Buddhist inspired resources for physicians and other health care professionals.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2013
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2001 Dec;950:215-24.. Kushner L. The universe is not designed by a deity outside, beyond, and other than the universe. The design of the universe is experienced in its unity, dynamic interdependency, and interconnectedness. The designer is to be found in the experience of such design, not beyond it. Within Judaism, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2013
Psychol Sci. 2013 May 6. Kok BE, Coffey KA, Cohn MA, Catalino LI, Vacharkulksemsuk T, Algoe SB, Brantley M, Fredrickson BL. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions and physical health remain a mystery. We hypothesize that an upward-spiral dynamic continually reinforces the tie [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2013
Aggression is an obstacle to visual dharma, to hearing and the other sense perceptions, and to understanding reality in its fullest sense. To overcome aggression, some kind of fundamental discipline seems to be absolutely important and necessary. Without any actual practice of sitting meditation to enable us to make friends with ourselves, nothing can be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2013
It does not spoil the beauty or scent of the flower. So let the sage settle in herself and wander as she wills.” — from the Dhammapada, spoken by the Buddha. Just like the path towards health: finding those things in life that make the body and mind strong and healthy do not usually require [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2012
Opinion Buddhists’ Delight By JAMES ATLAS Published: June 16, 2012 WHY was I in a tent in northern Vermont? Much less a tent in the woods at a Buddhist meditation center, reading Sakyong Mipham’s “Turning the Mind Into an Ally” by the light from my smartphone? Andrew Bannecker If you really want to hear about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2010
from the New York Times 9/26/10: MADISON, Wis. — They say money can’t buy happiness — but it can finance the research. When Richard Davidson, then a psychology doctoral student in the 1970s, told his advisers at Harvard that he planned to study the power of meditation, the scholars winced. “They patted me on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2010
Hello Friends of Dharmadoctors, I’ve taken some needed time away from all things medical after the completion of my residency at the University of Washington and have been remiss with my postings on this site. This shall be rectified soon, once I become more settled in my new job at The Polyclinic in Seattle. Starting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2010
from the Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Aug Diana Fosha The AEDP Institute, New York, New York, USA Address for correspondence: Diana Fosha, The AEDP Institute, 225 Broadway, Suite 3400, New York, NY 10007. Voice: 212-645-8465. dfosha@aol.com. Website: http://www.aedpinstitute.org Three investigative realms with widely divergent methodologies arrive at uncannily similar conclusions about the vital [...]
Posted in Laughter, Neuroscience, specific medical conditions, Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
from Med Hypotheses. 2006;67(3):566-71. Jerath R, Edry JW, Barnes VA, Jerath V. Augusta Women’s Center, 2100 Central Avenue, Suite 6 & 7, Augusta, GA 30904, USA. RJ605R@aol.com Pranayamic breathing, defined as a manipulation of breath movement, has been shown to contribute to a physiologic response characterized by the presence of decreased oxygen consumption, decreased heart [...]
Posted in Neuroscience, Research/Evidence-Based Medicine, Uncategorized, Zen Tradition on Jul 31st, 2009
from Eur J Appl Physiol. 2005 Sep;95(1):88-95 Cysarz D, Büssing A. Chair of Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313, Herdecke, Germany. d.cysarz@rhythmen.de The impact of meditation on cardiorespiratory synchronization with respect to breathing oscillations and the modulations of heart rate induced by respiration (respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA) was investigated in this study. [...]