This article presents information on standardized paper-and-pencil measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs that hold promise for use in yoga research. Nine instruments are discussed at length including the Assessment Schedule for Altered States of Consciousness, Ego Grasping Orientation, Expressions of Spirituality Inventory, Hindu Religious Coping Scale, Measures of Hindu Pathways, ...

The majority of research on yoga focuses on its psychophysiological and therapeutic benefits, while the spiritual aspects are rarely addressed. Changes of specific aspects of spirituality were thus investigated among 160 individuals (91% women, mean age 40.9 ± 8.3 years; 57% Christians) starting a 2-year yoga teacher training. We used standardized questionnaires to measure aspects of spirituali...

INTRODUCTION The therapeutic benefits of yoga and meditation are well documented, yet little is known about the practice of yoga in Australia or elsewhere, whether as a physical activity, a form of therapy, a spiritual path or a lifestyle. MATERIALS AND METHODS To investigate the practice of yoga in Australia, a national survey of yoga practitioners was conducted utilizing a comprehensive web...

Objective: Diabetes is a chronic disease that causes severe side effects in patients. According to the previous studies, the incidence of depression and anxiety is higher among patients with diabetes type 2. The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program and conscious yoga on depression, anxiety and stress in patients wi...

objective: diabetes is a chronic disease that causes severe side effects in patients. according to the previous studies, the incidence of depression and anxiety is higher among patients with diabetes type 2. the present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program and conscious yoga on depression, anxiety and stress in patients wi...

Unknown to most Western psychologists, ancient Indian scriptures contain very rich, empirically derived psychological theories that are, however, intertwined with religious and philosophical content. This article represents our attempt to extract the psychological theory of cognition and consciousness from a prominent ancient Indian thought system: Samkhya-Yoga. We derive rather broad hypothese...

During recent decades numerous yoga-based practices (YBP) have emerged in the West, with their aims ranging from fitness gains to therapeutic benefits and spiritual development. Yoga is also beginning to spark growing interest within the scientific community, and yoga-based interventions have been associated with measureable changes in physiological parameters, perceived emotional states, and c...

MILES, WALTER R. Oxygen consumption during three yoga-type breathing patterns. J. Appl. Physiol. Ig(r): 75-82. Ig64.Short periods of conscious control of the rate and depth of breathing as a health-promoting exercise has claimed wide human interest. In India, yoga cults based in part on persevering efforts to achieve physiological control of bodily functions have included systems for the contro...

BACKGROUND Emotional insecurity, stress, depressive or/and anxiety symptoms are common with variable severity among patients with menstrual disorder. Yogic relaxation therapy (Yoga Nidra) leads to conscious and subconscious recognition of these underlying psychological factors and helps releasing of suppressed conflicts. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of Yoga Nidra on anxiety and depressive...

Abstract This article examines the genealogy of concept “transconscious,” a key notion in work Mircea Eliade. It argues that “transconscious” is inheritor long psychological tradition study religion, namely religious faculty. The first section looks at faculty Max Müller and some his German post-Kantian precursors, namely, Friedrich Jacobi Jakob Fries. subsequent sections examine history terms ...