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Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention During Pregnancy on Prenatal Stress and Mood
Results of a Pilot Study
Stress and negative mood during pregnancy increase risk for poor childbirth outcomes and postnatal mood problems and may interfere with mother-infant attachment and child development. However, relatively little research has focused on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce stress and negative mood during pregnancy. In this study, we developed and pilot tested an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention directed toward reducing stress and improving mood in pregnancy and early postpartum.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2008
- 8 pages
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Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2007
- 8 pages
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Consciousness and Healing Forum: Deepak Chopra (part 2 of 2)
Deepak argues that consciousness is the phenomenon, and all else is the epiphenomenon. Just as our DNA differentiates skin, bone, and organs, our consciousness differentiates perceptions, cognition, moods, behavior, biology, social interaction, personal relations, the environment, and forces of nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-03-23
- 00:18:53
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Monkeyluv
and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another ...
- Publications Books
- September 15, 2005
- 224 pages
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Intention Downloads Interview: Dean Radin
Can chocolate and ice crystals provide clues about the mystery of intention? Find out in this engaging interview with IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, as he describes a double-blind study with Dr. Emoto (of What the Bleep!? fame) as well as "intentional chocolate."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:35:16
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Selections from the Consciousness and Healing Forum
These talks were recorded at IONS' Consciousness and Healing Forum on 3/23/2005 in San Francisco, where Deepak and Marilyn deepened the dialogue initiated in the newly-released book Consciousness and Healing.
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Consciousness and Healing Forum: Deepak Chopra (part 1 of 2)
Deepak argues that consciousness is the phenomenon, and all else is the epiphenomenon. Just as our DNA differentiates skin, bone, and organs, our consciousness differentiates perceptions, cognition, moods, behavior, biology, social interaction, personal relations, the environment, and forces of nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-03-23
- 00:40:14
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Intention Downloads Interview: John Hagelin
In this interview, quantum physicist and former Presidential candidate John Hagelin explains the difference between intention and consciousness, which opens the door on a fascinating discussion of how spending time in deep meditation in the “nuclear” level of thought can multiply the efficacy of intentions.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:23:12
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Teleseminar with Sylvia Boorstein
Host Cassandra Vieten talks with author, psychologist, and spiritual teacher Sylvia Boorstein, who shares ways to bring spiritual practices into every day life. From standing in line at the grocery store to driving in heavy traffic, she suggests we repeat: “May I (“you” or a specific name) be peaceful; May I be happy; May I be free from suffering.”
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-03-11
- 00:59:40
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Lunar cycle & mood
I have noticed that my mood is effected by the phase of the moon. I have experienced fits of anger that coincide with (or just a couple of days prior ... -
Chocolate and Mood
Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
- Principal Investigator
- Dean Radin, PhD
- Co-Investigators
- James Walsh, Gail Hayssen
Experimental test of the role of intention on food (chocolate).
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Fun piece of research to confirm the act of blessing
It's always nice to see scientists bridging the gap between communities by getting science students interested in common spiritual methods and getting people in mindsets less secular to appreciate ... -
Roland Griffiths
Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. His research has been largely supported by grants from the National Institute on Health and he is author of over 300 journal articles and book chapters. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, and to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs. He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. He has an interest in meditation and is the lead investigator of the psilocybin research initiative at Johns Hopkins, which includes studies of psilocybin occasioned mystical experience in healthy volunteers and cancer patients, and a pilot study of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation.
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Extended Human Capacities
The Science of Interconnectedness:
How does consciousness interact
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Research/Meditation Bibliography/Meditation Research
Meditation Research Photo by campra The practice of meditation is believed to have existed before written history, and was typically situated within a set of religious beliefs and frameworks. Meditation ...