes three forms of healing: somatic, spiritual and tantric.4,5 In tantric healing, the focus of this study, practitioners work with subtle energy. In U.S. scientific communities, the principles of subtle energy medicine are researched under the rubric of subtle energy, bio fields, energy medicine, energy healing medicine, and energy-based therapies. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - August 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Celine-Marie Pascale, Catherine M. Schaeff Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
